Dracula Daily - Blog Posts
Situationship this. Casual that. I'm sick of it. Why does nobody form a polycule based on hunting vampires together anymore. Humanity is lost.
Reminder that at the time Transylvania was not Romania, it was part of the Kingdom of Hungary (which was part of the austro-hungarian empire) until 1920.
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AWAY WITH IT!
I think my favorite part from the mirror entry is Jonathan Harker blorboposting like "I am like the protagonist of Arabian Nights and Hamlet fr fr"
They are my blorbo’s blorbos and if they get him through this trying time, let him enjoy them 😤
i love that one of jonathan harker's first reactions to being trapped in a terrible horrible no good very bad situation is to compare it to what is essentially pop cultural fiction for him. the arabian nights and hamlet would've been wildly popular at the time (especially given stoker's very close pals henry irving and ellen terry had just staged a successful run of hamlet in the west end & the rise of 'eastern' literature in victorian england)
it's the 1897 equivalent of blorboposting when you're going through it and being like "oh this is just like me fr"
Can we do Dracula Daily but like via mail?
Count Dracula walked so that Peter Parker could run
Actual things that happen in the 1897 Dracula novel, without context:
A character has ominous nightmares and attributes them to eating too much paprika
Dracula first appears wearing a fake beard
The person he was trying to fool with the fake beard immediately realizes Dracula and Beard Guy are the same man, due to both having really firm handshakes
We are told parrots are immortal unless fatally wounded
A Texan cowboy opens fire on a bat flitting around a window, and lodges a bullet in the wall of an occupied room
A woman is called a polyandrist for receiving blood transfusions from multiple men
An incorrectly addressed telegram leads to two deaths, multiple druggings, and several children being assaulted
Dracula, while trying to maintain a low profile, takes a lovely trip to the zoo and freaks out the animals so badly that he gets mentioned in a newspaper article
The one character who knows anything about vampires spends a good two-thirds of the book refusing to talk about vampires
Dracula went to Satan's Witchcraft Academy and somehow this is only brought up in two throwaway lines
A character gets stuck inside a circle of communion wafer crumbs
A major plot point of the book is Dracula (who was said to be a brilliant scholar and has the strength of twenty mortal men) realizing he can move boxes without human help
Someone is referred to as "manifestly a prig of the first water"
Two characters have a hobby of reading train schedules
A hospital lets a mental patient escape to see what will happen
A character starts vomiting up feathers from eating whole birds
A doctor refuses to give a medical diagnosis and instead makes a speech about growing corn
Dracula impersonates another character just by wearing the same clothes, despite being taller and visibly much older. This deception is successful.
A character "cleans" a room by eating all the insects in it
Suddenly: rats. Thousands of them.
The heroes progress in their efforts through "the wonderful power of money," i.e., bribery
Dracula has three other vampires in his castle. Their relation to him is never explained, nor are any of them named.
A character insists his salvation depends on having a pet cat
Dracula is thwarted by flowers on more than one occasion
A group of vampires stand in the hall outside a man's bedroom, talking loudly about their plans to eat him. When he comes to the door to confront them, they run away laughing
Dracula wears an unfashionable hat and gets roasted for it
A group of Romanians encounter a disheveled, shouting man and, "seeing from his violent demeanour that he was English, they [give] him a ticket for the furthest station on the way thither that the train reached."
A boat crashes due to Dracula having the munchies
A wolf is thrown through a window and immediately runs off, confused and covered in glass
Dracula makes a bed
Night of November 4th,1897 (colorized)
Mrs. Westenra: I threw away all that silly, smelly garlic 😊
Van Helsing:
Watch out Dracula he’s got… Academic Credentials
Dr. Seward watching Reinfield’s experiments
"thats not how killing vampires works" itd be so funny tho
guys im a little worried my good friend Jonathan didn’t send me an email I fear his host may have killed and/or eaten him
right now my entire fyp on tumblr is many many posts about roe v wade
but once you scroll past that it’s literally just.. all batman x riddler
and then Dracula Daily
what kind of hell scape is this place
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So I've been reading Dracula Daily and I've decided that Lucy Westenra=Usagi Tsukino. I will not be taking questions at this time.
As someone who has read Dracula, its so funny watching Tumblr read it, just wait till y’all get to the Cowboy
In honor of (late) October 3rd!
And also some other Renfield doodles I forgot I did (and can't remember if I posted)
I think Jonathan dropped his paprika during his escape
May the 4th truly is a blessed day in the Nerdom calendar:
May the 4th be with you.
Reichenbach Falls Day.
The second day in the yearly celebration of Dracula.
I wonder, how many other days have such a level of importance in so many fandoms? Surely there must be others?
You are a monster!!
And you a lawyer, "nobody is perfect" 🩸🦇
As a newcomer to tumblr antics, especially to actually posting things, I don’t know the holidays this culture celebrates and only could tell from small bits from outside sources before entering this place.
That said, today seems to be the day of Dracula daily or something, where a part of the novel is sent to us every day until the story finishes.
Having never read the original novel (not saying this as a joke of time loops as some posts I saw said, genuinely never read it), I plan to celebrate the story alongside the rest of you Hellsite inhabitants and subscribed to Dracula Daily to join in.
Let’s see where Jonathan Harker ends up going.
It is November of 1893. You have just killed a vampire. Exhausted and worn, you close your eyes and rest.
You wake up. It is May of 1893. You are on a train en route to Transylvania. Your diary says you have had queer dreams lately.
You try to believe it.
(An old woman puts a rosary in your hands. You accept it without question.)
You are a guest in a castle you have never been in before (you recognize every hallway and know without trying that every door is locked). Your host is a man you have never met before (you killed him you killed him you killed him he had turned to dust and there was blood on the snow).
One morning you cut yourself while shaving.
There is nobody behind you in the pocket mirror’s reflection.
You turn fast, and the razor is like a Kukri knife in your hand.
R E B L O G T H I S
I’ve seen a lot of posts on my dash tonight about users who are threatening suicide, with other Tumblr members posting in effort to try to get ahold of them. I think you all should see this:
IF THERE IS EVER A TUMBLR USER WHO HAS POSTED A GOOD-BYE MESSAGE, SUICIDE NOTE, VIDEO, OR ANYTHING OF THE SORT, PLEASE FOLLOW THIS POST.
1. Scroll to the top of your dashboard.
2. See the circular question mark icon at the top? It’s the third one over from your home symbol. Click on that, and a screen similar to the one in the picture will come up.
3. Where you can type in questions, the box with the magnifying glass at the top, type in the word “suicide.”
4. Click on the first link that shows up. It should say, “Pass the URL of the blog on to us.”
5. Type in the user’s URL and tell Tumblr admin that the user is contemplating suicide and has posted a message indicating that they are going through with it or will be attempting. Hit send! Tumblr administration will perform a number of actions to contact the user and take the necessary steps to prevent the suicide.
TUMBLR: THIS COULD SAVE A USER’S LIFE. PLEASE DO NOT IGNORE SUICIDE THREATS.
Reblog this to keep other users aware. Suicide isn’t a joke, and neither is someone’s life. If you didn’t know this, someone else may not, either. Pass it on.
Jonathan Harker, being encompassed with terrors that he dare not think of:
