#He's the Romanian one

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Nesuferitul

So, we’ve gotten to the part in Dracula Daily where Bram Stoker starts throwing around the word nosferatu. Stoker got the word from Emily Gerard, who mentions it in her works on Transylvanian superstitions which Stoker used for research, where she makes it out to be the Romanian word for vampire. In this she is backed up by German writer Wilhelm Schmidt, who also treated it as the Romanian word for vampire. The word “vampire”, by the way, came to English from French, to French from German, and to German via Hungarian from the Slavic languages. Romanian is not a Slavic language, but a Romance language, as you might guess from the name. Thing is, there is no such word as “nosferatu” in Romanian. However, other German writers like Heinrich von Wlislocki treat “nosferatu” or “der Nosferat” as a Romanian word, so researchers who have gone down rabbit holes trying to derive it from the Greek for “diseased” or the Latin for “not breathing” or some Slavic basis are, quite frankly, barking up the wrong tree. Instead, it’s way more likely that “nosferatu” is a Germanicization of a Romanian word before Romanian spelling was standardized, which it wasn’t even in the late nineteenth century. The Romanian word “nesuferit” literally means “insufferable”. The prefix “ne” indicates the negative, the root “suferi” means “suffer.” However in practice nesuferit doesn’t mean “insufferable” as in “oh, that annoying man is insufferable”. Instead the meaning is much more in the sense of unbearable, offensive, horrible, diseased. It’s a word used to mean “unclean” in a taboo way. To talk about an “unclean spirit” means to talk about an incubus or succubus, something that draws your strength or poisons your soul through sex. Now, the nominative masculine definite form of a Romanian noun adds the suffix -ul. We see this with Vlad II Dracul. Dracul means “The Dragon” with the “the” also communicating male. The addition of “-ea” to “Dracul” as in Vlad III Draculea gets us “Son of the Dragon.” So, something is “nesuferit” if it is horrid or unclean or unbearable, thus “nesuferitul” is “The Horrid One”, etc. It’s male and it’s a thing and it’s awful. Nesuferitul is an incubus, a male demon that impregnates its victim. The child of a nesuferitul and its victim is born a moroi, a kind of living vampire born (un)dead. Meanwhile, a person who committed some great sin or buried in unhallowed ground or without rites would come back from the dead a strigoi, to feed on the living. Nesuferitul was transliterated into German as Nosferatu, where it was assumed to be the Romanian word for vampire, but is in fact an incubus. From there it found its way to Bram Stoker, who took it to mean undead. “The Undead” in Romanian would literally be “nemortul”, by the way. Moroi means something like “the nightmarish one”, while strigoi means something like “the screaming one”, and is cognate with terms derived from Latin “strix” or “striga”, which became the root for “witch” in many Romance languages. Interestingly, the Slavic root origin of vampire is also thought to come from a word originally indicating a witch. Anyways, there you are. “Nosferatu” is not a “real” word, at least, not a real Romanian word, and certainly not the Romanian word for a vampire. But don’t go too hard on Bram Stoker, he was only as good as his sources. This was a hundred years before online search engines, after all.

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You guys wanna see something fucking awesome?

Here's Alucard singing O-Zone while Sertegra support him from afar

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Am I the only one that thought Mihawk was like a Spaniard like how luffy is Brazilian, and Zoro is Japanese. Am I the only one that thought he looked like a conquistador?!?!!. Because I was reading a Reddit thread and they all thought he was like French and I was shook.

Like I live who they cast as Mihawk and I love all the accents for the characters (like seriously A Scottish accent for Garp is inspired) but the only one I felt kind of let down by was Mihawk because I thought it’d be cool if he had like a Spanish accent. Just to learn that a lot of people apparently thought he was more French based. But yeah I was just vaguely disappointed still love the performance tho. Also I love the difference between Mihawk’s more proper sassy British accent and Shanks’ one of the lads accent. Another accent I wasn’t quite expecting but ended up loving.

[kalashnikovlobotomy]

NOT TBE FUCKING PINTEREST HEADCANONS.. my old hetalia board is FILLED with them and a bunch of others from tumblr

im sorry confederacy

[consumeroflemoans]

Which myths would you be particulary excited about working into the superfox verse

Greek myths are always a classic. I’ve already mentioned things like centaurs, harpies, sirens, and dryads. But tbh them in a modern setting has already been thoroughly explored by stories like Percy Jackson so they’re not the most exciting to explore.

I think what I’m most anticipating is Celtic folklore. It’s always been one of my favorite mythos. I kind of want to include Kelpies somehow because I love those murder horses but I’m not sure how. I just love how many of their creatures are just slightly inhuman like with the fae, leprechauns, werewolves, bodach, the dullahan, vampires, and a bunch of unique ghosts like the banshee. It would be fun to find ways to integrate them into modern society.

I think I just have a weakness for myths about tricksters

[orthodoxxing]

trying to explain to my extremely offended and disbelieving mum and grandma why i find farage getting milkshake in his face funny was. an experience today

[oldmanpuppyplay]

🎶Just The Right Height for Delight🎶

[tweedfrog]

Sacha Baron Cohen being an exploitative racist piece of shit doesn't surprise me cause even as a kid I hated those stupid Borat movies like why the hell did anyone find those funny

[razorfst]

nobody move, i get florian borderlands livestream content tomorrow. he will be live, talking about the movie and things. finally i get actual content that isn't him killing me on insta with his thirst traps

[barnbridges]

i grew up reading the romanian fantastic and the thing that makes interview with the vampire FUN to read in spite of anne being racist and xenophobic is the mythology and the way it suspends belief enough to where the books can be cohesively be seen as fantastical and narrative, as opposed to commentary on the real world. which is also why rolin jones should literally NOT tackle random shit he knows nothing about.

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Once a Thief posters

[witchspeka]

Good morning

Start your day off with cafelutsa from the only Boy ever

[shinmiyovvi]

As promised, here's our new main oc I haven't given him a name and nationality yet so I let his Ultimis wear his casual in the meantime. I also didn't color him :>

[burningtacozombie]

I just love it when a song exists in several different languages

[dream-critical]

Was just browsing old posts, and I came across the one mentioning Wilbur's stuff regarding Jewish and Roma people, etc, etc. Felt that it's worth noting that Wilbur himself is a Rom. He doesn't seem to know much about the culture in question, but he is of the "Black Blood" as the old Roma saying goes.

Hi anon! Had to look this up bc i had never heard of this.

If anyone else wants to see, he said it in his feb 14th phasmophobia stream about 2 hours and 7 minutes in.

I do think that's interesting to know so thank you for sending me this!

[i-wanna-b-yours]

ANDREW TATE AND HIS BROTHER GOT ARRESTED ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING CHARGES💃🕺