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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Replying to @dreamingnoctis @social_scifi and
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 @social_scifi and
So he is, in fact, just like a modern online right wing pseudo-intellectual, obsessed with just pushing obsolete ideas.
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Yeah I mean it works though Although, like I said, that's exactly why future fanfic writers were like "DID it work though"
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