They're the one animal that's responsible for the most human deaths historically and every year to this day and it isn't even close
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
It's funny that vampires are associated with one fairly rare and inconsequential species of blood drinking animal (vampire bats) when mosquitoes make such a better metaphor A parasite that's been with humanity since the beginning, sickening and draining us and holding us back
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
It's really a style thing, as far as I can tell. The swooping wings/capes do more than the bloodsucking
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There's very little Bat stuff in early vampire depictions. If anything their metaphorical animal was the leech
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Replying to @social_scifi @mssilverstein and
There's an argument that the flukeworm monster in the famous early X Files episode has more in common with at least a certain historical depiction of vampires than a lot of post-Victorian, post-Gothic vampire fiction.
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Replying to @dreamingnoctis @social_scifi and
Yeah, that makes sense. I mean, a LOT of it dates back, not even just to Bram Stoker, but to Bela Lugosi specifically.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @social_scifi and
To a degree, yeah. And the folklore is interesting, but here's a new blazing cursed sun hot take from me; The "ackshually historical folklore vampires were like X" has become the vampire equivalent to "Frankenstein is the name of the doctor!"
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Replying to @dreamingnoctis @mssilverstein and
*makes condescending noise while adjusting glasses* aakchshoehually....Victor Frankenstien wasn't a doctor, he just went to university Awwwlseeew, diid yuew know that Mary Shelly and Lord Byron bibble bibble, John Poliadori's "The Vampyre" blib blib same house one weekend.
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Replying to @social_scifi @dreamingnoctis and
Lol yeah Victor was a goddamn undergrad, when he made the Creature he'd only completed his *freshman year* That was the point, once he started getting obsessed with babbling nonsense about creating artificial life he started failing his classes and alienating his professors
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Replying to @arthur_affect @social_scifi and
Even hotter take; Victor was just the equivalent of a modern day pseudo-intellectual logic/debate/econ brok, who gets some 101 knowledge then fancies themselves the world's greatest genius even though their ideas are actually horrible and dangerous.
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Shelley's book, unlike the adaptations, doesn't specify how he makes the monster - it doesn't describe the stitching body parts together and zapping them with electricity at all What little it does say says that his theory doesn't make any SENSE
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Replying to @arthur_affect @dreamingnoctis and
All his teachers tell him that he's just grabbing stuff from long-disproved authors from hundreds of years ago and putting it together in contradictory ways, he's a total crackpot For the sake of the story this is necessary, Victor's discovery is more madness than reason
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Replying to @arthur_affect @dreamingnoctis and
Hence no one else can recreate it and when he dies it dies with him He has the terrible realization that the reason he can't make the Creature a Bride is that even making one more example will give the Creature, itself a genius, the ability to reverse engineer the process
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