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[cinefiliz]

Go Min Si as Yoo Seong Ha in The Frog (2024)

[jeezepizzas]

go minsi

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price guest stars on The Muppet Show (1977)

[markscherz]

[corruptedromi]

[billiebuttz]

You pickin’ up what I’m puttin’ down partner?

[staincastle]

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[oldinterneticons]

Top MEME/INTERNET icons posted to @oldinterneticons in 2023

[aluhnim]

An old drawing based off of the TTRPG, ICON.

[florietas]

[squeemy-adventures]

wanna see me swim to that rock?

wanna see me do it again?

[elizabethrobertajones]

Oh! The headaches. Definitely the headaches :)

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And I can teach him so much more.

[jeezepizzas]

go minsi

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

VINCENT PRICE and KERMIT THE FROG as vampires - THE MUPPET SHOW (1977)

[s0bk]

little lizard thing i've been drawing for 23 years that is totally me for realsies and cubia who is also totally me for realsies

[grassbreads]

I've been doing a lot of reading lately about the history of vampires in fiction and how the vampire as we know it today first entered literature, and the subject is honestly fascinating. The traditional folklore around vampires and vampire-like creatures is largely very different from what we'd think of as a vampire today, and it's also very different from how vampires appeared in even their earliest literary incarnations.

For one thing, there's nothing particularly alluring about most traditional vampires. They're bloated corpses that have crawled out of their graves, not dashing mysterious counts in lonely castles. They're not a particularly stylish or sexy monster.

However, from pretty much the moment that western literature first turned to the vampire myth for inspiration, writers saw something in the concept to sexualize. The poem "Der Vampir" (The Vampire) by Heinrich August Ossenfelder is often cited as the first ever true literary depiction of a vampire (published 1748!), and it is about a man corrupting a chaste and religious woman through his unwanted kiss/vampiric bite. John William Polidori's 1819 short story "The Vampyre" is widely seen as the first work to truly codify vampire fiction, and the titular Vampyre Ruthven is in large part inspired by the womanizing Lord Byron. Le Fanu's Carmilla depicts an intense attraction between Carmilla and her victim Laura. Stoker's Count Dracula is a man with overly flushed lips and hair on his palms, marks of Victorian fears of sexuality.

From the very start, vampires in literature have been a sexual monster. They're emblems of the seductive and terrible—the kiss of death that you can't help but be drawn to anyway. A violent forced intimacy that will corrupt you and drain away your very life force. There's a great deal of xenophobia and fear of the un-christian in early vampire fiction as well, but the fear of sex and sexual assault have always been a driver of literary vampires' horror and allure. Writers seem eternally split between desire for the vampire and revulsion at that very lust, even from the moments that the creatures first graced the page.

There's a great tradition of vampiric fiction both using vampirism to evoke sexual predators and making vampires themselves desirably sexy. Thus, given that it is very concerned with sexual assault and bodily autonomy as themes, often uses predation by a vampire to evoke sexual violence, and is deeply horny about vampires and blood drinking, Jun Mochizuki's The Case Study of Vanitas is actually one of if not the best modern successor to the canon of early vampire literature. In this essay, I will