If I had a nickle for every time I offended a vampire in the workplace…
You would have two nickel. Which isn’t a lot, but since vampire doesn’t exists so i want my nickel back
What was that post I kept seeing about vampires? If you’ve been living for centuries and you’re still broke just walk into the sunlight.
To be fair, the number of times entire villages, towns, cities, and even kingdoms were completely wiped off the map… I could see a vampire being forced to start over. A lot.
They can expect vampire hunters in their castle, but nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.
I’m just imagining an ancient as shit vampire from Gobekli Tepe bitching about some long forgotten warlord who destroyed his horse meat business, and that he would’ve beaten Indo-Europeans to the taming of the horse of that hadn’t happened.
Before John Polidori—Lord Byron’s doctor—wrote The Vampyre (incidentally, it began at the same retreat where Mary Shelly conceived of Frankenstein), the idea of vampires as nobles who can pass among humans basically didn’t exist. They were more akin to zombies or werewolves, prior to that. Polidori’s Lord Ruthven was a British nobleman based in no small part on Lord Byron. Then a few decades later you get Carmilla, another upper class vampire, this time female. And then just a couple of decades after that, on the cusp of the 20th century, Bram Stoker writes Dracula, the first time we get a vampire who is not just noble but royal, and we get the full furnishings we associate with vampires today. The foreign accent, the castle, the wine (though interestingly, the wine Dracula serves is actually a white wine, not the blood-red we usually think of).
Also fun note: this Saturday marks the start date of Dracula. Over in !vampires@lemmy.zip I’m planning a read-through in real-time, if anyone wants to join me.
There’s also “Dracula Daily” which starts at the same time and is a great way to micro-dose the novel.
A count is just a title, nothing to do with royal blood. Anyone nobleman could be made a count, earl, baron, duke, etc. Right?
Yeh that’s right. But if we go off the idea that Dracula is meant to be Vlad III (which, I’ll admit, is actually something Stoker tacked on right before publication), well…he was royal.
Here again, cropped for convenience.
Everyone knows that vampires live in a detached single family home on Staten Island.
Sorry to burst some peoples dreams.
The castle in the photo needs restoration, which is hugely expensive compared to restoring a house.
I don’t know about Romania, but in other European countries historic buildings are required to be maintained by the owner and it is restricted what they can do.
In Spain if the castle/palace is considered as a good of cultural interest, the restrictions are even higher. You cannot do activities that can damage it, like converting it into an hotel or restaurant. Also required to allow the public to visit it for free, at least four days each month.
There is a funny YouTuber with a series that compares Canadian (Vancouver?) real estate to literal European castles.
Yes, the comparison is not exactly “fair” because of upkeep and castles won’t appreciate in value, but it does highlight how big a problem owning property has become.
