It demonstrates that piracy has always lay at the heart of media preservation; and

like we know precious little about shakespeare's life and even less about what was on his mind when he wrote each play, but....he wrote a story where the twins torn apart by fate reunite, where the brother thought to be dead and gone forever actually miraculously survived, where the emotional climax of the story isn't the various love triangles getting sorted out, but the twins finding each other again and getting to live happily ever after.

Dracula book: an evil count who only sees the world as a resource to be drained for his own pleasure is stopped by the group of people who deeply care for each other

Dracula in media: a tragic romantic hero, main love interest of one of the protagonists who must be liberated from her dull little life

Frankenstein book: any human has capacity for evil when completely abandoned and shunned by the world and the people who brought him into it

Frankenstein in media: don't play God because it's against nature's laws

Jekyll and Hyde book: repression and only caring about external appearances can cause your worst impulses to indulge themselves in dangerous ways if ignored for too long

Nosferatu is repulsive, rotting, vile, he is the personification of evil. Yet everyone just thirsts after him.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not shaming the monster lovers, but it just was not meant to be the point.

Nosferatu is Ellen. It is heavily implied that she was raped as a young girl, the same time this connection with Nosferatu began. She called for help, and he's the only thing that answered. She was assaulted, and moved through the world in shame, grief, depression, all because of what happened to her. She isn't getting the help she needs because it's all chocked up to her being dramatic by those who love her, and the doctors big ideas are just "too much blood in the womb." She's self sabatoging, that with no one *truly* understanding her plight, ruins the world around her. Nosferatu is just the physical manifestation of all of this going on around her.

As a side note: what really pisses me off about everyone thirsting over Nosferatu is the fact that Thomas is over here being the best little green flag he could be in this horror film, and he gets ZERO attention.

This man crawled out of the brink of death to return to his wife, and while he was still one who didn't completely understand Ellen, he fucking tried! Grumble Grumble Grumble.

True. Only 10 European nations out of 50 did this colonization. (Spain, Portugal, France, England/the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Denmark, and Sweden) The rest of us had to be under them or the Ottomans. Greeks were under the English, the Italians, or the Ottomans depending on the region but the Ottomans were often the cruelest. Slavery in Greece was outlawed the moment we became a state because the whole state was already slaves and second class citizens.

Ironically, US-Americans are great colonizers themselves, right this moment. They control Europe like a puppet, and Greece specifically, with so many US military bases on its soil, does not dare take a leak without asking the US. Their culture and politics are slowly taking over ours, as it happens in many other countries. Their country has a god damned hegemony many US citizens behave like uwu innocent babies while unknowingly reaping the rewards in ways they cannot imagine.

Also it's wrong to change the race of an established character regardless. One, because race isn't interchangeable and it matters, second, because in cases like that of the Greeks people still don't know what the hell we look like - so you're stopping someone else's representation.

“No,” [Mina] said quite simply, “it will not be necessary. You can tell them just as well. I must go with you on your journey.” Dr. Van Helsing was as startled as I was. After a moment’s pause he asked:— “But why?” “You must take me with you. I am safer with you, and you shall be safer, too.”

She instantly realizes the men plan to leave her and Jonathan behind while they chase Dracula overseas. And she says absolutely not.

Mina isn’t content to be protected. She argues (correctly) that they’ll all be safer if she’s with them, and she backs it up with reason and strategy. She didn't ask for her husband's permission; she knows he'll follow.

She isn’t a mascot in the hunt to provide hope and purpose. She’s thinking tactically, arguing logically, and commanding the room. Both Jonathan and Van Helsing are startled, but they listen.

So here’s Mina's work:

She remembers Jonathan mentioning that Van Helsing had been shaken by something he read in the newspaper.

She realizes she must track down that same report—it turns out to be the one about The Bloofer Lady.

She notices that Seward keeps stacks of newspapers in his office.

Calmly but firmly, she tells him to hand over the ones she wants, one of which is dated on the night of Lucy’s final attack.

She’s already been clipping reports from other papers, one of which contained the account of The Demeter.

By now, her collection includes:

Jonathan's journal

The Captain’s Log

The Wolf Escape story

The Bloofer Lady attacks

Taken together, these reports build a profile of Dracula: his past crimes, his hunting patterns, his powers (fog, invulnerability by night, shapeshifting into animals, command over wolves.)