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I saw some people discussing that the modern update of Dracula would be Jonathan Harker's instagram account which starts getting really, really weird-- because he's got a Kodak, which was cutting-edge tech at the time, and the first part of the book is a lovely extended travelogue before it starts getting creepy.
I was contemplating it as a transmedia story but that doesn't quite work because he can't communicate with the outside world for a while including on days he makes entries-- by the time he gets to the creepy brides, he'd post something that would cause Mina to come rescue him. So you'd need to do it as a book which can include the "unable to send message; please try again later" once the signal fails, so we can see his attempted messages. (Which he feels okay trying to send in plaintext because the Count does not understand how the internet works, which is the entire reason Jonathan had to come out here in the first place.)
Of course, in a modern update, "not hearing from Jonathan for weeks" would already provoke Mina to send help. So he's going somewhere in the mountains where service is often unreliable even with the satellite uplink he has, and his satellite antenna disappears when he wants to communicate with the outside and the Count is like "Sure, I'll make sure the servants look for it" when they both know he took it to isolate Jonathan.
And play up the creepy sexual overtones of abusive relationship with the Count, since this is the modern polyamory update, where you have Lucy and her husband and her two boyfriends and her girlfriend and her girlfriend's husband and this is just like a massive polycule, and so Jonathan is initially trying to maintain professionalism and then the Count starts getting more and more controlling about his overtures but Jonathan is very aware the whole time of how attractive the Count is.
Mina, meanwhile, has a blog of her summer with Lucy, possibly supplemented by her drafts folder since some of the stuff with Lucy probably doesn't get posted live.
I could write the text just fine, but I'd need a lot of images given the bulk of this being his Instagram, and I don't think we have anything within the area I can easily go to take photographs that would substitute easily for all the things. But I'd want to write it out first so I have an idea of what photographs I'd need.
...I'm going to have to write this now, aren't I. (How does our heroine wind up with a Patreon? Via intensely serialized Dracula modern update.)
I was contemplating it as a transmedia story but that doesn't quite work because he can't communicate with the outside world for a while including on days he makes entries-- by the time he gets to the creepy brides, he'd post something that would cause Mina to come rescue him. So you'd need to do it as a book which can include the "unable to send message; please try again later" once the signal fails, so we can see his attempted messages. (Which he feels okay trying to send in plaintext because the Count does not understand how the internet works, which is the entire reason Jonathan had to come out here in the first place.)
Of course, in a modern update, "not hearing from Jonathan for weeks" would already provoke Mina to send help. So he's going somewhere in the mountains where service is often unreliable even with the satellite uplink he has, and his satellite antenna disappears when he wants to communicate with the outside and the Count is like "Sure, I'll make sure the servants look for it" when they both know he took it to isolate Jonathan.
And play up the creepy sexual overtones of abusive relationship with the Count, since this is the modern polyamory update, where you have Lucy and her husband and her two boyfriends and her girlfriend and her girlfriend's husband and this is just like a massive polycule, and so Jonathan is initially trying to maintain professionalism and then the Count starts getting more and more controlling about his overtures but Jonathan is very aware the whole time of how attractive the Count is.
Mina, meanwhile, has a blog of her summer with Lucy, possibly supplemented by her drafts folder since some of the stuff with Lucy probably doesn't get posted live.
I could write the text just fine, but I'd need a lot of images given the bulk of this being his Instagram, and I don't think we have anything within the area I can easily go to take photographs that would substitute easily for all the things. But I'd want to write it out first so I have an idea of what photographs I'd need.
...I'm going to have to write this now, aren't I. (How does our heroine wind up with a Patreon? Via intensely serialized Dracula modern update.)
