#Marya Zaleska

[booplesnotts-art]

It was only due time before I posted my little drawings of Marya Zaleska on my blog which is themed around her

Drawings/studies while I watched it for the something’th time because I just love to draw from stills of movies/shows

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Countess Marya Zaleska outfits from Dracula's Daughter (1936)

[flingmetothemoon]

An affectionate response to @hoybero's Tedward Lobo/Sunset Shimmer comparison, because why not make a post for Princess Luna and Marya Zaleska because I see absolutely no difference there either. Mysterious tragic night girls XD

Idk why she's so underutilized compared to Dracula and even Alucard, but I adore Marya! She's my favorite female monster! I think what I love the most about her is she's fiercely strong. And by strong, I don't just mean by her physical supernatural force or being an immortal vampire, but mainly her ability to live for a hundred years experiencing the worst, darkest moments of her life as a vampire + a gross sustenance addiction and mental illness allegory and still seek a normal life of calm, peace and joy full of happy memories along with everyone else, maybe even normal friends. To me, not only is that a sign of maturity, but also a sign of serious mental strength~💜

[meerawrites]

Femslash February 2024: Dracula's Daughter

"What do you see in my eyes?" "Death."

— Dracula’s Daughter, 1936

Dracula's daughter and The Lesbian Vampire - Slay Away: horror podcast.

Countess Marya Zaleska: playlist.

[lunesispunk]

ok but hear me out

[celestial-vampiress]

Today (day, I know😖😖) I went outside for like.. a minute?? And I immediately got a sunburn!? It hurts so bad.😭😭

[zorawitch]

No one ever talks about Dracula's Daughter and that's a total mistake. With all the love for Dracula and its queerness that this website has, we shouldn't dismiss it, and we should actually be talking about it more.

The Hays Code became a thing in 1934. It banned suggestive nudity, sexuality, and any romantic orientation other than heterosexuality from being present on screen. Dracula's Daughter was released in 1936. It contains all three of these things to a certain extent. It was rejected by the British Board of Film Censors in the original drafts. Production Code officials even stated to Universal (who produced the film, as yes, the protagonist is technically a Universal monster) that they needed to edit a certain scene to erase any and all indication or reference to a "perverse sexual desire on the part of [Dracula's Daughter] or of an attempted sexual attack by her upon [a female victim]."

And yet.

Onto the silver screen in 1936 CE walked Countess Marya Zaleska, daughter of Dracula, heavily inspired by Carmilla and the Bram Stoker scrapped chapter Dracula's Guest. Her bisexuality extended far beyond merely subtext. She does enthrall many of her male victims by explicitly seducing them, and at one point requests that a woman she asks to pose for a painting strip down to her undergarments before being overcome by (blood)lust and going in for the kill. It's rumored that in earlier drafts, she would have been given a heavily implied interest in BDSM, but there's no confirmation of that. She does have a scene with another woman that has been referred to as "the longest kiss never filmed." She is the earliest sympathetic vampire on screen.

Is the story hokey? Campy? Not particularly scary? Yes. But I think this movie deserves to be equal in renown to its source material. It inspired the vampiric works of Anne Rice. It is theorized to have inspired the films Sunset Blvd. and Nadja.

Watch the film and put some respect on Marya Zaleska's name.

[horrorvillaintourney]

DRACULA SMACKDOWN ROUND 1 MATCH 10: Countess Marya Zaleska (Dracula's Daughter) vs. Grimm (Hollow Knight)

PROPAGANDA FOR MARYA:

“direct descendant of the man himself. officiated his funeral. when we make dracula sexy and make him manipulative and weird and cringefail, we're stealing traits from his daughter. kidnapped a secretary to make a psychiatrist fall in love with her. eater of men and liker of women. spayed by the hayes code but they couldn't stop her bi emo swag”

PROPAGANDA FOR GRIMM:

“The developers stated in an interview that he is Dracula inspired, his wings are like a cape and he can transform into a bat-like form”

[gruesella]

once again sad there are pretty much no Bride and Marya fics. I want them to hang out. I want the spooky lady fluff.

[fleshadept]

Most Fuckable Vampire Info

[teresiel]

Favourite Character Bingo - 2023

Characters I first encountered in 2023 (not necessarily part of media released in that year).

These are intended to be ordered loosely according to genre, moving from classic to contemporary horror, sci-fi horror, thriller horror, on to drama, comedy, then comic/cartoon and fantasy. Naturally, plenty of these don't quite stay in their own prescribed mould and could be considered fitting for another genre, but this is MY PARTY and I make the rules >:(

The hardest thing I've ever done may just be forcing myself to choose only one Baldur's Gate 3 character. If this was ordered by fondness for the characters, Astarion would be up top, but it's not and I'm petty so he's last and least.

As may surprise no-one, the prevailing trends are trickster archetypes, gothic looks, autism coding, and sympathetic or misunderstood status and/or rebellion. Also Billy Crystal is there.

Listing below the cut!

Countess Marya Zeleska - Dracula's Daughter (1936)

Mrs. Danvers - Rebecca (1940)

Lady Sylvia Marsh - The Lair of the White Worm (1988)

Nevena - You Won't Be Alone (2022)

Kim Diamond - Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000)

Brynn AND the Aliens - No One Will Save You (2023) (as an interacting set of characters, not necessarily as interesting actors singularly)

Violet and Corky - Bound (1996)

Andrea "Dre" Greene - Swarm (2023)

Gunther - V/H/S/85 (2023) - Goth boy who saves the day through his prescient lucid dreaming and rebels against being falsely cast as the villain, hell yeah.

Willard - Willard (1971) - would be in the top three if this were sorted by level of favoritism.

Gerd Wiesler - The Lives of Others/Das Leben der Anderen (2006)

Primo - Big Night (1996)

Walter Tattersall - Yellowjackets (2021-) - of call the cast and I fixate on THIS GUY. Got me again, Elijah!

Willie Jack Sampson - Reservation Dogs (2021)

Barabara Howard and Melissa Schemmenti - Abbott Elementary (2022-) - My god these two gripped me. Just give them an entire season. Gregory can be there too.

Gregory Eddie - Abbott Elementary (2022-)

Sally Albright and Harry Burns - When Harry Met Sally (1989)

Raven - Teen Titans: Beast World (2023-) - solely for her design; I am practically floating at the departure from emo/punk Raven and a return to a more whimsical gothic look. Another artist draws her looking like Billie Lourd and I'm into it.

Sharon Apple - Macross Plus (1994/1995)

Spider-Punk/Hobie Brown - Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)

The Medicine Seller/Kusuriuri/薬売り - Mononoke/モノノ怪 (2007)

Astarion - Baldur's Gate 3 (2023) - He's my best friend, he's my pal, he's my homeboy, my rotten soldier, my sweet cheese, my good time boy, and I've been so excited for you all to see his whole schtick since way back in 2020.

Runner Up's: Shin Hati (Ahsoka), Mirror Woman (The Art of Mirrors) - don't ask, Nearly everyone else form Baldur's Gate 3 but especially all the companions and the Emperor oopsies I'm a sucker, Padraic (Banshees of Inisherin), Mary (Carnival of Souls), everyone from Dungeon Meshi but esepecially Marcille and Senshi, Lorne Malvo (Fargo), Motoko Kusanagi (Ghost in the Shell), Brigitte (Ginger Snaps), The Harppy (Harpya), Joel and Ellie (The Last of Us; kept out because of the Zionist higher plot), Dracula and Clemens (The Last Voyage of the Demeter), Martin (Martin), Izzy Hands (Our Flag Means Death), Father Amorth (The Pope's Exorcist), Deer Lady (Reservation Dogs), Elora Danan (Reservation Dogs), Adam (SAW), Carl (Skyman), Kris (Solaris), Kurt Kunkle (Spree), Sammi Curr and Eddie (Trick or Treat), Bitch Cat (V/H/S/94),

[booplesnotts-art]

Guess what I watched again recently…

This is super old from when I was just redrawing a screenshots but still… I miss her…

[multiocular-mushroom]

Countess Zaleska hand over that blood challenge

[flingmetothemoon]

I’m also participating in the Storytelling Collective’s 2024 fanfic challenge!

Fandom: Dracula's Daughter (1936) and Renfield (2023)

Focus: Countess Marya Zaleska and Tedward 'Teddy' Lobo

Ships: Countess Marya Zaleska/Tedward 'Teddy' Lobo

Links: Tumblr, AO3 and DeviantART

[lucywestenralives]

I made these bookmarks for myself! On the left is Countess Marya Zaleska of Dracula's Daughter (1936), and on the right is my version of Lucy Westenra. My art skills aren't really where I want them to be yet, but I figure I should just keep drawing until I don't hate it. I think the Lucy bookmark turned out a little better.

[alicesbread]

Somebody explain to me why Dracula's daughter's fandom isn't a thing. Chop chop 12 year old girl who writes fanfics.