It's pretty crazy how many people I see hating the 1992 Dracula, for not being faithful to the source material ? I mean... There's no truly faithful adaptation of Dracula yet made at this point, so why is this adaptation getting the most hate for it ? What if the film was poorly written, but it isn't ? It is very well done overall. Essentially, it takes inspiration from the source material to create its own story and that's okay, as long as it's done well. And I might get haters in the face (I'm used to it) but that's what I think.

Also, the romance between Dracula & Mina rocked my childhood and I find it magnificent.

On top of that, the film has some great things to say about cinema and religion in general. I know there are a lot of problems with Coppola, but I'm focusing exclusively on the film as a whole. And you know what ? Liking this film does not prevent me from loving the novel and the original romance of Mina and Harker, hoping one day to see a faithful adaptation. Both are possible. It's fiction after all. Does it at least exist outside of me people who like the source material and the 1992 adaptation at the same time ?

Maybe a little Jonathan/Mina dialogue right after the ending when they see that her forehead scar is gone?

"It's truly gone?"

Her hand is at her forehead, tracing over the skin. She can't see, of course, but her fingertips move anxiously across the expanse, her heart stuttering when the flesh under them is smooth to the touch.

"It's gone," Jonathan confirms, his arm a steadying brace around her shoulders. They can't help holding each other now, clinging to each other for dear life even now that the battle is over. Perhaps all the more so, now that it is.

"I would show you, but, well..." Jonathan's mouth curls in a half-smile suddenly, and there's a light dancing in his eyes that Mina hasn't seen in months.

"... You might have heard that my mirror met with an unfortunate accident."

For a moment Mina stares at him, and then the laughter comes bubbling out of her, ringing loud and bright across the snow-capped mountains. She can feel eyes turning to the pair of them in disbelief, but Jonathan just smiles and holds her closer, the two of them huddled and laughing in relief and sorrow and freedom.

Lucy would have turned 20 in September, and she says Dr. Seward is only 29, so Mina and Jonathan would be in their mid-20s at the latest. The story is set in the mid-1890s, so they would have been born in the early 1870s. This means they would be in their 50s in the 1920s, and in their 90s in the 1960s; what I'm saying is they could have met the O'Connells and the Addams family, and had very interesting conversations about their experiences with the supernatural.

Jonathan calling Mina his second father is the last bit of textual evidence i needed to fully believe that the Harkers are both queer and living in a lavender marriage so that - while they might only be bi and deeply in love with each other - they at least support one another in exploring their gender & sexuality in the stiflingly queerphobhic 19th century London, relying on each other's straight-passing marriage to pursue both their ambitions while still carving out a space for each other to be authentically themselves

and I love them for it

dracula is defeated by 1) autism, 2) true love, and 3) incredible violence, and the fact that this isn’t the mainstream understanding of dracula in pop culture is a fucking travesty

how dare adaptations make dracula/mina the ship when first of all, jonathan is the obvious gothic heroine of the book, and second of all mina would put the fear of God in dracula for touching her man. she proposed to him as soon as he woke up from his coma and MARRIED him while he was in the sick bed of a catholic hospital, this girl is Not Normal either

What I think: wow I can’t believe the word “hark” means “listen, pay attention” and a major role of the Harkers in the story is to notice important details, record conversations, gather information and otherwise defeat Dracula by listening and paying attention

What I say: my favorite part of Dracula is when the Harkers said “it’s Harkin’ time!” and harked all over the place

whitby abbey, where dracula arrived in england

something something the symmetry of horror and seeing yourself in the abyss reflected

May 3rd, Jonathan Harker’s journal

(Mem., get recipe for Mina.) I asked the waiter, and he said it was called “paprika hendl,” and that, as it was a national dish, I should be able to get it anywhere along the Carpathians.

I had for breakfast more paprika, and a sort of porridge of maize flour which they said was "mamaliga," and egg-plant stuffed with forcemeat, a very excellent dish, which they call "impletata." (Mem., get recipe for this also.)

Recipe blog casually interrupted by nightmares and the howling of wild dogs. I’m sure it’s nothing.

hey why are the Van Helsings always the Vampire Hunting Family in modern Dracula stories. Abraham Van Helsing might be the guy who knows stuff but his family is off in the Netherlands and/or dead and totally uninvolved in the plot. Abraham's great-great grandson has no reason to be doing backflips and chopping off heads or whatever

You know who is a family who hates Dracula so so much and would totally teach their kids how to hunt vampires? The Harkers. Give me a modern vampire story where the protagonists are about to die when out pops Quincey Arthur John Lucy Abraham Murray Harker the Fifth, armed with a giant knife and an encyclopedic knowledge of train schedules

Mina: "Scandalously, Jonathan was holding my arm, but I didn't care"

Comic adaptations: don't worry we will make it Proper

Also they should be wearing mourning clothing smh

AU where Jonmina actually do become vampires together and are an evil power couple?

The castle is theirs now; its former Master is long gone, crushed beneath the fury of their vengeance. The three women - Clara, Elisabeta and Demetra, they learn - are permitted to stay, but on sufferance. One wrong move, they know, will return them to dust along with the one who once took their own lives.

"He knew nothing of love," Clara says, with a scornful laugh.

They sit side by side, enthroned in their new domain, and one ice-cold hand curls around another. They understand love; is that not why they have triumphed? Is that not why he chose to join her, to sacrifice his soul for an eternity by her side?

Love is the joy that sings in their veins as they hunt together, the blood when their mouths meet and the power as they stand side by side. Love is knowing no force can stand against them that cannot be destroyed.

Love used to mean something else, she thinks, but as each day passes she remembers it less and less.

Dracula Daily hive it’s time to wake the fuck up!

Made an animatic summarising the entire book as a tribute to Dracula Daily and @re-dracula ! English subtitles provided, with translation by me and @ignitingthesky.

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