Blood of My Blood: The Law's Delay

Shout out to @ibrithir-was-here for putting up with my never-ending goal of overfilling the glorious Blood of My Blood AU with my ramblings and extra shout out to @everchangingfungusthoughts and @animate-mush for tripping me down the slope of Writing Another Text Brick. Specifically via this whole thing.

Summary: Jonathan Harker, now fifteen years deep into his life at Castle Dracula, finds himself the unwilling guest of yet another frightful host and his company. Talk and violence and time tick by.

The sun sinks low.

The dead travel fast.

And a vital Lesson is taught regarding the Law of the land.

Warnings for graphic violence, suicide, and murder.

He's literally me in the irl I don't caaare

Dracula (1931)

i think my favourite horror trope is what i like to call "it gets better before it gets worse". the evil is seemingly defeated. the worst is apparently over. it was tough, and maybe you didn't all make it out in one piece, but you made it. except that you didn't. you're still infected, still marked. you bring the horror with you wherever you go. and there's no timeframe after which you can say you're safe with any certainty. it might lie dormant for years, just waiting for you to turn your back to it long enough to let it find you again. it knows your scent, now. it can hunt you down wherever you go.

it works so well on a metatextual level too. it's so easy as an audience to let yourself hope that maybe, this time, that's really it. it's really over. the characters you're rooting for won. you can relax now. then you remember what genre you're engaging with, or check the runtime, or page count, and feel your dread crystallise as you realise that there's still enough time left for a final, terrible act.

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Dialogue transcripts:

Queer Dreams

They rode to the death of Some One, but God alone knew who, or where, or what, or when, or how it might be....

They slept only when the horses did, but now in the saddle Jack rested his head on the shoulder in front of him, closed his eyes, his arms wrapped tightly and securely around the well-muscled waist. There was snow in the air and danger all around them, but this was warm, and safe.  Amid all the horror, the excitement, the exhaustion, he had found his own internal doubts and anxieties no longer plagued him as they had in comfort.  

"You asleep back there, buddy?"

"Mmm?" Jack said.  "No, no, I just - " he broke off, startled by the sound of his own voice.  Cautiously he put his hand to his throat - his left hand - stubble there, of course, there had been no thought of shaving in this final desperate chase.  Tears came unbidden to the corners of his eyes, though he couldn't say why.  He blinked them away along with his somnolence.  "Why, what's wrong?"

plagues history and global epidemiology as an autistic special interest was already a heavy topic but not a day goes by I dont briefly recall drunkenly telling people at the bar in autumn 2019 “yeah the next pandemic will probably be a coronavirus and we’re due for one”

if they remember that i have to wonder if they think they met the devil at the club that night

Fact: The earliest reliably dated use of the phrase “fucked up” appears in the court records of a US Navy court-martial case from 1863; the way the phrase is used suggests that its meaning was already well known at the time, but this is the first known printed record of it that we can confidently put a date to.

Additional fact: Bram Stoker’s Dracula is set in 1897.

Conclusion: It would not anachronistic for your Dracula fanfic to have a character describe the Count as a fucked up old man.

official linguistics post

i know we joke about cis artists having the weirdest sense of anatomy, but also even when the anatomy is fine, no one seems to want to draw women doing normal things

Drawing challenge: draw your favorite male characters like this

araki literally does this for jojo poses

you, reading this. you're a creature now. reblog to creature your followers

get creatured idiot

oh thank fuck i thought i was never gonna get creatured

why didn't I know there was a Dracula ballet and ESPECIALLY why didn't I know it has this dance with Dracula and Jonathan

Old sketch of Jonathan in "Blood of My Blood" putting up with having some unwanted attention after meals :s (which I had even before @see-arcane wrote "Domestic" but darn it it doesn't work well with it) Anyway realized I had never posted it, so here's the Horrible No Good Very Bad Time for ya'll to once more stake Dracula over

hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

reblog to give a strawberry to the person you reblogged this from

Hey OP? What the FUCK does this mean?

decay exists as an extant form of life

That’s a terrifying answer, have a nice day

hey sorry we put your good friend jonathan harker in a time loop. yeah he’s about to leave for his business trip again. but at least he’ll send you emails

On May 1 we'll be clearing our RSS feed of episodes so they can once more release chronologically with the Dracula season.

If you're listening through right now, finish up this month, get your hands on the audiobook, or purchase the ad-free feed, where episodes will stay up.

Episode 1 will re-release on May 3! If you missed the Re: Dracula experience last year, join us this time around! It'll be fun!