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His world had yet to darken and the reality of monsters lurking in the shadows had yet to be revealed. Jack Seward felt the palpations of love within as he fished within the depths of his coat pocket. Nervousness touched him, yet he trusted that Van Helsing would help ease the anxiety that settled upon him.

Emilia was heading back to her family’s restaurant, The Sea and Vine, after helping make a meal for the brothers of the monastery. The man she spotted lingering outside the restaurant seemed either to be considering it or lost. Either of which would be helped by going inside. ❝You know, they have an amazing limoncello,❞ she said by way of greeting.

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i shall be glad as long as i live that even in that moment of final dissolution, there was in the face a look of peace, such as i never could have imagined might have rested there.

handwritten pages in a journal long lost to time — vaguely, she remembers the words, but like the starlight that filters through broken glass in the castle, it comes, and goes, a memory wafting on the wind. everyone had thought that killing dracula — that jonathan’s act of love and devotion would save that sweet, sweet, good, good woman in all the radiant beauty of her youth and animation — but the telling of the tale did not have that expected outcome. 

𝙾𝙲 𝚀𝚄𝙴𝚂𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽 𝙼𝙴𝙼𝙴. /  @vnhelsing​​ asked : Where did you find inspiration for your muse?

the idea for him came about when i was doing research for my masters dissertation! i initially was just going to do it on contrasting representations of corpses in early 18th versus early 19th century literature, then i discovered the whole Graverobbing And Dissection Discourse™ and got super invested in that. i ended up shifting my focus to literary reactions to that discourse specifically, so i was reading a lot about how the whole fiasco unfolded. it’s such a fascinating history on so many levels that i just really wanted to create a fictional outlet to explore it. i think the idea specifically came about when i was reading the select committee report — there were so many disgruntled, uppity surgeons that i, too, wanted my very own disgruntled, uppity surgeon. that was the basic idea for him. the other details just kind of snowballed from there!

in a nutshell, read about the wackiness of 1820s dissection discourse and said