Cait/Glow

I love gothic literature, poetry, art, romanticism 🥀 my main / fandom blog is @harringtiddy 🥀 hopeful-romantic 🥀 lovergirl 🥀 I like to paint & to overanalyze everything

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My Heathcliff btw <3

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yeah yeah I love how vampire stories tackle repressed desire and "wanting what you shouldnt want" im a big fan but. there was absofuckinglutely no "repressed desire" with mina in the text and honestly I shouldn't fucking have to explain why turning what is effectively a rape scene into something the victim secretly wants or smth is not only mischaracterizing for mina but also a fucking egregious adaptation choice in general

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If I ever made a Dracula movie, the scene where Dracula makes Mina drink his blood will be he single most horrifying scene in the movie. It’s not sexy or mysterious - it should feel like being forced to watch a rape. I want people to physically recoil from the screen and walk away shaking with helpless rage.

I want to watch Mina spend the rest of the movie ruthlessly waging psychological warfare on her rapist and systematically destroying every single one of his plans and allies.

[remi-drawz]

legitimately i feel like if you wanted to adapt dracula like "to a t" you would have to put that in a series imo (there are so many things in the book that from most adaptations I've seen so far just aren't explored or there are just some details that just aren't added in at all), and Dracula should NEVER be portrayed as a tragic/misunderstood character like how he is in most media for some weird reason. Drac is legitimately supposed to be a terrifying villain in the novel (like ffs he LITERALLY feeds his vampire waifus a damn baby (in which it's mother literally comes to dracula's castle and is CRYING that her child is hone btw) leaves jonothan for dead in his decrepit ass castle as another example beyond him turning mina in the posts above.)

Like if i were to make a Dracula series, i would want to make sure the audience doesn't sympathizes with the count at ALL. And mina shouldn't ever have a weird romance thing with dracula like idk wtf these movie writers are on when adapting this novel

Like genuinely I'd give the writers, directors, AND cast a copy of the book and have them read it so they understand how the characters act, how scenes should play out, and such (matter of fact this should be regular practice for any type of book adaptation if you ask me)

[thepinkpestilence]

one of the biggest cultural gaslights happened when people started to treat dracula by bram stoker as a dark romance story instead of the victorian og scooby doo shenanigans

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[marsonbase]

"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" "I asked Gemini" Ok, well I asked Professor Abraham Van Helsing(M.D., D.PH., DLITT., ETC., Etc.,), and he gave me an hour and a half long speech that was so full of metaphors that I don't even know what he was trying to say.

[sweetdecdence]

Dracula: A Love Tale

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[nuria-schnee]

Adam and his books

[tvandfilm]

Frankenstein dir. Guillermo del Toro | 2025

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Gentle

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“And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on” -Lord Byron

[rosie-tyler]

Frankenstein (2025) dir. Guillermo del Toro + paintings

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if i have to read another quirky poorly written think piece about how wuthering heights is not Actually A Love Story because heathcliff & cathy are Toxic i will be forced to do something that will make heathcliff himself look like paddington the fucking bear

[mournfulroses]

Emily Brontë, from The Collected Works & Poetry of Emily Brontë; “Wuthering Heights,”