WHITE PAINTED RED

he / it / fae / they Dracula & Jonathan reblog ic : popsiclestickle insta

[vampestate]

⟡ ꒰ oh, vixen, i miss you, take me back and TEAR me apart ꒱

this is mainly a reblog account associated with Dracula & Jonathan—as a ship, it’s called; Harkula, Darker, Joncula, Coffin Rose, Vampestate, Dracuthan…etc

less character specific & active dracula reblog : sp4nof-myl1fe

even so, I do have tags for all the characters

I do not condone the romanticisation or sexualisation of rape (I personally believe it was coercion on June 29th), toxic or abusive relationships — I am not proship. I’m simply an avid enjoyer and analyser of their dynamic and the feelings between them

additional tags here

[harkula]

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[0nelittlebirdtoldme]

Partner rings

[harkula]

At first, I was thinking that the blue and silver would be Jonathan's and the golden red would be Dracula... BUT THEN MY BRAIN WAS LIKE WAIT A DAMN MINUTE,

DRAC WOULD HAVE THE SILVER AND BLUE CUZ THE BLUE WOULD REMIND HIM OF JOHNNY'S EYES AND DRAC WOULD WANT JOHNNY TO HAVE THE RED AND GOLD ONE TO REMIND JOHNNY OF HIS RED EYES

IF EVER JOHNNY IS RIPPED AWAY FROM HIM THEY WILL HAVE EACH OTHER'S EYES ON THEIR RINGS TO GAZE AT UNTIL THEY REUNIT

tldr Drac wears the blue and silver and Johnny wears the red and gold >:3

[evydraws]

15 May - Once more I have seen the count go out in his lizard fashion.

[artiisantm]

Some scenes, several days late. Exams are torturing me but more fanart will come.

[vampestate]

⟡ ꒰ the killing moon … will come too soon ꒱

This is a post for the extra tags

These tags are specifically subsets of the main character tags but instead for locating general media, notes, etc rather than digital art pieces or animations

[the-crooked-library]

On Horror, Queerness, Mirrors, and Dracula

Your wish is my command (you may or may not regret this). 

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[voivode-dracula]

When you grasp Jonathan to drink from him do you lift up your pinky finger like a distinguished gentleman

It was needful that both of my hands, ay, and all of my fingers, should be touching my dear friend when I took my drink.

[the-rainbow-meme]

Jonathan Harker moodboard

[Mina] [Lucy]

[wolfsstorybook]

But at that instant another sensation swept through me as quick as lightning. I was conscious of the presence of the Count, and of his being as if lapped in a storm of fury.

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Another way overdue illustration, this time for the 16th of May. Somehow this one was the hardest (if we're not counting the last one that I'm still to choose a moment for). I wanted it to feel disturbing even for myself.

[heavendraven]

so I finally got around to reading bram stoker's dracula (1897)

[moonsun2010]

Continuing on what seems to be a yearly tradition of redrawing my 5 June Dracula Daily art! Thought I'd make it animated this time—DD2024's is linked here for comparison

[moonsun2010]

5 June - Jonathan might not be able to send letters for a while (he's busy)

continuing my yearly 5 June entry artworks, I've tried my hand at another animation! You can see DD2025's one here.

[the-crooked-library]

"Even during daylight, Thomas fails to destroy his tormentor. In the story sense, he cannot do it because Orlok is a vampire; on the symbolic level, we understand that he cannot kill his own nature."

So, unrelated, but because I see the Harkers, too, as queer (though bisexual, I cannot not read them as unfathomably horny for each other, and genderqueer) and the biting and blood drinking as metaphors in Dracula too... I wonder if the above also applies to Jonathan Harker when he struck/marked but failed to kill his tormentor? Though he does succeed at the sunset in the end...

Yes omg I agree with you 100%! To give the Hutters credit where it's due, I think the film makes it fairly obvious that Ellen is bisexual as well; but I personally cannot help but see Thomas as a closeted gay man. He tends to shy away from his own wife throughout the film - the only scene where he does not is after she's baited him into trying to reassert his masculinity, and even that fizzles. He definitely cares for her, of course; but I don't think he's really attracted to her, is the thing.

The Harkers couldn't be more different. In fact, one of my favourite aspects of their story is the way they're both utterly obsessed with each other - which absolutely does include being unfathomably horny, exaaactly. That said, they're both distinctly queer - Jonathan's coding being more prominent - and I actually have posted a slightly more detailed analysis about it here. The scene of Thomas' attempted destruction of Orlok is indeed directly inspired by Jonathan's attempt at killing Dracula - and, as you say, he did eventually succeed; but I think that only really elaborates on his overall arc.

While Jonathan, unlike Thomas, is able to go from being a classic damsel in distress to assuming the role of a fighter, there is another, far more curious development in his characterization. As the story goes on, his hair turns grey, it is mentioned that his hands are very cold, his love for Mina takes on a practically violent intensity (though the violence is directed outwards, never at her); and, by the finale, despite having started out as a mild-mannered English solicitor, he is somehow able to expertly wield a kukri knife. The description is unmistakable; by the time Jonathan faces Dracula on the field of battle, they are each looking into a terrible mirror - each personifying what the other could have been. Assuming the usual vampiric parallel to queerness, it may be said that this is indeed his Turning; or as close to it as he would get without getting actually vamped.

I think Jonathan is able to accept himself by the end. By assuming the shape of Dracula, and by killing the one that terrified him originally, he kills his fear and becomes Himself.

[gluten-free-lap-dances]

Bishop’s Garden

Cathedral Heights, Washington D.C. 03.2026

[edwire]

big fan of whatever the hell these guys have going on

[edwire]

reading dracula rn. fruity ass book