Sparkle Tits the Impaler
I'm sorry, I just wanted to use that headline.
The worst article ever.
1) Dracula is made up.
2) Almost everyone is related to Vlad the Impaler by now, and any direct genetic contribution of ol' Spikey up the Jacksie is so small as to be indistinguishable from background noise at this point.
3) Anastasia Taylor is a fuckwit extraordinaire and should be staked for this statement:
"Tracing Pattinson's family back to Vlad was difficult research, but the pieces that unraveled created the perfect accompaniment to the Twilight Saga," said Anastasia Tyler, a genealogist at Ancestry.com. "Without any myth or magic, we find royalty and vampires lurking in Pattinson's life — making his story just as supernatural as the one he's playing on screen."
Wow. Just. Un-news. Damn it.
HJ
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looks like your article link is dead
"Dracula is made up."
I assume you mean to say Dracula the vampire? Vlad the Impaler is very real, and as far as I know it's not disputed that he was called Dracula (reportedly an ambiguous term translatable as "dragon" or "devil") by his contemporaries.
I got the link to work.
Yes. Vlad was real. (On a side note, I once had a student tell me without irony that he was a descendant of Sherlock Holmes.) Dracula is a diminutive for the word dragon. (The word is "drac" in Catalan, and it is the name of the American football team of Barcelona. I'm just full of useless knowledge.) As to whether they called him Dracula, dunno. Not to his face. Because he'd have it taken off. But yes, he was called that. Some of the things I've seen relate it to his family crest, which had a dragon, but, shit, whose didn't? The important point is that Anastasia Taylor cannot possibly have said anything dumber in her life.
HJ
Yes, I like your title very much. I don't think I'll be able to top it once I write my post about this article. I'll give you credit for the find, of course.
"Without any myth or magic, we find royalty and vampires lurking in Pattinson's life..."
Huh. That makes sense if we assume "vampires" are not myth. Of course, it depends on how we define both "myth" and "vampires". As for "royalty" that's a relative term, particularly when you consider Romanian history and the role of the Catholic Church at the time.
Of course all of this is important because the person in question is a MOVIE STAR! in a tween centric series about vampires and the mortal teen girls they love. Yeah... journalism at the AP is respectable.
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