Mina, My Beloved, Is Back!

Pinned Intro Post!!!

Hi! I’m Lou 🦇

I use they/them pronouns

Im gonna be so honest I have no clue how to use this app so guidance and advice would be appreciated ‼️

I enjoy lots of things!! On a broad spectrum my interests are classical gothic literature, musical and contemporary/classic theater, classical and contemporary opera, choral music, every art form imaginable, folk, rock and indie music, Horror movies, sitcoms, random TV shows/anime, and badminton :)

Media I like (and would jump at a moments notice to discuss; yes I have a lot of hyperfixations) (buckle up): Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Jekyll and Hyde, Frankenstein, The Crucible, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cabaret, Falsettos, The Jekyll and Hyde and Dracula MUSICALS, Rent, Carrie, Hadestown, Sweeney Todd, Heathers, Wicked, Hamilton, Be More Chill, Ride the Cyclone, Gilbert and Sullivan, Pagliacci, Italian Arias, soprano repertoire, The Podd Brothers, any classical choral pieces, Mozart, vocal technique videos, painting, sketching/drawing, guitar, any art at all(!!!), Noah Kahan, Ethel Cain, Haley Heynderickx, Queen, Adrienne Lenker, Gregory Alan Isokov, the Oh Hellos, Brandi Carlisle, Hozier, Phoebe Bridgers, Boygenius, Hereditary, Longlegs, Saw franchise, Nosferatu, The Office, The Good Place, Parks and Recreation, New Girl, Stranger Things, Bojack Horseman, The Owl House, Gravity Falls, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Attack on Titan, Demon Slayer, Bungou Stray Dogs, Your Lie in April, A Silent Voice, HunterxHunter, Deathnote

DNI List: Basic human rights and decency deniers (homophobia, racism, sexism, transphobia, ableism, xenophobic), Trump supporters, Zionists, bullies, people who don’t like whimsy or fun

I’d LOVE to chat and get to know you!!!!!!!! If we share even one or even BETTER— MULTIPLE interests I will love you forever and ever. I will maybe redo this when I understand this app better ^^

Me anytime I get a notification from Substack that isn’t Dracula Daily: this isn’t my dear friend Jonathan Harker >:(

"Jonathan and Mina Harker ran, sprinted, fucking BODIED that marathon, so that Edward and Bella could flounder in the shallow end"

-My wife, 2025

God I love Mina so much. She's my girl, my queen, my badass detective. I can see why Jonathan is absolutely smitten with her bc I would be feral about Mina if I was him.

I’m very happy to introduce you my new button badges collection ! 🎉 They will be available in my shop very soon !! It was so good to draw everyone safe, happy and reunited ! 🥰☀️

Happy Dracula day to all who celebrate

"i ought to be thy adam, but i am rather the fallen angel"

Jonathan is like obviously I picked your new house because it was the creepiest, shittiest old place in town and Dracula is like hell yeah brother

No word from my good friend Jonathan for two days now :(

my favourite thing about 'Dracula' is how Mina Harker is the cleverest strongest icon out there: girly can write shorthand, learn train timetables by heart, keep a diary daily (my procrastinating arse could never), retype and organise a ton of written information AND a literal audio diary in like a day (????), and deduct the randomest niche stuff like it's nothing?? QUEEN behaviour period. Which is why, while I definitely love the cinematography and the cast in the 1992 film adaptation, the plot absolutely pissed me off. Of course the og misogyny in the novel was very unnerving and impossible to ignore (for me personally) but I bet even Mr Stoker himself would have had a stroke if he'd seen the way they reduced Mina's character to a mindless girl obsessing over the count. Tbh some ooc fanfiction I've read had more 'in character' figures than whatever the hell happened to Mina. Which is fine as an artistic interpretation of the og material I guess but explicitly calling the film 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'-- the audacity lol. The vibes were on point though very reminiscent of the book