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lostamber · 8 months
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see-arcane · 8 months
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Dracula, singing in his dirt:
What do you do with a drunken sailor?
Drink another one and have the next later
Send a storm and fog to make the ship waver
That’s what you do with a drunken sailor
Early in the evening~
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queenoftheimps · 2 years
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Mina: Oh, hello Mr. Swales.
Old Man: Listen, Mina, I'm sorry I upset you by talking about death before. It's just that death comes for us all, we can't escape it, we are all doomed forever, and I'm probably going to die right in front of you right now
Mina: -now openly weeping-
Old Man: no no no listen see it's fine, because everyone on earth could die at any second, really, even young lawyers who have fiancees waiting at home who really love them, so don't be upset
Old Man: because Death is always coming towards us on the horizon, like that ship over there in the storm
Dracula, presumably steering the Demeter: I DON'T KNOW HOW BOATS WORK
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moonsun2010 · 2 years
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a sailor's last prayer
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thegoatsongs · 2 years
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dracula eating 2/3rds of the crew while only halfway to england 🤝 me at the movies eating 2/3rds of the popcorn during the trailers
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georgiacooked · 8 months
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Dracula Daily sketch for August 4th.
In which the Captain of the Demeter resorts to drastic measures.
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immediatebreakfast · 8 months
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There are no wolves in England.
Modernity, and its need for land killed their home, and in consequence killed them too.
The people of Transylvania live with their legends at their front door, covering their necks with rosaries, and prayers. Closing windows, and hanging flowers. Less another life gets taken by that Evil Being whose eyes now point beyond their borders. A young english man was the last victim, who knows if his visage now walks in those forests, waiting for an unsuspecting traveler like he was.
There was something Inhuman aboard on the Demeter. It killed the crew, and pushed the captain to the edge of humanity, yet he held his head high, and made himself deserving of honor among the sailors of Whitby in death. All proud of the captain who completed his duty to the end.
"It almost seems as though the captain had been seized with some kind of mania before he had got well into blue water, and that this had developed persistently throughout the voyage."
A huge, unknown dog jumps from the tragedy of the Demeter, and hides in the shadows. Because it couldn't be anything else than a dog, there are no wild canines in England.
The log of the captain doesn't mention a dog. However, it is weirdly filled with superstitions.
Something, a horrible unknown beast is killing the poor dogs. We must do something! What if it gets the poor dog that left the Demeter in such a hurry, it might get hurt!
Even the oldest people in Whitby laugh at their legends. Only constructed to bring in tourists who are curious about them.
They could be true! Says an old sailor, but we don't need those anymore. There is no need to put rosaries on our necks, nor lock our doors.
After all there are no wolves in England.
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supergringa · 8 months
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informing the gc of dracula’s recent activities
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thatsbelievable · 11 months
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gellavonhamster · 6 months
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Got myself an edition of Dracula I've wanted for a long time - the one illustrated by Becky Cloonan - so here are some of my favourite illustrations (in phone camera quality, with the kitchen tablecloth in the background, sorry):
Jonathan's first illustration, the Weird Sisters, GET SHOVEL'D IDIOT
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The Captain (you've probably seen this one before)
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Basically every illustration featuring Renfield, they're so great. Good for him
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Mina Harker, everybody (and YES she gets her canonical gun)
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Our dear girls
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The "get a job! stay away from her!" illustrations
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LUCY
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Jack being a brooding emo prince (again, good for him)...
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...and, in particular, this little illustration of his first meeting with Mina. My favourite 19th century tech nerds.
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The best couple in Gothic literature according to me:
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Quincey looking almost exactly like his dark twin (Ethan Chandler in Penny Dreadful)
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The 'Avengers assemble" one
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(that's far from every illustration in the book, I simply didn't take pictures of every single one)
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jadefire54 · 2 years
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Approach of the Demeter
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lostamber · 8 months
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see-arcane · 8 months
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I read a theory that it wasn't actually Dracula who killed off the Demeter's crew but actually one of the members. The person suggested it was the second-in-command or the captain himself, who wrote the log to portray himself sympathetically. What do you think about that?
I think Dracula is writing theories on the internet.
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queenoftheimps · 8 months
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"But I am captain, and I must not leave my ship. But I shall baffle this fiend or monster, for I shall tie my hands to the wheel when my strength begins to fail, and along with them I shall tie that which He—It!—dare not touch; and then, come good wind or foul, I shall save my soul, and my honour as a captain. I am growing weaker, and the night is coming on." Sequel to this drawing of the captain from the start of his voyage
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betta-be · 1 year
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Big things happening in the dracula fandom. Went to the local theater to watch renfield and there's ANOTHER Dracula inspired movie coming out (the last voyage of the Demeter), along with re:dracula and all of us agreeing to reread Dracula daily again. Not that I'm complaining bring back big drac
https://youtu.be/6FgUUO9Ztd0
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thegoatsongs · 8 months
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It's really horror inducing how neither the Captain or the reader see, or have evidence of, the way that the men's disappearances happen.
The crew is in the dark completely, their imagination running wild. The reader though can infer what is going on. We know that Dracula is hidden on the ship, and we saw last month that he had drank man's blood at night before retiring in his dirt casket at dawn before his departure. We also know that he loves isolating and casting doubt. Throwing people into the sea after "being done with" them isn't out of the question, he hasn't promised his leftovers to anyone, after all.
But we still have no actual clear view. No blood stains, no bite marks, no witnesses, no evidence left behind. Just men disappearing into the sea without warning. That's all we read about.
We are left to fill in the blanks ourselves, using what we already know. And that's really effective horror.
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