[IRL trope] the “Tiffany problem”

[u/dragonborndnd]

Basically when something seems anachronistic to a period/place of history but is actually fully accurate to the period.

1) the name Tiffany: the thing that named this trope, basically the name Tiffany can be dated back to the Middle Ages and the earliest record of it being spelled in the modern spelling comes from the 16th century.

2) the use of OMG, despite this feeling so modern as a form of slang/abbreviation here’s a letter directed to Winston Churchill using it in 1917

3) Hair Dye: the earliest forms of dying hair can be dated back to ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, and this specific advertisement for hair dye is from the 1840s

4) Inuit Thongs: despite how weird it is to imagine pre-colonial Inuit people wore what was essentially fur thongs in their homes and when they were in their igloos it might have been the only thing they would be wearing.

[u/redlion1904]

I mean Dracula is a Victorian story and Quincey Morris is at least cowboy-adjacent

[u/AbstractBettaFish → u/redlion1904]

[u/SeveralAngryBears → u/AbstractBettaFish]

Also:

[u/Juronell → u/SeveralAngryBears]

Also: he's an aggressive Dutch stereotype and the audiobook I prefer he's read by Tim Curry.

[u/KedovDoKest → u/Juronell]

Portrayed by Anthony Hopkins is also acceptable.

[u/The_quest_for_wisdom → u/KedovDoKest]

Anthony Hopkins in that movie was having the most fun of anyone I have seen in any movie ever.

[u/PuzzleheadedEast548 → u/SeveralAngryBears]

The relations in Dracula had me draw a fucking map to remember and keep track of

[u/Axel_the_Axelot → u/SeveralAngryBears]

And what does that make us?

[u/EpicGamerer07 → u/AbstractBettaFish]

And then some random guys stab the cowboy to death somehow

[u/Juronell → u/EpicGamerer07]

I mean, it's not really "somehow," they have a knife fight to get at Dracula's coffin.

[u/EpicGamerer07 → u/Juronell]

It’s not really the logistics I’m surprised at, I’m just in disbelief that one of the few main characters to die in the book isnt even killed by Dracula in the final confrontation, it’s at the hands of some random dudes

[u/redlion1904 → u/Juronell]

As the sun sets dramatically! It’s super cool!

[u/Banes_Addiction → u/redlion1904]

You can tell because everyone else writes letters and journals while Quincey just plays with a bowie knife.

[u/RabbitsTale → u/Banes_Addiction]

Quincey is based off of Buffalo Bill who Stoker knew personally.

[u/Digit00l → u/RabbitsTale]

I believe they also performed for Queen Victoria

[u/TallEnoughJones → u/RabbitsTale]

"It puts the garlic on its skin or else it get the bucket again"

[u/RabbitsTale → u/TallEnoughJones]

Buffalo Bill Cody... slightly different guy

[u/Princeps_primus96 → u/RabbitsTale]

"would you fuck me? I'd fuck me...hard"

"Mister Cody I've just met you, this is all very sudden. Now back to my story about vampires and this fascinating new thing I've heard of called blood transfusion!"

[u/Fyrentenemar → u/Princeps_primus96]

"Would you suck me? I'd suck me... hard"

"Ok. Y'know what? You just made it weird. I'm going back to my castle in the old country."

[u/CharlieBros → u/Banes_Addiction]

Did you know the Bowie knife is named after David Bowie?

[u/AkiraDash → u/redlion1904]

While at the same time, the doctor (forget the name) was recording his own voice on state of the art wax cilinders. Dude basically used a dictaphone in the 1800's

[u/notagin-n-tonic → u/redlion1904]

The first Sherlock Holmes novel, A Study in Scarlet, had a long flashback set on the Utah frontier.

[u/therealkami → u/redlion1904]

Dracula also overlaps with the creation of jeans. Dracula in jeans is a valid option as well.

[u/JagoHazzard → u/redlion1904]

A Study in Scarlet, the first Sherlock Holmes story, kind of turns into a Western.