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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(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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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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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
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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)
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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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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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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
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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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Yeah the idea of a vampire weakness where the physical world just refuses to acknowledge their existence is pretty cool, even if it raises all kinds of fridge logic questions
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