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There are only two mental illnesses according to people on the internet:

Innocent bean syndrome: You can never do wrong and got no agency. You will be infantilized on every occasion and are treated as a quirk.

Bad person syndrome: You are bad and an abuser. Your presence kills people.

Love how often in Dracula everyone is like "oh no, Mina we can't subject your woman's heart to this horror, it may give out from the fright" while shes literally the smartest most equipped person in the book, meanwhile they keep giving Jonathan important, terrifying tasks despite him having trauma induced seizures everytime he sees someone with a beard

its almost may u know. what that mean/s

castlerabbit

The entirety of Dracula by Bram Stoker is really just:

Dr Seward: I wish we could figure out what’s wrong with Lucy.

Van Helsing: I figured it out immediately but I’m just going to let you solve it yourselves.

Dr Seward: Or you could just tell us.

Van Helsing: Friend John :( I have known you for one thousand years and you have been one of my very good friends and best students :( Do you not trust me? Why do you not trust me, friend John? Have I ever given you a reason to doubt me? Do you not think I have a good reason for withholding vital information? :(:(:(:( Have faith in me, your very old and good friend.

Dr Seward: You’re right :(

Lucy: I love everyone so much and I’m going to tell them every day 🥰💕 also legalise polyamory wtf

Renfield: look at all my pets that I’m definitely not eating 🪰🪰🪰🪰

Dr Seward: What happened to all the birds I gave you?

Renfield, with a mouth full of a feathers: I have no idea.

Arthur: I think… I miss my wife… also how the fuck didn’t we realise Dracula’s house was right next door?

Quincey: I keep saying I’m not that smart but I’m the only one to immediately point out that something was actively taking Lucy’s blood. Brb need to go shoot a giant bat with a gun.

Mina: I am the only person keeping this shit show together. We literally would not have made it without me and no one who adapts my character seems to get that. Women are the heart of this story. I am the glue that binds this group together. I just want ONE MOVIE that understands that and values my intelligence, which is at the forefront of my character.

Renfield: I have an entire character arc but don’t expect any adaptations to show it.

Quincey: ok but what if… we shot Dracula with a gun??? Also stop fucking cutting me from all the adaptations.

Jonathan: has seen indescribable horrors, is a shell of his former self, will literally never be what he was before going to Transylvania

Dracula: oh Jonathan! 🥰🥰🧛🏻🧛🏻🥰🩸🩸🥰🥰

BONUS: everyone is constantly holding hands, especially all of the men, and talking about how they’re going to be best friends forever. The male friendships in this book are shockingly pure and the women are incredible. The Crew of Light are actually the only found family ever, I think.

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

Van Helsing 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 MinaHarker 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

Mina and Jonathan kissing on the mouth in front of everybody

Quincey Morris spontaneously gifting Mina the Victorian equivalent of a MacBook Air

Quincey Harker

Mina Harker is truly the female character of all time. She's an incredible amateur journalist, she's happily married, she's the nicest person in the world, she's bisexual, she's possessed, she's memorized the railway timetables, she's Experiencing Misogyny, she'll be dead soon

Omfg it's almost dracula season, can't wait for my good friend Jonathan's emails to arrive

Forced to say ‘Media is subjective and all interpretations are valid. Creative license is cool :)’ Born to say ‘Anyone who makes adaptations where Jonathan is a bad person so that Mina can fall in love with Dracula should be shot point blank’

"Jonathan and Mina Harker ran, sprinted, fucking BODIED that marathon, so that Edward and Bella could flounder in the shallow end"

-My wife, 2025

Women can write m/m. Men can write f/f. Asexuals can write filthy smut. Lesbians and gay men can write m/f. It's all arbitrary anyway. Who give a shit.

writing really is just googling synonyms. that's it. just a constant carousel of "I used this word two paragraphs ago, what is another word for this word"

I feel so horrible about being some sort of canon purist whose only loyalty is to the source material but I can't help it guys literally every Dracula character is at their best and most entertaining in the novel and none of the movies have hit the same for me

Just started reading Dracula and I gotta say I'm really enjoying the letters from Lucy. A little break from the horror to enjoy a gossip session is just what I need right now.

I sure do hope nothing bad happens to her.

update on personal life stuff

got hit by 12 cars and died. sory. all at once. no traces left behind. I think one of the cars was carnivorous

Pinned Intro Post!!!

Hi! I’m Lou 🦇

I use they/them pronouns

Im gonna be so honest I have no clue how to use this app so guidance and advice would be appreciated ‼️

I enjoy lots of things!! On a broad spectrum my interests are classical gothic literature, musical and contemporary/classic theater, classical and contemporary opera, choral music, every art form imaginable, folk, rock and indie music, Horror movies, sitcoms, random TV shows/anime, and badminton :)

Media I like (and would jump at a moments notice to discuss; yes I have a lot of hyperfixations) (buckle up): Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Jekyll and Hyde, Frankenstein, The Crucible, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cabaret, Falsettos, The Jekyll and Hyde and Dracula MUSICALS, Rent, Carrie, Hadestown, Sweeney Todd, Heathers, Wicked, Hamilton, Be More Chill, Ride the Cyclone, Gilbert and Sullivan, Pagliacci, Italian Arias, soprano repertoire, The Podd Brothers, any classical choral pieces, Mozart, vocal technique videos, painting, sketching/drawing, guitar, any art at all(!!!), Noah Kahan, Ethel Cain, Haley Heynderickx, Queen, Adrienne Lenker, Gregory Alan Isokov, the Oh Hellos, Brandi Carlisle, Hozier, Phoebe Bridgers, Boygenius, Hereditary, Longlegs, Saw franchise, Nosferatu, The Office, The Good Place, Parks and Recreation, New Girl, Stranger Things, Bojack Horseman, The Owl House, Gravity Falls, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Attack on Titan, Demon Slayer, Bungou Stray Dogs, Your Lie in April, A Silent Voice, HunterxHunter, Deathnote

DNI List: Basic human rights and decency deniers (homophobia, racism, sexism, transphobia, ableism, xenophobic), Trump supporters, Zionists, bullies, people who don’t like whimsy or fun

I’d LOVE to chat and get to know you!!!!!!!! If we share even one or even BETTER— MULTIPLE interests I will love you forever and ever. I will maybe redo this when I understand this app better ^^

Is his name Jack or John.

I love reading classic books because I get part way through one and I suddenly realise that despite its prevalence in pop culture, I don't actually know what it's about, or how it ends.

and that is great. because then I get to read the rest of it and then, finally, I sit there and I go "oh, fuck, THAT'S why it's a classic!"