Re: Dracula

[Skanky Vamp]

from bloody disgusting

Re: Dracula is a new fiction podcast telling an old story, an adaptation of the original vampire novel by Bram Stoker. This close adaptation will use immersive sound design and some of the best-loved names in fiction podcasting to bring the bite, with a new twist: every episode will appear in chronological order, on the date it occurs in the novel.

The team behind Re: Dracula wants to engage with the book through a variety of different lenses, digging into the extant LGBTQ+ themes inherent to the story in new ways. They plan to work with the outdated attitudes toward mental illness and ethnic minorities not by changing the text, but with nuance and care both for their cast and their listeners. Content warnings and transcripts will be included and available with every episode.

Re: Dracula will premiere May 3rd, 2023, in your favorite podcast apps, and will run through November 3rd of the same year.

 

[ILLYRIAN]

I do hope it will be okay but I doubt it, if it is a retelling of the original vampire novel that includes LGBTQ+ themes it'll fail, do vampires bother with that kind of this, would a vampire bite a transexual or not? Will it include men biting women in a violent manner? Probably. Would a demon bother if their next victim is a man who prefers men or a woman who prefers women, would it bother a vampire, what's more is there any evidence to say no one who was secretly of the LGBTQ+ society ever bitten by a vampire? Apparently Lesbian vampires were quite popular.
It will be interesting to see how the series shows all that.

 

[Skanky Vamp]

if it is a retelling of the original vampire novel that includes LGBTQ+ themes it'll fail, do vampires bother with that kind of this, would a vampire bite a transexual or not?

Well, the original vampire novel from which Stoker based Dracula was about a lesbian vampire, and scholars have oft opined that the homsexual subtext in Stoker's Dracula was influenced by Wilde's conviction for sodomy. So, their choice to highlight those themes are not without merit when you look at the greater body of evidence and innuendo surrounding Stoker and the attitudes of the time.

 

[ILLYRIAN]

But were women on women regarded as being lesbians in 1899 or were they just women on women. Were men on men known by a particular name or were they said to be what they were. Plus as vampires are demons, would the demon community bother about mankinds choice of names or just bite down to get the blood, regardless?

 

[Skanky Vamp]

Plus as vampires are demons,

That's slanderous. It's only the modern era that has dubbed them demons. They were originally nothing more than undead sinners that needed to feed on human blood. Modern society demonized the vampire.

 

[ILLYRIAN]

@Spanky,
damn, you noticed that did you?
But I am fairly sure the book referred to to the undead sinners as Vampires. Was the vampire written as a creature from the underworld i.e. demon?

 

[Skanky Vamp]

Was the vampire written as a creature from the underworld i.e. demon?

The vampire myth was around a long time before it was written about though. People decided to write them based upon their own bias and prejudices versus what was generally presented in folklore.

 

[ILLYRIAN]

@Spanky,
Oh, you refer to the notion of vampires as a myth do you? Do you know of anyone who has proof they are a myth?
Some people have written about vampiric activity based on the facts as they were to them. To say people wrote about them based on their own bias and prejudice would indicate you say that based on your prejudice that vampires are a myth..

 

[Stake fodder]

The team behind Re: Dracula wants to engage with the book through a variety of different lenses, digging into the extant LGBTQ+ themes inherent to the story in new ways.

I definitely think there's a lot to unpack there. It also has metaphors, I think, about women's sexuality and societal discomfort with it, and about sexual obsession. It should be a fascinating podcast. I hope it will be in a format I get!