#and yes Bram Stoker very much popularized the default tropes associated with vampires
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love seeing discourse where the people involved don't know what they're talking about but are very confident that they do.
#'vampires were created as a metaphor for the aristocracy preying on the working class' nope#vampires started out as similar to zombies in that they were corpses who preyed on the living#Lord Ruthven and Sir Francis Varney preyed on fellow aristocrats#Carmilla is an equal opportunity predator who focuses on aristocratic young women but also preys on peasants#Dracula is really the first one to be depicted explicitly as a nobleman preying on peasants#and yes Bram Stoker very much popularized the default tropes associated with vampires#but it is NOT a simple 1:1 'vampires are a metaphor for class inequality'
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#'vampires were created as a metaphor for the aristocracy preying on the working class' nope#vampires started out as similar to zombies in that they were corpses who preyed on the living#Lord Ruthven and Sir Francis Varney preyed on fellow aristocrats#Carmilla is an equal opportunity predator who focuses on aristocratic young women but also preys on peasants#Dracula is really the first one to be depicted explicitly as a nobleman preying on peasants#and yes Bram Stoker very much popularized the default tropes associated with vampires#but it is NOT a simple 1:1 'vampires are a metaphor for class inequality'
love seeing discourse where the people involved don't know what they're talking about but are very confident that they do.
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