The Munsters

Independent Role-playing blog for the Munster family from Bryan Fuller's Mockingbird Lane. Primary Muse: Grandpa Munster Please Read Rules and Information before interacting. Side blog to dr-abel-gideon

[munsterlane]

This blog is hereby archived.

Thank you to all the lovely people (and snacks) through the years.

[munsterlane]

[nosleepstreet]

[munsterlane]

// Why am I constantly getting notifications on this blog? Who are you people? How did you find me? What sorcery is this?

I read your tags every single time, like the ancient vampire I am!

[munsterlane]

// I have just realized I can make a pretty good representation of Grandpa in Dreamlight Valley and I am now cackling madly.

[greelin]

good responses to getting stabbed with a sword

wtf

that’s fair

not again

are you gonna want this back or can i keep it

[munsterlane]

With the new Wednesday series I feel I should give this blog a ressurection. I always thought Grandpa would make a fine European history teacher.

[munsterlane]

//Reading responses to the new Munsters trailer on twitter and the soft admiration and reverie for Mockingbird Lane and what could have been while others speak of it like a cryptid that they know exists but have never seen, fill me with delight.

[munsterlane]

It is hereby decreed that Grandpa has a collection of creepy velvet paintings. But not clowns, crying children or Elvis, no, they're more like this

[neenarchive]

unironically dracula's at his best when he's someone's dad

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baby: cries at 3am

these guys: do that thing where they rise from their coffin like they're on a hinge

[neenarchive]

there's just something funny about the mental image of dracula changing a nappy

[neenarchive]

overworked single dad dracula posting minions memes to facebook

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the transylvanian peasants: accidentally bring garlic bread to vlad junior's birthday potluck

dracula to facebook that evening:

[whetstonefires]

One of my favorite things is modern adaptations that leave people with the same careers they had in the original material, because unless you’re a cop or a doctor that practically never happens.

Irene Adler’s an opera singer. We still have those! They don’t have the same subtext exactly, but nothing is going to because we aren’t the Victorians. She could continue to be an opera singer. I have never seen this happen.

Jonathan Harker can still be in real estate. That’s a job people have. A modern story that still involves Dracula contacting his firm to help him purchase property sounds amazing actually.

[nudityandnerdery]

A modern adaptation of Dracula where you keep seeing Jonathan Harker’s face on bus stop bench ads for his realtor office.

[daddygrandpaandthebeaver]

#“This client doesn’t seem to exist online; a bit strange. But he’s elderly so it’s not that unusual” -Jonathan about to make a mistake – @capslockdoesntexpressmyjoy

[prokopetz]

I was about to joke about Quincey Morris still being a cowboy, but then it occurred to me that he’s not actually a cowboy in the source material, is he? He’s the wealthy heir of a Texas ranch-owning family who just acts like an Old West cowboy. If anything, that’s even more plausible today than it was in 1897.

[prokopetz]

Fan-work about the Addams Family being online usually focuses on the kids, but consider: Gomez Addams livestreaming uncommentated model reenactments of famous train disasters. Nobody knows who the culprit is – you can see him from the neck down while he’s setting things up, but his face is always out of the frame. The model railroad community is torn between being impressed at the mystery streamer’s dedication and horrified that this maniac keeps taking these beautiful, meticulously accurate recreations and blowing them to smithereens.

[munsterlane]

I would subscribe to this fellow’s Patreon in a nanosecond. 

I want pyrotechnics in these train wrecks and I will pay to make that happen in a whole series.

[funnytwittertweets]

[eyesofdovesbytheriversofwaters]

i’ll spend my summer sword fighting with my lover and going to masquerade balls and lazily playing music, dancing with the piano keys while they twirl around and we’ll both appreciate the incandescent love we feel for each other

[satyriconmp3]

utilising the gift of imagination to hallucinate moments of tenderness between fictional people

[sartorialadventure]

Costumes from Mockingbird Lane (2012)

[law-of-abstraction]

Vanity, by Jan Vermeulen. The painting is a representation of the transience of life, above the skull you can read “mors omnia vincit” which means “death conquers all”.