#DraculaDaily / #ReDracula Oct. 12: okay can we agree that Mina getting them to read the burial service for her is just fucking goth as hell. almost as goth as when Van Helsing is reading the "prayer for the dead"* while Arthur is staking Lucy.
also,
Oh, my friends, you know as well as I do, that my soul is at stake
is that a pun
* I don't know what this would be, never been to a Catholic funeral let alone know what Victorian-era practices were, but it's out of a "missal" and this was before the first Church of England missals came out, and while from today's entry Seward seems to be quite familiar with the C of E burial service, he and Quincey have to try to follow along with Van Helsing, so idk something Catholic I guess.
theses have no doubt been written on Catholicism in Dracula and in Gothic literature, but suffice it to say, i think, that by the time of Dracula it was a long-established genre tradition that Catholicism is super goth
![Tumblr post by dathen: "'I grasped his hand instinctively and found it as firm as a piece of steel. I think he understood my look; I hope he did.'
:3c Yeehawrker rights"
dathen screenshots vickyvicarious's added hashtags: "#jonathan harker #too bad we don't get seward's reaction to this shining display of Manhood from both of them #i feel like he's standing there watching this just flushed head to toe like. #rambling internally about them being so full of vigor and spirit and fire and heart and-"
mayhemchicken-artblog: "he is being So normal about this" [sketch of Jonathan Harker, kukri knife at his waist, holding hands with Quincey Morris, in cowboy hat. Inset: a frame saying "Live Seward Reaction" with a blushing Dr. Seward tugging at his collar, wide-eyed, something clearly having been Awakened in him]](https://status.nevillepark.ca/fileserver/01E7KXQY753BHZVT5NGAP0Z1YW/attachment/original/01K6Y19J4QT00J33TXGA69DQMX.png)
