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club penguin - halloween party 2007

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i think about the xenophobia and immigrant themes a lot when i rewatch the show now. i remember having a rewatch a few years ago and mrs branagh started defending magda against van helsing and having a moment where i realised actually elizabeth was calling out xenophobia. it was fairly obvious looking back, but it was just never something i had given much thought to. but its something we see a lot, especially in stokely - i unfortunately think it was forgotten a bit in the later seasons.

i don't remember where i picked the headcanon up from exactly anymore - its entirely possible i saw another tumblr user explore it - but theres a strong likeliehood that renfield in reality would likely have spoken quite broken english because his interactions outside of the family were largely restricted so therefore would have very little exposure to english. exploring how much english the rest of the family knew would also be something i wish we could have seen. the first scene of the first episode we see ingrid complain about having to use english, but then its never brought up again.

this sort of veered off op's point but i think young dracula as a show is something incredibly special despite its faults, and having the family be immigrants in a small town was an incredibly important thing. for a kids show it dived into a lot of deep themes and this is one of them. i just wish we got to see it be explored more

I'm surprised nobody talks about Young Dracula because that show put a new spin on the Dracula mythos whilst veering into themes such as immigration, xenophobia, being an immigrant kid in a hostile culture, etc. And all that on a kids' sitcom back in the late 2000s when anti-immigrant racism was rising rapidly.

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girlhood is thinking about young dracula a bit too hard when you're out of academia for the first time in your life and starting to write an essay on ingrid because you don't know what else to do

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i'm rewatching the young dracula pilot and i have some thoughts

the beginning is iconic - and the only time vlad is talking to and looking at the camera as far as i remember

"she's so much like her mother" the count not liking ingrid because of his complicated relationship with magda, her leaving him for a werewolf as we found out later in this ep and he's taking it out on his daughter - it all makes sense

robin hanging upside down in his room - what a legend

the first episode is actually doing such a good job setting up all the characters and the story

i like how it's mostly just a silly little show but it already introduces the dread and pressure vlad faces of becoming a vampire and that feels so real and sad

the scene where the count puts the cape on vlad in the mirror hit me harder than i thought it would probably bc i know where the show is going

"we're vampires. can't escape it. it's your destiny"

renfield in the nurse (?) outfit lmao

"have you come to donate blood?" "no" "it's for a good cause?" "what cause?" "lunch" alskdkjdd

i'm sorry but how did robin go from his hiding spot under the bed out of the door and walk around the castle without vlad, ingrid or zoltan noticing?? they're standing right there!!

the branaughs all going up to the castle one by one - really funny

ingrid is already a fashion icon

did renfield get tortured by a tarantula i totally missed that before and wow am i glad we did not really see that

and then he kills it (imelda) "if it's any consolation, master, she wouldn't have felt a thing" "except your huge bottom squishing her" INGRID lmao

love seeing vlad and ingrid teaming up and act like typical young brother/big sister

the count being dramatic as always but i feel like he gets introduced to being more formidable than he later is but i like it more this way than the borderline only comedy figure he becomes later

the actors are all really good actually but you can tell it's the first episode and it's still a little awkward and they're still working on the dynamics

all in all what a nice little kids gothic horror show that i have become obsessed with, totally accidental, six years ago

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I'm in nostalgia hell! Here is the result of it, enjoy!

[DO NOT REPOST OR STEAL THIS ART]

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Marvel movies have completely eliminated the concept of practical effects from the movie-watching public’s consciousness

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some thoughts on vlad between seasons 2 and 3

i have many, many conflicting headcanons about what exactly happened in the gap between s2 and s3 and how the entire family was at that point in time but one concept i think is interesting is the idea that vlad was drinking blood in that time.

obviously its well established that vlad refuses to drink blood and believes its wrong. in s3e1 we see him say this from the offset, however we also see him really struggle with being in a room full of breathers. most of this can be easily brushed off with the writer's trying to display that drinking blood isn't who vlad is, even though its what his nature calls for. this is pretty boring however and therefore i am choosing to project headcanons onto it <3

after wearing the crown of power at the end of s2, vlad collapses leading to the iconic scene of ingrid saying she neither knows nor cares if vlad is alive or not. this is where the blank spot begins. we know that the batteries on the uv cage ran out so the count could escape with renfield and vlad, however we don't know what state vlad was in at this point of time but we can assume it was bad.

working on the basis that the crown of power at least partially transformed him (e.g. gave him his fangs and boosted his powers, i then believe that he never went to the blood mirror on his sixteenth birthday as everyone believed he had already transformed, which then allowed for the events in s3e7/8, but thats another post) i think its an interesting idea that the count - unsure what exactly to do with this extremely ill vampire child - gave vlad blood whilst unconcious in an attempt to heal him. when vlad eventually came around he would deny this as treatment, but i'd like to believe that it is what made him better. to go along with this i think it provides an interesting dynamic that vlad is unaware that he was being fed blood whilst in this weakened state, with the count never having the heart to tell him that he had been drinking copious amounts of blood. its for this reason that we see vlad then struggle so much to be around breathers, as he went cold turkey on blood after he woke up properly. it shares some parallels with how much he struggled after biting erin - although it wasn't entirely the same.

TLDR: vlad had a blood addiction he never even realised he had because it was used to save him when he was ill

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Young Dracula as Tumblr Text Posts~

I dunno what number this is or if I was ever really keeping count tbh

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tumblr has an AI toggle you should turn on to prevent your work being shared with training models/etc! it's under settings (gear icon) & then visibility.

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Today's hearing is beginning. Namibia is starting off

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Collection of all of my sapphic couples in traditional costumes around the world sketches (will continue to add more !)

You can tip me here <3

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The economy in the fourth quarter was impacted by a 26.9% drop in private spending - the main growth driver - an 18.3% fall in exports and 67.8% slide in investment in fixed assets, especially in residential building. Government spending, mainly on war expenses and compensating businesses an

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I am so happy that Percy is a criminal in live action as well. Does it serve anything to the plot? Doubtful. It does, however, serve in building Percy's reputation as a goddamn MENACE and I'm here for it

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firefox just started doing this too so remember kids if you want to stream things like netflix or hulu over discord without the video being blacked out you just have to disable hardware acceleration in your browser settings!

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The original percy jackson series is about cycles of abuse and neglect, right. Were introduced to percy as a kid who has clearly been left behind by a school system that has given up on him, restless and unengaged and self-defetist because hes been given nothing that works for him and no one even tries to meet him where he is. Then hes told no, listen, your neurodivergence is amazing and you just need to be given something that actually utilizes your unique palatte. And thats obviously the uplifting idea rick wanted for his kids, right. But once we get to know chb the same cycles are happening there too. There are kids "left behind" there too for one reason or another, because their parents dont want to claim them, because their parents werent important enough to get a cabin. Do you get it, all the kids who dont fit the most common neurotypes get shoved into the same closet. Kids are being left in a cruel world to fend for themselves without the tools they need. Theyre dying because no one bothered to accommodate them. Its such an obvious parallel that the first chapter introduces a teacher whos written to be especially hard on percys disability and she turns out to literally be one of these monsters trying to kill him. Meanwhile sally jackson tells him she named him after Perseus because she wanted a redemption for a hero whos story ended in tragedy. Meanwhile every book in the series replicates a greek myth step for step until the moment they break the cycle. Annabeth, playing Odysseus, is talked down from her hubris and grounded by her friends. Percy, playing Heracles, meets someone wronged by the original Heracles and rights his wrongs by refusing to go down the same selfish path as him. Monsters are reborn because they are--as the books explicitly call them--achetypes. These kids are stuck inside the cyclical nature of mythology because thats what happens to mythology, it gets retold over and over again. But these are the kids who have to live it. The series ends with percy being offered immortality and he rejects it because he wants to use his godly favor to force them to break their cycle of neglecting their kids. The series ends with a declaration that we cant keep letting this happen. The very first book offees the same choice. It ends with percy refusing to keep the head of medusa as a spoil of war, refusing his heroic reward. He lets his mother have the head and use it to kill gabe. Isnt that fucking crazy for a kids book? Gabe wasnt a Monster. He wasnt going to Turn to Dust and Disappear in a narratively convenient way. He was a living breathing mortal dude and percy and his mom killed him without remorse. Break the cycle of abuse!!!! Dont let this happen again!!! Anyway thats why the original percy jackson series is Hey where are you going with our breadsticks