atundratoadstool:

I believe that Bram totally didn’t mean to make Mina as incredibly New Woman as she ended up being, but jeez… its 1897, and the way he portrays romantic love is to show an independently employed woman marrying her beloved while knowing full well he might become a permanent invalid and leave her to solely support the family unit despite all the societally side-eyeable gender inversion that would entail.

He doesn’t, of course, actually go there, and Jonathan revivifies himself and becomes a knife-wielding, hardcore bribery machine of terrible vengeance, but he could go there, and as with every other gender inversion Bram nearly pulls off and then retracts, it’s both super cool and super frustrating.