#today an unnamed friend (reveal yourself if you want xD) told me she understands why i relate to rudolf so much and i was so concerned 😂😭

[fitzrove]

I was talking abt this with @aboutyoutoo earlier and akösöföd like. it's just crazy to me that crown prince rudolf mania is somehow a constantly reoccurring theme in world history. Like it keeps happening and has been a thing for more than 150 years now akldlskd.

People would have mental breakdowns over him in the 19th century (there's the story about him and the Jewish girl in Prague which was more mutual, but then also just loads of stories of young people stanning him and even stalking him while he was alive, and then of course there's famously what happened to Mary Vetsera, the ultimate Rudolf stan 😭 BUT this kept happening even after he'd died...) but also, by the time the musical comes around, there's waves and waves of people who all independently Catch The Rudolf Bug and also start reading up about the historical guy and obsessing over him (in my travels looking for Old Elisabeth Fan Stuff online i've ran into this happening to different people again and again, in the 90s, in the 00s, in the 10s, in the 20s...). Idk it's so weird aksåspfpspfgl. Like you would think at some point people would start to learn that that way lies madness,,,,, but none of us ever do,,, the cycle repeats again and again......