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gaysindistress · 7 months

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Van Helsing Retold - one

pairings: vamp hunter!reader x vamp!bucky

Summary: Under the cover of night, vampires and their hunters have been at war for centuries, never letting their bloodshed reach the light of day. That is until the wife of a powerful vampire leader, Steve Rogers is murdered and he demands revenge. Y/N Van Helsing is the target of his crusade and she comes face to face with his right hand man, Bucky Barnes.

Warnings: blood, talks of burning bodies, use of ethnic slurs toward Romanian people,

Word count: 2.5k

A/n: i wrote this on my phone so if it’s filled with mistakes, I’m sorry😅

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“Ah the last Van Helsing,” a dark haired vampire sneers at me from the darker side of the room, “I have to admit you don’t look like one. Your mother, was it? She was beautiful with her big doe eyes and quivering lips, begging me to spare her. She was…delicious. You, on the other hand.”

She takes a moment to scrutinize me, taking in every inch of my body as we circle each other. She moves like a predator; her body quiet and fluid while her voice lures her prey in. Growing up around these foul creatures, I can predict their every move and motivation no matter how calculated they think they are. This one is waiting to pounce, to rip into with her fangs that hide behind painted red lips but she’s too cocky. She thinks she has the upper hand and barely gives the crossbow in my hands a second glance as she prepares her next onslaught of words.

“I imagine being a filthy orphan would change one’s appearance.”

I know her words are meant to hurt me, strike me in the one thing that separates her and I; my beating heart. I’m not surprised however, I knew she was going to pull something like this. It’s honestly a struggle to not roll my eyes at her as she continues on about whatever Van Helsing legend she claims to be a part of. I can’t find it in me to care enough to listen to whatever bullshit she’s spewing and I clear my throat to show that I’m growing tired of her.

She sneers at me again, going on something about how foul I am but I’m more focused on the step she takes forward. While we had been circling one another, she stayed just out of reach of me until that moment. The vampire, of course, thought she had distracted me and left me with an opportunity I can’t pass up. Taking it before it vanishes, the stake notched into my crossbow flies between us and finds its home in her chest. She lets out a shriek akin to that of a bat’s as she staggers back and attempts to pull it out. She lets out another ear piercing sound when the wood burns her skin and her dark wild eyes find mine.

“You bitch!” She growls and spits at me, taking lumbering steps towards me but I step back, out of her reach. I wipe whatever spit landed on me off onto my pants as I watch her crumble.

I can see the black veins crawl up her neck and onto her face the longer my holy water dipped stake sits in her chest. Less than a minute after I shot her, the dark haired vampire collapsed to the dirty wet floor of the abandoned warehouse I lured her to. Those black veins have taken over every inch of her body as she lies motionless. I wrinkle my nose as I bend down to take a pic of her and send it to my Guild master.

His only response is that he “liked” the message. You’d think that given the nature of our work, he would send a more dignified answer than “liking” the message.

Another text comes through, informing me that Sam is out front and ready to go.

“Make it quick. I’ve got a bad feeling about this,” it reads and I let out a sigh, knowing that I won't be able to follow the guild rules like I’m supposed to; make the kill, send confirmation, burn the evidence, and evacuate.

The Guild master will no doubt want my head but Sam’s increasingly stressed texts outweigh the wrath I might face. Standing and walking towards the entrance, I click my crossbow into place on my back and do a mental check for any signs of injury. In the process, I barely see the fury of black leather that lunges for me or smell the signature scent of cinnamon mixed with incense that accompanies my attacker.

I grunt as my back hits a metal pole, my crossbow creaking under the force. I touch the back of my head as it pounds from where it hit the pole and I see blood on my fingers. My gaze flickers between the blood and to the person who threw me, narrowing as my sight sharpens on who it is.

“Are you the one who killed Peggy?” The man demands.

“I’m good thank you for asking,” I snark back as I yank a cloth bandage from my jacket pocket and hold it to my wound. The metallic and earthy scent of my blood fills the air and I took note of the way he shifts on his feet when he notices it too.

A vampire.

Fucking great.

He repeats his question although through a clenched jaw, “are you the one who killed Peggy?”

I can see the already sharp jawline covered in stubble that cuts even more as he keeps it clenched in efforts to not eat me. His eyes have been swallowed whole by his pupil but I can tell that he usually has intense light eyes that might pin me in place. His body is tense, rigid almost from the pain of being so close to blood but yet unable to taste it. Narrowing my eyes at him, I don’t recognize him but his question leads me to believe that he’s a member of the Captain’s Guard, the vampire group spearheaded by the one I just killed and her husband.

“You’re about to be next,” I finally say to him and he flinches at my words. He throws a look over his shoulder before speaking, “Did you burn the body?”

I furrow my brows at him, “excuse me?”

“Did you burn the body?”

“No I heard what you said,” I say wincing as I pull the cloth from my head, “I’m confused why it matters to you.”

“Goddamnit” he mutters under his breath before saying to me, “give me your lighter and then get the fuck out of here.”

When I don’t immediately do as he said, he says it with more authority, dropping his voice a few octaves and leaving no room for error. I fumble for the lighter tucked into my pocket and toss it to him. He looks between me and the entrance as if to tell me to get a move on it.

I take off in a sprint and throw up the car door, scaring Sam and causing him to shove his gun against my temple.

“Jesus what took you so long?” He asks as he drops his weapon and starts driving.

I don’t answer, instead dropping my head back to rest on the headset and breathing through the pain at the back of my skull.

“Did she attack you?”

I shake my head and wince when it feels like the movement sloshes my brain around. Groaning, I toss the bloodied cloth to the floor and snap at him to signal at him that I need another one. I hear rustling and a warm dry cloth is placed in my hand.

“Who was it then?”

I take a moment as I replace the cloth, “I…I don’t know.”

“You don’t know?”

“That’s what I said, isn’t it?”

“Damn there’s no need to come at me. I’m just trying to make sure you’re okay,” he grumbles under his breath, “you better pick that shit up when you get out. I’m not touching it.”

I chuckle, “you’re a vampire hunter who’s afraid of blood? The irony.”

“I’m not afraid of blood.”

“Yeah hmm sure you’re not.”

“I’m not!”

I can hear the muffled sounds of his voice calling out my name but they’re just that; muffled. I curse under my breath as my head falls forward and my sight goes blurry. When the other vampire attacked me, I hadn’t finished my mental check and missed the small cut on my hand.

“She…she spit on me,” I shutter out and weakly toss my infected hand onto the center console. Sam also curses under his breath and I feel the car accelerate as he darts in and out of traffic.

“We’re almost there, Y/N. Just hold on,” is the last thing I hear.

Bucky glares at the fire that rage before him, the scent of burning flesh and hair invading his nose without permission. The wood stake sticking out of her chest is the only thing visible and a part of him wants to remove it before Steve sees.

Of course it’s too late as the fire has already consumed the dead vampire and Steve’s angry roars echo off the walls. Bucky’s body tenses again and he rolls his shoulders to relieve some of that tension when Steve storms in. His own intense blue eyes survey the fire, the stake, and then his right hand man.

“Who did this?”

Bucky stares at the stake for a moment, eyeing the ornate cross and VH initials on its butt, “the Guild.”

Steve sees the same thing and lets out another animalistic roar.

“Van Helsing?” He turns to look at Bucky, “I thought you’d killed them all in the 90s.”

“I did too but apparently…”

Steve cuts him off, “There are no excuses! Your inability to follow a simple order is what led to this.”

He’s gesturing wildly to the fire as he continues, “my wife, my mate is dead because of you and you are going to fix it.”

Bucky doesn’t dare to look Steve dead on and settles for watching the fire. He knows what is expected of him; the kneeling, the bowing, the groveling of a lower vampire to his leader but his body won’t allow him to. He stays standing and offers only the silly words that the Captain’s Guard requires when asking for penance, “please forgive me, my liege. How am I to fix this?”

“You can start by properly addressing me.”

Bucky’s jaw clenched yet again and his nose flares at his leader’s words. A sick grin is spreading across Steve’s face as he watches the inner battle clear in Bucky’s eyes.

“Get on your knees and ask for penance the way you’re supposed to, Roma.”

The slur feels like hot blood in Bucky’s ears and he fights the urge to rip the stake from Peggy’s chest and thrust it into Steve’s.

He’ll be free of this.

Soon but not now.

Until then he drops to his knees and bows as he says those disgusting words, “please forgive me, my liege. How am I to fix this?”

“Y/N, wake up, come on Y/N,” a male voice calls to me as I slowly blink back to life. The white walls and bustling staff of the infirmary come into view as I look around me. Above me is the face of the one man I didn’t want to wake up to. His blue eyes search my face before he speaks again.

“Oh thank god,” he breathes as he tries to envelope me in a bone crushing hug. I push against his chest as I shrink back into my bed but it does nothing.

“I was so worried,” he continues as he nuzzles into my hair. I push at him again and Sam magically appears to pull him off for me.

“She just woke up, give her some space,” he lectures John, the man who decided that I needed to be crushed with a hug. I shot him a thankful look and he sent a welcoming one back but it sours when it lands on my hand. Glancing down, I see why; my hand is covered in black veins and is deathly thin like a decaying hand. My eyes widened at the sight but a doctor swoops in and sits on the edge of my bed.

“Ms. Van Helsing you’re awake,” he starts as he examines my face and then drops his gaze to my hand, “we managed to stop the venom from spreading for the time being.”

“For the time being? What does that mean?”

The doctor glances from my hand to my face and then back again, “obviously we weren’t able to extract it but we were able to stop it from spreading. The procedure is a temporary fix but I assure you we will find a better solution in the meantime.”

My face falls as he speaks and my stomach begins to feel nauseous. Sam takes the doctor’s place when he gets up and pulls me into his chest. He says nothing as he holds me, providing comfort instead in the form of a hand gently rubbing my back and the other in my hair to hold my head against him. He’s careful to avoid the bandage that’s wrapped around my head but holds me tightly nonetheless.

The vampire venom pulses in my fraile hand and I nearly gag at the feeling. I can feel the desire, the blood that it craves as it causes my fingers to twitch. I hide my face further into Sam’s chest in efforts to ignore it. However I’m not offered much relief as the vampire who had attacked me and then subsequently let me go flashes through my mind. He seemed familiar but I can’t place why. My mind races with the situation before me and loops back to him.

As if he can read my mind, Sam squeezes me once more before letting go and leaving me. Alone I'm consumed with him and nothing is able to prevent my brain from rewatching that interaction over and over again.

My heart begs my head to forget but the venom in my hand and something deep inside calls out for him.

The cold metal floor he knelt on introduced an ache to Bucky’s knees and had he not been overcome by his rage, he would’ve felt it.

The sick slur that left Steve’s tongue torches his flesh and devours any semblance of loyalty towards the vampire. Leader be damned, Bucky would be the undoing of Steve now that he proved to feel nothing for him.

“Kill the Van Helsing and bring me her head.”

Bucky’s hands ball into a fist without him noticing and he takes a deep shaky breath through his nose before speaking, “is that all you require?”

Steve says more but it falls on deaf ears. Anger courses through his body stronger than before and he gets to his feet before he was allowed to. His leader narrows his eyes at him as if he’s going to say something but Bucky cuts him off by storming out.

The words ring through his mind as he climbs into his car.

Kill the Van Helsing and bring me her head.

He slams his fist against his steering wheel and lets out a roar of anger that threatens to rattle the screws out of the car.

Kill the Van Helsing and bring me her head.

Resting his forehead against the beaten steering wheel, he takes a few shaky deep breaths. In and out.

“Think Bucky think,” he mutters to himself. He curses himself for saving the hunter's mother from Peggy years earlier. The memory of dragging her broken and mangled body from the river causes a shutter to run through him. She was only moments away from death when he gave her his blood and dropped her off at the footstep of her Guild. If he had just left her, he wouldn’t be in this situation, fighting himself to appease his leader. It should be what he wants; to bend to any and all of his leader’s wishes but there’s a tug deep inside of him that refuses to even entertain the thought of hurting her. He takes another deep breath albeit shaky and pulls his phone from his pocket. He sends a text to his contact in the Guild that reads;

“Meet me at the waterfront. 10 pm.”

Seconds later the reply comes.

“8pm.”

“10pm.” He fires back before tossing his phone into the passenger seat and drives off.

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laszlo-cravensworth-enjoyer · 11 months

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Okay, crazy what we do in the shadows season 5 theory time

Based upon s5 leaks!!!

(Long post, spoiler warning)

Well, I do think Guillermo is gonna turn into a vampire. Probably not in a permanent way, because we really need to see Nandor turning him properly!!!

Okay, last season everybody lost something important to them, and everything got back to the status quo. Laszlo lost his father-son relationship with Colin, Colin lost his "childhood" memories, Nadja lost the nightclub, Nandor lost his 37 wives, and Guillermo lost Freddie.... I guess? I do think it fits the whole theme of nothing ever changing in the vampire lifes, but what if he lost his humanity?

Soooo...

It may be a strecht but look at this picture!!!!!

Tell me this is not vampire!guillermo shinanigans!!! Or maybe some weird in between creature because of his Van Helsing blood?

It is stated by The Guide that his blood had to be drained for the vampires to suffer any damages while managing his body (s03e02), so Guillermo might not be entirely "poisonous" to vampires, but just enough to mess things up.

Also... look whos is credited for the first episode on imdb...

Guillermo's grandma! Maybe, he seeks advice from her, as she knows about vampires and stuff, maybe she could help in this unusual situation!

I also wanna talk about the optometrist, i know that Guillermo is wearing his glasses on the leaked picture, but somehow his powers are growing and now he has 20/20 vision? Would make sense for him to look for a professional in this case, because he, besides Colin, is the only one who really wears glasses.

Oh my God this is so long and its 3am but I am an Anxiety Machine and won't stop thinking about this for the next couple of months BUT i also think Sean is going to have a bigger role this season...

Its just a video of him hhmm... in a pride parade? Vampiric pride parade maybe? Who knows but it seams like a little event...

And I may be going crazy, but this could tie up with this pic that leaked too

Colin! I don't know what he is campaigning for, but I think Sean could also be running for... something and going for the gay votes? Or he is just coming out I don't know.

Either way Colin could gather lots of energy from an election, this should be so much fun!

Last but not least, the reason it can't be a permanent change to Guillermo's character (besides being the end of his character arch, literally in the first episode, 2 seasons before the end) is that we have this BTS pic from Harvey... okay he couldve just take off the fangs, but he is not even wearing the vampire makeup! (Pale skin and subtle red eyeliner)

If anyone reads this... im being delusional and really needed to take this off my system, can't wait to see this being completely useless in july! Thanks for bearing with me this long haha

#wwdits #wwdits s5 #what we do in the shadows #wwdits spoilers #nandor the relentless #guillermo de la cruz #nadja of antipaxos #laszlo cravensworth #colin robinson #wwdits meta

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bluecatwriter · 1 year

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if you're after more prompts how about van helsing playing with little quincey harker on his knee?

Oh, cute! I loved drawing this one. I immediately knew what photo I'd use for a reference: a pic of my dad holding me when I was a toddler. (It's one of the few photos I have of me and my dad— not because he's out of my life but because he hates being in photos. LOL)

P.S. I am always taking art prompts, so if you have an idea let me know! :)

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#my art #abraham van helsing #quincey harker #dracula daily spoilers #spoilers #dracula (novel)#dracula #van helsing #answered

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rosetyler42 · 9 months

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Here's another ship dynamic inspired one based on a post by @shabloobla that also kinda comes from a "The view's not bad either" women working out exchange I did on Discord with these two a while back where Ericka teases Drac about part of the reason he let's her use the hotel gym to work out/train in. Something about Ericka trying to flirt/show off after a workout and ending up coming undone at Drac's earnest genuine awed reply just....seems like them. Ericka may be a natural femme fatale, but she's a dork who's broken by genuine affection.

Bonus:

Ericka:"...WOO, is it suddenly WARMER in here, or is it just you? Wait, what? No, ME! Me! I meant me! Yikes. I must have, uh, worked myself harder than I thought. Clearly." **clears throat** "So um, I'm going to, uh, go take a...shower or something. To cool down. And so I don't...make anymore of mess in here. Than I already have." **nyooms out of there, internally screaming**

For the curious, Ericka's error message in the last pic reads

**"ErickaVanHelsing.EXE" has stopped working due to affection overload. Would you like to:**

*Pass Out ((Found this while looking at memes, thought it was funny))

*"Oh...Thanks...Ditto..."

*Leave the conversation

Easier to draw that error than do a blue screen of death, but same idea.

I should have added a Transylvanian option but I'm already over the usual 2 button limit and I can't bring myself to cut one.

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krill-joy · 1 year

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I posted 2,067 times in 2022

654 posts created (32%)

1,413 posts reblogged (68%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

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I tagged 514 of my posts in 2022

#liv watches supernatural - 36 posts

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#good news 2022 - 30 posts

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Longest Tag: 139 characters

#who often choose surrogacy because pregnancy would present a potentially fatal risk (and because adoption agencies discriminate against peo

My Top Posts in 2022:

i don't really think that john winchester was homophobic in the loud, overt, slur-using, "those people" kind of way. i think he was homophobic in the quieter way that a lot of peoples' parents were/are- the idea that anyone he knew, especially his kids, being gay was just not a possibility in his mind. it was a given that his kids would date girls, have wives, and that assumption, that expectation would be so sharply clear to dean and so deeply ingrained that it is just part of what he is supposed to do/be for his father/his family.

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it's always funny to be reading a fic that describes cas changing into a very specific outfit, and you realize the author must have seen a pic of misha wearing that outfit because it is so specific but also so not congruent with cas.

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no but really what i love about the deep as a character is that you do have sympathy for him and see so much awful stuff happen to him while he also steadfastly refuses to grow as a person or acknowledge that he has done really shitty things.

like, he is a really good example of how someone can be both victim and victimizer and that you can't just view him as one or the other.

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i was disappointed to learn that brendan fraser's acclaimed new performance has him donning a fat suit to play a 600 lb character. also, ugh, aronofsky? yeah, i'm not surprised he takes a cold, weird, hateful approach to the topic.

"If you look at The Whale as a fable, its moral is that it’s the responsibility of the abused to love and forgive their abusers. The movie thinks it’s saying, “You don’t understand; he’s fat because he’s suffering.” But it ends up saying, “You don’t understand; we have to be cruel to fat people, because we are suffering.” Aronofsky and Hunter’s biblical metaphor aside, fat people didn’t volunteer to serve as repositories for society’s rage and contempt. No one agrees to be bullied so the bully can feel better about themselves — that’s a self-serving lie bullies tell themselves. This is an externally imposed martyrdom, which negates the point of the exercise."

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My #1 post of 2022

if anyone is considering reading/listening to dracula in one continuous go either during or after the conclusion of dracula daily, may i recommend the audiobook that includes Alan Cumming as Dr. Seward and Tim Curry as Van Helsing?

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haunthouse · 2 years

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since we're all getting very into dracula now (and since mina was introduced today in dracula daily) i wanted to share some pics of the very good stage production of dracula i saw back in early 2020 @ classic stage company in nyc, written by kate hamill and directed by sarna lapine!

the production turned mina into the main character, and turned the story into a feminist revenge thriller / final girl sort of deal, which i thought was a really cool take on it. there's a couple of videos of scenes from it on youtube (jonathan meeting dracula, mina and lucy, the introduction of van helsing, and a couple more plus behind the scenes interviews if you look on their channel).

obviously dracula's been done a thousand times a thousand different ways by now, but i couldn't find any posts talking about this version yet, so i wanted to share it!

#dracula #dracula daily #classic stage company #photos taken from the playbill + nyt articles abt it !!#they did a very cool production of frankenstein too if thats of interest to anyone #i just think this one was very neat #i can't find any good pictures of it but they embellished the all-white costumes with red beads to make them look bloody #also the actress playing van helsing was so. i am a lesbian.#anyways hope y'all enjoy this!

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alexjcrowley · 2 years

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Tonight I dreamt I was still at the Venice Film Festival and for some reasons Jeremy Strong was there too, they were checking his stuff at the exit, and no one was crowding him, he was treated like a normal person. I got superexcited because all I've ver wanted was to meet him, so I came by him, called him "Mr Roy" and asked if we could take a picture together (in italian, which for some reasons he knew, even when I tried to switch back to English) and he was superexcited too to meet me and take this pic (like on coke Kendall), like I was doing him a favour, and we took this photo which was basically a selfie in a dirty mirror of the subway station we were in (don't ask- don't ask, please) and then he went on his way. I checked my phone but I couldn't find the picture. So I went as far to go to the Eldest Van Helsing (oldest brother of the Dracula's Van Helsing, wiser) who lives underground (and I am claustrophobic) because he was able to "restore the things that are lost". I asked him to restore the pic my phone may had deleted, and, even though he spoke perfect English until that moment, he told me, to challenge me, that he didn't speak English and he started talking in French. I don't know French, so, to prove that I was worthy, I started speaking in Latin (mixed with some ancient Greek, I fear, and sometimes I said an English word and I had to repeat myself in Latin). Of course I didn't speak fluently, but I was trying very hard, until one of the Van Helsing sister started laughing at me, and I got so angry that I dropped the Latin, went back to English, shouted at her that at least I was trying because I really fucking cared about that picture and stormed off because my pride was too wounded (even if I was without the photo).

When I woke up I realised I should have understood it was a dream when Jeremy Strong started acting all excited and giggly.

If it's in anybody's interest, Eldest Van Helsing just looked like one of those pictures of Santa Claus but wearing an hawaiian shirt and bermuda.

#succession #kendall roy #jeremy strong #van helsing #dracula daily #maybe #dream #venice film festival is a collective fever dream #I actually went this year I loved it #but only for a few days so I missed the Don't Worry Darling drama

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healerswanford · 2 years

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Isabella Swanford as Van Helsing

I drove a stake right through her I've tasted all her lies I'm a vampire by rumor Empty as fuck inside

Quick, take a look and a pic I'm a mannequin in bliss

#senatus.halloween #visage { brown eyes full of determination }#senatus.event

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savage-kult-of-gorthaur · 6 months

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MAIMED AND BATTERED -- THE HELLBEAST RETAINS HIS KILLING SPIRIT.

PIC/GIF INFO: Part 2 of 3 -- Spotlight on Count Dracula transformed as the demonic "Hellbeast," examining his broken left bat wing at the hands of Werewolf-Van Helsing, from the supernatural horror/action movie "Van Helsing" (2004), written & directed by Stephen Sommers. Universal Pictures.

Visual FX by Industrial Light & Magic (ILM)

Man, I am so happy I was brought up on movies such as this one where the story AND the visual FX still hold up nearly twenty years later. Thanks, dad, for taking my siblings & I to the cinemas to watch this!

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fizzydrink698 · 2 years

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welcome to the new show: "i feel like"!

i feel like:

your vamp!han is the type to dress up as dracula for halloween for the lols

instinct!hyunjin would totally diss readers makeup and then recreate the iconic "girl sitting on top of another girl while putting on her makeup" pic while giving them makup pointers

skate!chan would totally be the one supplying free skatewax when the old one gets lost or when someone needs it (sweet boi 🥺)

90's!han would totally have a nerf battle with reader and would let them win just cause he wants to see them smile (even though he knows he can win🙄)

-🐰

i enjoy this new show very much 🥰

latenightbite!han absolutely dressed as dracula, complete with little face-paint widow’s peak, fake plastic fangs and shitty red lipstick for blood smears. reader was van helsing, with a little plastic garlic necklace and fake wooden stake. this was, in fact, their first couples costume.

instinct!hyunjin would absolutely do this - but the Queen of “here let me just straddle you and put your lipgloss on for you like a ✨tOtAlLy platonic bestie✨” is absolutely 90s!yeji. if i ever write something for her, that is literally the only scene i have in mind for it.

skate!chan tried to offer jisung skatewax and jisung poutily refused and instead badgered changbin endlessly for his instead.

skate!jisung would not be smart enough to let reader win the first time, because he is just too competitive. it takes reader pouting and a “dude, are you dumb?” from a seungmin and/or hyunjin for him to realise

#🐰 anon

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shellku · 3 years

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Film Challenge

Okay guys. Finally did it. As requested.

Have you ever left a theater before the movie was over?

Yes. Only once.

If you ever left a theater what was playing: Savages

Craziest (Random) movie you’ve ever seen:

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

“And thanks for all the fish” -Dolphins

Most disturbing film you’ve ever watched:

Crimson Peak

A film you only watched because (Tom Hiddleston ) was in it: Crimson Peak

A minor role (or movie) with a major actor you greatly enjoyed: Sebastian Stan as Jefferson/The Mad Hatter in Once Upon A Time.

A minor role (or movie) with a major actress you greatly enjoyed: Emma Watson as Pauline Fossil in Ballet Shoes

A movie everyone should see at least once: The Princess Bride

A movie you thought everyone has seen but apparently not: Who framed Roger Rabbit?

A movie you’ve tried multiple times to watch but never get through it: Silence if the Lambs

A movie that legitimately surprised you:

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. While it came out in 1980 I didn’t see it until much later obviously. I wasn’t even ten when I watched it the first time, I and was genuinely shocked.

Movie that you enjoy, that surprises people you enjoy: Scream (1996)

A movie you associated with Religion and it turns out that tracks: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe

A movie you watched a lot as a kid but your not sure why exactly you watched it so much:

Hook. (And) The Sandlot.

My first movie that made me question my sexualité: The Priâtes of the Caribbean.

Sections

Anime

First Anime: Fruits Basket. Vampire Knight.

Anime I watched with my (brother): Full Metal Alchemist

Anime I tried to get into and couldn’t: D Gray Man

Anime I was surprised I enjoyed: The Neverland Promise. (And) Soul Eater

Anime I always liked (even when it confused people): Black Butler

Anime that makes me cry: Your lie in April

Anime that I love but now makes me sad too: Sword Art Online

Anime I’m just not into: One Piece

One that was recommended that I enjoyed:

Blue Exorcist

One that was recommended that I was ehh on and did not finish: Attack on Titian

One I probably should watch: Pandora Hearts

One I watched Randomly : Castlevania

One that I did not watch until (college) that everyone seems to have watched: Sailor Moon

Cartoons

Cartoons Everyone should see:

- The Peanuts.

- Garfield.

- Scooby Doo.

- Tom and Jerry.

- Pink Panther.

Cartoon I never liked: Spongebob

Cartoon I hate now: Kiayu? Idk. The one with the bald kid that whines a lot. Ugh.

Cartoon I can make myself ‘watch’ with the (niece/nephews): Paw Patrol

Films you would Recommend:

80s: The Breakfast Club

Book Adaption 80s: The Outsiders

Murder Mystery:Murder on the Oriental Express

Jim Henson pick: Labyrinth

(Suicide) Satire:Heathers

Romance: Titanic

‘Horror’ Movie: The Lost boys

Horror Movie: The Nightmare on Elm Street

Spy Flick: Saint (1997)

Mind trips: The Sixth Sense.(1999) Donnie Darko.

Stephen King: The Dark Tower

Stephen King Miniseries: Rose Red

Studio Ghibli: Howls Moving Castle. Or. Kiki’s Delivery Service.

Action Comedy: Miss Congeniality

Adventure Comedy: Jumanji

‘Dark’ Comedy: The Addams Family

Romantic Comedy: Legally Blonde

Tim Burton

Tim Burton Animated: The Nightmare Before Christmas

Tim Burton Live Action: Edward Scissorhand

Tim Burton Musical: Sweeney Todd

Dreamworks

Favorite Dreamwork’s Film:

Rise of the Guardians (and) How to Train your Dragon

Disney:

Unpopular Recommendations:

The Black Cauldron (and) The Great Mouse Detective

One that is still rather disturbing: Pinocchio

Best Soundtrack (Golden Age): Fantasia

Best Soundtrack (Modern): IDk?!

Classics (Golden) everyone should see at least once: Snow White (and) Bambi.

Wartime Era Pic: The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr.Toad

Silver Age or Bronze Age: Both!!!

Disney Renaissance or Post Renaissance: Both! If I absolutely had to choose though, Renaissance.

Moana or Lilo and Stitch: Lilo and Stitch

Frozen or Tangled: Both

Soul or Monsters Inc: Monsters Inc

Toy Story I and 2/ or/ 3 and 4? Toy Story I and 2.

Underrated: Candleshoe

Disney Holiday:

Live Action Halloween - Hocus Pocus

Live Action Halloween Series- Halloweentown

Animated Halloween- Frakenweenie

Live Action Christmas- Miracle on 34th Street (and) Eloise

Animated Christmas- Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas, Mickey’s Twice Upon a Christmas, (and) Winnie the Pooh: A very merry Pooh year.

New: The Nutcracker and the Four Realms. (2018)

Disney Reimagined/Live Action:

First that made you rethink the story: Maleficent

Favorite ‘Princess’ Story: Beauty and the Beast

The Surprise: Cruella

The one you worried about but we’re happy with in the end: Lady and the Tramp

The one you worried about but ending up enjoying anyway: Aladdin

The one that was good but you could have done without: The Lion King (which really surprised me!!!I like it but I didn’t love it. Which for me was so strange since I’m a fan of the original and the play.)

The one you had high hopes for and had a mixed reaction too: Mulan. (Ended up really liking it, but I miss Mushu. )

‘Modern’ Shakespeare Adaption:

10 Thing I hate About You (The Taming of the Shrew)

Clueless (Emma)

and

The Lion King Series. (Kid appropriate)

The Lion King: Hamlet

The Lion King 1 1/2: Rosencrantz and Guildenstein

The Lion King 2: Romeo and Juliet

Vampire Pictures:

90s: Interview with a Vampire

2000+: Twilight Series

Tv Series: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Vampire Action Series: Underworld

Classic: Bram Stoker’s Dracula

Dracula with a Twist: Dracula Untold (2014)

Fun Supernatural Flicks :

Witches: The Craft

Male Witches: The Covenant

Fairytale: Red Riding Hood (2011)

Ghost Hunters: Ghostbusters

Multiple Supernatural: Van Helsing (2014)

Werewolf Romance: Blood and Chocolate

Kid Friendly Live Action: Casper

Kid Friendly Animated: Hotel Transylvania

Supernatural Series:

Multi: Supernatural

Animated: Sabrina The Teenage Witch. (And) Scooby Doo.

Witches: Charmed

Fairytale: Once Upon a Time

Darker Fairytale: Grimm

‘Superhero’ Movies:

90s: Batman. (And) The Crow.

Series: Marvel’s Cinematic Universe

Classic Animated: Batman the animated series

Modern Animated: Harley Quinn

Girl Power: Wonder Woman. (and) Birds of Prey.

Something Different: Deadpool

Younger Audiences/Nostalgia: Teen Titans (animated)

Harry Potter

Favorite Film: Idk. Can’t choose honestly.

Least favorite character portrayal: .. Ginny Weasley?

Someone you loved: (so many..) McGonagall

Someone you loved hating: Bellatrix LeStrange

Someone you just hate: Dolores Umbridge

First time you cried: I cried for Sirius and Remus in Prisoner of Azkaban.

First time you jumped: Snakes or Basilisk. Chamber of Secrets. (I think I was 12?)

Someone who was so spot in acting on you can’t see them as anyone else now: Luna Lovegood

Someone who was so good even if the look wasn’t perfect: Emma Granger as Hermione OR Alan Rickman as Severus Snape.

Someone who’s injury hit you harder than the books: Colin Creevy.

Someone who’s death hit you harder than in the books: None. They hit but not as much as the books.

A scene you found just breathtakingly pretty: Christmas at Hogwarts

A scene you found creepy (even when you knew it was coming): Nagini uses a corpse as a mask.

For any Potter heads. Some things that bothered you about the Harry Potter films:

- Where is Charlie Weasley?

- Where is Peeves?

- Where are Neville’s parents?

- The green/blue/brown eye thing. (This is not against Radcliffe. Some special effects could have fixed this easily)

- HarrY DiD YOu PuT YoUR NaMe IN tHe GoBlET of FIRE?! 🔥

- In Sorcerers Stone, Why did you change the snake at the zoos breed??

- “Voldemort” versus “Voldemor”. The silent t.

- Hermione’s. Yule. Ball. Dress. Color. Blue. Not pink. She specifically changed the color.

- Fluffy. Hagrid’s adorable Cerberus was originally bought from a Greek man. Why change it to Irish? I like Ireland but it was a Greek man due to where Cerberus’s initially came from right???

- Harry’s first Weasley sweater color

- Why does Harry only see his parents in the Mirror of Eirsed? Where’s the rest of the family?

- The Underage magic rules aren’t well explained in the movies making the 3rd year summons even more bonkers sounding

- The Patil Twins Yule Ball Outfits. They could have been soooo beautiful. Like this is the Yule Ball! The Twins would have (in my opinion) much more elaborate traditional Indian styled dress robes?? Idk.

- Love Movie Hermione! But some moments take away from Ron. Like when Ron defended her in the Chamber of Secrets. Hermione didn’t know what the slur “Mudblood” meant in the books. Ron had to explain it.

- Dobby needed more screen time. Some stuff Dobby did went to Neville because so many Neville scenes were cut.

- Where’s all the secrecy from the books when communicating with Sirius- “Snuffles”? Something Harry’s godfather insisted on to keep him safe.

- Snape’s title of “The half-blood Prince” is not explained. Neither is it made clear that Severus was also abused horribly at home throughout his childhood. Also that like Harry Dumbledore did nothing to help Severus when he was a student. (Or maybe Tom Riddle when he grew up in an orphanage. I’m sensing a pattern)

- Dumbledore should have still spelled Harry during Dumbledore death scene. No way would Harry just stand there if given the choice.

- Ron was not quite as ‘dumb’ in the books and a lot of his funny moments were cut from the movie. Which makes his jealousy moments all the more unbecoming. He also comes off a bit more arrogant in the movies. (This is not against R Grint. Who is awesome) The movies gave Ron the short end of the stick.

- Weasley/Malfoy Fued. Who else wanted to see Arthur and Lucius have a fist fight in a bookstore? Exactly.

- Albus Dumbledore isn’t all Sunshine and Daisys. He does some really messed up stuff yet no one ever seems to question this.

- Remus was the last Marauder. Yet his and his wife, Tonk’s, deaths are barley acknowledged.

- Also Teddy. Harry’s Godson.

- Harry’s and Ginnys relationship is not built on. It’s just there. Ugh. Heck Movie Ginny isn’t that great. You don’t know much about her except: She’s the only girl in Ron’s family. She’s the youngest Weasley. She’s obsessed with Harry. She’s a good Quidditch player. She has a temper. She was possessed by Riddle’s Dairy when she was eleven. She’s obsessed with Harry.

- Draco is essentially Harry’s antithesis. Where is he in some critical scenes in the movies?

- Where’s the Luna love???? Harry’s pretty rude to her in some scenes.

- There is no S.P.E.W. And Hermione’s more ruthless side is gone.

- The guys hair in The Goblet of Fire. Get a hair cut. Please.

- Some of Molly’s less than Stellar Moments. (Ex. When she believed rumors about Hermione and so treated he coldly. How horrible she was to Fleur. Ect)

- Fleur. Fleur and Bill still get married but the objections to the wedding aren’t as presented in the movies. Not is Molly’s and Ginny’s extreme dislike of Fleur. Or when Arthur apologizes to Fleur. Or really any of Fleurs best moments. The whole courting process is skipped.

- House Elves. The House Elves of Hogwarts.

- Percy Weasley. The ‘betrayal’. The returned Weasley sweater. Him turning to protect his family and fight for Hogwarts at the last minute. All gone. Which involves being forgiven by the Weasley Twins not an hour before Fred dies.

- The connection of the Black sisters. Specifically Adromeda - mother of Tonks. Who is Sirius cousin. Who married Remus Lupin. Tonks and Remus the parents of Teddy.

- Dean Thomas is pretty much gone.

- Rita Skeeter. Illegal Animagus. Hermione kept her in a jar.

- The movies didn’t allow Radcliffe to be sassy and sarcastic enough. Harry Potter is one of the sassiest boys to ever walk through the halls of Hogwarts!

- Harry didn’t fix his wand in the last movie.

- The history of the Marauders.

- The history explaining why Snape could never be comfortable around and trust Remus Lupin.

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While Passion and Fahrenheit were more than plesent surprises, what about the other films?

Shark Tale- I would hope this out of a high cast CGI animation I, Robot- I still don't know if I liked this film or not. Sure, the film companies were still able to pull in film revenues with a little over nine billion, but ticket sales were actually DOWN by a startling two percent. Seemed a little rushed. Viewers are tired of films that just go through the motions and are now seeking something extremely polished or unique. So that would make five big blockbusters for the year; not nearly enough. Even though these films caused a lot of tension amidst their distributors [Einstein was pissed!], the two films managed to pull just under a combined $500 million in ticket sales.

Also, where the hell is Eternal Sunshine for the Spotless Mind? I know it has a few nominations, but it deserves a few more. Forget the biographies and the straight forward dramas, Spotless offers up an extremely unique outlook on love and the new ways to handle it.The best example to give for what happened to movies in 2004 is the upcoming Academy Awards. But what about the films that nobody wanted or were afraid to touch?

The two films that were handled like boiling water were Mel Gibson's Passion of the Christ and Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11. However, all of these films flopped [Van Helsing is doing great with DVD though]. Some of these films include Mean Girls [a teenie bopper that anybody could like], Man on Fire, and The Notebook, Friday Night Lights and Napoleon Dynamite.

In conclusion-- Hollywood needs to get people back in the theatres and buying tickets for films that deserve hyped attention. No matter how impressive the battles or sequences, audiences left the theatres feeling unsatisfied. Last of the animations was Spider-Man 2 [the fights were almost entirely animated]. Take a close look at the nominated films, what we have are dramas and bio-pics. The only thing that hurt most the surprise hits for 2004 was the invisible barrier that would not allow a lot of films to break the $100 million mark. And, mind you, it falls entirely away from the simple conventions overly used in films during 2004.

National Treasure- One of the best surprise films all year. People are losing interest; our top rated films are the ones that few people saw. The best way to do hot stamping foil for pvc panel this is by creating blockbusters that can actually remain in theatres longer than an opening weekend or two. Films of 2004 had lost the ability of 'word of mouth', but I expect that 2005 should regain all of this-- as Hollywood 3d wall panels manufacturers now seems ready to take some chances. Shrek 2 began with a bang and was able to gross somewhere just under $450 million in ticket sales. So what was wrong with the films? And who saved 2004?

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“The river bore you out to the sea …..”

“… and the fishermen found you, caught in their net. A drowned man walking and talking arouses a certain amout of curiosity and you were brought to me, babbling of a girl called Mina whose face you had forgotten and an evil Count who had stolen your soul.”

“Why was I brought to you?”

“I am known to have some expertise in the realm of witchcraft and the occult.”

That’s a simple message and yet ... this short information tells the story of a rather long journey. It’s also one of those moments in a story - even a fantasy story - when I wonder: ‘Really! Is this meant to be serious?’ And it’s also the perfect moment to go a little bit deeper ... :)

TBC below the cut .....

While a small part of Romania borders the Black Sea (225km compared to 2400km ‘dry’ borders), Transylvania does not. In fact, this region of Romania is more centrally located, largely surrounded by the Carpathian Mountains and quite far away from the shore of the sea. If one travels by water, like Jonathan Harker does in this story, that’s roughly a distance of 500km.

Based on the informations given in Bram Stoker’s novel, Count Dracula’s castle is located somewhere east of the Borgo Pass (Tihuta Pass). The street which leads over that high mountain pass connects the cities Bistrițz and Vatra Dornei. The red dots on the second pic below mark the way of Jonathan Harker’s long river journey down to the Black Sea.

The long journey ...

The river Jonathan falls into, should be the Bistrițza or a tributary of it. On its way through the mountains the Bistrițza flows through Vatra Dornei and then, over a distance of 230km, towards Bacău where it joins the Sereth River. And then, after another 190km, the Sereth reaches the Danube at the port town Galați ... still 80km away from the Black Sea. A long journey indeed.

How long could it take for Jonathan’s lifeless body - carried down the Bistritza, the Sereth, the Danube - over a distance of 500km - to reach the Black Sea? I have not the slightest idea. That’s a rather unpredictable matter, I assume. Almost a miracle that the man doesn’t look more dented, battered (and probably gnawed too) as a result of his watery journey, than he does at the St Mary’s Convent in Budapest, during Sister Agatha’s interrogation. One might almost say ... the water treated him well, after all.

Caught in the net of fishermen ...

What an incredible adventure for Jonathan but even more so for those nameless fishermen who found him. They hauled in their nets and tangled in them a drowned man who was still able to talk and walk. An undead man ... there was no heartbeat, barely a breath. What a terrifying experience that must have been. And yet, those men where courageous enough to bring that living corpse to the shore, instead of pushing him back into the sea .... which would have been a quite understandable reaction.

What's more, at least one of those fishermen must have had knowledge of Sister Agatha Van Helsing at St. Mary's Convent in Budapest and her special ‘expertise in the realm of witchcraft and the occult’. Because of that Jonathan’s transfer from the Danube Delta at the Black Sea to Budapest could be arranged .... somehow. The map below shows the course of the Danube from the Black Sea to Budapest.

What kind of transport could have been chosen for Jonathan? The train from Galati to Budapest, a horse-drawn carriage, a ship on the Danube? A walking , talking, undead man would surely stand out among common travellers. Did they put Jonathan into a box in order to prevent too much unwanted attention?

And just to get an inkling regarding the length of that way ... the Danube Bike Trail, that runs along the river, lists the distance between the Black Sea and Budapest with 1670km (X). The driving distance from Budapest to Galati - 80km from the Black Sea - is given with 985km. That’s still 1065km in total ... by road and car nowadays.

To sum it up ...

Jonathan falls into the river and - over a distance of 500km - gets borne out to the sea.

Then he is transportet to Budapest over a distance of (at least) more than 1000km.

He stays at St. Mary's Convent for nearly a month before Sister Agatha questions him about his encounter with Dracula at his castle in Transylvania.

Why did Sister Agatha wait a whole month to interrogate Jonathan who could walk and talk the day he had been found? The nun ‘has some expertise’ it is said, and should know better than anyone else that the man is already dead. No heartbeat, barely a breath. Even with the best care possible, Jonathan’s condition wont improve but will become constantly worse instead. He will change into a vampire in the near future ... and most likely be not much talkative anymore by then. What sense does it make to wait?

And then ... the very moment when Jonathan’s fiancée Mina assures him that she still loves him, no matter what ... Count Dracula turns up, seemingly out of nowhere, in the shape of a wolf, accompanied by a swarm of bats, and lays claim on Jonathan as his ‘finest bride’. What a spectacular performance! A vampire who clearly loves to be dramatic. :)

But how - after Jonathan’s lengthy and unpredictable journey - did Dracula know so precisely where to find his lost bride? And how had he been able to choose the most impressive moment for his appearance? I assume the Count didn’t use a tracer on Jonathan? :) So maybe premonition? Because blood is lives and carries all the informations?

‘The world is woven from billions of lives, every strand crossing every other. What we call premonition is just movement of the web. If you could attenuate to every strand of quivering data, the future would be entirely calculable, as inevitable as mathematics.’ (Sherlock BBC, TST, Sherlock (X))

Either way, the part of Jonathan’s largely extended journey, first from the Count’s Castle to the Black Sea and then to Budapest, as told in Dracula BBC, is - even for a fantasy story - rather far-fetched. What could be the reason for the decision to invent this seemingly implausible and unnecessary part about Johnathan’s detour to the Black Sea? If the man had been found somewhere along the river in which he fell into and was taken from there to Budapest, the core of the story wouldn’t change at all .... instead, it would be much more believalbe. Where could this fancyful idea originate from? It’s always a good idea to look up the original. :)

Jonathan Harker’s Transylvanian adventure in canon

According to Harker’s journal, he arrives at Count Dracula’s castle in the night of 5 to 6 May. Soon after, the Count tells Harker that his stay at the castle includes more than just the planned business transaction to buy property in England.

You shall, I trust, rest here with me awhile, so that by our talking I may learn the English intonation; and I would that you tell me when I make error, even of the smallest, in my speaking.

On the 12 May the Count announces that Harker should stay with him for ‘a month from now on’. Unlike as in Dracula BBC though, in the original story the vampire never attacks or bites Harker, nor does he drink his blood to gain informations. And when Harker, on one of his nocturnal explorations of the weird castle, stumbles accross three hungry vampire ladies, the Count turns up just in time to prevent his guest from becomming the ladies meal for the night.

But the Count! Never did I imagine such wrath and fury, even to the demons of the pit. His eyes were positively blazing. The red light in them was lurid, as if the flames of hell-fire blazed behind them. ..... With a fierce sweep of his arm, he hurled the woman from him, and then motioned to the others, as though he were beating them back .....

“How dare you touch him, any of you? How dare you cast eyes on him when I had forbidden it? Back, I tell you all! This man belongs to me! Beware how you meddle with him, or you’ll have to deal with me.” The fair girl, with a laugh of ribald coquetry, turned to answer him:—

“You yourself never loved; you never love!” ..... Then the Count turned, after looking at my face attentively, and said in a soft whisper:—

“Yes, I too can love; you yourselves can tell it from the past. Is it not so? Well, now I promise you that when I am done with him you shall kiss him at your will. Now go! go! I must awaken him, for there is work to be done.”

Jonathan Harker has fallen unconscious by then. When he awakens later in his own bed, he comes to the conclusion that the Count himself must have carried him there and undressed him, because his clothes ‘were folded and laid by in a manner which was not my habit’. And yet, there’s no biting and blood drinking.

On 19 May, Harker realizes that his life will be ended soon ...

“..... the Count asked me in the suavest tones to write three letters, one saying that my work here was nearly done, and that I should start for home within a few days, another that I was starting on the next morning from the time of the letter, and the third that I had left the castle and arrived at Bistritz. The first should be June 12, the second June 19, and the third June 29.”

On 29 June the Count bids Harker farewell and goes on his journey to England. He leaves Harker alone in the castle ... destined to be the evening meal for the three ladies.

“To-morrow, my friend, we must part. You return to your beautiful England, I to some work which may have such an end that we may never meet. Your letter home has been despatched; to-morrow I shall not be here, but all shall be ready for your journey.”

But Harker knows what will await him the next night - 30 June - and is not willing to accept this fate without any resistance.

“I shall not remain alone with them; I shall try to scale the castle wall farther than I have yet attempted. I shall take some of the gold with me, lest I want it later. I may find a way from this dreadful place. And then away for home! away to the quickest and nearest train! away from this cursed spot, from this cursed land, where the devil and his children still walk with earthly feet!”

The next time Jonathan Harker is mentioned in the story, it is in Sister Agatha’s letter to Miss Wilhelmina Murray. At this time - 12 August - Harker has been at the Hospital of St Joseph and St Mary in Budapest for nearly six weeks, suffering from a violent brain fever.

According to Sister Agatha ....

... He came in the train from Klausenburg, and the guard was told by the station-master there that he rushed into the station shouting for a ticket for home. Seeing from his violent demeanour that he was English, they gave him a ticket for the furthest station on the way thither that the train reached.

Harker escaped from Dracula’s castle on 30 May and was already for nearly six weeks in Budapest when Sister Agatha wrote her letter on 12 August. This means that Harker must have crossed the distance between the Count’s castle, near the Borgo Pass, to Klausenburg in approximately a month. The bee-line distance between the Borgo Pass and Klausenburg is about 120km. Harker doesn’t know how he was able to achieve this. Apparently the brain fever erased that part of his memory.

Nonetheless, this explanation is still much more believable than Jonathan’s extended river journey to the Black Sea and then to Budapest ... over a distance of at least 1500km ... in Dracula BBC.

The escape route ...

What could have been the reason for the decision to invent this seemingly implausible and unnecessary part about Johnathan’s escape route that leads him all the way down from the Carpathian Mountains in Transylvania - along three rivers - to the shore of the Black Sea?

The answer is simple ... it’s canon

... with the sole difference that this is the route Count Dracula chooses to escape his persuers from Engalnd. It’s just the other way round, the opposite direction. After his plans had failed, Dracula leaves London by ship. His destination is not Varna in Bulgaria, from where he started his journey to England on board the Demeter, but Galatz (Galati) in Romania, the port town where the Sereth meets the Danube. From here he tries to return to his castle in Transylvania.

My surmise is, this: that in London the Count decided to get back to his castle by water, as the most safe and secret way. (Mina Harker’s Journal)

I have examined the map and find that the river most suitable for the Slovaks to have ascended is either the Pruth or the Sereth. (Mina Harker’s Journal)

Now of these two, the Pruth is the more easily navigated, but the Sereth is, joined by the Bistritza which runs up round the Borgo Pass. The loop it makes is manifestly as close to Dracula’s castle as can be got by water. (Mina Harker’s Journal)

Regarding our plans, we finally decided that Mina’s guess was correct, and that if any waterway was chosen for the Count’s escape back to his Castle, the Sereth and then the Bistritza at its junction, would be the one. (Jonathan Harker’s Journal)

Two characters ... one excape route

In Bram Stoker’s novel, Count Dracula flees TO the castle and three rivers - Danube, Sereth, Bistritza - carry him from the Black Sea up to the Borgo Pass.

In Dracula BBC, Jonathan Harker flees FROM the castle and the same three rivers - Bistritza, Sereth, Danube - carry him down to the Black Sea.

By the way: both characters - Jonathan in the BBC adaptation as well as Dracula in canon - share the same fate: both get irrevocably killed.

In Dracula BBC it is the Count himself who kills Jonathan in exchange for an invitation into the St Mary's Convent in Budapest.

In canon Jonathan Harker and Quincy Morris kill the vampire with joint forces, but it is Mina Harker who becomes the main reason for the Count’s downfall, because the vampire didn’t just bite her and drank her blood, he also forced Mina to drink his blood and from then on she shared his mind and could advice her companions.

Blood is lives ... indeed! And lives is information! It was an interesting choice to do this ... to mix up the fates of Count Dracula and Jonathan Harker ... using their escape route, because the result of that exchange leads to a very close connection between those two characters in Dracula BBC .... between Jonathan and Mr Sex. :)

August, 2020

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☯, ☮, ☄ for adam :)

☯ : Genderbent headcanon

Geez, so we're talking from the show here: can you imagine how that would have changed things? Like, not to add sexism to the list of problematic things Sam & Dean have going on, but "oh shit our little sister is in the cage" hits different than "adam? who's ad- oh, right. adam. brother...uh, right?"

But consider this...us women are more prone to being less trusting. So you've got the angels coming to her like, hey, we need you to be the Michael's Sword cause your brother won't do it--right, by the way, you got two older brothers. And then waking up in Bobby's house and Sam & Dean are like, you can't trust angels! and she's like, that doesn't sound right but i don't know enough about them to argue. i also don't know enough about you to believe you? so like, i'mma head out. please don't approach me, i have pepper spray.

so much would be solved a lot faster. you guys ever heard of therapy? reading the room? suspecting a mofo of being a straight up slimeball and not letting him take you to no secondary location? female!adam just like, so like you straight up remind me of dad? and uh, don't really care for him like, at all? i'mma steer clear of this whole nonsense.

of course then, post-Cage recovery is worse because you have body-snatching. and sexual harrassment would make that whole thing hit differently.

☮ : Bedroom/house/living quarters headcanon

adam in tlr (because i can lolololol) isn't like hella messy, but he lets shit pile up bc he just doesn't have the mental space / energy to deal with it, until he finally snaps and will like- HELLA clean. it's always a toss up whether that takes a couple days or a few weeks, and all depends on his mood / energy, which given his hella mental problems and all that pressure in his brain bc of the pieces, well...it's real up and down.

so let's take a look at his bedroom in the bunker. he has one despite basically never being there, and increasingly less and less as things between him and sam worsen, but...he's got one. sam and dean never go in there. he could leave anything he wanted to there, they'd never bother it; but he pretty much doesn't, because that would mean having roots and like, he can't do that. when needed, he will show up and take advantage of the fact that the bunker is like the safest place on earth he could possibly be, but he's not going to make it in any way his own bc that would have a feeling of home-yness and permenance, neither of which he can do.

that being said, he does leave some shit there. most personal items are actually going to be from the 6-9 months he spent de-aged, which has now been shoved into the back of the closet and ignored (including things like...pictures. someone took pictures of the three from this era: adam atop sam's shoulders both grinning at the camera (adam has his chin tucked down on sam's head, clearly 'hugging' him); dean fast asleep propped against the arm of the sofa with adam asleep in his arms; sam walking down the street with adam curled up against his chest; a halloween shot of sam and adam dressed up as van helsing (adam) and...Frankenstien's monster? it's kind of unclear (sam), both are busy at a carnival booth; a pic at garth's, sam has adam on his lap in the kitchen, they're both eating chocolate chip cookies, adam's face is a mess, sam looks vaguely...distressed / bittersweet; there's a shot from the day before they fixed it, they went out for ice cream, adam's face is ice cream smeared, he looks incredibly pleased with himself, dean is practically falling out of his seat laughing hard, even sam looks amused).

his room, otherwise, is fairly sparse. there's some extra changes of clothes, but not much. there's a beatup paperback on the nightstand that sam had recommended. the files from the institution adam stole from dean when he found out dean had them are shoved in the nightstand drawer. a broken hag stone sam didn't know what to do with so he'd left it in there, bc having it out of sight made it less of a Thing scratching at the back of his mind. a couple empty beer bottles from the last time he was there.

☄ : Any AU headcanon (modern, school, medieval, and so on)

unlike sam & dean, adam can perceive angels in their true forms and it does not hurt him. however, like overexposure to anything can do, concentrated amounts of it make him hypersensitive.

so in the cage, this plays out where adam sort of gains his bearings faster than sam, and unlike sam, does not have the added agony of michael's and lucifer's true forms and voices hurting him. it does begin to bother him, but more in the way listening to a loud noise endlessly would give you a headache? and the way fluorescent lights bother some people? it's not so much a painful thing as it is a low-grade irritant but one that is incessant.

#adam milligan #spn #tlr #the long road #supernatural #spn headcanons #tlr headcanons

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um hi who’s steve moffat??

Oh my goodness. Okay, my sweet summer child, buckle up. I’ll try and keep this short. I assume you’re asking this since I just reblogged that post about Moffat creating the new Dracula show for BBC, so I’ll explain the particulars of why that’s upsetting as well.

So, Steven Moffat is a British television show writer and creator. He created the very popular (and well-done) comedic show Coupling, which was a take on the modern-day dating world and apparently inspired by how Moffat met his wife. He was also a writer on Doctor Who, the long-running British science fiction series, and this is where the fun (note the sarcasm) begins.

See, Moffat wrote some very very very good episodes on Doctor Who. In fact he wrote two of my favorites: the two-parter “The Empty Child”/“The Doctor Dances” (which includes my all-time favorite television moment, “Everybody lives, Rose! Just this once–everybody lives!!!”) and “Blink.” “Blink” is considered one of the best, if not the best, DW episode as it works so damn well and is so well written and ALSO functions very well as a standalone episode. Someone who has never seen a single DW episode could watch “Blink” and enjoy it.

Given Moffat’s good writing chops, everyone was super excited when he became the showrunner for Doctor Who after Russell T. Davies, the original showrunner, left, and when Moffat also announced he was creating Sherlock, a modern-day adaptation of the beloved Sherlock Holmes character.

I will direct you to this highly entertaining video that explains why Moffat’s show running skills and BBC’s Sherlock are, well, garbage.

Please do watch that video when you have the time since it’s fucking hilarious but here’s the gist of it: Moffat relies on building cliffhanger after cliffhanger and never actually delivering any climax, catharsis, or answers to the questions he gives. He makes his shows about one “super special genius” male character whose only function is to be “super special genius” and never actually has any character development and really actually is an asshole to everyone around him. And he writes female characters horribly, Irene Adler just to start. He crams in LGBT+ characters and other such “minority” characters in order to get “woke” and “diversity” points but he doesn’t actually give them any legitimate layers or nuance. The genius straight white male always saves the day and he does it while being a dick to everyone.

Yay.

Moffat’s constant reliance on twist after twist after twist without any character development, conclusion, explanation, or even logic, means that eventually his shows spiral into the absolutely absurd, as happened with season four of Sherlock. I would argue the show went off the rails in season three but that was before I saw it completely jump the shark in season four. Holy shit.

Which brings us to Dracula.

Look, vampires are sexy, I will be the first to admit that. But Dracula himself is not a vampire you want to swoon over. In the original book he is a sexual predator (the passages where he feeds on Mina are particularly disturbing and evocative of rape) who brutally and mercilessly murders people by twisting their spines and bashing their heads in until their brains burst out, sending wolves to tear them to pieces, and ripping their throats out. He literally throws a toddler to three vampires who do something so horrendous to it that Jonathan Harker blocks it from his memory.

Dracula is also, to add to all of this, a metaphor for two things a) the powerful and charismatic but “forbidden” gay relationship/love (and the shame that comes with that because this was the 1800s) and b) the racist/xenophobic fear of the “pure Aryan race” being “corrupted” by the “impure” eastern/non-Aryan bloodline.

Yeah, you heard me. The second one is pretty damn obvious and it’s a real sign of continued xenophobia and racism if you ask me that no adaptation (save for the silent black and white film Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary) has addressed this issue. Dracula literally says that he will destroy the Western race of heroes “through your women, and through them your children! I shall have them and through them I shall have you!” and basically says yeah I’m gonna rape your wives and they’ll have my children and your pure bloodline will be corrupted. This is far from an uncommon fear. It’s a repeated threat from the non-white villain in racist texts and it’s a common rhetorical trick. You even hear it in historical films when the heroic leader stands up and is like “would you have them kill us and rape our wives?” The fear isn’t just death, it’s that the “oh so pure bloodline” will be corrupted by the “unclean” race mating with the “clean” one.

AND THAT’S IGNORING THE BLATANTLY RACIST STEREOTYPE OF THE ROMANI PEOPLE AS EVIL STOOGES OF DRACULA LIKE WTF STOKER I’M GONNA RAISE YOU FROM THE DEAD JUST SO I CAN KICK YOUR GODDAMN ASS–

*ahem* Anyway.

The first one is also pretty obvious given that the entire first third of the book is Dracula flirting with Jonathan up to and including making innuendos about Jonathan teaching him English by “showing him how to use his tongue” (NO I’M NOT MAKING THIS UP). Most people believe that Dracula was based on Vlad Tepes aka Vlad the Impaler but actually, while Stoker did research on good ol’ Vlad, Dracula was based on a popular actor and close friend of Stoker’s, Henry Irving. Dracula was originally supposed to be a play, written for Irving, with Irving in the title role. When Irving refused, Stoker changed it to a book.

In fact when people who knew the two read the book they all went, “holy shit Dracula is totally Irving and Stoker is totally Jonathan.” Contemporaries noted that the relationship between Irving and Stoker was toxic, with Irving being manipulative and narcissistic, taking advantage of Stoker, while Stoker was too damn in love with Irving to stand up for himself even as he knew that Irving was being an asshole.

SO THAT MEANS WE HAVE: queer subtext, racist subtext, and vampirism as a metaphor for sexual assault.

None of which Moffat has a history of handling well.

It’s a sad tradition in Hollywood to change Dracula into a sexy anti-hero, and to claim that Mina Harker, the heroine of the book who saves everyone’s goddamn bacon, was actually attracted to Dracula and wanted to be with him. Y’know, the man who in the book makes her drink his blood in a way that is explicitly worded to make it sound like she’s forced to give him a blowjob (no seriously reading those passages is genuinely disturbing). Seeing how Moffat treated Sherlock and The Doctor on their respective shows, he’ll probably turn Dracula from a monster that is legitimately scary (because y’know he rapes people) into yet another pale white super special genius Mary goddamn Sue.

Seriously, the next time someone asks me what a Mary Sue is I’m just directing them straight to the Moffat-run seasons of Doctor Who and BBC’s Sherlock.

And given how Moffat handled the character of Irene Adler by turning her from a woman who received the world’s first unsolicited dick pic and was forced to use it to protect herself from persecution by royalty in order to quietly marry the love of her life into a dominatrix whose bisexuality was used as a one-off line to show how “irresistible and sexy” Sherlock is and is beaten by Sherlock, is a villain, not just a villain but the lackey of another villain, and has to be rescued by Sherlock twice instead of being the clever quick-thinking woman who gets one over on him and teaches him not to underestimate women and that he’s not always right…

Yeah. I don’t have high hopes for how Moffat will treat Mina Harker, the meticulous wannabe journalist who loves her friends to death and has a fucking backbone of steel and memorizes train schedules in her spare time like the utter dork she is.

And even if you set all those things aside! Even if you hope that Moffat will do justice to the women in the series, that he’ll properly address the sexual, gay, and racist subtext in Dracula, even if you hope that he won’t make Dracula another annoying can’t-ever-do-anything-wrong-jackass that treats the people around him like shit but we’re supposed to think he’s cool for it and people still somehow inexplicably stick around him and forgive him for it…

EVEN IF YOU HOPE FOR ALL OF THAT

…there is still Moffat’s major storytelling issue which is that he never tells a complete story. He never delivers on any of the promises he makes to the audience. He dangles cliffhangers that promise some big revelation is upcoming, but he never actually makes good on that–he just gives another twist instead, so that you never conclude any story arcs. It’s like listening to a song but having no resolution in the music so it’s just hurting your ears. Moffat is all about sound and fury, about making things look and sound cool, but without giving them any actual substance.

Moffat has done some great writing work, but it was always when someone else was in charge reining him in and forcing him to tell a complete story. He was given carte blanche with Sherlock and look how well that turned out. Season four was so bad people actually wondered if it was a joke. Yeah. Seriously.

So, people are understandably frustrated about this upcoming Dracula adaptation and have zero hope that it will handle any of the characters or the complex issues with any kind of nuance or substance. My personal bet? The women will be treated as props who fawn over Dracula, Dracula himself will be an asshole that we’re supposed to somehow like, his bisexuality will be a throwaway thing and the men who fall for him will behave in stereotypically gay ways and God forbid he actually get a long-lasting substantial relationship with any of them, Van Helsing is gonna be a woman and be either his bitter ex or eventually fall for him, and oh yes the racism/xenophobia in the original text will never be addressed ever.

That, my dear, is Steven Moffat, and that’s why people hate him and aren’t happy about him creating a Dracula television series, bisexual vampires or no.

#mads answers things #dracula #dracula bbc #moffat #steven moffat #I'm paraphrasing the Dracula quotes because I've read that damn book ten times by now #and I'm too lazy to go find my copy to get the exact quote right #I hope this explains everything satisfactorily my dear!#apologies that it's such a long answer lol #I tried to be succinct #nalgenewhore

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