Glen: Yeah but wasn't Van Helsing his mentor? — Subium • Bluesky web client

everyone talks about the cowboy no one mentions Dracula has canonically a huge luxurious mustache

I would care so much more about Dracula if people remembered to add the cowboy

I also love how Van Helsing isn’t this badass vampire hunter but just an adorable, eccentric little man who studies a lot about monsters. I pictured him as Guillermo Del Toro.

Isn't he a psychiatrist by training?

No, Seward is.

Yeah but wasn't Van Helsing his mentor?

Yeah, Van Helsing is a doctor of some sort. You were right, he’s a polymath

I feel like his doctorate is a lot like Doctor Dooms: not real.

You think he's scamming everyone?

No, I think he's probably got the expertise to be a doctor, but much like it's hard to find a school that offers one in mad scientisting, a good vampire slaying graduate school is hard to find.

Oh yeah, that is true. We hear so much about the humanities but nothing about the exhumanities

Underrated skeet.

In one of the movie portrayals (Peter Cushing?) he presents a card listing a doctorate from Leiden. That had me considering which building they might have hidden that department in. Obviously one of the really old ones. Leiden bureaucracy is certainly Byzantine enough to hide whole fields.

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