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#dracula

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Katrina Katrinka :donor:

If you're looking for a fun, good book to read, I've got one for you. I especially recommend it if you like sci-fi, classic pulp/movie monsters, and AI interacting with confusing humans. Add in queer themes of found family, self-identity, and acceptance, and it's a real winner.

Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove
bookshop.org/p/books/of-monste

#bookstodon#Dracula#Frankenstein
Tom Février

Avec 45M € de budget, le #Dracula de Luc Besson est le film français le plus cher de l’année.

En 2024, ces blockbusters français (aux budgets dépassant les 10M €) ont mobilisé plus d’un demi-milliard €. Mais le cinéma hexagonal peine à s’imposer hors de nos frontières, depuis le flop de « Valérian » du même Besson ⤵️ 
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Jonathan Emmesedi

apobangpo.space/@pixelcats/114

A conversation amongst #Kpop fans included this mention of the variety of fans and the importance of inclusivity and mutual respect in the fandom here on Mastodon - qualities sorely lacking in some other Kpop spaces.

Anyway, that part of the conversation reminded me of the history of inclusivity and mutual respect, which in turn set me thinking about religious "toleration" in early modern European history, which in turn reminded me of the Edict of Torda in the Transylvania of 1568:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edict_of

I was going to finish there with a pronouncement of "There's a lot more to Transylvania than Dracula!" which is true, but, on reflection, a bad note on which to end because it sounds smug and condescending.

Yes, early modern history is fascinating, anybody who can visit Transylvania should do so, and "toleration" deserves much attention from both a historical and philosophical point of view - but shouldn't I be more alive to today's interest in vampirism and to goth subcultures ? Shouldn't I remember that, in the words of @pixelcats, "all ways of stanning are valid" and that includes the stanning of Transylvania too?

From Kpop to C16 Torda and back again!

ApobangpoPixelcats⁷ (@pixelcats@apobangpo.space)@Erzbet @girlbandgeek@mastodon.social @abuelaskpop @planetnine@mastodon.social I agree so much, .. but I would also hate to see the gatekeepery, condescending vibe that goes on in many fandom spaces leak over into this space. History is important. Culture and etiquette are also important. But, our ways of being evolve and grow, too. We have a range of eras of fans here, and all ways of stanning are valid.
#Inclusivity#MutualRespect#Toleration
Blockforest

Little shot of one my bookmarks at Derby Museums Shop for the ‘Dracula Returns to Derby’ exhibition they are holding at Pickford’s House.

The exhibition is on from 10th May 2025 – 30th May 2026.
The exhibition includes objects on loan from Dacre Stoker, The Dracula Society and The Hammer Script Archive spanning 100 years of Dracula in Derby.

More info over on their socials or link in my bio!

#Dracula#Vampire#vampires
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