#jack seward

[wizardoftheloops]

how the gang see each other

[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

[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.

[evydraws]

25 May. - Cannot eat, cannot rest, so diary instead.

[immediatebreakfast]

It's so good how Lucy truly reflects about her feelings after she chose Arthur, even thought she laments that she can't marry her three suitors out of a sense of shame for hurting their feelings. Because yes movie directors, Lucy is actually considering how guilty it makes her feel to reject two men even thought she has already chosen the one she loves, and not being an evil greedy whore to the parallel madonna that most people think she is because of a single out context line. Who knew that a girl could be a complex character right.

Anyway, it's clear with Lucy's entire letter that even though she is happy with choosing Arthur, she was still processing the entire deal. Why? Well, since Lucy is a character at first built to reflect the ideal victorian girl in the eyes of society, then it means that her implied education was probably focused on being pleasant, and obedient to people around her. It's the mask she mentioned earlier in her letter, the façade that her character clings to give the impression that is expected of her. So, it would be very overwhelming for Lucy to experience three proposals with three different men, it's the conflicting actions of putting the correct demeanor towards them over her feelings, so they don't notice how truly sad she is at the notion of rejecting them. It doesn't last because she made a point of mentioning how Quincey stopped his confession because he "saw something in my face", but it's still worth mentioning.

It really speaks of Lucy's upbringing that she feels she can't enjoy her own engagement with the man she loves because other men are hurt by "her actions". Lucy still feels the need to clarify to Mina how much she cried, even thought said men offered her friendship, and that Lucy should not feel responsible for their feelings over her happiness with Arthur.

[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.

[cry-ptidd]

The anti-Dracula crew, Hellsing style (fan designs)

Hirano really didn't do them justice, if not only by how terribly confusing and inconsistent their designs are... and by taking the 1992 movie as sole inspiration.

Shoutout to my friend Bon for this guide