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so in dracula there's a line in the epilogue
'Godalming and Seward are both happily married'
and I initially thought they were married to each other
...so that's canon in my mind now
One thing about Dracula is he's trying to play it cool but he's gotta be FREAKING OUT.
Mina keeps popping up to stop him from eating Lucy. When Mina's gone, some random ass guy (Van Helsing) shows up knowing exactly how to repel him. Turns out, Van Helsing is an old friend of Drac's new neighbor Dr. Seward, who once counted the random girl Dracula chose to eat. Then, some American starts lurking around shooting at him whenever he's a bat, turns out that's another of his snack's former boyfriends. Turns out all these people are friends with Mina because of course they are. Then he finds out that Mina's married to his LAWYER? Who he thought was dead?
He decides to get to the bottom of all of this, he breaks into their house and comes across...notes. Notes on everything he's done so far, itemized, categorized and dated. Notes on where he's been what he's done, who he's seen, everything. Notes on what works against him, his powers, his weaknesses, they know more about him than he does.
It's suddenly clear to him that these people want him dead, and only their caution has kept him alive so far.
Then these people in one night suddenly wipe almost all of his lairs off the board and his wimpy ass lawyer tries to cut him open with a big ass knife. He only survived by slim luck.
Drac talks a big game, but he's gotta be sweating
Made an animatic summarising the entire book as a tribute to Dracula Daily and @re-dracula ! English subtitles provided, with translation by me and @ignitingthesky.
if you like this, do check out my kofi! there's a free pack of every single frame
Really feeling tempted to sign up for the "You're a crew member of the Demeter" LARP in the baltic sea rn.
Okay I’m gonna delete twitter.
So I'm going to a nerd convention this weekend and I made myself a t-shirt just for the occasion
Losing it over this twitter account
[Image ID: Three tweets from Real Jonathan Harker. The first says “Dracula took my phone. (tweet sent from Nintendo 3DS)” The second says “Dracula took my 3DS (tweet sent from Nintendo Wii U)” The third says “Dracula took the Wii U (tweet sent from LG Smart Refridgerator)” /end ID]
Happy Shovel Day!!
You’ll always be huge to me shovel day!!
AGHHHH I ALMOST MISS DRACULA DAY
OC AU go howl howl like the children of the night.
My good friend Johnathan Harker is going on a business trip tomorrow hopefully nothing horrible will happen and he'll enjoy the lovely views of Transylvania in peace.
Happy May 5th Dracula Daily update I would once again like to remind everyone that the courtyard described today doesn’t exist and Bram Stoker made it up
My good friend Johnathan Harker is once again having paprika induced nightmares
got a new character added to the dracula polycule today
i stumbled across your post about bran castle and it got me thinking maybe the entrance has changed over the years?
Hi there! Thank you so much for bringing this to my attention :)
Renovations and the layout changing completely skipped my mind when i made the original post, so I did some digging for you to find out if anything has changed with Bran Castle’s entrence over the year.
For starters I look into the history of the castle itself, and found a lot of information about it going through many renovations in order to repair the castle, due to it once being used as a military stronghold.
So for the most part nothing crazy, and we know that Bram Stoker never actually visited the castle either before or during the writing of Dracula.
Moving on I decided to look less at the history of the castle itself, and more specifically at any drastic changes to the castle itself.
The main source I could find on the entrence moving was Adventure Transylvania, and yes! The entrance did move!
The only issue is that because Bran Castle was used for fighting purposes, from what we know about the old bridge, it was absolutely not suitable for say, a carriage holding fan favorite British real estate agent Johnathan Harker.
Moving on, on the post itself you mentioned that Bran Castle has a courtyard, and while this is true surprise surprise there’s an Issue™️.
This is the quote in the book where Johnathan first describes the courtyard.
“In the gloom the courtyard looked of considerable size, and as several dark ways led from it under great round arches, it perhaps seemed bigger than it really is.”
Let’s start with the accurate parts about this:
1. There’s a courtyard. Good job
2. There are arches in the courtyard
And that’s it.
The courtyard itself isn’t that big, and due to something we’ll get to later, in no way could have a carriage drive around in it.
Since there’s no records of the dimensions of Bran Castle (and trust me I’ve LOOKED), I’ve used the magic of the google earth ruler to measure the courtyard. By itself that seems large but when the average courtyard is approximately 3,000ft^2, it’s 100% on the small size.
As for the other reason…
There’s a massive step/divide in the courtyard and a well
So yeah TL;DR the castle entrance did move, but it’s never been carriage accessible and neither is the courtyard :)
Ah yes. This is my good friend johnathan and his wife Mina and her wife Lucy and her three husbands
Man just read the May 16th update and BOOKED IT to tumblr gotta talk to my girlies about our bestie johnathan harker and the fat crush Dracula has on him
look im loving dracula daily as much as the next person but i am absolutely LOOSING MY SHIT over how the castle is described in the book, especially the may 5th update.
If you didn’t know, Dracula’s castle is/based on the real place Bran’s Castle in Romania.
Guys this castle is on a fucking cliff.
Johnathan described his arrival at castle drac as having a courtyard “of considerable size”, and right as he exited the carriage, being right next to the entrance.
You want to know what the ACTUAL entrance of Bran’s castle looks like???
FUCKING. THIS.
ITS A STEAP ASS STAIRCASE
NO COURTYARD IN SITE
Honestly there’s probably an issue regarding his super fancy octagonal room next to a dining hall but I don’t care enough to analyze blueprints and photos of the castle’s interior to find out.
I am cycling so fast through my interests from the start of the pandemic.
 unbeknownst to my poor dear parents, I will once again not shut the fuck up about a 200 year old book.
The speed that Jonathan just accepts Count Dracula can climb walls is so funny to me.
First time: HOLY SHIT HE'S LIKE A LIZARD THIS IS INSANE MY MIND IS MELTING HE'S NOT HUMAN WHAT HORRIBLE ABOMINATION IS MY CAPTOR???!!!
Second time: Cunt Dracy doin his lizard shit again fml
I love in Lucy’s letter to Mina she says “but you must keep it a secret, dear, from every one, except, of course, Jonathan” so glad he passed the bestie test and is allowed to know the secrets
I remember starting dracula last year and being like what is this why is it just this random man's travel diary, and it's funny to see now how my attitude has changed and I am so excited to read this man's travel diary, like hell yeah dude tell me what time you got to the train station I love you
Another email from our good friend Jonathan and I'm beginning to think it's not the paprika making him feel odd.
At least he’s staying positive!
I just met Jonathan Harker for the first time! He seems so nice, I certainly hope nothing heinously awful happens to him. Wishing him well on his little train trip.
I've loved this book for years, but I'm not sure if I'm gonna be liveblogging like I did the last two times, or at least all throughout this year's run. Still, I'll definitely be reading along all the same! And for any first readers, enjoy!
Today we say goodbye to ramen hair Justin, but very soon we'll say hello again to our good friend Jonathan Harker
oh boy I hope my good friend Jonathan Harker has a good trip this year