19 || vampires, dracula, young dracula (mainly yd) || cymraeg || dentist in training bitches be like ‘why do i have a headache?’ and ‘there’s a sudden influx of people in the niche fandom i’m in, and i don’t really know how to handle it’ and ‘i’m so excited!’ and ‘i can’t handle change’ and ‘no seriously where were you all 2016-2025’ and ‘oh yeah! i haven’t had water in days’…. It’s me, I’m bitches.
i’ve seen a few yd aesthetic boards floating around, so i thought i’d share my takes
season 1
this season is probably the most light hearted as well as visually light out of them all. there’s no real worries beyond your typical vampire-dad-related ones. bright colours such as orange and blues and yellows spring to mind which contrast and quietens the dark red.
season 2
things definitely get darker in season two. more lore, more character dynamics and more things to worry about. in turn, the visuals become darker. the colours from season 1 become darker and more synonymous with vampirism.
season 3
despite exploring darker themes, season 3 is weirdly more cozy to me. it may be because of the location change as the bricks are of course a warmer colour than the stone castle? also plaid. we can’t forget vlad’s plaid.
season 4
vlad’s probable blood addiction you will always be famous. had to represent. s4 is the darkest imo so i naturally had to mirror that. there’s more chaos too with the locations, storyline and sheer amount of characters.
season 5
honestly the easiest board to compile. the orange definitely makes a comeback in s5. is it the set designers being clever, or is it coincidence? who knows! (i do, its a coincidence). strangely, s5 is one of the quieter seasons imo, as they’re very restricted to garside for most of the season and all the students are gone . i tried to mirror this in this board!
Hi fellow Young Dracula fans, after going through the series again I am looking for videos I remember from watching the show as a kid as well as a few i find interesting that show the history of both the show and the fans. I thought it would be a good idea to share as many things I've found to the community just in case they don't know about some of these things or you know where they are. If i have missed something you think deserves to be on here please let me know.
The young Dracula files: COMPLETE
Young Dracula Files
Found a playlist with all the episodes on not the best quality so if anyone has a better version I can link to let me know.
Lessons for a vampire: INCOMPLETE
Lessons for a Vampire: Knowledge is Power (Young Dracula)
CBBC: Young Dracula - Lessons for a Vampire 'Biology'
Lessons for a Vampire: Gender Studies - CBBC
CBBC: Young Dracula - Lessons for a Vampire 'Art and Design'
CBBC: Young Dracula - Lessons for a Vampire 'Mythology'
I have managed to find 4 videos which i cant make into a playlist cause most of them are age restricted but here they are in order. I'm still searching for the rest if you have any of the videos shown below please dm me. I remember so many of these videos so clearly and I'd love for the new fans to see these extra bits
BBC - CBBC - Lessons for a Vampire Webisodes
ADDENDUM:
I found gender studies! its on the cbbc website, ill probably upload it to youtube at some point to preserve it. International fans please let me know if you can access it. please let me know if you can find anymore episodes.
Interviews: INCOMPLETE
Young Dracula - Gerran Howell profile
BBC - CBBC - Young Dracula's Fangtastic Interview
Young Dracula: Interview with the Vampire - Gerran Howell
Here are all the interviews I've found but if people have more let me know
Hacker Time: INCOMPLETE
Gerran Howell & Clare Thomas Dancing on Hacker Time
this wont make sense for anyone else but if anyone has season 2 episode 5 of Hacker time where they interview Gerran and Claire. I remember a few things like them being made to drink tomato juice but having a full episode would be amazing.
ADDENDUM:
TikTok - Make Your Day
Found some more of it on TikTok, only the intro but still progress!!!
Quest for the Chosen One: COMPLETE?
Quest For The Chosen One | Young Dracula Promo
I saw this on the wayback machine but it wouldn't load and I found it on youtube as a reupload. Is this related to hacker time possibly i cant remember? For international fan Hacker T. Dog was the face of CBBC in the early 2010's at least for me.
12 again: INCOMPLETE
Gerran Howell And Clare Thomas Interview CBBC 12 Again
Here is the 12 again episode with just the Gerran and Claire clips. If i find the full episode I'll add it as well.
ADDENDUM:
12 Again - End of Summer (2012)
Thanks to @minnownox another 12 again episode has been added which has led me to change this to incomplete. Gerran and Claire are only credited for 2 episodes on IMDB and well we have all the the Gerran and Claire clips now but I would like to have the full season 2 episode 2/3 for the sake of preservation.
Vlad's Guide on How To Spot A Vampire: COMPLETE
Vlad's Guide on How To Spot A Vampire
BBC - CBBC - How To Spot Vampires
Thank you @minnownox for sending this to me. Seems to filmed on the same set as What makes your family unique and most likely the same day. I'll add the wayback page as well
What makes your family unique?: COMPLETE
Young Dracula: What makes your family unique? - YouTube
BBC - CBBC - Young Dracula: What makes your family special?
I'm pretty sure this is the full video, seems to be linked to the message boards going off internet archive.
Blue Peter bake sale: COMPLETE
TikTok - Make Your Day
Once again thank you @minnownox for sending this in. This is so cute and also the same set as the interview with a vampire interview!
What has been your favourite bit of Young Dracula?: MISSING
BBC - CBBC - Young Dracula: Vlad - Favourite Moment
the video link like most things on internet archive doesn't work. If this is a flash issue please let me know as Ruffle which hosted the majority of everything for Young Drac was flash based (RIP) so if i need to download an emulator give me a head up.
ADDENDUM: I've done some messing around with ruffle and I gained a copy of flash thanks to a friend and we have come to the conclusion that the files must not be supported anymore. I put this video into flash and it came up with the same error message and same with the games. (also ruffle is a flash emulator I've discovered so yeah I'm feeling less good about recovering stuff lost to flash)
Games: INCOMPLETE
BBC - CBBC - Staring Contest: Young Dracula
BBC - CBBC - Young Dracula - Dust by Dawn game
Both Staring contest and Dust by Dawn are currently unplayable. If anyone has a playable version or any footage please let me know.
ADDENDUM:
💬 0 🔁 2 ❤️ 1 · dust by dawn · @cartoonghosty ummm idk if its blocked in other countries but ive been playin this for a while so hope a vid
Thank you @ghost_doodles for this footage of dust by dawn. I am still unable to play it for some reason but I'm so glad to see this game again!! We are still looking for staring contest, keep looking though it looks like people are running into the same problem as me.
An Epic Fail At Dust By Dawn
found this video as well on youtube
Meet Erin: MISSING
BBC - CBBC - Meet Erin
The only proof i have of this this page of the internet archive. If anyone has the full video please let me know. I am also interested if there are anymore Meet [BLANK] videos out there
BTS: INCOMPLETE
Young Dracula Season 3 - Behind The Scenes
Behind the scenes: Young Dracula series 3
Young Dracula: Blue Peter Segment (Spooky Special 2012)
Meeting the Young Dracula Cast
Young Dracula Behind The Scenes Series 4 - YouTube
I've included all the ones i could find but if you have more dm me so I can add them.
PROMOS: INCOMPLETE
Young dracula promos
Here are all the trailers and previews i can find. Most of the ones on the cbbc Young drac page don't work but they are there. The playlist is incomplete currently incomplete partly due to me being unable to find things but also there is a lot to find. I'm interested in more season 1&2 stuff if anyone can find any.
Renfield Confidential: INCOMPLETE?
Young Dracula - Series 4 - Renfield Confidential
I vaguely remember these, this looks like an upload of all the ones from season 4. I cant find anything else online about these so if anyone knows anything about these let me know.
Young Dracula: COMPLETE
young-dracula directory listing
if you want good quality version of the episode here's a nice link (don't tell anyone you got it from me) but also I do encourage you watching the YouTube rips as they have cbbc moments in them which to me is very nostalgic. As of writing this 28/06/26 young Dracula is currently on iPlayer in the uk but it will be leaving in 4 months .
I hope you all enjoy these!!! Also if i missed anything that you think should be on this list please let me know and if you have media that I'm looking for please get in contact. I would hate for the past of young Dracula to be lost for new viewers. I'm constantly updating this post so keep your eyes out. Would it be better to do this as a google doc, I want this to be for us fans so you input is important.
louis' alias over one shoulder, the dracula's daughter logo that cleverly contains louis' initials hidden within over the other, and lestat has absolutely no idea because he and louis haven't spoken in years... 10/10 no notes i love the loustat show.
I have a new hobby; forcing my friends to watch interview with the vampire, being thanked for showing them such a masterpiece of a series and receiving apologies that they hadn’t watched it sooner.
I’m already unbearable about young dracula… and vampires in general… What will the world do when the vampire lestat comes out? This is your official PSA to avoid me/interact with me for the next month because all I’ll be physically able to talk about is vampires…. which isn’t that different to the usual
It is SOOOO fascinating seeing some people watch yd for the first time, coming out of it believing that Vlad is in the right all the time. Even believing the people around him are wholly bad. AND I GET IT, cause I remember believing that when I first watched the show as a kid. HOWEVER, he IS just as bad as all the other vampires, and the vampires around him DO have redeeming qualities. It just presents very, very differently. Self serving silly cu… rtain… that I could write a dissertation on (love him tho). Rewatch it people, REWATCH ♥️
To add on to this, I think it’s really important to remember that the story is being told primarily from Vlad’s perspective. HE believes that he’s always in the right and that he’s better than his fellow vampires (even when he very much is not), and this is what is then conveyed to us as the viewers. It’s so interesting to see how this falls apart when you look deeper and consider the perspectives of the other vampires (and the slayers too as an extension to this). He absolutely is not the little angel he’d have us believe he is, not even during season 1 when he hadn’t fully transformed yet and still had more humanity in comparison to the later seasons.
I could go on and on about this topic forever lol. This series has so much depth to it (especially for a children’s show) and so much to analyze if you really get into it, and it’s one of the things I love about it. Definitely agree on being able to write a dissertation on Vlad’s character alone XD
It is SOOOO fascinating seeing some people watch yd for the first time, coming out of it believing that Vlad is in the right all the time. Even believing the people around him are wholly bad. AND I GET IT, cause I remember believing that when I first watched the show as a kid. HOWEVER, he IS just as bad as all the other vampires, and the vampires around him DO have redeeming qualities. It just presents very, very differently. Self serving silly cu… rtain… that I could write a dissertation on (love him tho). Rewatch it people, REWATCH ♥️
In the show, the rings of Arianrhod are two magically bound rings; one wearer able to command the other wearer. The mother and son rings respectively. However my Welsh ass always picked up on the fact that Arianrhod is a character in Welsh mythology. So now I’m making that tumblr’s problem. yw!
From my primary school understanding of the story, Arianrhod is a noble woman in medieval Wales. She has a son against her will, to put it mildly, and becomes resentful of him. His name is Lleu. The Mother and the Son. Lleu is cast out of Arianrhod’s castle and told he cannot do anything without her permission, some sort of spell (Like the rings!!). The rest of the story is; he is sent to live with his uncle, Gwydion, who’s a wizard. He raises Lleu, but again, Lleu cannot do anything without his mother’s permission. Long story short, he and his uncle trick Arianrhod into giving Lleu permission to do various things through magic.
There’s more to the story than that ofc. If you’re interested, the folklore is part of the ‘Mabinogi’.
Some extras too:
‘Gwydion’ vaguely translates to be a word adjacent to ‘bloody’, or at least sounds it - ‘Gwaed’, ‘Gwaedllyd’.
‘Lleu’ means moon.
‘Arian’ in ‘Arianrhod’ means silver.
If there’s one thing I love to latch onto in TV shows, especially Young Dracula, it’s the random pieces of lore they drop and refuse to talk about again. So that’s what this is. Expect so much more of this from me.
I really wish they'd shown more of Vlad's cravings for human blood in the later seasons of YD. To show how he's trying to be this peace-keeping vegan vampire but his instincts are trying to tell him otherwise. How he'd have a lot of self-loathing because of it. How he doesn't want to end up like the other Draculas and he's so scared he might. Idk, I think it would have been an interesting storyline
I grew up watching a very specific kind of CBBC show that apparently none of my friends have seen and I think that's a fundamental part of my personality
the young dracula writers room was one line of coke away from an episode in which vlad and ingrid are forced to set aside their qualms and reluctantly work together to thwart the count's latest insane scheme of marrying them to each other in a targaeryen style effort to preserve the dracula bloodline and - for better or worse - they just aren't making cbbc shows with that kind of energy anymore
post-memory wipe robin stumbling upon vlad somehow like 10+ years later and thinking “huh, looks familiar… nah.” and vlad is just SWEATING BULLETS the whole time that they make eye contact
