re-dracula
see-arcane

“Yes, I too can love.”

These are simultaneously the five best and worst words Jonathan could have heard from Dracula.

Best: Jonathan is claimed. Jonathan matters enough to Dracula that he’s worth protecting from the others’ appetites (for now). Jonathan has the biggest predator in the game keeping him safe even as all his freedoms and personal boundaries are abused. If he is guarded from other perils and Dracula’s direct harm, there is time to work with. Time to think. But…

Worst: Jonathan is claimed. Jonathan is never going to leave this place. Time is only going to be useful for so long.

Yes, I too can love

And Dracula doesn’t seem the type to set free what he ‘loves’ if the Brides are any indication. Whether the word can be taken at face value or not, the facts of the Count’s protection, of his wanting, of a guarantee that Jonathan will ultimately be gift-wrapped and handed over to the ladies, kills any hope Mr. Harker might have had that he’d get to leave the castle at all, let alone alive. 

Or human.  

re-dracula
dathen

The other was fair, as fair as can be, with great wavy masses of golden hair and eyes like pale sapphires. I seemed somehow to know her face, and to know it in connection with some dreamy fear, but I could not recollect at the moment how or where.

The most common read I see of Jonathan saying he recognizes the blonde vampire from a ‘dreamy fear’ is that it’s an editing error or a callback to Dracula’s Guest, but a chilling Watsonian interpretation occurred to me:

What if this isn’t the first time she found him.

What if that “dreamy fear” is like all the other vampire victims who can’t remember being fed on unless it’s interrupted—like Mina and her nightmares before October 3, or the entire time Dracula was preying on Lucy.

It would explain why Jonathan feels such dread at the sight of her, specifically, and would go along with the theory that Dracula didn’t really care what happened to Jonathan before deciding he wanted him for an extra month.

re-dracula
stationarycursive

dracula daily friends, i have a question :

first read, following only the substack

first read, following only re:dracula

first read, mix of both

second read, following only the substack

second read, following only re:dracula

second read, mix of both

third+ read, just vibing

lizard fashion (show results)

stationarycursive

responding to a couple questions in the notes:

the substack is the same as the emails! it’s the site the emails are sent through and what handles the subscription. there are many books running on substack as well as micro-blogs of all sorts! it has its own app/site that i prefer bc some of the emails got too long for me to work through and cause i follow so many now it helps to not clog my email

re: dracula is an audio drama reading of the exact same entries sent in the email ! @re-dracula can tell you more but in general it’s been super delightful and is an incredible way to experience the text!

i love how many people have read the book many many times but still lean in for the fun i love it here :)

re-dracula
emilyksmithcomics

Jonathan Harker’s Journal, May 16, continued.

“I awoke in my own bed. If it be that I had not dreamt, the Count must have carried me here.”

“ Of one thing I am glad: if it was that the Count carried me here and undressed me, he must have been hurried in his task, for my pockets are intact.”

So yeah, there was no way I wasn’t gonna draw the campest possible take on this scene. The Brides are not at ALL pleased at being fangblocked by the Count, and are probably going to leave half a deer in his bed as payback.

dathen
dathen

Re: Dracula’s choice to have the tone Jonathan has when describing the Roommates echo the tone he uses to describe the Count is SO GOOD. This scene is the most horrifying thing that happened to Jonathan yet, and he sounds horrified—but also admits attraction, and the descriptions have ab unmistakable erotic fascination.

But it’s not a case of “I’m horny for vampires but ONLY the women” like a lot of adaptions spin it. The way he lingers over the word “lips” is so much the same as how he did in the first description of Dracula himself. The way his voice trembled in anticipation as she drew close for the bite, the shivering awe of Dracula’s rant of his history. It’s fascinated and horrified and afraid and entranced and repulsed.

leoxxii
wh0re-behavi0r

which one of these "childhood activities" do you not know how to do?

ride a bike

jump/skip rope

hula hoop

whistle

cross the monkey bars

cartwheel

i cant/never did more than one of these (name which in the tags)

i can do all of these

you forgot one (name in the tags)

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