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Published: 2003-05-31 16:53:53 +0000 UTC; Views: 7138; Favourites: 15; Downloads: 51
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This is from my series of famous men without the moustache. This one is Vlad "Dracula" Tepes, father of the legend of Dracula, prince of Wallachia and famous insane mass murderer... But without the stache is just a regular Joe with a funny hat!Related content
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This is what all those clean-shaven movie Draculas would look like in real life.
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The portrait on which you based this image was a propaganda type poster made by a Hungarian ruler. It was meant to make him look like a caricature. The real portrait of him is quite different.
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I didn't know that, and going by the fact that many portraits of that time look silly to people of our time, I thought it was more or less accurate. I would love to see this real portrait you talk about.
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You can view it here: [link]
A little lower on the page youțll see the more familiar portrait too (with a red cross over it) and under neath the actual portrait.
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Interesting how many Dracula adaptions have him stache-less.
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Can you imagine the Twilight movies with the male lead in a civil war mustache? I would watch that.
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That would be pretty awesome.
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Not bad. i respect and partly admire Vlad Tepes, despite the things what he did. Heck, people have done worst, he was just doing what he needed to, and people have labeled him a monster, only through rumors and his fictional counter part. Nice image. personally, i like him without the moustache 
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Thanks, and also thanks for sharing your views on Vlad Tepes, they're very different from what I've heard, and that's a plus.
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Your welcome 
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I think that horrible acts become less horrible as time passes, which is kinda sad but it is also healthy for everyone as humans. So, the other details surrounding his biography are quite cool and I choose to emphasize those things when thinking of him
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Ah see i think the same
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Not at all, I love history and the "relativity of ethics" that the distance from events causes. Right now we feel that a terrostist attack is a heinous act (I think it is, too) but we think of the Gengis Khan or Attila and we think of them as interesting, complex historical figures, not as mere mass murderers.
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Agreed
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It's difficult for me to choose, but my favorite I think is William Blake.
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Oh yes i like William Blake too. mostly his art and poems 
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Ah, yes, Ersebeth Bathory, a fascinating character of history. I think her reputation might have been victim of sexism, though, it wouldn't be the first female to be likened to the Devil.
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That is quite true. But i don't have much sympathy for her as Vlad Tepes. Ersebath Bathory was apparently a vain woman, you know the whole bathing of blood. but then again is it true ? or just rumors ? She was very powerful for a woman at that time. rivals for her power might have just tried to dis-credit her. thing is i can't find much positive insight her character, so it's hard to make a judge with one side.
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I sincerely think that it was all a fabrication of her enemies. She was probably a little bit eccentric, and I guess a few thing she did were blown waaaaay out of proportion. Too bad we'll never know what was true and what was false. But in the other hand, that's kind of the charm of history.
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again very true. Being in that situation must be stressful, even more for a woman of that time. and her death was quite tragic. eventually she was put on trial for all the 'murders', and well, since she was nobility, she couldn't be executed. so she was confined to a room, no windows ect. and was fed through a small hole in the wall. rumor was the guards wanted to see the woman for her famed beauty, and found her dead on the floor, face down. possibly died weeks before. i would hate to go that way. to go un-noticed and slow
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When I read about the circumstances around her imprisonment and death I prefer to believe that she was indeed evil murderer. I'm a comfort-driven reader of History
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Indeed. as i said, i see her more as a negative figure...or well... hard to explain. I guess i'm more of a Vlad Tepes fan
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Well, that is actually very impressive, that you're writing a historical novel. I admire the dedication to historical knowledge that is needed for the writing of a historical novel. I have read quite a few, but all in Spanish; the last one I read was about Jeanne D'arc, and I quite liked it (I forgot to mention that Jeanne D'arc is one of my favorites too). Is your novel centered on a historical figure of the Tudor times or is it about a non-famous character that lives in that period of time?
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Thank you
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ha ha, you got a thing with taking moustaches off famous people huh lol
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That was my thing a few years ago, before photoshop was commonplace, as it is now. Today everybody can de-moustache any person. So I gave it up.
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aha, cool and yea thats true, i think even id be able to pull it off today lol
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about that... I was in a "correcting" mood, I was reading "Dracula: Prince of Many Faces" by Radu R. Florescu and Raymond T. McNally and I couldnt help myself. Very good manip, he still looks creepy without the 'stache though
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Oooooh, that's why!
HA! I'm sorry, I wasn't aware that I wrote King of Wallachia!
My appologies, I must have sounded like a douche, you are right. I'm always happy when people take their time to correct my mistakes. Thank you!
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I agree, he really creeps me out more without the stache. Thanks for visiting!
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Hehe.. He definitly isn't quite so intimidating any more... if Vlad Dracula were alive, he'd proably either compliment you on your skills, or try to kill you for making fun of him....
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I stick with the killing part. I'm glad he's long gone and very very dead.
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Yes... Though you know, when his tomb was opened, they didn't find his body....But, then again, he was beheaded, so he should be dead.
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Don't worry. I doubt he would be able to figure out the Internet system. Even then, he would still have to deal with the pop-up advertisments...
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I think he has something femine this way
Gotta look at the rest of your series....
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hmm.. i'm not all too sure about him looking like a regular joe
if regular joes looked like that i'd be sure to avoid them
but it's cool nonetheless, and kinda amusing
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he looks...... younger....
great manip tho..
~da-x
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Here's a link to the 'mustached' Dracula we all love!-->[link]
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Nice manip. Yes, he looks pretty regular to me. O_o
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Well he still looks very wicked to me.
yes inttresting series you have chose
keek it up.......
I will keep my eyes on them.
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Not sure about this one.
I agree that every other else in this series does looks like a regular joe, but not this one.
He actually looks a bit worse.
He looks a lot more like he needs to impale someone. Well the point is taht he still looks like who he is, and not a regular joe.
The other point is that this manip is very cool as always, and it was very well done.
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He no longer fills my head with nightmares!!
Great job as always
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