#vlad dracul

[vanalex]

I want to be what you are, see what you see, love what you love.

#mina murray to her beloved prince #Vlad Dracul #dracula #mina murray #winona rider #gary oldman #90s movies #horror #romance #love #love story #love eternal #vampires #lovecore #horrorcore #dark fantasy #fantasy #bram stoker #literature #gothic #goth #1992 #classic #art #drawing #not my art #movie quotes #francis ford coppola #love never dies #bram stoker's dracula

[vladdocs]

(Opens the door and peeks in)

Hello! What trustworthy descriptions of Vlad do we have? In terms of describing what he looked like.

We have Nicholas of Modruš's description from De bellis Gothorum (page 1v)

“In fact, he was not very tall, but with large limbs, which impressed of power. His stern look was terrifying; нe had a large and aquiline nose with distended nostrils; on his thin and slightly reddish face were planted his wide open gray-green eyes* with prominent lashes hat were framed by thick black eyebrows, which made his appearance look threatening. Besides that, his cheeks and chin were shaved, except the upper lip (mustache). The swollen forehead increased the size of his head. A bull’s neck was supported by broad shoulders upon which swung his dark curly hair, which fell down from his head.”

*It is very difficult to translate nuances for colors because they changed from one era to another. What is turquoise for us today, for some it was green, and for others blue. For now, The CD team proposes "Graugrün", so greenish gray. Also this description is a lot more detailed than it meets the eye if you know the anecdotes of that time: aquiline nose = royal blood. prominent lashes = Good looking.

slightly reddish face = He was angry. large limbs, which impressed of power, A bull’s neck was supported by broad shoulders = He is describing him like having the features of a warrior.

2. Contemporary portraits: Oldest from late 1460s/early 1470s (In this one he is portrayed as the bad guy so his features are portrayed uglier)

Second and third oldest from late 1470/early 1480: (those are also portraying him negatively but without the ugly features)

3. His seal from his third reign:

I know what you think, "Isn't the guy from the left Vlad Tepes?" That's what I thought at first too, the CD team as well and most likely everyone who will ever see this seal. But nop, Vlad is the bearded one. "THEN HOW ABOUT VLAD DRACUL'S FRESCO FROM CASA DRACUL!?"

Casa dracul was completely destroyed in the great 1676 fire and rebuilt after. the respective fresco represents Ali Pasha from Timisoara, together with Mihaly Apafi and the mayor of Sighisoara, very probably during the first visit to the city in 1662. You can learn more about it + Where Vlad truly lived here:

So that's it, as a bonus here is how Vlad looked in battle:

My favorite depictions of Vlad (All from Dan Ianos):

My least favorite depiction of Vlad:

The Massacre of the Innocent (with an alleged and highly disputed cryptoportrait (physically degraded)) with Vlad as Herod the Great on a South German church fresco

#romania #history #vlad the impaler #vlad dracula #corpus draculianum #dracula #portraits #questions #wallachia #vlad dracul

[grande-caps]

Rise of Empires: Ottoman - Season 2

Quality : HD screencaptures Amount : 9.411  files Resolution : 1.920 x 1.080 px

-Please like/reblog if taking!

#grandecaps #rise of empires ottoman #rise of empires ottoman edit #rise of empires: ottoman #ottoman edit #charles danes #cem yiğit üzümoğlu #fatih sultan mehmet #tuba büyüküstün #mara brankovic #vlad dracula țepeș #daniel nuta #vlad dracul #nik xhelilaj #ali gözüsirin #radu dracul #yasemin eti #gülbahar #sarp bozkurt #mahmud pascha #capped by macfraser82

[stromuprisahat]

Literary demotion of Vlad Dracul

#Vlad Țepeș #Vlad Dracul #Dracula (book) #Dracula #Makt Myrkranna #Powers of Darkness #Bram Stoker #meme #V

[cryptocollectibles]

Young Dracula #1 (1992) by Caliber

Written by Gary Francis, drawn by David Mack cover by Gary Francis.

#Young Dracula #Dracula #Vampire #Caliber Comics #Caliber Press #Gary Francis #David Mack #Crusades #Etsy #Vintage Comics #1992 #Comic Books #Comics #Vlad Dracul

[kirbylives]

Another favorite Winona Ryder film (I also love Beetlejuice and Black Swan)

#winona ryder #dracula #bram stokers dracula #bram stoker #gary oldman #mina harker #mina murray #wilhelmina murray #wilhelmina harker #vlad dracula #vlad dracul

[the-hellsing-organisation]

Let us pretend I start the fundraising for the Vlad Dracul history books - which side would be the best (for international affairs)?

#fundriser #Fundraising #History #Hellsing #vlad dracula tepes #vlad dracula țepeș #vlad the impaler #Vlad Dracul #Alucard #Romania #Culture

[duranduratulsa]

Up next on my 90's Fest Movie 🎥 and TV 📺 Marathon...Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) on classic Superbit DVD 📀! #movie #movies #horror #drama #dracula #bramstokersdracula #francisfordcoppola #bramstoker #vladdracula #vladdracul #vladtheimpaler #countdracula #GaryOldman #winonaryder #AnthonyHopkins #KeanuReeves #caryelwes #sadiefrost #MonicaBellucci #tomwaits #superbit #dvd #90s #90sfest #durandurantulsas2ndannual90sfest

#movie #movies #horror #drama #dracula #vampires #bram stoker's dracula #count dracula #vlad dracula #vlad dracul #vlad the impaler #nosferatu #gary oldman #Winona Ryder #Anthony Hopkins #keanu reeves #sadie frost #cary elwes #tom waits #monica belluci #dvd #90s fest #90s #duran duran tulsa's 2nd annual 90s fest

[thesiat]

I think the really important thing that writing Thesiat has really made me pay attention to about Vlad III of House Drăculești is that he was a defensive warlord/king, and that is very different than a conquering one. I think we are so used to colonialism and empire mindset that it's hard to remember not all rulers had it.

As a non-Romanian it's also critical to remember that he is a hero to Romania and considered one of the most important rulers Romania has ever had. He was a real person with a real life.

I include him in my story not just because of the outside-of-Romania connection to him as a vampire, but also because once I started studying him (as much as I could), I was... not surprised, because that would imply I hadn't thought of him as a real person before, and I did; but I was excited in the way I always am when I get a clearer picture of a historical person's humanity. It quickly became clear that he was, actually, genuinely the best person to be the king of the vampires, like that was such a natural and organic choice, not really having anything to do with Stoker's work at all.

I'm actually very pleased that I (almost) wholly ignored Stoker's work and my 'Our Friend Mister Drăculești' is based almost entirely on the idea of 'What if the historical person had become a vampire'.

#vlad dracul #I'm still fuzzy on how the Van Helsings come into this #but I'll figure it out somehow #what i think i'mma go with is that Stoker ran into a few vague accounts and cribbed the names but didn't know about the real people #and nobody involved could say anything without breaking the Mummery

[belial-ex-tenebrae]

#vlad dracul

[sacchiri]

Hellsing 2002 calendar illustration.

Ein wunderliche und erschröckliche Hystori von einem großen Wüttrich genant Dracole wayda Der do so ganz unkristenliche marrter hat angelegt die mensche, als mit spissen als auch die leut zu Tod geslyffen

A wondrous and frightening story about a great berserk called Dracula the voivode who inflicted such unchristian tortures such as with stakes and also dragged people to death

#hellsing #alucard #kouta hirano #translation was found in a comment by u/lazyfoxheart on r/Kurrent #fun fact this is the highest quality version of this image that exists online #i know because i've been looking forever for a version that's clear enough to actually read what hirano wrote under '1443' #but there weren't any so i had to take matters into my own hands #the real image on the back of the guidebook is only 2 inches tall so i had to take this with my smartphone and will my hands not to shake #anyway i'm pretty sure it's supposed to say Eğrigöz (the location vlad was imprisoned) so yeah. thank you hirano very cool #if i might rant for a sec it took me an embarrassingly long time to figure that out because i didn't have the guidebook at first #and in the images i could find online that part was just a blur that looked suspiciously like a person's signature and i was like. who tf #i was thinking matthias corvinus since he issued some political propaganda against vlad iirc but it didn't match his signature on wikipedia #then i thought it might be vlad II dracul's since he probably had to sign an agreement to send his sons over as hostages at some point #but that didnt seem right either so i kept skimming vlad's wiki page #and then i was like goddammit...hirano.....you just misspelled Eğrigöz didn't you.. .... #i maybe should've made a separate post dedicated to this instead of writing a novel in the tags but eh #the hellsing brainrot runs deep #also- i put it in the source link at the bottom of the post but the german inscription is copied off a real woodcut of vlad from 1491 #except instead of depicting him as an adult hirano drew him as a child which gives the inscription a very different feel imo #the one final thing that interests me about this is the fact that hirano published this calendar in 2002 #which is REALLY early in the series. like this was before volume 5 came out?? #i have no idea why he decided to do a massive spoiler drop in a random piece of japan-only merch #sandwiched between a drawing of alucard as john travolta from saturday night fever and integra as a fish no less #it makes me really curious to know what the fan response to this was back then. like did people even know who this was #maybe im just an idiot and everyone back then was like 'ah yes its alucard as a 12 year old. how very informative'

[vladdocs]

Wait, there's actually a difference between Dragul and Dracul? It's not just variation in spelling?

Dragul = Beloved Dracul = Devil Dracul was used mostly by Vlad Dracul's enemies and people that didn't like him. Dragul was used by his allies and people in general, sometimes even his enemies were using it.

#Vlad dracul #history #romania

[whoishotteranimepolls]

#dracule mihawk #hawkeye mihawk #mihawk #one piece #dracula castlevania #dracula #vlad tepes #castlevania #anime #polls #anime poll #whoishotteranimepolls

[iheartcanute]

me with alucard, alucard and diluc

#lesbian #anime #manga #vampire diluc #vampire diluc is real!!!! #diluc ragnvindr #alucard castlevania #alucard hellsing #hellsing #castlevania #adrian tepes #vlad tepes #genshin impact #dracule mihawk #vampire core #vampire

[blue-skelly]

imagining count dracula sitting by the fire with jonathan, recounting his old stories like count von count in sesame street

"and to find today's number of the day, my dear young friend, let's count the number of people i impaled in 1462!

.... twenty three-thousand eight hundred and seventy three, twenty three-thousand eight hundred and seventy four... and that's just in february, my young friend! in fact, i'm not even done yet! twenty three-thousand eight hundred and seventy five...."

#okay i know that bram stoker didn't exactly base the count off of vlad dracul the impaler but just for the bit ok ok #dracula #count von count #sesame street #dracula daily #re: dracula

[greeneyedsigma]

What if Mihawk is a Dhampir? Half-Vampire offspring of a Vampire and a human woman. It could explain his eyes. And his pale ass skin. And the fact that he unironically floats around in a coffin-shaped ship.

I think I’ve claimed to hate vampires before, but I’m big enough to admit a softness for Dracula-like vampires. Particularly the grumpy/charming ones...actually, I might just be soft for grumpy guys. Or Dracula.

But also, @pastrydragon has me obsessing over Mihawk with a southern accent, with a more stoic Doc Holliday vibe...

Southern Gentleman Cowboy Dhampir calling Perona “Darlin’” with a tip of his hat. Using phrases like “Bless your heart,” and the one pastrydragon got my attention with “He hasn’t got the sense god gave a goose.”

#one piece #sigma's one piece au #one piece au #dracule mihawk #hawkeyes mihawk #count dracula #vlad tepes #dhampir #one piece headcanons