The transition from 27th September to 28th September is one of my absolute favourite moments of Dracula. It's like:

Van Helsing: Friend John, If you receive this... I'm dead... I've been murdered... not by any normal vampire... but by the Great Vampire... a truly formidable foe... with the strength of twenty men! If I die... if you receive this... it's up to you! You must lead this great fight! You must save humanity from the Un-Dead...

SMASH CUT TO:

John Seward: Cannot believe Van Helsing had me believing in vampires last night.

I love annoying my mom with memes, and i figured you all would appreciate a few of the memes I've spammed her with that i made for dracula daily

Reading today’s Daily Dracula and man. You do not understand how much I wish Team Kill Dracula’s quest ended when they roll up on the Czarina Catherine and find out some random Romanian sailors pushed his stupid box overboard, trapping the Count beneath water that he can’t cross

Like I know they gotta actually kill him to free Mina or whatever but like. It would be so funny. They’ve gone on this quest to far Romania, they’ve bribed everyone they can think to bribe, they’ve got a plan, and then they get aboard the ship and the crew are like, “there was a fucked up man in that box so we threw it overboard”

Happy foul bauble of man vanity day!

There’s dogs in Dracula??

Such good pups and so helpful defending the Suitor Squad against the rats!

Renfield

So after someone found the original recipe for the paprika dish that blew Jonathan Harker’s bb lawyer mind, I thought “That sounds like an experience I should totally emulate” and attempted to make it because I too wish to have paprika rock my tiny world

NGL, it came out pretty good! I did modify it a little in terms of proportions (half a cup of tomato juice is…not enough), but overall kept to the recipe. 10/10 would send back to my awesome wife Mina

I will report back any queer dreams I experience, and will also reach out if I am locked in a castle

pls do not judge my awful plating

For anyone wondering whether it's worth doing Dracula Daily again, just think

This year we have polls.

Dracula Daily has only made me realize there’s a fine line between being in Dracula and being in Beauty & the Beast, so we really can’t blame our bestie Jonathan for getting his genres mixed up

Just a quick note while we're talking about garlic - garlic was among the "gifts" which were given to Jonathan by his fellow passengers on the coach back in May:

Jonathan's Journal, 5th May: [...] we were entering on the Borgo Pass. One by one several of the passengers offered me gifts, which they pressed upon me with an earnestness which would take no denial; these were certainly of an odd and varied kind, but each was given in simple good faith, with a kindly word, and a blessing, and that strange mixture of fear-meaning movements which I had seen outside the hotel at Bistritz—the sign of the cross and the guard against the evil eye.

Jonathan's Journal, 8th May How was it that all the people at Bistritz and on the coach had some terrible fear for me? What meant the giving of the crucifix, of the garlic, of the wild rose, of the mountain ash? 

I think these gifts again show us 1) the expertise born of necessity of the locals, and 2) how much love and care there is in this book, even among strangers. I don't know if the passengers always carry garlic or wild rose or mountain ash with them, or they were only doing it because they were travelling through the Borgo Pass on the eve of St. George's Day, but several of them were willing to give up at least part of their own protection in the hope that it would be of some help to poor, clueless Jonathan.

Imagine if you will a complete inversion of a boorish American on St. Patrick’s Day. Imagine an Irishman who aggressively celebrates the Fourth of July with unabashed gusto, who desperately tries to claim the significance of some alleged 1/32 American heritage, who wears a shirt with an eagle turning into an American flag and who drinks a specialty red, white, and blue novelty beverage until he collapses in a pool of tricolor vomit. Imagine some guy so invested in a superficial, touristy version of Americaness that he will nervously call the side with his $20 “authentic” hamburger “freedom fries” out of fear of offending. Imagine a guy who upon meeting any American will try to strike up a friendly conversation by asking them what their favorite gun is and talking about how personally inspiring he finds Abraham Lincoln.

You must understand, as you prepare to read the May 24th entry of this novel, that this Irishman is Bram Stoker.

If this gets 100 notes, I’m watching BBC’s 2020 version of Dracula and live-blogging it. Why? Because I keep getting told to watch it for its trainwreck quality and the ONLY way I will watch it is if I make y’all experience it alongside me.

Sometimes “home” is a psychiatric doctor, a cowboy, a widowed lord, an occultist professor, and a husband-and-wife duo of lawyer and stenographer, all traumatized together, sharing rooms in an open wing of an insane asylum next to an abandoned estate where an unspeakable, entrancing, bloodsucking evil resides.

ur telling me the whole of dracula is like technically written like this

Quincey getting up from Van Helsing infodumping about vampire lore to go outside to shoot at a bat is so incredibly funny to me.

Pity that he missed though.

As some one who has previously read Dracula, I find it legitimately wonderful to see people discover that The Boyfriend Squad:

1) Are equally smitten and in love with their queen, Lucy Westenra.

2) Respect the hell out of her desision when she accepts one of their proposals, immediately backing off and instead promising to be supportive friends.

3) Are apparently, such besties with each other, that they organize a party to celebrate one of them getting engaged to the woman they are all in love with, no hard feelings. Just “heck yeah dude! You’re gonna make Lucy so happy! And her happiness is the most important thing in our three conflicting courtships!”

Like, jokes aside, Dracula sorts out its Multiple Pretty Boy problem in the very chapter it’s introduced. A conflict most YA series take three books and an e-book exclusive novella to needlessly prolong.