#vlad austria

[poetofthedyingstars]

vladimir “i know my love should be celebrated but you tolerate it” austria

#gaya sa pelikula #ace 🧱 #vlad austria

[gabrielokun]

#Like In The Movies #Gaya Sa Pelikula #Gabriel makes stuff #VladKarl #Vlad x Karl #Ian Pangilinan #Jose Vladimir Austria #Paolo Pangilinan #Karl Frederick Almasen #Philippino BL #Philippino Series #BL Drama #BL series

[anastasiamusicalupdates]

Judith Jandl and Karsten Kenzel during curtain call at Linz, Austria as Lily and Vlad. Photos by Stage Shadows.

#anastasia the musical #anastasia austria #judith jandl #karsten kenzel #countess lily #vlad popov #non-replica #press conference #lily press conference #vlad press conference

[gretasworld]

Serial killers and offenders

#elizabeth bathory #carmilla karnstein #carmilla #dracula #vlad dracula tepes #vlad the impaler #bloodthirsty #inspiration #peoplebehindvampiregenre #history #austria #hungary #romania #europe

[mwebber]

what are your favourite martian moments? 😺

thank u for asking eve i'm so glad i get to talk about two of my favourite people on god's green earth <3 in no particular order just off the top of my head...

#1: ABU DHABI 2022 i cannot state just how much brain damage this moment did to me. like i vividly remember freaking the fuck out about the martian interview on sky and talking to the besties and barbi @brawn-gp was like omg another moment do u want me to clip. and i was like YEAH YES. PLEASE. I LOVE YOU (i love you <3) and then i saw it and blacked out and when i awoke it was to this. unparalleled brainrot Truly there will never ever be another

#2. MARRIAGE QUOTE do i need to say anything else. when i saw this for the first time i think i nearly had an aneurysm

#3. SINGAPORE 2008 their first real red bull date.......... i think about them sitting on that couples rickshaw every monday giggling with each other generally being blushy messes sharing secretive smiles like they're the only ones in on a joke. also mark pretending to push seb off a building only to catch him STOP my heart is melting

(tumblr is being dumb and won't credit the gifs properly but they're from thnx-mate-blog)

#4. VLAD RYS GEORGIA K MOMENT this is unironically my favourite pic of seb to ever seb. and of course he's looking at mark. no further comments

#4.5 THE OTHER VLAD RYS GEORGIA K MOMENT. this photo is still so mind-boggling like why the fuck are you looking at each other like that. hi. hello?

#5. MONACO 2010 HUG.

#6. MAKE LOVE TO EACH OTHER / ALWAYS REMEMBER YOUR FIRST TIME. it's literally so fucking funny to me that red bull saw everybody's martian brainrot and was like. wouldn't it be so fucked up if we dropped that mark buttered seb's muffin after china 2009. twirls hair. haha wouldn't it be soooo random. if we did that

#7. WHATEVER THE FUCK THIS IMAGE IS. i can't even look at it for too long i start feeling funny in my tummy

#8. SEB'S LONGING STARE. i ccant believe i forgot this one it should be higher up perhaps

#9. AUSTRALIA 2016/2017. their podiums are SSOOOOOOO.

#10. MATCHING PORSCHES. is it hot in here? do you feel feverish? i feel feverish

#11. RIGHT ONE'S HEAVIER. monaco 2021 when mark casually revealed how much he knows seb still after all this time that seb was like ".. yeah!" like he himself was pleasantly surprised that mark still cares and oh god. somebody hold me

#12. NEARLY SKINNY DIPPING AU CANADA. caliss de tabarnak attache ta tuque mark nhabille pas des sous vetements criss de tabarnak de caliss d'esti de sacrament de

(from thnx-mate-blog)

13. VERY GOOD. i just know they had a Conversation after mark retired that was soo insightful and healing that they still reference to this day. they're very good with each other. btw. if u didn't know.

14. LOVER'S TIFFS. i can't. i can't think about them anymore i think i need to be put in a straightjacket and locked up

#15. 2013 PRIZE GIVING. the way they look at each other...... i'd write 5 million words of rpf too

there's literally so many more moments i want to include on here like mark's "i hope when i'm 70 they're not still asking if i love sebastian" or top gear when mark was like "my dad always said you shouldn't hit boys mate" or when seb and mark were at hangar 7 post 2010 and he went for the wettest limpest high five hand hold known to man or when mark massaged seb's shoulder in australia 2009 or their 1-2 podiums in 2009 or in 2020 when mark was like i've moved on from ferrari for u or "seb didnt expect sex in monaco" or china 2010 when they were bitching with each other or when seb was like i don't understand what he's saying half the time or when seb was on mark's shoulders for a red bull stunt or when they played cricket in australia 2012 or when mark was like we're very well-suited to each other both very handsome in that one magazine or when mark addressed their relationship in like 2014 and said we wished each other well in austria as you do or after multi 21 when seb was like i was racing i was faster i passed him i won and mark was like a cheetah never changes its spots we'll be fine or early on when mark was like we'll get hot chocolate together and i'll be going on about smth that happened before seb was born and he'll roll his eyes or when seb was like i learned a lot from mark or when seb said he'd give mark free hotel toiletries for his bday or when they copied each other trying to put stickers on their car or when someone changed seb's wikipedia page to say he's dating mark or when they did their pepe jeans butt ad or turkey 2011 when they all but caressed each other in 4k or the brazil 2011 cheek cradle or their websites i haven't even talked about their websites yet [I AM FORCIBLY DRAGGED AWAY]

#im not putting this under a read more. martian favs be upon ye #inbox #martian

[thethirdromana]

I was gonna ask you some stuff about Quincey and the aftermath of the Civil War, but that wasn't really near the 1890s so idk if it's relevant.

Also similar to Mina maybe supporting eugenics I would imagine Seward probably engages in a lot of pseudosciences

But more interestingly, what do you think Dracula's politics would be? He's pretty removed from human society by being a vampire and his home in Transylvania is pretty remote, but he was still a nobleman there and he was moving to England, which he planned to conquer. I'm curious where he'd fall, when pretending to be and working with (?) humans in Romanian politics (if you feel like researching it) and English politics. Another cool layer to this is if you subscribe to the popular theory that he's really Vlad the Impaler. What would a warlord from the mid-1400s think of the politics 400 or so years later? That's barely even thinking about him being a vampire.

Also, what would Renfield's politics be like?

Quincey and the aftermath of the Civil War is a fascinating question that I will definitely leave for someone who knows more US history than I do.

Dracula, on the other hand... first of all, the relevant set of politics is Hungarian, not Romanian. Transylvania was part of Austria-Hungary in the 1890s. There's actually an interesting story here, in that vampire myth was originally associated primarily with Hungary. Then Bram Stoker set Dracula in Transylvania, which became part of Romania in 1920, and Romania ended up inheriting vampire myths in the process. Which has generally done the Romanian tourist industry no harm at all. (Though when I was in Bucharest last weekend, my lovely tour guide, Andrea, was clearly a bit annoyed by people asking about it).

Anyway, we have a decent sense of what Dracula's politics are, because he spells them out on May 8: he's proud to be part of a fighting, conquering race, he values "warlike days", he disdains peasants, and he generally holds that might makes right.

Given his pride in "beating the Turk on his own ground", I think we can assume that he didn't approve of Austria-Hungary's neutrality in the Russo-Turkish War in 1877-8.

In some ways he fits into contemporary society. He is a boyar, one of the highest rank of feudal nobility, who retained a great deal of power in 1890s Austria-Hungary. Where in the UK the growth of industry made the middle classes wealthier, in Austria-Hungary that wealth often went straight back to the nobility. Just six percent of the population had the right to vote in general elections, compared with 18% in the UK (meanwhile New Zealand had universal suffrage from 1893).

But Dracula is still a product of an earlier time. He wants to increase his power through conquest, not through modernising his estate or being appointed to the board of directors of a bank. And while Austria-Hungary did grow through conquest (occupying Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1878, for instance), it wasn't at nearly the same scale as other contemporary empires - for example, Austria-Hungary didn't take part in the Scramble for Africa.

Honestly, it makes perfect sense that Dracula would want to come to Britain. If he wanted conquest, carried out with indifference to cruelty, he would have got on extremely well with Cecil Rhodes. To an extent this is what the story of Dracula is about: what if foreigners came to Britain and did to us what we do to them? The War of the Worlds, published at the same time, asks essentially the same question but with aliens.

(This is the bit where someone comes along and says yes, but don't forget that Bram Stoker was Irish. Which is true, but he was also a supporter of the British Empire.)

As for Renfield, most of what we learn about his politics comes from October 1. He's from high society and is a member of the Windham Club. He celebrates the roles Quincey, Van Helsing and Arthur play "by nationality, by heredity, or by the possession of natural gifts" - in other words, he seems to be open to people advancing themselves through meritocracy, but also through hereditary rights. To me, this reads as conservative, but not reactionary.

One thing that does strike me is that his point about Texas - celebrating its admittance to the Union - relates to history that was 50 years old at that point (Unless I'm misunderstanding the reference?). Renfield is 59 during the events of Dracula. Is the implication here that he's stuck in the past? We don't know how long he's been institutionalised, but since his memories of Arthur's father relate to youthful drinking games, it could be 30 years or more. He may be disconnected from contemporary politics - and given how much the world changed in the late 19th century, that could make for quite a shock if he'd ever had the chance to learn more.

As ever, I'm not a historian, and other people should feel free to offer corrections.

#dracula daily

[rulers-of-hungary-tournament]

FINAL ROUND

Admin's commentary: It's impressive how thoroughly were these two able to beat everyone that ever got in their way. Now, it's the final clash of the titans, battle of the behemots... Who is the most legendary king Hungary ever had?

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I.Mátyás (Matej I.); also known as Hunyadi Mátyás (Matej Korvín) 1458-1490

I mean, do I even have to say anything??? you know who this guy is right.

fought the Ottomans. supported arts and sciences. instituted important reforms. founded Academia Istropolitana. made Buda the capital and built the Buda Castle. gained the crown of Bohemia and stole territory from Austria. the man. the myth. the legend.

@deetherusalka said about him: "Lmao Bohemian crown snatcher, it's still so funny to me how in Czechia he's always presented as the evil himself and then everywhere else he's celebrated (which is not wrong imho! it's just funny how the narrative changes depending on perspective you learn about it)"

@durzarya said about him: #listen i love Mátyás király and i have voted for him#but my guy had some interesting policies#hilarious information about him: at 19 he captured Vlad Țepeș

@biksarddedrak said about him: #It's not even fight#It's just bloody beating#Matyás is remembered even in many historical legends as a good and just ruler#he reformed military and made the world fear Hungary#first profesional army#he managed to pay not only for the one for a THREE armies at a time#also his love with his wife Beatrice is a thing of a legends#The GOOD sort of legends#also I am completely obsessed with a way how his name is pronouced#seriously check that out it's hilarious#black army

@partialtotheperiwinkleblue said about him: "Seriously, who else has his own cartoon series and fairy tale genre?" #the goat#he did a lot of work for someone who was originally chosen as a figurehead at 14

I.István (Štefan I.) 1000-1038

unifier of the Magyar tribes and first crowned king of Hungary (the damn crown is named after him for fuck's sake)

a literal saint - though not because he was particularly nice, mostly because of the fact that he was the first Magyar leader to be a proper Christian (unlike his dad Géza, who did get baptized, but still retained some of the pagan customs); plus he actively spread Christianity among Magyars (founding of the first Hungarian bishoprics, the one church for every 10 villages rule etc.), for better or for worse

created the basis for later Hungarian administration, including the minting of first Hungarian coins and the first law code in Hungarian history

helped Byzantines conquer Bulgaria

infamous for imprisoning and blinding his cousin and successor Vazul (chronicles blame his wife's influence, but they're probably just being sexist)

@biksarddedrak said about them: "The only thing, what you actually need to know is he was crowned on 25. of December year of our Lord 1000. The absolute unit of this man managed to haggle the pope to elevate whole Panonian basin on the most easly memorabe day. (...) I. Istvám defended his right to rule from several pagan lords who wished to deposed him in the beginig of his rule. And he did it from glorious city of Nitra."

#main bracket #i.istván #i.mátyás #history #hungary

[romaniandollar]

Hi! I noticed you’re following Dracula Daily; I’m new to it and am loving it! Is there anything about Romanian culture or geography mentioned in the book that you can elaborate on for people outside of Romania? Thanks!

Hi! I'm glad you like it!

That's a really good question, and there's actually a lot of ground to cover here.

Quick disclaimer: Dracula isn't actually that accurate a representation of Romanian culture and history, and a lot of Romanians dislike it for that reason. Also because this is the only media featuring Romania that made it big and now we're associated with vampires. 😬 But I hope the new interest in the book will inspire people to check out our country for what it really is.

First of all, Dracula himself. In the book he's heavily implied to be Vlad Țepeș (The Impaler), or Vlad Dracula as he was also known. Vlad ruled Wallachia during the 1400s and was greatly respected and feared. He punished criminals by impaling them (hence the first nickname) and crime was low during his rule because he was very harsh. 'Drac' means demon or devil, so that was his other nickname because of his severity. But all in all he was a good ruler and he wasn't a vampire, nor were there any rumors to that effect until Bram Stoker got the idea.

Castle Bran, which is commonly known as Dracula's castle now, wasn't actually Vlad's. He might have stayed there once but it was more commonly used by Queen Maria, during the early 20th century.

We do have snow in the mountains, but only in winter or the early spring max. So for it to be snowing in May doesn't make sense. 😅

Trains are still commonly late here, to the point it's a running joke about our primary train company, CFR. It's funny that Jonathan had the same issue that I do every time I take a trip to Bucharest. 😂

I mentioned this in another post, but paprika hendl is called papricaș here. It's really good, and I often make it with mămăligă at home. (You're not a proper Romanian if you don't like mămăligă, by the way. 😆 My great-grandparents would make it hard and use it instead of bread.)

Transylvania belonged to Austria-Hungary until the end of WWI, when it was taken over by Romania. They still haven't gotten over it. Point being, there are a LOT of Hungarians and Hungarian speakers in that region, so it would have made more sense for everyone to know Hungarian in the book rather than German.

Romanians are, especially in the rural areas, friendly and helpful. We look out for the others in our group, especially if they're young. So everyone that helps Jonathan until he meets the count? That would happen.

Those are the main things I can think of right now, more will probably come to me as we get farther through the book. But feel free to hit me up if you have any more questions!

#dracula daily #re: dracula #dracula #romania

[hasarjunadoneanythingwrong]

conflating carmilla and Liz was a poor idea, full stop, because while vlad tepes does explicitly inspire the literary dracula down to his home of origin and name, literary carmilla has none of the same links.

Her story takes place in Austria and Bathory was a Hungarian Countess, her method of claiming victims involves becoming intimately intwined with them in one on one manner (vs Bathory’s misuse of her status as a ruler to target servants and her subordinates), Bathory allegedly did what she did to preserve her youth while Carmilla’s actions carry no such motive, like the only real common thread they have is that they were both women who targeted and killed other women in Europe.

The only other thing is that popular culture has sometimes combined or conflated them them before (notably in series like castlevania) because saying that two famous literary vampires were inspired by infamous historical figures just sounds good. But there simply is not enough to suggest that is the case for Carmilla, she’s just a vampiric noblewomen.

#my post #sorry this just really irritates me #I see sites say sometimes that Bathory inspired her but they NEVER HAVE A SOURCE #SHOW ME YOUR SOURCE

[alpaca-clouds]

Castlevania Language Headcanons

I spoke about language in Castlevania before. Like most media the series mostly just shrugs off the entire language barrier. People are just magically able to communicate. No matter from how far apart they actually are.

But personally I find it interesting to think about what languages the characters realistically would have spoken or been able to speak.

Trevor would probably mostly just know Romanescu (old Common Romanian). A language I might note that is a bit different than modern day Romanian, as it had a lot more slavic bits in there, than the modern language does. He might also have known bits and pieces of old Hungarian and Common Turkish, given the political situation at the time. Though I kinda doubt he would've been fluent. I do assume that his family once upon a time would have taught him Latin and Ancient Greek, but I doubt he would remember a lot of that.

Alucard meanwhile would probably know at least the ancient languages. I see Dracula as very intrested in teach him. So, I got to assume that Alucard will know Romanescu, Latin, Ancient Greek, but probably French, Hungarian, Turkish and maybe some Arabic as well.

Sypha seems to canonically just know all the languages. Given the effort was made to cast her with an Hispanic actress and having her speak with a Spanish accent, I assume Spanish is her mother tongue, but she clearly also speaks Romanescu and seems to at least be able to read a write a plethora of ancient languages. Given the fact she has travelled a lot, I will also just assume that she knows a lot of current languages at the time. Probably enough to understand most languages spoken in Europe.

It do assume the trio will use Romanescu to communicate with each other.

Assuming that Dracula is in this timeline still Mathias from France, he will speak Old French, though the question remains whether he understands the Middle French spoken at the ime the series takes place. I do assume though. Given his entire think with knowledge and his almost obsessive collection of it, I just am going to assume he has learned a lot of languages throughout his life, probably being able to at least understand most languages spoken throughout Europe and Asia.

Lisa probably only knows Romanescu, when she arrives at the castle. Maybe some Latin, if she had tried to learn some medicine before. I am going to assume, though, that Vlad is gonna do some work polishing her Latin and Greek at least.

Still assuming, though, that they are going to hold most conversations in Romanescu.

Hector and Isaac are a bit more complicated, of course. Because we know little about them.

It stands to reason, that Hector's mother tongue is Greek (given he grew up on Rhodes) and Isaac's is Arabic. Given he has probably consumed quite a lot of ancient texts and texts about alchemy, I think Hector will at least be able to read and write in old Greek and Latin. I also am going to assume that under Dracula he learned some Romanescu? He might also know some Turkish, given that during his childhood Rhodes was under Turkish control.

Isaac is a bit more complicated, because canonically we do not really know where he got enslaved and what not. In my headcanon I went with him being dragged all the way up to Italy, so he speaks Italian. Given he was a slave in a monastery and tried to help, I assume he knows Latin as well (and quite frankly, learning Latin, when you know medieval Italian is not that hard). I have him end up in Greece, due to the ongoing conflict with the Ottoman Empire, after he escapes. Hence, he speaks Greek as well.

Meaning that in all my Isaactor stuff, the two communicate a lot in Greek.

Given they end up in Austria, though, they do learn German soon enough. Speaking of which...

The sisters are interesting in regards to their lannguages.

Now, Carmilla very probably is from Austria and always has been from there, so she would speak Old High German as her mother tongue. Given she was a vampire for a while, she probably learned a few languages, though. I gotta assume she knows Latin at least, especially given that at the time Latin was kinda the official language of politics in many regards. I am gonna assume she knows at least some Italian, Old French and Hungarian, too.

As I explained before: I assume that Lenore originates in Scotland. But given she was taken from her family as a child, she knows very little in terms of Scottish Gaelic and for the most part her mother tongue is old English. Given she was nobility, she has learned Latin, too. She also is the diplomat of the group, so I gotta assume she knows quite a few other languages as well, just to keep up her position. Very certainly Romanescu, too, given it is Vlad's main spoken language and he seems to be the big boss of vampires.

Morana, of course... Honestly, I am just gonna assume she knows all the languages. The woman is more than a millennium old. Depending on whom you ask even older than two millennia. She had the time to travel. She knows all the ancient languages for certain and if she knows Akkadian, Persian and Phoenician the other languages springing from that will be easy. I have her travelling Asia, too, so she kows at least Hindi, Chinese and Japanese as well.

Striga is a bit more interesting. She speaks with a Slavic Accent and her voice actress is from Croatia. Which made me put Striga there, too. She has to have travelled a bit. And of course she will probably speak Old High German with the sisters. I kinda want her to have learned old Akkadian to speak that language with Morana. Because that would be sweet.

I am going to assume that in everyday life the sisters speak Old High German with each other.

I am also going to assume that Lenore, to woe Hector, is gonna speak Greek with him.

#castlevania #castlevania netflix #castlevania headcanons #headcanons #language #history #linguistics

[autumnmobile12]

Did you know:

Dănești is a real village, but it is located in Transylvania and not in what used to be Wallachia, where the majority of Castlevania takes place.  (Or at least 50% of it.  I mean, Hector does spend a lot of time in Styria, which is in Austria, and Isaac seemed to be making a grand tour of Europe and the Mediterranean, so...)   However, there is a bit of historical context to this village in the series.  The name Dănești refers to the Dănești family, a branch of the reigning family of historical Wallachia that, for a few generations, bitterly rivaled the Draculești family.

In a previous post, I touched on the issues of succession in Wallachia, but the long and short of it is after the death of Mircea the Old in 1418, a fight for the throne broke out between Mircea’s sons and his brother, Dan I.  The Dănești line was descended from Dan I and the Draculești branch came from Mircea the Old.  As you could probably tell from the name, Vlad the Impaler and supposed inspiration for Dracula (although some historians are casting doubt on this, but more on that another time,) came from the Draculești line.

In all, it’s a clever nod to the historical rivalry in using Dănești as the village fighting against Dracula’s resurrection.

Note for clarity:  This letter ș is an S-cedilla and it is pronounced with an sh sound as in ‘ship’ or ‘shoe.’

#castlevania netflix #alucard castlevania #castlevania #alucard #danesti #greta of danesti #greta and alucard #historical context #wallachia #transylvania #modern romania #medieval romania #isaac and hector #medieval history #medieval europe #danesti village #historical post

[gabrielokun]

#Like In The Movies #Gaya Sa Pelikula #Gabriel makes stuff #VladKarl #Vlad x Karl #Ian Pangilinan #Jose Vladimir Austria #Paolo Pangilinan #Karl Frederick Almasen #Philippino BL #Philippino Series #BL Drama #BL series

[anastasiamusicalupdates]

lukassandmannofficial: 🪆ANASTASIA🪆

Auf geht’s in die neue Spielzeit mit einer fulminanten Premier von “Anastasia”. Danke für diese sehr spannende und Ereignisreiche Probenzeit!

Regie: @matthiasdavids

Musik: #tombitterlich @juheon.han

Bühne: @ andrewedwards

Choreo: #kimduddy

Dramturgie: @arnebeeker

Licht: @mgrundner

Kostüm: @ales_valasek_designer

Wir sehen uns! 🤍

Foto by @reinhard_winkler_foto

September 10, 2022

Translation: Let’s go into the new season with a thrilling premier of “Anastasia”. Thank you for this very exciting and eventful rehearsal time!

(Directed by, Music, Stage, Choreography, Drama, Light, Costumes)

See you around!

#anastasia the musical #anastasia austria #lukas sandmann #non-replica #dmitry sudayev #vlad popov #karsten kenzel #rumor in st petersburg

[aethersea]

So the thing about vampires is that they’re not actually aristocrats. They pretend to be aristocrats, but they’re interlopers, putting on a façade of nobility so they can infiltrate high society. The disguise makes them trusted, respectable, above reproach, but it was always a lie. There is no nobility in the monstrous dead.

Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu was published in 1872, 25 years before Dracula. The titular character passes herself off as a young noblewoman in dire straits, so she’s taken in as a guest by an aging widower and his teenage daughter, Laura, who live alone and isolated in a castle in the wilds of Austria. (Alone except for the servants, of course, and isolated except for the nearby village, but everyone knows people don’t count as company if they’re below a certain social class and/or not English.) Carmilla is strange, intense, prone to bouts of melancholy and brief bursts of passionate anger, and will say nothing about her family or her past. Laura has multiple eerie dreams about her. They of course become close friends. Pals, one might even say. Just gals being pals.

Young women in the nearby village start dying, Laura contracts a mysterious illness, Laura keeps dreaming that a panther comes into her room at night and bites her on the breast before turning into a woman and disappearing, etc. Obviously Carmilla is a vampire. Carmilla is also an anagram of Mircalla, a countess from nearly 200 years before. Carmilla really likes anagrams, it turns out, and regularly goes around seducing young women to death under anagrammed pseudonyms.

And look I realize that Carmilla actually being a long-dead countess seems to contradict the whole “not really nobility” thing, but Carmilla's not a countess anymore in the same way Lucy’s not herself anymore after a certain point. That countess is dead. Carmilla is the thing that wears her skin.

Anyway all of this is because I’ve decided to catch up on Dracula Daily by listening to the podcast (phenomenal sound design btw), and I just finished May 5, where we have this little description:

Hitherto I had noticed the backs of his hands as they lay on his knees in the firelight, and they had seemed rather white and fine; but seeing them now close to me, I could not but notice that they were rather coarse—broad, with squat fingers.

Dracula seems to have fine, pale hands, the hands of an aristocrat, but on closer inspection they’re not fine at all. The façade doesn’t hold up to true scrutiny.

But of course it goes further than that, because he’s not just a regular man pretending to be a count. A regular man doesn’t have hairs growing in the center of his palm. A regular man doesn’t have nails filed to a sharp point. He’s not a man at all.

— disclaimer that actually some people DO have hairy palms, it’s a form of localized hypertrichosis (aka hair in unexpected places) and it’s not at all common, but it is perfectly normal in the same way that lots of weird body stuff is perfectly normal. human bodies get up to some wild shit! “average person with hairy palms is a monstrous creature of the night” actually a statistical error; Vlad Dracula, the most famous haver of hairy palms in all literature, is an exception adn should not have been count.

#dracula daily #absolutely loving the podcast #they did a great job with it #dracula meta #finx reads dracula

[atundratoadstool]

Is the count's speech about his history and lineage accurate?

I had another post queued and ready to go when your question landed in my inbox, and that post should give an exhaustive overview of where everything in that monster of a speech comes from. A lot of the history the Count is describing matches with real world events. It's very hodge podge though, and Stoker does not have a great grasp on the regional history of the area and has a very poor understanding regarding the history of and tensions between Hungarians and Romanians in Transylvania. The one big thing that registers as inaccurate is Dracula's attempts to place himself as both A) a descendant of the Drăculeşti bloodline and B) a member of the Székely ethnic group. The Drăculeşti were rulers of Wallachia/Romania. The Székelys are a Hungarian-speaking group who claim descent from Attila the Hun.

While it is not inconceivable that Dracula the fictional character could have Székely blood (there were intermarriages between ennobled Romanians and Székelys, and Vlad III's maternal grandmother is unknown), Stoker doesn't seem to have a great grasp on whether the Count is fundamentally Hungarian or Romanian. Dracula expresses disdain, for example, for the "Hungarian yoke," which would have been a view aligning him with a Romanian outlook, especially after the revolutions of 1848 and with the increased Magyarization policies that would be in place towards the end of the nineteenth-century. However, he also appears to be a native Hungarian speaker (his flub of "Harker Jonathan" is a structure that Stoker specifically took down in his notes as a characteristic of Hungarian language) and segments omitted from the manuscript indicate that some of the surrounding locals were originally written as identifying him as Hungarian.

This is all something that is--in my opinion--ties into the tradition of literary vampires being Hungarian that persisted throughout the nineteenth century. I would bet that Stoker chose Transylvania as a location for his novel as it was part of Austria-Hungary at the time Dracula was written and he (erroneously) thought that vampires were a Hungarian myth. When he did his research, he was confronted with the fact that Transylvania was a region with a majority Romanian populace and a rich Romanian history and gave Dracula the same lineage as a famous Romanian historical figure without really considering how that undercut his portrayal as an archetypal Hungarian vampire.

And before we get all too far... vampires are honestly neither Hungarian or Romanian originally. I made a very long post about that a few years back here, and it's a wild ride.

[As always, I'll offer a disclaimer that my expertise on these subjects comes from being a massive vampire nerd and does not come from any lived experience as somebody who is living in or connected to these regions in question. People with better knowledge of these subjects should feel free to correct me if I get anything wrong.]

#Bram Stoker #Dracula #Dracula Daily #Transylvania #Hungary #Romania #history #Vlad III #Dracula Daily asks

[rulers-of-hungary-tournament]

ROUND 2, MATCH 8

Admin's commentary: ...please, people, my boy Lajos had suffered trough one curb stomp battle in his lifetime, don't make him relive his trauma.

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WHAT MY PROFESSOR OF MEDIEVAL HISTORY SAID ABOUT THEM

I.Mátyás (Matej I.); also known as Hunyadi Mátyás (Matej Korvín) 1458-1490

I mean, do I even have to say anything??? you know who this guy is right.

fought the Ottomans. supported arts and sciences. instituted important reforms. founded Academia Istropolitana. made Buda the capital and built the Buda Castle. gained the crown of Bohemia and stole territory from Austria. the man. the myth. the legend.

seriously he's going to win this round and it's not even going to be even close. sorry Béla.

@deetherusalka said about him: "Lmao Bohemian crown snatcher, it's still so funny to me how in Czechia he's always presented as the evil himself and then everywhere else he's celebrated (which is not wrong imho! it's just funny how the narrative changes depending on perspective you learn about it)"

@durzarya said about him: #listen i love Mátyás király and i have voted for him#but my guy had some interesting policies#hilarious information about him: at 19 he captured Vlad Țepeș

II.Lajos (Ľudovít II.) 1516-1526

as mentioned in his father's entry, we weren't told much about him as a person, other than the fact that the Jagiellon rule in Hungary was a shitshow and he himself died at Mohács

@biksarddedrak said about him: "Like uhhh, II. Lajos inherited a shitty country. And with a huge issue of Ottoman empire kicking down it's door. But he has my admiration, because he decide to face the problems and lost his life in a hopeless battle." #my boy Lájos was just unfortunate#he did not die in a fight rather he drowned while fleeing from the battlefield when battle was lost#his horse stumbled and Lájos fell into bog where he drown in his armour#Also also he was allegedly very pretty#also with his death could begin the habsburg rule so LETS GOO#he knew when to kick the bucket and not to stay in a way

#main bracket #history #hungary #i.matyás #ii.lajos