Peter Nureyev Wears Exclusively Floral Patterned Button Up Shirts For The Entirety Of S3 On The Carte

It appears that today JHark continues your thesis statement of him having an "I will not let such a small issue stop me" pattern

Let us recap!

May 3rd: *paprika gives incredible thirst*

Jonathan: I won't let a little thing like that stop me! *more paprika*

May 4th: *locals crying, hugging his knees, begging him not to go*

Jonathan: *significantly more unsettled* I won't let a little thing like that stop me

May 5th: *this door has no handle*

Jonathan: I won't let a little thing like that stop me...? Though I admit I am at a loss as to what to do about it

May 8th: *dracula yeets the mirror*

Jonathan: *annoyed* I won't let a little thing like that stop me *does his best with his shaving pot, which is fortunately of metal*

May 8th: *the castle is a veritable prison*

Jonathan: *running madly around like a rat in a trap* I won't let a little thing like that stop me!!! *sitting down quietly* ahhhh fuck

May 12th: *envelopes extremely see-through*

Jonathan: *resolving to write to Mina later in shorthand* I won't let a little thing like that stop me *immediately snoops on Dracula's letters*

May 15th: *the door is locked, the key is gone*

Jonathan: I won't let a little thing like that stop me. It's probably in the Count's room

May 15th: *one door not technically locked just suck*

Jonathan: *putting his back into it* oh I definitely won't let a little thing like that stop me...

And a bonus:

Dracula, May 12th: Don't go to sleep anywhere else in the castle or you will Literally Die. From, uh. Nightmares.

Jonathan, May 15th: I won't *yawn* let a little thing like *yawn* that stop me.... zzzzzzzz

Vex (ft. Trinket)

I found a soft quietude come over me. Here I am, sitting at a little oak table where in old times possibly some fair lady sat to pen, with much thought and many blushes, her ill-spelt love-letter, and writing in my diary in shorthand all that has happened since I closed it last.

This segment gives me so much joy, but is a great example of what makes Jonathan incredibly unique among similar types of horror victims in Victorian literature.

A lot of academic analysis notes Jonathan’s traditionally feminine role in the early chapters of Dracula, but chalk it up to “the horror of emasculation”—that Dracula imposing femininity on Jonathan expresses the gender role anxiety of the time and is part of how Dracula terrorizes him.

But that’s just straight-up not how the book is written. Jonathan is comforting himself with his connection to the sweet, soft ladies of old, wishing he were writing love letters to his own love far away. He soothes himself with the image as a way to escape the horrors surrounding him. He encourages himself with the comparison to Shezerade and her cleverness earlier.

It’s the difference between “Jonathan is facing horrors traditionally imposed on female characters” and “the horrors INCLUDE the connection to female characters.” That distinction is enforced by how he, on his own, finds comfort and encouragement by thinking of himself among their number.

It’s a distinction that wouldn’t be obvious from just reading a summary of the story, which in all honesty seems to be what some academic analysis is working from.

Michael jumpscare

Cutie-pie of the sea (x)

Other people have commented on all the funny jokes last year about Jonathan not realizing that he was in the novel Dracula whereas this year we’re very aware of him being uneasy and already saying goodbye to Mina in the second email. Well, personally, I think it was me, the reader, taking everything as a delightful joke. It wasn’t Jonathan ‘not realizing he was in Dracula’ it was me, not realizing that I was reading Dracula. I only had a vague idea of pop culture and a Sesame Street Count to go off of. It was me, a modern thinker, thinking how bad can vampires really be? Aren’t they rather funny? Or sexy? Or weird guys with the personality of mayonnaise and the skin of a disco ball? Not sure what my point is exactly but I feel very confident that Jonathan is taking this situation Much More Seriously than I would if I was on a business trip. And reading it the second time is more nerve wracking then the first, because I know now what to expect, and can’t do anything about it.

y'all think anthy and utena shit like this

i wanted to draw utenanthy w their og hair colors

not rlly sure how tumblr works but heres knife wife and the babygirl antichrist