[ SECRET POST #5285 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5285 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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[Big Hero 6, Baymax]



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[Your Brain on Cracked (YouTube)]


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[Rhett and Link / Good Mythical Morning]



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[Legend of Korra]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 00 secrets from Secret Submission Post #755.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

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03. https://i.imgur.com/Lu8InHu.png

[(Anonymous)]

You've seen the version with Keanu Reeves as the himbo though, right? Definitely worth it.

[(Anonymous)]

Lmao this was exactly my first thought

[(Anonymous)]

+1

[(Anonymous)]

Even ignoring the rest of how bad that version of Dracula is, that accent is just… Keanu, sweetie, no.

[(Anonymous)]

I mean, the polyamory vibes in Dracula are ridiculously strong, and all the heroes love all the other heroes very deeply and tenderly, but if there was a *male* hero that I felt everybody loved (we all know literally everyone is in love with Mina), it would have been Arthur? Jack and Quincy at least are definitely in love with Arthur. They came to love Jonathan too, mostly for how he showed his absolutely deathless devotion to Mina, but I feel like Arthur got there first. Plus Arthur is all soft and sad, and doesn't get all hung up on being repressed (like Jack) or manly (like Quincy), and he and Mina are the two that everybody's trying desperately to protect.

(I really wish Lucy could have lived, because she wanted three husbands, and she was the luckiest woman in Victorian England, because she picked the three guys who might have gone for it)

(Jonathan came out of his encounter with Dracula, who, to be fair, definitely did have the hots for him, with white hair and a knife, so by the time everyone else meets him he's a little less himbo-ish and a little more 'I will slaughter vampires and become undead to stay by Mina's side'. He came out a bit intense, is what I'm saying)

[(Anonymous)]

Arthur’s entire personality can be summed up as “is very sad that Lucy died. :(“. And other than Van Helsing’s ott interactions with literally everyone he meets, everyone else is just like, “isn’t it tragically noble how sad Arthur is that Lucy died?”

Hell, Quincy gets more love from the rest of the crew than Arthur, and I’m pretty sure Stoker was just working through a crush he had on a random American man with that one.

[(Anonymous)]

I mean, I don't think that's entirely fair. It's not just that he's sad that Lucy died. It's that he lost his father and his wife in quick succession, his wife came back as a child-murdering monster, and Arthur was the one who had to stab her through the heart and rekill her. While he's in the middle of trying to deal with that, the creature that murdered and corrupted his wife is hunting down the only people who've supported him through it, including the only woman who let him cry and try to process his grief openly, and the two friends who've been with him through thick and thin and loved Lucy as well. Yes, his main emotions are grief and friendship during the story, but that's pretty much for fair reasons? He had the happiest day of his life, Lucy choosing him and his two friends/rivals gracefully and warmly congratulating him for it, and then everything went massively downhill from there.

And everybody's there for him through it. Van Helsing views him like a son, Jack is as repressively solicitous towards him as he is towards anyone short of Van Helsing, Mina lets him break down completely on her chest, Quincy guards them and makes sure no one disturbs them for it, and is the guy who picks a broken-down Arthur up off the couch afterwards. It gets to the end, and they're talking about their surviving circle of friends and their happy endings, and the narration says: "When we got back home we got to talking about the old time - which we could all look back on without despair, for Godalming and Seward are both happily married." and you have half a second of wondering 'to each other?' before you remember that a Victorian novel can't actually do that.

But yes, Quincy also deservedly gets a lot of love, because weirdly in a Victorian novel, the man most reminiscent of an Arthurian knight is the Texan cowboy. What with earnestly and immediately pledging his life to Mina's protection on the strength of a comforting kiss, and backing that pledge up to the hilt alongside Jonathan. Hot damn.

It's one of the things I love most about Dracula. Like I said, the polyamory vibes are so goddamn strong. Everybody loves everybody, and is more than willing to show it in every possible way.

[(Anonymous)]

"Secretly?"

[bookblather]

You are extremely not wrong.