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[lovedthestars-toofondly]

so today on the train I was thinking about how jeans were first patented in 1873, and Dracula was published and is set in the 1890s, and what I’m saying is, you cannot stop me from imagining Quincey Morris in denim for the entire duration of the book

[technoturian]

Just a day in the life of a heartbroken goth and his phonograph and his emotional support asylum patient and his emotional support asylum patient's emotional support flies.

[anchy2006]

Happy Dracula Day to all those who celebrate

[butterflies-and-mirrors]

i also read dracula last week 10/10 gothic horror. period-typical misogyny did sour my mood but given how pop culture has warped it so much that u dont even know anymore the og dracula was just a weird mf. still loved his character tho. also shoutout to mina harker btw. and her gothic heroine husband jonathan. but also the biggest shoutout to quincy morris he charmed me thoroughly. never thought id say that abt a cowboy.

[mbiwald]

It's not that Dracula the character cannot have a love interest, it's just every adaptation that I saw trying to do it sucked ass. Same with trying to make him sympathetic.

[goodtaste2000]

I LOOKED UP WHO THE COWBOY CHARACTER FROM DRACULA WAS AND I JUST GOT SPOILED FOR A BOOK FROM 130 YEARS AGO BY A WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE 😭😭

[theholmwoodfoundation]

It’s almost the 3rd of May! Everyone wish Jonathan well on his business trip overseas!

[dinodoggie]

I miss Dracula so heres a silly drawing of it as a muppet movie XD

I hope you enjoy, and have an AWESOME day!!

[re-dracula]

This month, all proceeds of our audiobooks (& other digital goods) will go towards printing and distributing whistles across Colorado! We're working with a bunch of different organizations, including the Colorado Rapid Response Network.

Visit Tal Minear's Shop!

I've opened a shop. Come take a look!

Why whistles? Find out here!

(Why Colorado? It's where Tal and Hannah live!)

If you don't wanna buy anything from the ko-fi shop (patrons, you get most of it for free anyway), you can always throw some money towards my ko-fi OR donate to other causes like Stand with Minnesota! No pressure though!

[re-dracula]

We've printed over 500 whistles funded by yall and have enough filament to quadruple that number in the next few weeks!

[re-dracula]

And that's another 500!

[whetstonefires]

One of my favorite things is modern adaptations that leave people with the same careers they had in the original material, because unless you’re a cop or a doctor that practically never happens.

Irene Adler’s an opera singer. We still have those! They don’t have the same subtext exactly, but nothing is going to because we aren’t the Victorians. She could continue to be an opera singer. I have never seen this happen.

Jonathan Harker can still be in real estate. That’s a job people have. A modern story that still involves Dracula contacting his firm to help him purchase property sounds amazing actually.

[nudityandnerdery]

A modern adaptation of Dracula where you keep seeing Jonathan Harker’s face on bus stop bench ads for his realtor office.

[daddygrandpaandthebeaver]

#“This client doesn’t seem to exist online; a bit strange. But he’s elderly so it’s not that unusual” -Jonathan about to make a mistake – @capslockdoesntexpressmyjoy

[prokopetz]

I was about to joke about Quincey Morris still being a cowboy, but then it occurred to me that he’s not actually a cowboy in the source material, is he? He’s the wealthy heir of a Texas ranch-owning family who just acts like an Old West cowboy. If anything, that’s even more plausible today than it was in 1897.

[roach-works]

let’s see dracula shrug off getting hit with one of these country cosplay motherfuckers

[quinceys-levis]

Listened to Dracula: 2004 ep. 6 “Said the Spider to the Fly” and I LOVED it

Our sad little meow meow, wet cat of a person, Dr. John Seward in all their glory!

Personal highlights (spoilers) below the cut:

Quincey: “Jack, Jack, Jack. How many yarns have we told about the campfire? We have sung songs in the dark to keep the wolves at bay, dressed each other's wounds in the depth of the jungle.”

Jack: “Quincey, I dug a splinter out of your thumb in a youth hostel in Belgium.”

“Oh god, it’s not norovirus again, is it? In the suMMER?”

*quietly* “Christ on a bike”

[mysteriouspersonrambles]

Pour one out for our dear friend Quincy Morris today

Rip Quincy your where the most Texan to even Texan and the best cowboy in a vampire novel I ever did hear about.

You got that blood sucking son a bitch good

Rest in cowboy heaven my friend

[cry-ptidd]

Lucy Westenra

[mavrizsa]

I’m obsessing over these Dracula characters and I must draw them in meme’s.

There is not enough jokes about Renfield, Quincey, and Dr. Van Helsing.

So I offer my first attempt at creating what I want to see.

I present!! Dr. Van Helsing and his inability to have “short answer” or “in summary” in his vocabulary.

[orangebasketcase]

vote for me and ill make a five hour long book accurate dracula film. yes i will include jonathan hitting dracula in the face with a shovel

[professional-rat-eater-deactiva]

My detailed plan for a Dracula adaptation that doesn’t inevitably disappoint people:

I get the movie greenlit. The budget is a billion dollars. Everyone wants to know why. That feels excessive.

The trailer comes out. It’s obscene. Explosions. Out of place sex scenes. Someone’s hanging off the side of a train at one point. Also the train is on fire. Quincey lassos Dracula at one point. Wait, there’s a cowboy in Dracula? Gun fights. Dracula with a glock. Those didn’t exist back then. Blood everywhere. Whatever other shit needs to be there to bait people into seeing the movie.

People see the movie out of morbid curiosity. This is the theatre exclusive run. They come in and sit down. The lights dim.

Then they brighten again. The doors lock. It was a trap. There was glue on all of the seats. Now they’re all trapped. The trailer was all that was filmed and the entire budget was used.

I come out with a copy of Dracula. No one is allowed to leave until they listen to me read the entire thing. I do this in every cinema in the world. When I’m done, they can leave. No one will believe them.

Bonus when it comes out on streaming: the victims of the cinema run start posting online. Everyone thinks it’s fake but they watch the movie anyway. They can’t help themselves. They press play. I emerge from the floorboards. They’re glued to the nearest surface. I hold them hostage in their own home and they listen to the entire novel. Then I release them.

Over eight billion people on earth. When I’m done, there will be no one left to claim Dracula is romantically involved with Mina. It’s foolproof.

[treesaspen]

Van Helsing's past in pop culture: "My past... Is dark and full of secrets... For decades have I been hunting, saving victims from those blood parasites. For years have I been in opposition to The Dark One"

Van Helsing's past in the book: "one of my students stabbed and poisoned me and then my pet student sucked me"