These past few days of #DraculaDaily / #ReDracula, with Mina slooooowly vampirizing, are great. Her evil laugh!!
#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
#DraculaDaily / #ReDracula Oct. 6: oh boy time to share the funniest fucking Dracula fanfic I've ever read, "Live Seward Reaction", inspired by these Tumblr posts (see fig. 1)
It is the events of Oct. 6, but from Dr. Seward's point of view. The voice and style are dead on. It just dials Dracula's already barely repressed homoeroticism up one (1) tiny notch. To quote one commenter, "I am giggling and kicking my feet."
![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)
Seward meeting Mina Harker: "oh no she's hot"
Seward when Jonathan Harker turns into a silver fox overnight: "oh no he's hot"
#DraculaDaily / #ReDracula Oct. 6: oh boy time to share the funniest fucking Dracula fanfic I've ever read, "Live Seward Reaction", inspired by these Tumblr posts (see fig. 1)
It is the events of Oct. 6, but from Dr. Seward's point of view. The voice and style are dead on. It just dials Dracula's already barely repressed homoeroticism up one (1) tiny notch. To quote one commenter, "I am giggling and kicking my feet."
oh it's a big one today folks!!!
Dr. Seward: [sounding more hopeless and defeated than ever] Dr. Seward's diary--
Me: [immediately hitting pause] YEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
Dracula Daily, spoilers for 128-year-old book
I love the moment of realization: "Merciful God! The Count has been to him!"
Yesterday's #DraculaDaily / #ReDracula: love how Seward gets one (1) good night of sleep and is immediately like "nm van helsing's losing it"
[Clip from Re: Dracula] Dr. Seward (Jonathan Sims): [with horror] "The tomb in the day-time, and when wreathed with fresh flowers, had looked grim and gruesome enough; but now, some days afterwards, when the flowers hung lank and dead, their whites turning to rust and their greens to browns; when the spider and the beetle had resumed their accustomed dominance; when time-discoloured stone, and dust-encrusted mortar, and rusty, dank iron, and tarnished brass, and clouded silver-plating gave back the feeble glimmer of a candle, the effect was more miserable and sordid than could have been imagined. It conveyed irresistibly the idea that life—animal life—was not the only thing which could pass away."
[Clip from visual novel Slay the Princess] The Narrator (Jonathan Sims): [perkily] "If the Princess lives here, slaying her is probably doing her a favour."
So how about today's #DraculaDaily / #ReDracula entry?! For me this was absolutely the "oh okay, this is why they hired you" moment for Seward's VA (Jonathan Sims). This is how it went last year:
Seward: [exhausted and in utter despair] Dr. Seward's diary, 20 September. Only resolution and habit can let me make an entry tonight—
Me: [enthusiastic horror podcast listener, knowing it's about to get good] jason-momoa-lawn-chair.gif OH HELL YEAH LET'S GOOOO
Seward: [almost on the verge of tears] —I am too miserable, too low spirited, too sick of the world and all in it, including life itself, that I would not care if I heard this moment the flapping of the wings of the angel of death—
Me: …well shit now I feel like a jerk. I actually feel bad for the guy.—Wait, what? *record scratch*
I actually had to rewind a bit and re-listen to catch the part where I somehow went from "hell yeah, he's going through The Horrors" to "poor guy, he's going through The Horrors"
also, Van Helsing Tell Literally Anyone What's Going On Challenge 1897: Difficulty Level: FUCKING IMPOSSIBLE
#DraculaDaily #ReDracula Sept. 17: Oh this one's easily one of the best. The cheerful beginning, Renfield jumpscare, sleep deprivation, the awful, fatal mistakes, the encroaching sense of dread and helplessness!
#DraculaDaily / #ReDracula Sept. 13: "Let all be put down exactly," says Seward in the tone of voice that says he fully expects to have to produce this as evidence at an inquiry later on.
#DraculaDaily #ReDracula Sept. 10: realized the VA who plays Mrs. Westenra is also Acantha in #TheSiltVerses!
Other Re: Dracula VAs in TSV include Graham Rowat (various bit parts in Re: Dracula) as Paige's dad and Felix Trench (Renfield) as the hapless politician Adjudicator Cross. David Ault (Arthur Holmwood) and Jonathan Sims (John Seward) both have memorable guest appearances in individual episodes but, uh…they get killed off pretty fast…look, it's a horror podcast, ok?
space-fool:
Seward is dictating his diary into a phonograph, which means he is definitely doing a Van Helsing impression
oh my god this changes the entire novel
Anke
boosted
So in this latest entry, Lucy starts getting blood transfusions—first from Arthur, then from Seward and Van Helsing as well.
Dracula was published in 1897; the ABO blood groups were discovered a mere 4 years later, in 1901.
What's the smallest gap you know of between a plot point appearing in a novel and a scientific discovery that renders it implausible?
In Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time (published June 2015), which famously features UpliftedPortia jumping spiders, a minor plot point turns on their inability to hear. In October 2016, researchers discovered that jumping spiders can hear (news article), and since then hearing has been discovered in many other families of spiders.
Can anyone beat this?
____
All the transfusions are successful. The riskiness of blood transfusions, well known by then, is never mentioned. However, it's portrayed as a last-resort emergency measure where the risk of Lucy dying is far greater if she doesn't get a transfusion. This is another example of the novel stretching the bounds of known science/technology for artistic licence (the phonograph, which Seward uses for often long audio recordings, was less than a decade old and the cylinders could only record a few minutes' worth).
So in this latest entry, Lucy starts getting blood transfusions—first from Arthur, then from Seward and Van Helsing as well.
Dracula was published in 1897; the ABO blood groups were discovered a mere 4 years later, in 1901.
What's the smallest gap you know of between a plot point appearing in a novel and a scientific discovery that renders it implausible?
In Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time (published June 2015), which famously features UpliftedPortia jumping spiders, a minor plot point turns on their inability to hear. In October 2016, researchers discovered that jumping spiders can hear (news article), and since then hearing has been discovered in many other families of spiders.
Can anyone beat this?
____
All the transfusions are successful. The riskiness of blood transfusions, well known by then, is never mentioned. However, it's portrayed as a last-resort emergency measure where the risk of Lucy dying is far greater if she doesn't get a transfusion. This is another example of the novel stretching the bounds of known science/technology for artistic licence (the phonograph, which Seward uses for often long audio recordings, was less than a decade old and the cylinders could only record a few minutes' worth).
P. S.
Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors. Here, in a case where any shock may prove fatal, matters are so ordered that, from some cause or other, the things not personal—even the terrible change in her daughter to whom she is so attached—do not seem to reach her. It is something like the way Dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact.
Happy #GallWeek2025!
Seward, 3 September:
He would not give me any further clue…[H]is very reticence means that all his brains are working for her good. He will speak plainly enough when the time comes, be sure.
Van Helsing, 7 September:
My friend John, when the corn is grown, even before it has ripened—while the milk of its mother-earth is in him, and the sunshine has not yet begun to paint him with his gold, the husbandman he pull the ear and rub him between his rough hands, and blow away the green ch
me: So that was a motherfucking lie
So in this latest entry, Lucy starts getting blood transfusions—first from Arthur, then from Seward and Van Helsing as well.
Dracula was published in 1897; the ABO blood groups were discovered a mere 4 years later, in 1901.
What's the smallest gap you know of between a plot point appearing in a novel and a scientific discovery that renders it implausible?
In Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time (published June 2015), which famously features UpliftedPortia jumping spiders, a minor plot point turns on their inability to hear. In October 2016, researchers discovered that jumping spiders can hear (news article), and since then hearing has been discovered in many other families of spiders.
Can anyone beat this?
____
All the transfusions are successful. The riskiness of blood transfusions, well known by then, is never mentioned. However, it's portrayed as a last-resort emergency measure where the risk of Lucy dying is far greater if she doesn't get a transfusion. This is another example of the novel stretching the bounds of known science/technology for artistic licence (the phonograph, which Seward uses for often long audio recordings, was less than a decade old and the cylinders could only record a few minutes' worth).
Seward, 3 September:
He would not give me any further clue…[H]is very reticence means that all his brains are working for her good. He will speak plainly enough when the time comes, be sure.
Van Helsing, 7 September:
My friend John, when the corn is grown, even before it has ripened—while the milk of its mother-earth is in him, and the sunshine has not yet begun to paint him with his gold, the husbandman he pull the ear and rub him between his rough hands, and blow away the green ch
me: So that was a motherfucking lie
Catching up with #ReDracula / #DraculaDaily…
30-31 August: "Lucy is dying, please help" (mp3)
Seward, 2 September:
Van Helsing would, I know, do anything for me for a personal reason…
me: sounds kinda gay ngl
Van Helsing, 2 September:
that time you suck from my wound so swiftly the poison of the gangrene from the knife that our other friend, too nervous, let slip…
…it is to you that I come.
me: yeah that's gay
3 September has one of my favourite voice-acted shitposts (mp3):
Van Helsing: this guy? this guy knows nothing about women
Seward: professor please
Van Helsing: totally bitchless
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