Take his heart to Texas…

If you aren't proposing to me like this I don't even want to know

“And when you say my name,

may it never give you pain.

I don’t wanna go

but it’s time to leave;

you’ll be on my mind,

my destiny”

Dracula Aesthetics - Quincy P. Morris

It's everyone's favorite vampire slaying cowboy!! 🤠 I finished reading Dracula (1897) the other day, and no one’s surprised - he was my favorite while reading. I understand turning down the Asylum Doctor, but Lucy was absolutely off her gourd when she rejected Quincey P. Morris. What a man. Mr. Texas himself. Here's how I imagined him while reading. (Also there’s no way to tell from these drawings, but he is supposed to be the shortest out of all the guys 🙃)

I may draw more Dracula characters based on how I envisioned them if I have time! I hope all of you have a great new year!

FINALLY FINISHED MY DRACULA CHARACTER LINEUP !!!

this is not how any of them are described in the books I literally just went off vibes I'm being so honest.

also expect to see more of this renfield design bc i cant stop drawing him

SINGLE CHARACTER REFRENCES UNDER CUT vvv

love how Jonathan dead said “if Mina doesn’t survive me I want all of my worldly possessions to go to these other four dudes in my vampire-hunting boy band whom I met a week ago.”

that, my friends, is shared trauma at its finest.

The best bit about Re: Dracula is the spaghetti western style music that follows Quincy around.

AS IT SHOULD

The comedic timing of Jack's diary entry coming first being like "I'm depressed and not feeling up to much, so I'm going to double down on working myself to the bone so I don't have to think about it" and the Quincy's letter coming straight after "Jack's going to join us at our campfire! There's going to be alcohol! We're going to talk out our feelings in a safe space surrounded by friends!"

Van helping saying the "I think we're gonna have to kill this guy" meme at Lucy's boyfriend squad when they have to kill Lucy because suffer

It’s a little rough because I wasn’t using my usual setup, but here you go

Really love when there’s a new bro to the suitor squad and they vouch for each other by going oh yeah he saved my life once, out on the prairie, or out in this adventure or sucked gangrene from my wound, besties forever

The Sad Thing About Dracula Adaptations

Is that, I truly think, they believe with their whole chest that painting Dracula as Mina's "liberator" and turning Lucy into a promiscuous woman is progressive and feminist.

Like, the intentions are there, but for some reason they can't get it in their heads that these two changes are far less feminist than they think it is. They pat themselves on the back for being "feminist" by making Dracula about women's sexual liberation, without seemingly comprehending the fact that they just turned it into a more sexist piece of media.

As many Tumblr blogs have pointed out, Dracula is nothing more than a rapist and a serial killer, his interactions with Mina and Lucy are pretty clear allegories for sexual assault. But adaptations frequently paint him as a 'sexual liberator", thus creating an implication that rape is 'sexually liberating". Which is such a slap in the face to sexual assault and rape survivors it makes my jaw drop. But adaptations do it, convincing themselves that this is a "feminist take".

Even if the Harkers were sexually repressed, rape is never a good thing. i never thought I would have to say this, but here we are. And they aren't sexually repressed. They couldn't keep it in their pants long enough to get out of Jonathan's asylum bed. Monogamy and sexual repression are. not. the. same. thing.

In a similar vein, turning Lucy into a sexually promiscuous flirt is not only disloyal to the novel, it adds a layer of sexism that wasn't even there in the novel. The novel never implies that Lucy's death was punishment for being sexually forward (which she ISN'T IN THE BOOK), so it is on the fault of the adaptors that there is this idea that Lucy's death was punishment for being more "liberated". In trying to make a more "feminist' piece, they circled back to making it more problematic, and straight up insulting/invalidating to sexual assault and rape survivors. To me, telling a survivor that their experience was their "liberation" is so, incredibly tome deaf and insulting that i can't understand how someone would believe it.

Let us go over the facts, shall we? Lucy dies a virgin (she didn't get married). She was kind to all living things, peaceful, never wanted to harm anyone, never worked outside the house, and her only desire was to be married before she was twenty.

Mina, on the other hand, is a working woman. It is never stated that she quit her job after getting married, and nowhere is it implied that Jonathan wouldn't be in full support of her working outside the house. Even if she did, she clearly mentions that she plans to work with her husband as a team, so she isn't leaving the workforce anytime soon. She isn't a virgin, because we know she marries during the novel, and had her wedding night in her husband's asylum bed (which carries the same vibes as "Mary Shelly had sex with her husband over her father's grave). She is perfectly willing to harm people , notice how she took an active role in tracking down Dracula. She gets to live happily ever after with Jonathan. Lucy embodies a lot of older virtues for aristocratic women, and she dies

Adaptors can't seem to realize that, if anything, the novel is all for sexual liberation, and women being independent. it just puts in a MASSIVE caveat that everything has to be completely consensual, and that rape is never the victim's fault. There is a feminist take that is already there, in the novel, but for some reason adaptors make changes in the name of "progressive feminism", which just makes things more problematic.

I actually don't think I'm going to have time for drawing more dracula stuff anytime soon, what with all my comms and stuff, but here's another drawing from yesterday.

I understand that his death was a compliment to his character, but what if I LOVE HIM???? What about that huh??????

But do you have a Quincey M. design? I don’t know if you’ve drawn him or not but I looked and couldn’t find it so I’m sorry to bother you if you do have one and I’m just missing it

You’re all good! I actually realized today I’d never drawn either Quincey M or Lucy W, so here ya go!

quincy p. morris: this is my boyfriend, jack seward, and this is his boyfriend, art, and this is art's fiance, lucy, and this is lucy's girlfriend, mina, and mina's fiance jonathan is in romania with his boyfriend, vlad, cause vlad lives there with his own three girlfriend roommates, blonde and brunette #1 and brunette #2

Bram Stoker: