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lunatic-fandom-space · 2 months ago

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i just saw a post that was obviously vagueing about that popular vampirism as disability post being like "OF COURSE a post being like 'what if vampires (bloodthirsty predators) were actually the victims and people reacting negatively were the villains' would do well on tumblr, this is the Nothing Is Ever Your Fault website" and it just pisses me off because its like, hey man. modern vampires (the ones that came about in victorian times, that are loosely based on eastern european folklore) have existed for like a hundred years now and people have been characterizing vampires as a 'species' in a bunch of different ways for just as long, and the person who made the original post clearly chose to characterize them as basically normal humans mentally but a bit fucked up physically. yknow, kind of like disabled people

#istg theres nothing more annoying than people who get all pissy about vampires not being 'real monsters'#because they dont go around being feral or uncontrollably bloodthirsty or mercilessly killing people or whatever #like. modern vampires have never been like that!!#the folkloric ones probably were but when people talk about 'the original vampires' or 'classic vampires' theyre not talking about those!#theyre talking about victorian vampires!!#and fundamentally the horror of those vampires - the thing that sets them apart from other monsters in the cultural zeitgeist #is that they appear like normal humans at first but then they suddenly reveal their DANGEROUS FREAK side and then you gotta kill them!!!#thats arguably why a lot of queer people love to sympathize with vampires: they also feel like dangerous freaks that are gonna be found out #by the Good Normal Christians around them #its especially annoying when its Those kinds of dracula daily people complaining about it #(which the person im vagueing about here was they had it in their bio and i saw it when i blocked them)#becauss its like. that IS dracula!!#count dracula was never a bloodthirsty monster in the sense that he couldnt control himself hes literally a weird guy when hes introduced #people remark on the fact that him just being a straightup antagonist as opposed to a sympathetic or tragic character #makes the original book feel more subversive than all the movies that try to be subversive my making him sympathetic #but thats not because hes a 'real monster' in the book from the getgo and isnt in those movies #the thing that makes the book feel 'subversive' is that its not focused on dracula #while the movies usually are #but i think personality-wise a lot of the movies ive seen do an alright job #if anything i feel dracula is often *less* sympathetic bc hes often just characterized as A Charming Guy #whereas draculas quirkyness (for lack of a better trm) in the book makes him kindof endearing initially #at least to me #and thats not to mention the fact that for all the people whining about the oh so many sympathetic vampire portrayals that exist #in popular media #there really. arent that many.#atleat not in cinema im not too well-versed in the literature side of things #like ive seen dozens of vampire moviea from the 1920s to the 80s and theyre seriously so rare its crazy #granted its not like most tumblr people would watch a movie from that time frame anyway #unless i told them there were gay men in them but unfortunately theres a true yaoi scarcity when it comes to this subgenre #so how are they supposed to knoe

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