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Post by progressiveelement on Jun 24, 2019 12:45:32 GMT
Vlad Tepes, aka Vlad the Impaler.
And despite what people claim, that is not who Dracula is. Inspired maybe, but definitely not him. That was some horseshit a bunch of pseudo-scholarly types claimed back in the 70s. There was this fad for treating fictional characters like they were real and analyzing them as such, what made them tick, their historical basis. The only worthy result that came out of that crap was the book Wide Sargasso Sea. The stupidest shit that came out of that was the connecting of Dracula to Vlad. It was bullshit then, and its bullshit now.
He was in fact a knight from a Christian military order. And kicked a lot of Muslim ass, often having said Muslims have large giant spikes up their asses and left aloft for gravity to do its thing. Sure, he had a kind of violently psychotic dislike of his enemies, but he was fighting invaders, heathen invaders to his eyes. He was totally justified in slaughtering those savages. Unfortunately, he wound up very dead and in several pieces, so he kinda failed at the job at hand.
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Post by The Herald Erjen on Jun 24, 2019 18:56:28 GMT
He was a monster.
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Post by amyghost on Jun 24, 2019 19:18:59 GMT
Yeah, he sounds like a true Xtian.
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Post by lowtacks86 on Jun 24, 2019 19:35:03 GMT
He was definetly the inspiration for Dracula (along with Elizabeth Bathory). Vampires (or vampire like creatures) had already existed in folklore prior to them though.
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Post by FilmFlaneur on Jun 24, 2019 20:03:12 GMT
There was also a blood thirsty antelope species found in Africa, until hunted to extinction. Vlad the impala, that was.
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Post by progressiveelement on Jun 24, 2019 21:02:30 GMT
To many in Romania, he was right to act so. 
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Post by The Herald Erjen on Jun 25, 2019 8:57:28 GMT
To many in Romania, he was right to act so.
I can't explain it any more than I can explain why Napoleon Bonaparte is a hero in France to this day. He was another butcher.
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Post by Morgana on Jun 25, 2019 9:22:29 GMT
Vlad Tepes, aka Vlad the Impaler.
And despite what people claim, that is not who Dracula is. Inspired maybe, but definitely not him. That was some horseshit a bunch of pseudo-scholarly types claimed back in the 70s. There was this fad for treating fictional characters like they were real and analyzing them as such, what made them tick, their historical basis. The only worthy result that came out of that crap was the book Wide Sargasso Sea. The stupidest shit that came out of that was the connecting of Dracula to Vlad. It was bullshit then, and its bullshit now.
He was in fact a knight from a Christian military order. And kicked a lot of Muslim ass, often having said Muslims have large giant spikes up their asses and left aloft for gravity to do its thing. Sure, he had a kind of violently psychotic dislike of his enemies, but he was fighting invaders, heathen invaders to his eyes. He was totally justified in slaughtering those savages. Unfortunately, he wound up very dead and in several pieces, so he kinda failed at the job at hand.
He was a hero to his people but he did atrocious things. I'm not excusing him but let's not forget the horrible things the Turks did to him when he was imprisoned there, and to his people.
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Post by progressiveelement on Jun 25, 2019 9:24:48 GMT
To many in Romania, he was right to act so.
I can't explain it any more than I can explain why Napoleon Bonaparte is a hero in France to this day. He was another butcher. They were surgeons.
They removed society's dead flesh!
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