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.
I get it we all love a gay relationship and Mina and Lucy would be the cutest couple but let's not erase the very real love Mina and Jonathan share, theirs is not a lavender marriage
Me anytime I get a notification from Substack that isn’t Dracula Daily: this isn’t my dear friend Jonathan Harker >:(
"hehe silly little englishman" ahh fandom 💔🥀
everything is a queer metaphor if you have eyes to see
The suitors and their Wikipedia enthusiast
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’
Omfg it's almost dracula season, can't wait for my good friend Jonathan's emails to arrive
I am loving the building excitement in the Dracula Daily fandom...We’re not even halfway through April but people are posting memes and giggling...Jonathan's trip to the Carpathians is almost upon us! It's like Advent for Harker fans.
(Was making a Moon Knight meme and accidentally reset the base image into something infinitely funnier.)
First time Jonathan sees Dracula crawling down the castle walls: Shock! Horror! This is not a man but surely some demonic creature!
Second time Jonathan sees Dracula crawling down the castle walls: whatever, dude. I'm so over this shit.
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