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Mina: "Alright, everyone pinkie swear right now to put Vampire Me down if I hop the line between death and undeath."

Van Helsing and the Suitor Squad: "Depressing, but sure, absolutely."

Jonathan:

Mina: "...Jonathan?"

Jonathan: "Yes?"

Mina: "Will you promise to slay me if I get vampire'd?"

Jonathan: "Mina, I will not lie to you."

Jonathan:

Mina: "Jonathan. I need you to look me in the eye and promise to murder me martyr-style if I get too undead."

Jonathan: "Fine. I can promise to kill."

Mina: "Me? Vampire me?"

Jonathan, making unbroken eye contact with the four guys who just promised to behead and impale his wife if she stops being human enough: "I guarantee there will be killing involved if Vampire You happens."

One of my favorite things is modern adaptations that leave people with the same careers they had in the original material, because unless you’re a cop or a doctor that practically never happens.

Irene Adler’s an opera singer. We still have those! They don’t have the same subtext exactly, but nothing is going to because we aren’t the Victorians. She could continue to be an opera singer. I have never seen this happen.

Jonathan Harker can still be in real estate. That’s a job people have. A modern story that still involves Dracula contacting his firm to help him purchase property sounds amazing actually.

A modern adaptation of Dracula where you keep seeing Jonathan Harker’s face on bus stop bench ads for his realtor office.

#“This client doesn’t seem to exist online; a bit strange. But he’s elderly so it’s not that unusual” -Jonathan about to make a mistake – @capslockdoesntexpressmyjoy

I was about to joke about Quincey Morris still being a cowboy, but then it occurred to me that he’s not actually a cowboy in the source material, is he? He’s the wealthy heir of a Texas ranch-owning family who just acts like an Old West cowboy. If anything, that’s even more plausible today than it was in 1897.

I’m pretty sure this post predates Dracula Daily. I first saw it before I had heard of it and I didn’t know who Jonathan was.

The timestamp says it’s from 2020, I think the first DD year was 2021, and it took over Tumblr in 2022.

Yup! But now that Dracula Season is a thing exists I sure do get additional bursts of notes on this little number starting in May every year.

…mostly people yelling about how ‘in real estate’ is not an accurate description of Jonathan’s job and dragging me for misleading the nice person who proposed bus stop realtor ads.

therapist: cunt dracula is not real and cannot fuck you.

cunt dracula:

[jojo pose] count dracula. [different jojo pose] nice to meet you. [jojo walk cycle] alexa, turn down the music! [the obnoxious music doesn't change volume] mr harker

Everyone all ‘smh why did Jonathan Harker go to the castle when everyone was making a hubbub about all the evil lurking nearby,’ well maybe he thought he was in Beauty and the Beast and not a horror story!  Did you think of that!!

Everyone’s a monsterfucker and a “omg I want to marry Mothman I don’t care if he’s rumored as an omen of disaster” until there’s a village weepingly giving you their crucifixes and now it’s a “red flag”

#since when do we believe Catholics about what’s evil

op please do not leave this gem hidden in the tags

edge of the world

commission!

here it is. the unhinged thing i've been sitting on

The nuns had every indication to treat Jonathan as a lost cause, a madman.

Yet they keep his journal, they pay attention to what he says without disregarding it, they wait patiently until he remembers something, anyone. All while taking care of him in a sanitorium.

Treating "madmen" like human beings makes them get better slowly but surely, instead of worsening their condition.

The St Joseph and Ste Mary hospital is the foil of the Asylum.

Dracula really said "Send me your cutest delivery boy"

is this anything

Modern day Jonathan would have an Instagram full of food pics and Mina

Mina’s Instagram would have photos of Jonathan taking photos of food

Dracula’s Instagram would be photos of Mina and Jonathan taking photos of food

I made this last year when reading Dracula Daily, but I was too much of a coward to post it. Now I am no longer held back by earthly matters such as "reputation".

This is the original text from the book, but wildly misinterpreted. enjoy

Jon he's really trying here cut him a break

(tumblr crunched the resolution of this comic a lot rip)

Oh boy I sure hope my good friend Jonathan Harker has a much better time on his business trip this year than he did last year.

hey sorry we put your good friend jonathan harker in a time loop. yeah he’s about to leave for his business trip again. but at least he’ll send you emails

I couldn't stop thinking of the dracula cast in the style of vampire knight. So I drew it!

Quincy maybe in his late teens: Dad? Why did you want me to read all of this?

Jonathan: Well it’s always good to know the signs of someone being a vampire. But truly I wanted you to read it because you’re getting closer to an age where a woman might become a large part of your life.

If you’re not willing to damn your soul to hell and cut a vampire’s throat for her, she’s not the one son.

Quincy: I understand completely.