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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Hoydenne‏ @iridienne 6 Jun 2020

      Hoydenne Retweeted Alexandra Erin

      Completely tangential to this excellent thread, i want to bring up one of my hobbyhorses, which is: there's absolutely no reason to think that vampires wouldn't show up in digital photos or reflect in modern mirrors, just like normal people.https://twitter.com/AlexandraErin/status/1269356227596816384 …

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      Alexandra Erin @AlexandraErin
      Sure, but so did Dracula. "Allergic to sunlight" is a latter-day addition to the vampire myth, probably originating (and definitely popularized by) the movie Nosferatu. https://twitter.com/JessicaMeltzer/status/1269355690654605312 …
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    2. Hoydenne‏ @iridienne 6 Jun 2020

      (Vampires don't show up in film photos for the same resaon they don't reflect in 19th century mirrors: because of the silver. Neither modern mirrors nor digital photography have silver as components, so...)

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    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 7 Jun 2020
      Replying to @iridienne

      I mean... the first appearance of the idea that vampires have no reflection is Bram Stoker's Dracula, which doesn't connect it to silver at all, it just says it's a rule

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    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 7 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne

      I just looked this up and when they dug up Stoker's notes it seems like his original intention really was that it's some kind of cosmic censorship because he's evil He has no reflection *and* no shadow *and* can't be photographed *and* you can't even draw his picture

      1 reply 0 retweets 7 likes
    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 7 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne

      A human being who tries to draw a portrait of him by sight or by memory will draw something distorted so if you compare the drawing to him it looks nothing like him (I admit that while the reflection thing has always bugged me taking it further is cooler than taking it less far)

      1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes
    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 7 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne

      The silver thing is a logical way to explain/nerf this but I don't think it has much backing (so to speak) Like I can't think of an actual famous vampire work that uses that as the reason

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    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 7 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne

      Dracula 2000 emphasizes the connection to silver (because Dracula is really Judas) But in that one Van Helsing explicitly calls Dracula "the man who casts no shadow"

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 7 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne

      Anyway I was mad at What We Do in the Shadows for weakening this weakness and having the vampires shocked and delighted they can see their "reflections" in a cell phone camera Then I realized it's a mockumentary and if it doesn't work like that it can't exist

      12:54 AM - 7 Jun 2020
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        2. Serenity “Hire Me” Dee‏ @sapphixy 7 Jun 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne

          There was a British series, Ultraviolet, which extended this to any sort of recording or retransmission device: phones couldn't pick up their voices, for example. The vampires had workarounds for some of them (eg voice synthesizers, TTY) but the writers had a lot of fun with it.

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        3. Serenity “Hire Me” Dee‏ @sapphixy 7 Jun 2020
          Replying to @sapphixy @arthur_affect @iridienne

          One episode they were tracking what they thought was a vampire who was serially preying in children, both to feed on them and to abuse them. Turned out it was a vampire child (a prepubescent boy) feeding on child predators. They discovered this via CCTV.

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