Quick! Someone Write A Jinx X Reader Oneshot

Gloria Hendry as Rosie Carter in LIVE AND LET DIE – 1973

What will you be tonight? That’s the question

Someone give me Kate Bishop x older MILF reader (maybe like a six year age gap or smth)😭 just imagine a very obvious blushy Kate who stutters and fumbles around Clint's friend (reader) who's oblivious asf and thinks she's just being nice. Could end in smut, could be all fluff idc it's just such a cute concept, lemme stop before I start rambling-

We’re so used to the sexual reading of the entire book of Dracula, which takes the sensuality of the early chapters and jams everything that follows it into the same metaphor no matter how poorly it fits, but I feel the segment we’re approaching works much better with a lens of chronic illness and disease.

Vampire legends are inextricably intertwined with disease. Many of them are said to have been birthed by burying victims of disease too soon, who later seem to rise from the dead. But what’s more is that Stoker and his family have deep-seated trauma over disease: his mother had to flee her hometown at the age of 14 because of a horrific cholera epidemic, and Stoker himself was bedridden as a child from an illness that no one could identify.

Found this quote from Irish Historian Mary McGarry:

Bram as an adult asked his mother to write down her memories of the epidemic for him, and he supplemented this using his own historic research of Sligo’s epidemic. Scratching beneath the surface (of this essay), I found parallels with Dracula. [For instance,] Charlotte says cholera enters port towns having traveled by ship, and can travel overland as a mist—just like Dracula, who infects people with his unknown contagion.

I bring this up because a lot of academic analysis insists that Lucy sleepwalking is proof of her being the Slutty Woman archetype that needs to be punished. This suggested symbolism is hilarious when put next to the text saying she inherited it from her father, but I’d like to suggest a different angle from the lens of disease suggested earlier:

Lucy’s sleepwalking is a condition that predates Dracula but makes her an easy target for him to prey on. Through the lens of disease symbolism, she now is someone with chronic illness or disability who is especially vulnerable to infectious disease. This becomes a cross-section of Stoker’s trauma regarding disease: his own mystery illness and his mother fleeing a plague.

To wind down my rambles with a bit of a soapbox, I feel this adds a very poignant layer to the struggle to keep Lucy alive. The COVID pandemic showed a horrifying level of casual ableism vs disabled and immunodeficient individuals, shrugging off their vulnerability and even their deaths with “well COVID only kills them.” There’s something deeply gratifying at seeing the way everyone around Lucy fights to the bitter end to protect her and refuses to just give her up to Dracula, whether it’s Mina physically chasing him away or the suitor squad pouring their blood into her veins or Van Helsing desperately searching for cures. The vulnerable deserve no less than this. They’re not acceptable casualties.

Modern day Jinx and Silco would be in the mafia. So I'mma write some mafia jinx! fics later down the line probably.

This is so cool!

📜⚜️«𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗴𝗲» 𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗧 𝟯⚜️📜

❗Read with the soundtrack "Dracarys" by Ramin Djawadi❗

The next parts are already posted on my profile✨

happy birth to my one and only

sorry to everyone who dealt with my jinx obsession in 2024 i promise it'll be much worse in 2025 🥰

I- yeah basically

gay ppl be like yea these are my comfort characters *literally the nicest person ever*, *murderer*, *war criminal, like genuinely committed atrocities*, *six feet under*