#countess zaleska

[celestial-vampiress]

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

[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),

[gordonthomasfrankart]

Countess Zaleska • 11x14 (2023)

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Dracula's Daughter lobby cards (1936)

[littleblood]

[recursive-occlusion]

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

[skellybonesart]

Enemies to lovers?

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[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.

[mysticum-draconis]

Little sketch of Countess Marya Zaleska from “Dracula’s Daughter” 1936 I drew in the note space of March 12th in my 2023 diary, as that was the day I first watched the film.

Despite the fact I watched it a year ago, I only drew it in January this year, because I kept putting it off for other projects, etc. This is the longest I’ve left it so far to wait to draw something!

Drawn with an HB mechanical pencil and HB and B regular pencils.

WIP pic below cut.

Please don’t use or post on other websites without credit or permission, thanks 🙏

The jawline was a right pain and I had to keep readjusting it for some reason. Also, the title went a bit wonky, but it’s hard drawing so small!

[horrorvillaintourney]

DRACULA SMACKDOWN ROUND 2 MATCH 5: Count von Count (Sesame Street) vs. Countess Marya Zaleska (Dracula's Daughter)

PROPAGANDA FOR THE COUNT:

“He is a vampire count who also counts numbers! Possibly the first vampire many of us encountered! He has batty friends and is the only Dracula to teach kids the basic foundations of math for decades!”

PROPAGANDA FOR THE COUNTESS:

“direct descendant of the man himself. held 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”

[yoursghouly]

x

[celestial-vampiress]

“I bid you welcome!”

(To my blog!)

I don’t think a long description of this blog would be a great first impression, so to save you time, I’ll just give a quick explanation of it all.<3

Basically, on this blog I’ll be posting about fashion, writing, art, makeup, vampires, lifestyle, music, drama, and anything else my heart desires!

I’ll tag this post with specifics of what I’ll be posting about, more about me is in my bio, and I hope that you’ll join me in my new journey on tumblr, as I haven’t used this app in years.❤️

Xoxo. Rebbie.🦇

[fleshadept]

Most Fuckable Vampire Info

[spongebob-connoisseur]

You a big Monster High fan? Me too! Though I consider Nosferatu more of a grandfather for Draculaura (number one favorite by the way).

Yeah I've been into Monster High lately <3

I didn't get into it as a kid because I was pretty tomboyish back then and thought I was top good for girly dollz™ even though I thought MH was cool. I also didn't watch the cartoons because they played on a channel we didn't have. I only saw a few bits and pieces when I was at my cousins house. I remember liking Frankie and Torelei.

Around the beginning of summer I saw all the releasee new releases of the g3 dolls and I decided I'd look into MH just for the heck of it. It'd a given that I would like it. I watched the webisodes and the movies and I think they're neat :)

I suppose that's a given since I always liked spooky media like ruby gloom and others. But yeah its been fun. I wish I could have a g1 doll but because of scalpers that's near impossible. Walmart was having a sale on their G3 dolls and so I got my very first monster high doll Draculaura. You can probably guess why <3

Aside from the obvious thag pink and black supremacy, its also because Dracula's Daughter from 1936 is my favorite vampire movie <3 wven though Draculaura doesn't suffer from depresso espresso like countess Marya Zaleska. I kinda want to recreate the dresses from the movie on my doll.

(I have to use this picture because I couldn't find a good photo of my favorite dress from the movie)

Also you are right now that I think of it. Nosferatu would be Draculaura's grandfather instead. I think she'd be his favorite granddaughter <3 that would be soooo cute.

Unfortunately this means Draculaura is fated to become bald

Tbh she can rock the egghead look

[schlock-luster-video]

On February 4, 1936 filming began on Dracula's Daughter.

Here's a new portrait of Gloria Holden!

[darchildre]

Tonight, I am watching Son of Dracula, in order to determine which Universal Monster Movie love interest named Frank is the worst.

I should state as we begin that I do not watch this movie as the filmmakers probably intended: I watch it rooting the whole time for Kaye Caldwell to become a terrifying vampire queen and kill all the terrible men in her life with her big shiny vampire teeth. This is...probably not what I'm supposed to be doing. Ah, well.

As ever, if you don't want to be exposed to all my feelings about Kaye Caldwell, the tag to block is "sara's cinema corner".