Dracula Daily sketch for May 7th.

In which Dracula and Jonathan discuss books.

Meet the Harkers! 🦇

Wanted to pin down my designs for Jonmina; settled on slicked-back hair w some flyaways for Jonathan, and an Asian Mina!! 🫶

Dracula sketch dump from the plane

I've seen a few posts about the golden mediasch wine that Jonathan tries and the "queer sting on the tongue" it produces, and anyway I ended up doing some bare minimum research on the wine in case anyone else is interested:

It's a white wine from the wine-making town of Medias. There's actually a reference to it in an 1878 travelogue called Round About the Carpathians by Andrew F. Crosse. Crosse says that golden mediasch is "one of the best wines" from Transylvania and that it "produces an agreeable pricking on the tongue". I've never tried it so I can't say what it's actually like but fact and fiction seem to align at least

Tbh I'll never get over how much niche research Stoker did to create Dracula and I think it's the references to things like certain wines that really make the book

idk guys when people come over to my place I also say “welcome to my house, enter freely and of your own will” it’s a very normal human person thing to say

Rough sketch of our good friend Jonathan journaling on the train

Some Mina and Jonathan Harker for the end of spooky season. ♥

I did not remember Jonathan overhears the townsfolk call Dracula "werewolf" and "vampire" before he leaves for the castle. That just makes everything that's about to come scarier, cause I feel like he would have that on the back of his mind the entire time weird shit happened.

Jonathan, before the coach ride: huh, I wonder why they keep saying "werewolf"

Jonathan, stranded in the Romanian wilderness at midnight, surrounded by wolves, until the coachman commands the wolves and they listen: oh shit Oh shit oh shit OH SHI--

"You will, I trust, excuse me that I do not join you; but I have dined already, and I do not sup."

In archaic use, "to sup" can mean "to drink a liquid in small mouthfuls," to sip, essentially. As we all know, Dracula, indeed, "does not sup." Clever bit of wordplay-foreshadowing by Mr. Stoker?

Dracula: I do not sup, but I do...

*SCHLORP*

now where in the world is My Bestie Jonathan Harker today?

in agony (most likely)

In honor of my good friend Jonathan's travels taking an unusual turn that sadly cannot be wholly attributed to the paprika hendle.

I bet Mina would have this answer chambered and ready to fire though...

May 5 (part 1)

A business trip is a great opportunity to learn new languages.

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going absolutely insane because this is one of my favorite quotes from the book

Phenomenal sound design in this episode! Also "God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me" is such a great line and the delivery was superb