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Something I’ve been chewing on for this go-around of Dracula Season is the fact that, for all that I am absolutely 110% on board with the whole ‘Dracula wants Jonathan for himself, calls dibs, wants first taste, wants to keep him as part of the castle permanently, I too can love~ et cetera’ deal, I can admit now that I’ve been overlooking one very key part of the whole Bluebeard wifery setup.
And that’s the unavoidable fact that Dracula fully intends to leave Jonathan Harker to be drunk and collected by the Weird Sisters.
Now there’s all manner of guesswork to make about what exactly these three’s relationship to Dracula really is. A personal harem is usually the go-to, and what I usually land on as explanation, considering how things will play out in the future regarding his usual choice of vampiric victim. But others have suggested familial connections, going by Jonathan noting a couple similar traits between the two brunettes, ala facial features, hair, the same red eyes and so on, leaving Blondie as a potential wife the Count turned along with their daughters. Or hell, maybe they’re all actual sisters. We never get to know.
All we know is that they accuse Dracula of ‘Never loving,’ while Dracula stares meaningfully at Jonathan, insisting otherwise. And claims that the trio themselves know it is so from the past. Whatever past that is.
To that end, the Weird Sisters matter to Dracula. Enough to keep them fed, enough to not even put up a full villain monologue at them when they go against his orders to try and snatch Jonathan out from under him, followed by laughing in his face. Beyond his far-too-intimate interactions and abuses with Jonathan, this is the closest we get to seeing Dracula trying to be close with and/or properly*** interacting with someone. An exchange that ends not only with handing over the poor stolen baby in the sack, but outright promising Jonathan to the Sisters once Dracula is finished with him.
And that’s sticking with me this year. Because for all that I’ve joked and memed about it in the past, it never really whacked me over the head with the import and terror that comes with Jonathan’s opening line in this entry.
God preserve my sanity, for to this I am reduced.
Reduced. That’s the key word here.
Even if he doesn’t know all the rules, he knows now that he is no longer just a temporary prisoner. Not even a mere murder victim waiting out the clock. No. He has been reduced to a living decanter. A possession there to be nursed from and used and given as a gift from Dracula to his companions. Like a toy or a new pet.
At the risk of slight spoilers (avert your eyes first-time Dracula Dailiers!), two important lines are yet to come during Jonathan’s stay in Vampire Hell. One from Dracula:
But I am in hopes that I shall see more of you at Castle Dracula.
(Yes, he does think he’s very funny. Prick.)
And another from Jonathan:
At its foot a man may sleep—as a man.
Two vital beats.
The first, because it is a winking confirmation to all that Jonathan has feared. Namely, that Dracula and the Weird Sisters mean to never let him leave the castle again, alive, dead, or otherwise.
The second, because it shows that for all Jonathan is not aware of, he does rightly suspect that there is more expected of him than being a mere meal to have and discard. He knows he is not due for a fleeting pain and escape, even via death. Because Dracula wants to ‘love’ him. To keep him.
And Dracula will do so because he keeps the Weird Sisters, and they will keep him. A parting gift from their loving lord of the castle. The conqueror’s playbook in miniature.
I turned you. You turn him. I have you all.
This, buried under the veneer of:
See girls? I care! Here, a fine new plaything to keep you company. Housebroken already.
(To this I am reduced. To this I am reduced. To this I am reduced.)
There’s time right now. However much time Jonathan can win by playing a good guest. But if he doesn’t get out by the time Dracula is done with him? He lives the rest of his human life as a wine bottle and then all of eternity after that as joint undead property.
Better hope your acting skills are up to the task, Mr. Harker.
#Happy Undead Girl Gang Day to you Jonathan#jonathan harker#brides of dracula#dracula#re: dracula#dracula daily
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A Short list of the things we focused on, just for the History books
Paprika
Foul bauble of Man's vanity
Dracula's three weed smoking girlfriends
Lucy's three weed smoking boyfriends
LIZARD FASHION!!!
Mr Swales. Also Accents!
The First Mate? The First Mate!
The Weather Correspondent
DOGULA!!!
CORN! CORN! AND CORN AGAIN!!!
Wait? It's garlic flowers???
VOLUPTUOUS
Beer for info
*Edit* Laconically
WINCHESTERS!!!!
Kukri
Train Fiend!!!
Fur Coats!!!!
*Edit* The marriage of Art and Jack
#Dracula#dracula daily#jonathan harker#mina murray#mina harker#lucy westenra#arthur holmwood#quincey morris#jack seward#suitor squad#van helsing#abraham van helsing#hyperfixation#matt kirkland#tumblr history#rm renfield#brides of dracula
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https://pin.it/3PZTuRUV9.
#dark aesthetic#gothic aesthetic#vampire aesthetic#gothic#vampire#victorian gothic#vampire gothic#gothic vampire#bram stokers dracula#lucy westenra#sadie frost#vampiress#brides of dracula
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happy halloween! here’s the first of my dracula stained glass windows. stay tuned, more are coming c:
#art#artists on tumblr#dracula daily#dracula#jonathan harker#brides of dracula#stained glass#super excited to reveal the rest of these
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Young man goes out, sees girls, one tries to kiss him not on lips but throat, Old Count interferes - rage & fury diabolical - This man belongs to me I want him.
What appears to be the earliest draft of the scene with the three girls. Found in Stoker's notes for the novel. Written on March 8, 1890 (one of the few dates for his notes we have).
#Bram Stoker#Dracula#Dracula Daily#The Count#Jonathan Harker#Brides of Dracula#(I know 'brides' is questionably accurate... but I've been tagging them as such since 2013)
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coming to your local bookstore never ;)
#I ORIGINALLY DREW THIS TO BE A BOOK COVER BUT THEN LOST MY NERVE#so i made this real quick in canva lmao#but like...barnes and noble commission me when#dracula#dracula daily#re: dracula#bram stoker#dracula fanart#book cover#booklr#mockup#art#digital art#illustration#jonathan harker#brides of dracula
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Ah i cant take this! in need an AU where Jonathan and the girlies bond over their mutual distain of Dracuala and bec9me friends. And I cant write it yet because I dont know what happens next!
I just need Dracula to come back one early morning and find Jonathan and the girlies reading or playing chess or something in the dining room ( they came in via the window ) and getting absolutely livid.
And one of them says in the most whingey little sister voice, "What? We're not touching him"
#Jonathan 'i took special pleasure in disobeying him' Harker#my good friend jonathan harker#dracula's ladies#brides of dracula#weird sisters#count dracula#dracula daily#this wait is drivng me insane#re dracula#first read:)
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Part 4 Quincey Time Travel AU
(Part 1 here)
Part 3
Part 5
#my art#quincey time travel au#quincey harker#jonathan harker#brides of dracula#Dracula weird sisters#Dracula#dracula daily#tw blood#tw gun#Quincey has been through a /Ton/ and hasn’t seen his family for ages#and as insane as realizing you’ve some how time traveled back over 20 years is#he’s not about to let anything hurt his papa now or ever#the soldier and the solicitor
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book cover - Brides Of Dracula - 1960
Frank Kelly Freas
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Brides of Dracula
#fanart#van helsing#van helsing 2004#brides of dracula#aleera#marishka#verona#vampiress#vampire#redraw#og april 2022
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Well, the consequences for Jonathan's disobedience were quite terrifying, on top of destroying an aspect of Jonathan's beliefs as a character.
We already have seen plus noticed how Jonathan identifies with what femininity, and women represented in the 19th century. He is a male character that expresses so much love for the ideas of safety, and comfort that the feminine entails without the narrative trying to paint this in a derogative light anywhere.
So, it's not wonder that the visit from the Weird Sisters (a.k.a. the speculated brides, and housemates of Dracula) left him totally traumatized. Nothing that Dracula has done so far has gained such huge reaction from Jonathan.
Great God! merciful God! Let me be calm, for out of that way lies madness indeed.
... for now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help to soothe me.
In his journey as a gothic heroine as he is trapped in the castle, Jonathan has been surviving by employing the same ideas used by fictional heroines he admires and looks up to in dire times, and he has comforted himself with Mina's memory, and his undefying love for her. Everything that Dracula represents regarding masculinity means danger for Jonathan, he is scared how the power that the Count holds over him; not as a man towards another man, but as a man towards a conceptual woman within Jonathan's mind that is part of his being.
All of this concludes in Jonathan taking a nap in the ladies' chamber room, away from Dracula's aggresive masculinity in his tainted designated room, and inside what he now deems a safe space because women lived there.
Then the Weird Sisters appear in their ethereal, beautiful glory, and as Jonathan recalls the incident in his diary, the feeling of angry loosing sanity is written with an underline tone of pure defeated betrayal. It feels as if Jonathan keeps asking himself "why did they do that to me? Aren't they in the same position as me?"
The feeling of what Jonathan calls repulsion cut through the sexually charged scene like a knife. All of the soft adjectives to describe the Sisters' appearance, Jonathan's attraction to them as he shames himself for thinking like that because of Mina, the emphasis of voluptuos charm laced with danger, all of it gets cut when Jonathan realizes what the Weird Sisters are planning to do.
There was a deliberate voluptuousness which was both thrilling and repulsive, and as she arched her neck she actually licked her lips like an animal.
The ladies that he thought were a dream at first are there to use him the same way that Dracula has been doing... the only difference is that the vampire ladies made very clear that they will kill him. So out it goes the kind language to describe women, and what enters is the language that Jonathan uses to describe the Count.
The femininity that Jonathan felt comfort in to shield himself from the horrors he has seen is now fractured to incorporate the monsterhood of the Weird Sisters. It's a realization that shatters him, not all women are soft, and kind, these women would have killed him if not the Count arriving, and if Jonathan cannot go to the Weird Sisters for safety against Dracula, then it means that the only being who stands between his death and life is the Count himself.
The man who is keeping Jonathan as a prisoner in everything but name is who he has to run to if Jonathan wants to keep living... What a nightmare indeed.
#Jonathan's world view on women and femininity in general is still painted in social biases despite being his preference over masculinity#The assumption that the brides could be ladies like all women he has met was shattered#Not all women are interested in being warm protectors#Specially lady monsters made exaggerated on purpose for the narrative#dracula daily#dracula#jonathan harker#brides of dracula#the weird sisters
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Picturing how the Weird Sisters are taking this turn of events now that we know there's a direct psychic feed to Drac-O-Vision once you're vampire'd. Specifically,
Weird Sisters: Who's that 1890's white-haired anime man? Oh! Oh shit! That's Bloodbag Boytoy!
Dracula: I see that.
Weird Sisters: Oh, that's a huge fucking knife
Dracula: I see that too.
Weird Sisters: Fuck him up, Bloodbag! Fuck him up, Bloodbag!
Dracula: First, thank you so much for the support. Second, keep dreaming, even by day I'm fast as hell--AGH FUCK
Weird Sisters: Ha! Mugged your ass!
Dracula: Can you all shut up long enough for me to monologue?
Weird Sisters: Don't think you have time for that.
Dracula: What do you--oh. Oh shit.
Weird Sisters, as Jonathan lizard fashions his way out the window with the kukri in his teeth: Oh shit! :D :D :D
Dracula, sweating: He wouldn't try anything in broad daylight. Not in front of witnesses.
Weird Sisters, as Jonathan prepares to come skin the Count in broad daylight, in front of God and Piccadilly Square: Yeah, you should definitely wait for him to politely not gut you. Just stay right there.
Dracula, running and locking the door behind him: Bah!
Weird Sisters: -laugh-wheezing in the castle-
I can only imagine how things are going now, as he huddles in his last little box of dirt, sailing back to hide in the Carpathians again. He is sincerely debating just going to the first restaurant on land and dying by garlic bread to avoid the welcome waiting for him at the castle.
#RIPieces asshole#enjoy the roast-a-thon#brides of dracula#dracula#jonathan harker#re: dracula#dracula daily
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I got a request please. Also been a fan of Drac's brides, so could you draw on of them just milling around in a room but in a supernatural way like one's on a couch, one's on a wall, one on a ceiling, etc.
This was a lot of fun to draw! I made two versions, one with Drac and one without.
[ID in Alt]
(I'm still taking art requests— feel free to drop an ask or comment with suggestions!)
#my art#my comics#the weird sisters#dracula#dracula daily#dracula daily spoilers#(sort of?)#dracula (novel)#brides of dracula
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"Come, sister. Come to us.”
#art#artists on tumblr#dracula daily#dracula#mina harker#van helsing#brides of dracula#got experimental with this one#it was a lot of fun!
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I always associated the Three Ladies of Castle Dracula in my mind as ‘Brides of Dracula’ because pop-culture osmosis and/or adults around me specifically referencing Hammer Films, even if that isn’t accurate to the text.
Still, with Dracula being a representation of inversions of the ‘natural order’, we have here a ‘til death do us part’ in which he’s Still Single but he hasn’t let go of his other possessions. He’s a warlord, boyar, master of all, and they’re part of what he owns. He doesn’t just treat employees and guests as property to do with as he wishes, but also the women he apparently once loved. Love and possession are apparently the same thing to him. Messed up.
Given the descriptions of the women, two of them seem to be at least locals, or of the same cultural background as Dracula himself (he did go into great excited detail about his history and his empire before, and the strength of his people, so it wouldn’t be that odd for him to be wife-shopping in the European region he conquered).
On the other hand, we have a woman described in a more Victorian style of beauty, and Johnathan has a ‘dreamy fear’ that he kind of recognises this third woman, the blonde woman. What if he does recognise her, from posters from music halls or theatres that he would have seen as a child? What if this third bride is a famous Englishwoman? An actress or performer who went missing on some tour decades ago? Hence the odd recognition he can’t place - she was a celebrity, and her pictures were around, but a young Johnathan would have no association with her because she was just before his time.
But Dracula had to get the idea to take over London (and then England) from somewhere. What if his new foreign bride wouldn’t stop talking about The Empire Where The Sun Never Sets, and possessive, obsessive Dracula went ‘I want that, too’?
Also, when the women come across Johnathan sleeping, the agreement of who to kiss him first is very quick. ‘Yours is the right’. What if she gets first dibs not because she’s Dracula’s current favourite or best or strongest wife/consort, but because Johnathan is her fellow Englishman? That she misses home so much, and her homesickness has been tainted by her vampirism that she just needs a little taste of home, no matter what that means? And her ‘sisters’ recognise that, and give her the right to kiss first, before they drain him dry?
#dracula daily#re: dracula#theorycrafting#brides of dracula#yes I've read other theories dw#theories for everyone
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Brides of Dracula Van Helsing (2004) Dir. Stephen Sommers
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