wilhemina

20 | she/her | intj | scorpio

[amoralto]

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October, 1973: John sings his own brittle, crooning rendition of ‘Be My Baby’ by The Ronettes. (Note: The number was originally recorded for - but left off of - John’s Rock ‘N’ Roll LP. It was eventually released on the unauthorised Roots LP. This is an alternate rough mix of the track.) 

[dovesndecay]

I think the next Met Gala theme should be The Muppets

[yallemagne]

Mina every time she experiences a negative emotion: “I almost cried, which is quite unnatural for me. I’ve never cried a day in my life. Not even as a baby. That’s how “not like hysterical women” I am.”

Jonathan every time he experiences an emotion: “Woke up today, realized I was still living, and found no reaction more reasonable and appealing than sinking to the floor in loud agony and staying there until someone came to drag me from my wallowing. After that, I went to the post office.”

[weall-mad-here-deactivated20250]

John Lennon & Paul McCartney at the NEMS Enterprises Ltd offices at Sutherland House, 5-6 Argyll Street, London, England 30 May 1964

[stars-bean]

Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996 - 2003)

[lorereadsclassics7]

"I am truly thankful that she [Mina] is to be left out of our future work, and even of our deliberations."

[xx-psych0-rabbit-xx]

my favorite part of the dracula daily experience was seeing a hundred posts warning about how renfields character was ableist and then it turning out hes better and more relatable than nearly every modern mentally ill character.yall have got to stop equating "has violent outbursts" with "immediate ableist depiction of mental illness"

[ultirex]

hooting and hollering at the mental image of a modern day count dracula trying desperately to make all the corners of the fitted sheets stay in place before his guest enters the room

[magdaleina]

this again seems unpopular but i’ll just say it always;

i don’t really like jack seward all that much. at the beginning i liked him (oh, bear in mind i haven’t finished the book yet) but there’s just been more and more things that have led me not to like him.

of course this is a victorian english man - i can’t expect amazing things i know that, but i just feel irritated when he says things.

i feel like he never really loved lucy all that much. of course she turns to a vampire but immediately he calls her the ‘Thing’ and ‘it’ and says he would happily kill her - and of course she’s suddenly a terrifying vampire who is feeding off of children - but wouldn’t you think deep down that that person is in there somewhere? i don’t know, like arthur was fainting and refusing to let them harm her and resisted until he was convinced … i’m not sure - don’t take this so seriously.

oh, and with my previous post about jonathan. yes, again i don’t expect absolutely amazing things from this man because of course he says things that aren’t right - but i would probably say he’s better than jack - it feels hmm weird

anyway, after i’ve finished it i’ll probably end up doing some essay on it just to get my thoughts out -

[grimogretricks]

Gender, power and predation in Dracula- why do the vampire women feed on children?

I have, like most of tumblr it seems, been reading Dracula Daily of late and  was pondering the reason why it is that the female vampires in Dracula, and in particular, Lucy are portrayed as preying upon children, first and foremost, whereas Dracula himself seems to primarily, though  not exclusively prefer to predate upon young women.

Firstly I think it was Bram Stoker going for something that would be shocking, and anti-thetical to Victorian ideals of womanhood, yet not as salacious as going out and actively hunting down men, or indeed other adult women. Thus the female vampires will go for men if the men cross their path, but they do not go out of their way to chase them down the way Dracula does with women (and Jonathan who is a bit of a special case).

The vampire women in Dracula feed upon children to show they are corrupted opposites of everything a Victorian ideal of woman should be- they destroy what it is they are supposed to love and protect. In Lucy’s case, it underlines that Lucy is not Lucy any more, without going so far as to depict her as voracious in a way that could be construed as salaciously, promiscuously predatory towards adult men and women.

However, as I was thinking over this and how of course, this is very much a sexist idea rooted in Victorian constructions of gender, it struck me that the same thing applies to Dracula, in that Dracula is a corrupted opposite of the Victorian ideal of a good man. The fact that people have idealised and romanticised this does not make it less true.

He too, destroys and corrupts what he is supposed to love and protect. He is supposed to love and provide for his wife and family, and yet instead, he stalks and preys upon multiple women, corrupts them, and feeds children to them, rather than providing for his children.

But I think another factor in it is that it reflects where men and women have traditionally been seen as being able to legitimately exert their power and influence.

Dracula, being a man, and a rich man, too, is expected to and granted leave by society to exert power and agency over many others in the public sphere as well as the private, domineering over people in business with him (Jonathan), and those who he sees as beneath him (peasants, the men on the boat), but also over his household, women and children. Thus all are predated on by him, in different ways.

Meanwhile, women have generally been treated as not being able to legitimately wield power in the public sphere, and especially not over men, not even in the private sphere, excepting in the stigmatised and limited way of exerting ‘feminine wiles’ over them. Yet, women have been seen as having legitimate power and influence over children. Thus, the vampire women, while they may take advantage of a man that crosses their path, exercise their most active predation on children.

It’s an interesting thing to note, given how sexualised the predation has been generally portrayed, there are in fact different types of power - and the corruption of that power- that it could be said that the vampires are exerting over their victims.

They each, in a gendered way, are exerting a corrupted, horrifying reversal of what they are supposed to be, according to society, but within the spheres of influence and power they are legitimately considered to have.

This could even be said to work as an in-universe explanation for why Lucy and the vampire women predate as they do- they are still latently influenced by where they feel their own power can and should be exerted, and also where they feel they should or shouldn’t go.  

[magdaleina]

i’m late to this i know but can anyone explain why lucy chooses to feed on children?

[ahumancharacter]

i’m back on my bullshit and made another shitty meme to celebrate Jonathan’s return

[magdaleina]

i cant stand jonathan harker sorry xx

[catfish-and-the]

just found out i have the same mbti type as mr darcy and count dracula

[phoenix-arising]

Dracula be like

[mioxenoblade]

Reblog to put candy in your followers halloween buckets :)

[microwave-radiation-1]

Muppet Dracula casting