OMG HARKULA OTP 5EVAAHHH CAN'T EVEN DIES

As has been stated in class multiple times, we are pretty much certain that Dracula has more than platonic feelings for one Jonathan Harker. I mean, he essentially threw a temper tantrum and said “I called dibs” when his vampiress bros tried to chow down. And throughout the novel, although I knew it never could happen, I was still a bit upset that Dracula never “got the girl” so to speak. Despite his precautions to keep Jonathan Harker (the object of his affection) safe from where he knew his plot would be unfurling and danger would be occurring. It is just like in the classic movies when the man says ”stay here,  It is too dangerous” and then goes off to defeat whatever danger is darkening the horizon. Dracula is simply trying to keep bae somewhere away from where all hell is going to break loose. Although Dracula is a brute, he obviously has some variety of feelings for Harker, otherwise he would have “tied up loose ends” like he did with Renfield (come on, do we really think renfield reached that level of insanity naturally?) before he departed for England. However, these actions are mostly left up to the interpretation of the reader, and buried under a fair amount of subtext. This is understandable considering the outrageous homophobia that was going down in England right around then and would still go down well into the twentieth century.

Now there are modern works about vampires other than twilight that can be dragged into this. One very good one being Carry On by Rainbow Rowell.

In Carry on, the two main protagonists are gay wizards Simon Snow and Tyrannus Basilton Grimm-Pitch (who shall henceforth be called Baz). These lil cuties right here!

Simon Snow, Mage's Heir is on the left and Baz is on the right.

 Baz is also a vampire. Now, although snow is an orphan and as of the book, relatively unacquainted with his sexual orientation, Baz has been aware of it for quite some time and has noticed the distinct homophobia within the old families and especially from his father (even being explicitly stated by Baz himself that “my father would be happier if I were disrobing the maid” and that “I’m disturbed. Ask anyone.” This is incidentally my phone background at the moment). Simon and Baz could have ended up like jo hark eye and Drac von brooding and circled each other but never been able to have the relationship that would benefit them both. Now the only reason Baz and Simon are able to have a romantic relationship published in a book now is due to massive leaps and bounds made in accepting the LGBTQ community, but we still have a ways to go! So people accept your neighbor, if they are a vampire, a seelie, a velociraptor, a Quetzalcoatl, a basilisk or god forbid a human just like you. Because that would be the end of the world. I will step off my soap box now.