More things that get left out of Dracula adaptations
Van Helsing pulls 29 year old Dr Seward's ear like he's still a schoolboy
There's a relationship-establishment flashback between Van Helsing and Seward
In it, Van Helsing accidentally gets cut with something unclean. His then-student Seward immediately drops everything to start sucking on the wound raw
At one point, Seward asks to become his "pet student again."
Dracula has a big, permanent scar on his forehead from Jonathan Harker's shovel
Arthur Holmwood saying "Tally ho!"
Transylvanians conclude that the delirious, amnesiac Jonathan Harker is English due to "his violent demeanour."
Despite attempts to keep low profile, Dracula gets into the news twice in two months (in one of them as a missing dog)
Dracula getting misreported as a dog because English people have never seen a wolf
London newspapers treat Lucy's vampire attacks on children as a meme among kids because they don't believe in vampires
Dracula gets sworn at by a British sailor solely because he thinks Dracula is French
Van Helsing is baffled why British sailors keep talking about blood and bloom (it's swearing)
Van Helsing is friends with real life turkologist traveller Arminius Vámbéry, who is his main source on the Dracula family
Van Helsing is friends with Hans Christian Andersen and references The Ugly Duckling
Van Helsing getting one-upped by Mina every single time he says something sexist about her intelligence
Dracula failing to destroy the evidence against him because Mina backs up her files
Mina and Jonathan kissing on the mouth in front of everybody
Quincey Morris spontaneously gifting Mina the Victorian equivalent of a MacBook Air
to all the warriors who will feel pressured to shave their legs now that it’s warm enough to wear shorts… HOLD THE LINE!!!
before I actually hopped on the dracula train I saw a lot of assertions around that seward is unstoppably horny, and this is true, but it did not prepare me for the way in which seward is unstoppably horny. it's not unbridled carnality, it's more a shade of the "I think I could survive truly horrific circumstances if I had a crush on someone there" phenomenon. jack is in the pits of despair and doing Real Bad and sees everyone else around him as effortlessly more charismatic and competent than he is, so his poor brain is trying to cope by falling terribly, embarrassingly in love with all of his friends to try and spark any kind of joie de vivre. it gets him there eventually but there's a real curve to it, so he spends a good month or two thinking "goddd lucy is so achingly beautiful. quincy has the most manhood of all of us. I want van helsing to treat me like his student again and put me in my place. I haven't slept in four days and I hope something tragicly preventable happens to me tomorrow."
C.S. Lewis: oh and yeah, the stars are actually people who are functionally immortal (unless bitten by a witch who's shapeshifted into a snake) and come down to earth for rest periods wherein they look like normal humans and eat fire-berries until they can go be stars again, but they can be banished too and become magicians—
me: hold on
C.S. Lewis: keep up, there are also sea people (not mermaids) who have entire civilisations underwater, with dark purple hair and ivory skin, and they ride giant seahorses, and are very aggressive—
me: wait a second
C.S. Lewis: aren't you listening, because there is also a world underneath Narnia with many different sections, including one where Father Time sleeps until the end of the world, and a world underneath that called Bism where gems live and can be juiced like fruit—
me: just hang on a minute
C.S. Lewis: so you don't want to hear about how a centaur feeds both stomachs?
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