OH DEAR GOD ROBERT PATTINSON IS RELATED TO DRACULA

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Dream Goddess

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Hmm. Thought his line died out within a century or so after his death. Interestingly, the Blood Countess was descended from one of Vlad's cousins, Stephen Bathory.

Then again, technically, except for Woodrow Wilson, World War I was feud amongst cousins.
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Well, I'm related by paternal blood to the Bathorys on my father's side. Of course, my father is full blood Romanian. Still, it really isn't anything spectacular that Pattinson is distantly related either. As stated by sixpackshaker, it's kind of the six degrees of separation...only with genealogy.
 
North_Ranger

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I know for a fact there ain't gonna be any royal blood in my veins. My family's pretty much Finnish-speaking Finns all the way (as opposed to those damn Fenno-Swedes). Still, there's some cool bits: my parents found mentions on my mother's side of a 17th-century ancestor, who was a jahtivouti, a position that roughly translates as "the bailiff of the chase", or "master of the hunt" if you want to wax poetic. His task in the community was to organize hunts against major predators such as bears and wolf packs if they came too close to the farms and the livestock, and he was also responsible for maintaining the wolf-pits (shallow pits filled with barbed stakes that were then covered) and other traps that kept the beasts at bay. Besides that, I come from a family of farmhands and small farmers.
 
Officer_Charon

Officer_Charon

Heh... I'm so American-Mutt, I couldn't tell you if I have any (in)famous ancestors or not - and that's just on my MOTHER'S side. My father's side of the family doesn't go in for geneology, which has frustrated my mother's efforts to create a family tree to no end
 
ElJuski

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Also, to whoever just made the rep comment about Rowling being a talentless hack...she's not exactly the best writer on the planet. But her writing at least has some sort of cultural mythological depth to it. As far as children's lit goes, it's no Hugo Cabret but I think its a damn appropriate jumping board for kids to get reading more engaging, interesting things. That hopefully isn't something bland and obtuse like Twilight.

Also, Kurt Vonnegut is the guy who defended the shittiest of science fiction with bated breath. Why would he be laughing?
 
Green_Lantern

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Gilman Chatsworth said:
Also, to whoever just made the rep comment about Rowling being a talentless hack...she's not exactly the best writer on the planet. But her writing at least has some sort of cultural mythological depth to it. As far as children's lit goes, it's no Hugo Cabret but I think its a damn appropriate jumping board for kids to get reading more engaging, interesting things. That hopefully isn't something bland and obtuse like Twilight.
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What the Mime-butt-avatar said, you can say that HP is too popular, but you can't even compare its quality with Twilight.
 
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Rowling did the boarding school story with a straightforward monomyth structure. Maybe Potter's not hugely original when some of its pieces are taken apart and scrutinized, and perhaps Rowling strayed a bit with later books, but she basically knew how to tell an entertaining story in an engaging world.

Stephenie Meyer, on the other hand, pooped out an insufferable mess of a novel in which the antagonists popped up hundreds of pages in. And that's just the first book. I haven't the stomach to find out what the sequels are like.

IMO, Potter = a step up from Artemis Fowl = a step up from Lemony Snickett = a step up from Twilight.
 
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Wasabi Poptart

My maternal grandmother used to always say we were related to Mary Queen of Scots' chambermaid. LOL
 
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