Dracula/Mina
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| Pairing: | Count Dracula/Mina Murray |
| Alternative name(s): | Dracmina, Dramina |
| Gender category: | Het |
| Fandom: | Dracula |
| Canonical?: | not in the book; canon in some adaptations |
| Prevalence: | rare |
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Fandom
Dracula/Mina is so unpopular in the Dracula fandom on Tumblr, especially post-Dracula Daily, that more content relating to the pairing is probably produced by Dracula/Mina hatedom. Fandom treats it as a symbol of everything wrong with Dracula adaptations and perception of the novel by the public; Bram Stoker's Dracula, Coppola's adaptation that has signicantly increased the popularity of the pairing among creators of subsequent adaptations, is also almost universally reviled by the book fans.
Even before the Tumblr fandom took shape, Dracula/Mina wasn't a particularly popular pairing, which has been noted by some fans:
Where are all these Dracmina shippers? Do they have a secret discord server where they talk about Victorian gothic villainfucking? And they didn't invite ME? Can I join?But like. The truth is that even pre-DD, there wasn't a TON of Dracmina fanfiction/general content, whether it was romanticized and fluffy or not. I've been circling around the Dracula fandom since 2011, scoured for fanfic, and...there was maybe ONE really good series that was dark. [snipped] I've ALWAYS seen this kind of endless complaining about Dracmina as if that's a way to prove that you're one of the Real Fans who understands that the Vampires are Bad. Like, congratulations, you read the book! You know that Dracmina is not canon in it! Now go and make content for something you actually DO like! Have some useful conversations about the novel and the themes in it! ANYTHING.
And so many posts are framed as like "instead of Dracmina/the reincarnated wife thing, here is what they SHOULD DO" instead of framing it as "I think it would be really cool if...!" Because even when they're talking about THEIR ships, it's almost inevitably about Dracmina. J0nmina shippers are more obsessed with Dracmina than *I* am. (I wouldn't say I aggressively ship it so much as I hold a little bit of fondness for it thanks to that teen girl who loved the sweeping, gothic romance of the idea of it, especially the musical tbh.) [1]
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1992 Movie
Based on The Kiss by Gustav Klimt.
