I don't care your ecological premises, I will never listen to an argument re: why mosquitoes shouldn't go extinct
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
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
Yeah I hate that I've ever been in a position to argue in favor of anything Stephanie Meyer ever did but Her reimagining of vampires isn't even as extreme as what LeFanu, Polidori, and Stoker did with the existing vampire myths a century and a half earlier
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Replying to @autogynamelia @dreamingnoctis and
I feel like there's room in pop culture for both gross ancient Strain style vampires and pretty sexy gay vampires and I've lost patience with anyone who holds one up as "better" or more "real" than the other
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That's why Vampire the Masquerade has multiple vampire clans and has the whole ongoing Nosferatu/Toreador feud
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Replying to @arthur_affect @autogynamelia and
Occasionally they forget that the shtick is basically "each clan is one particular set of Vampire tropes", but the game is best when it's fully aware of it.
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Replying to @social_scifi @autogynamelia and
Yeah the whole idea is there's such a dizzying array of vampire powers and weaknesses it would be almost impossible to play a single character who embodied all of them so they spread them out
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