for your post on Hades and Persephone(also to comment of Dracula and Mina): I dont know what it is with people's obsession of constantly making Persephone the victim (especially when Zeus does so much fucking worse to so many women) Even if the legends weren't as you describe. I love turning stories into something postive and empowering for Persephone both romantically and just over all her becoming the literal queen of death. I feel like people just constantly want to make women victims? The whole point of turning Hades and Persephone into this great and legendary romance is to give back power to women. For Mina and Dracula. I am so sick of people whining about Mina falling in love with Dracula. Honestly maybe Dracula is more intriguing than Johnathan. Maybe just let girls be monster lovers/fuckers for a change.

Yes ! Let's let women be monster fuckers for a change !

This just in, I really dislike romantic Dracula, unless it’s biding time till they’re in too deep to back out, that’s okay

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

"For a moment or two I could see nothing, as the shadow of a cloud obscured St. Mary’s Church and all around it. Then as the cloud passed I could see the ruins of the abbey coming into view; and as the edge of a narrow band of light as sharp as a sword-cut moved along, the church and the churchyard became gradually visible. Whatever my expectation was, it was not disappointed, for there, on our favourite seat, the silver light of the moon struck a half-reclining figure, snowy white."

Mina and Lucy in the kirkyard at Whitby, August 11th.

Goth girls love trains

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.

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 ?

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

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

Dracula: "Now I have fed you my blood to fully control you, for it contains immense powers beyond your comprehension"

Mina: "Well I am going to comprehend them"

Dracula: "Wait that's illegal"