"Alas, But That Sentence Is A Puddle; Is It Not?"

"Alas, but that sentence is a puddle; is it not?"

Even Van Helsing can't make sense of his own speech. 🤦

Especially with the popularity of Dracula Daily. It already has a presence on social media! It's a slam dunk.

What I’m learning from Dracula Daily is that people want a mini series adaptation of Dracula since none of the movies have truly captured the story in it’s entirety

Why did Dracula force Mina to drink his (her? Lucy's? Other victims? Whose blood runs in Dracula's body??) blood?

This seems like an easy question to answer based on lots of other vampire stories: to make her a vampire. But Van Helsing said that all she needed to do was die after Dracula fed on her, right?

Which has always sat wrong for me. By that logic, every baby the weird sisters killed would become a vampire. The sailors from the crew of the Demeter would wake up underwater and make their way to land (an image I find delightfully creepy, tbh). So Van Helsing must be wrong.

But did Dracula make Lucy drink his blood?

I guess we can't know for sure, but I don't recall anyone ever saying she had blood on her mouth.

So if it's not an action required to make a vampire, why did he make Mina do it? Just to be gross?

I hope this gets cleared up; I hate unanswered questions.

"and one of them Keeps Shooting At You With A Gun Every Time You're In Bat Form" made me snort-laugh so loud I woke up my kids

okay but dracula thinking that the random mild mannered solicitor who had the unfortunate pleasure of dealing with him had died,, after all he disappeared at exactly the time he would have been disposed of

and then coming back to your new home in england (the one he set you up with) only to find some dudes Absolutely Ready To Kill You

and one of them you know hung around renfield

and one of them you might have heard of (if you had any awareness of vampire hunters)

and one of them you know hung around lucy

and one of them Keeps Shooting At You With A Gun Every Time You're In Bat Form

and then one of them comes at you with a knife and youre like wtfwtfwtf whompst and he got a new hairstyle and a new depressive state but Mr. Solicitor?? The Blorbo from my Real Estate Company??

Alright, I'm somewhat mollified by today's entry.

" I have told them how the measure of leaving his own barren land—barren of peoples—and coming to a new land where life of man teems till they are like the multitude of standing corn, was the work of centuries."

Jfc

CORN AGAIN

And even less comprehensible than last time.

Van Helsing is on my very last nerve with today's rambling.