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[jjelliacee]

There is a novel published last year about Jose Rival fighting Dracula! It's called "The Indio and the Impaler" by Wincy Ong!

Yes! It's currently on my tbr!

[vergess]

Happy first night of Passover!

Thank you so much!!! <3333

You're actually only the second person to wish this to me (technically you were first but I didn't see it until second haha!) so I really appreciate it.

[lilvampirepet]

Hi! Your helward fanart is so beautiful! What's your favorite thing about them?

uwaa thank you!! 🥺🥺 im so glad ppl enjoy my helward art

i think my favorite thing about helward is how much they trust each other. yeah theres the whole gangrene bit but outside of that, seward deeply trusts van helsing when he doesnt know what to do and in return van helsing regards seward as a true equal and believes in him. its and im just. flops down. im so weak for them i can barely articulate why lmao

[imsorryimlate]

Maybe Jack's real character arc was accepting hetero marriage wasn't for him and becoming Van Helsing's malewife all along /lh

you jest, but honestly…. who’s to say that’s not what happened?

jack seems to be very concerned with appearances. two examples that come to mind are

1. when van helsing is having a breakdown after lucy’s funeral, jack is concerned that someone will see and takes the time to draw the blinds of their carriage – like no offence to jack but if my friend did that when i was losing it rather than, idk, comforting me? i’d be a bit pissed ngl

2. when renfield is begging to be released, jack tells him to “try to behave more discreetly”

the second one is interesting, because when renfield was previously begging him for a cat in a similar manner (jack makes this connection as well), we are not told that jack has any concerns about renfield’s lacking discretion. but the thing is, at that time, they are alone. it is only in front of the others that jack is concerned with it.

so jack is not concerned with propriety in itself, but rather the appearance of it. and i have made the point before that his proposal to lucy (or any heterosexual marriage) could be another attempt at keeping up appearances, rather than an actual wish for a wife.

but this makes me wonder when and what made him realise that happiness comes from bottoming submitting to his true desire to be van helsing’s malewife 😏 there are quite a few instances in the book where conventions are challenged, so perhaps it’s all of them combined. or perhaps after their little adventure and the intense final battle, he was like “you know what? fuck appearances” because honestly, how do you come back from that and still worry about what the neighbours will think?

[cjbee]

Love your Barbie Van Helsing design! I wanted to ask, how does he look in your futuristic AU?

Omg thank you! And thanks for your excellent post that inspired my Barbie Van Helsing!

As for the cyberpunk au I haven’t fully hammered out his design (I need to do character turnarounds for all the characters) but he’s chilling in the corner of the one of the pieces:

[afoxnamedmulder]

I found an academic article that talks about how the 4 men giving Lucy blood is homoerotic bc all their fluids mix together and the funny thing is they talk at length about all the fluid exchanges...except Jack sucking Van Helsing's wound. Or Renfield licking Jack's blood. Like, you are so right, ppl really gloss over these moments as if they don't add to the discussion on sexuality in the novel LOL

what I've loved most about Drac Daily (besides the memes) is absorbing this book sentence by sentence into my bloodstream and both of those moments have COMPLETELY thrown me like!! I have not known Peace since the 2nd September when Van Helsing emailed me directly to say that the very reason he enters the novel (the novel Dracula, the novel about sucking blood and blood transfers, THE body fluid exchange novel) is due to an exchange of bodily fluids with Seward (LITERALLY "suck from my wound")

like. this is ESSENTIAL information. this is an ESSENTIAL detail. when you talk about Van Helsing as an antithesis/parallel to Dracula. when you discuss body fluid exchange as marriage/sexual/power dynamics/whatever. I didn't mention this earlier because we hadn't gotten this far in but does this increase parallels between Seward and Mina since they both intook of fluids from characters they then follow and obey (Mina forced, Jack willingly). Bram Stoker decided that Van Helsing is only in this novel because Seward sucked gangrene directly from his wound and I fear I shall never be normal again.

[talk-reibert-to-me]

Thanks! I got a drawing tablet today so I'll start drawing soon!

[hualian]

Do you rewrite the subs in your gifs? I'm really impressed. Or have you found a group that softsubs TGCF? Because sometimes the official subs are hard to read 😭

Yes I do 🥺💖 the hardcoded subs are too small to read especially on gifs when I change the colouring and sharpen it, so the subs end up looking even more illegible XD so I always end up rewriting it on the gifs 🤧 I actually haven't heard of a group that softsubs tgcf but that would be great 👀