#abraham van helsing

[wizardoftheloops]

how the gang see each other

[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.

[rikiteekeetavee]

Dracula-themed party dress-up options that are not Dracula himself or other vampire:

Cowboy

Insomniac depressed psychiatrist

Friendly Dutch grandpa (w/ surprise hammer+stake)

Blood-splattered aristocrat (sad)

Victorian lady with forehead burn scar seen through a mourning veil

White-haired young man with huge Knife

Bugs and birds man

Haggard windswept rope-bound Captain with orthodox crucifix

Guaranteed conversation starters

[treesaspen]

More things that get left out of Dracula adaptations

Van Helsing pulls 29 year old Dr Seward's ear like he's still a schoolboy

There's a relationship-establishment flashback between Van Helsing and Seward

In it, Van Helsing accidentally gets cut with something unclean. His then-student Seward immediately drops everything to start sucking on the wound raw

At one point, Seward asks to become his "pet student again."

Dracula has a big, permanent scar on his forehead from Jonathan Harker's shovel

Arthur Holmwood saying "Tally ho!"

Transylvanians conclude that the delirious, amnesiac Jonathan Harker is English due to "his violent demeanour."

Despite attempts to keep low profile, Dracula gets into the news twice in two months (in one of them as a missing dog)

Dracula getting misreported as a dog because English people have never seen a wolf

London newspapers treat Lucy's vampire attacks on children as a meme among kids because they don't believe in vampires

Dracula getting sworn at by a British sailor solely because he thinks Dracula is French

Van Helsing is baffled why British sailors keep talking about blood and bloom (it's swearing)

Van Helsing is friends with real-life turkologist traveler Arminius Vámbéry, who is his source on the Dracula family

Van Helsing is friends with Hans Christian Andersen and references The Ugly Duckling

Van Helsing getting one-upped by Mina Harker every single time he says something sexist about her intelligence

Dracula failing to destroy the evidence against him because Mina backs up her files

Jonathan getting so mad he hunts Dracula down the walls like a spiderman with a machete

Dracula's backstory involving him being a top student at the devil's magic school, the Scholomance

Mina and Jonathan kissing on the mouth in front of everybody

Quincey Morris spontaneously gifting Mina the Victorian equivalent of a MacBook Air while travelling to the Castle

Quincey Harker

[jhoca]

Dracula

I just finished reading Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897) and ngl I wasn't expecting to like the characters so much lmao (the cowboy is my favorite). So naturally I had to draw them... I am also years late finding out about Dracula Daily, but I am ready for next year!

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[didanagy]

BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA (1992)

dir. francis ford coppola

[thegoatsongs]

Van Helsing is utterly shocked to find Jonathan not a broken shell, as Mina had described, but aura farming and ready to murder a vampire.

All because Mina chose not to shield him from the truth of his experiences at the Castle. Jonathan needed that reality check; far from destroying him, it remade him. The man who had spent months collapsing under the weight of unreality now stands changed. The trauma remains, but by knowing the wound is real, he can act again. Mina was right to ignore Van Helsing's advice to keep Jonathan in the dark.

My theory is that this is why Van Helsing immediately rushed to Seward’s office and dragged him to Lucy’s empty tomb. Seeing how well Jonathan responded to the truth encouraged him to imitate Mina, revealing the horrors to his shaken former student.

[unhinged-soapbox]

I love that Dracula adaptations and spinoffs continually characterize Van Helsing as a badass veteran monster hunter when in reality he was called in because Jack Seward was like "Well he's the smartest guy I know and we've tried everything else so...." and then he pulled up like "Ah yes I've read a LOT of books about vampires so we're gonna hope they were right." And then he was thankfully correct.