lucy westenra protection squad

I love how as someone who has already read Dracula, I can always tell where the Dracula Daily people are in the story by the shitposts. I just saw one that said "flies georg" with no further context. Fantastic.

jonathan harker would be the most epic youtube food reviewer. so tidy and slightly unhinged, sharing recipes from his travels. god pls

bringing this back for the new dracula fans

none of you dracula daily girlies are prepared for quincey morris. dont look him up. whatever youre thinking hes so much more.

so what im gathering is that in every single dracula adaptation we are gravely missing segments where johnathan harker has a nice meal and goes mmmm yummy :) and gawks at the scenery with a big goofy grin on his face while infodumping abt road maintenance while every single person around him prays to fucking god that nothing happens to him at the Evil Vampire Castle

okay jokes aside dracula daily is such an ingenious way of promoting and enjoying classic literature. bringing back the experience of reading it like a serial novel but through email?? connecting the narrative experience to the textual form but in a modernised way?? the epistolary novel at its peak!!! that shit is so cool!!!! and seeing people reading it for the first time and getting their live reactions?? fucking blessed!! maybe it’s the nerd in me but i think it’s genuinely awesome

Still waiting for the modern take on Stoker’s Dracula that preserves the source material’s epistolary framing by relating the events of the story through a series of conveniently colour-coded chat logs.

don’t.

genuinely surprising and enlightening to consider that either Homestuck counts as epistolary fiction (and thus is the most notable example of that in recent media) or that a homestuck-inspired format would technically be the most authentic adaptation of it

Mina gets a text from Jonathan like “you’re not going to believe this”, then five seconds later a video chat invite pops up and it’s just a distant, badly focused shot of what appears to be a man in a cape crawling up the side of a stone tower like a fucking gecko. Mina informs Jonathan that his camera is shit.

If the US military gets their hands on Dracula we are soooooo fucked

this post was alot funnier to me when I was high