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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

      2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
    7. Hoydenne‏ @iridienne 7 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect

      Silver as a sovereign against evil is a lot older than Stoker, but it may be that the vampire-specific thing is newer.

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

      I'm not saying the silver weakness is new, I'm saying the "no reflection rule" originates with Stoker and never had a clear tie to the silver weakness

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

      Mirrors being bad luck when combined with death/the undead is a vaguely common folklore thing that he may have taken this from but the idea that vampires have no reflection is not

      1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 7 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne

      There is a tradition that's kind of the exact opposite - you turn mirrors around or remove them from a room with a corpse, because seeing its own reflection might *cause* a corpse to rise and attack you

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

      I think what it came down to in Stoker's novel is that the scene where Dracula grabs Jonathan Harker's shaving mirror and shatters it in a panic *feels* very authentic - that an evil creature would hate and fear mirrors, fear the idea of seeing the truth about themselves

      12:18 PM - 7 Jun 2020
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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 7 Jun 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne

          It's just that Stoker tried to give this a "logical" explanation that was appropriately creepy that tied to the surreal "dark conspiracy" plot - he has no reflection at all, which is tied to him being this secret the ancient world has kept from the modern all this time

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

          Of course this concept does raise all kinds of fridge logic and it's very hard to depict in a visual medium in a way that doesn't look silly

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        1. Gareth Wilson‏ @GGarethwilson 7 Jun 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne

          This I have known ever since I stretched out my fingers to the abomination within that great gilded frame; stretched out my fingers and touched a cold and unyielding surface of polished glass.

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