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[–] [email protected] 142 points 1 year ago (2 children)

People have more or less completely forgotten that vampires are meant to represent the monstrosity of an unchecked aristocracy/wealthy upper class. They sold their souls for power and now live exclusively by feeding off those beneath them. You don't just 'become' a vampire like you don't just 'become' rich. You can certainly become enthralled to a vampire though

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That was never the case. Traditional folk tales about vampires were a way to understand corpse decomposition. The narrative changed in 1819.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

"That was never the case." "That then became the case."

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

I never actually realised this. Now I'm going to be thinking about every depiction of vampires I've been exposed to, for the rest of the day.

[–] [email protected] 134 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can, it's just awful time consuming

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Probably a pretty relaxing way to spend an afternoon if you do it on purpose 🤷

"What did you do over the weekend, Bob?"

"Oh, not much. Sired a few goths, threw some meditation rice. You know, the usual"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Man if I can't have Caesar salad you might as well just drive a stake into my heart now.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Substitute with the much superior shalot. Reign supreme into eternity.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I mean, you probably can, once.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Jokes on you Anon! If everyone is a vampire then who's blood do you suck?

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

You farm the remaining humans like livestock? We mastered factory farming 100 years ago, no reason things need to change just because the animals can talk back.

(banned from /c/veganism)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fun fact, human blood can be vegan, as long as the human is consenting

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

the definition of veganism has nothing to do with consent, only exploitation.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (7 children)

And if I'm consenting, then it isn't exploitation when a hot vampire gives me the biggest fucking hickey

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Doesn't consent imply the absence of exploitative forces?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

This was part of the plots in the movies Blade & Blade 2.

The problem becomes apparent in this film: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0433362/

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

He would quickly become pro-immigration

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Anon has not considered the consequences of an entire nation of hungry vampires devoid of humans.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Well we have cows, might as well have human farms. Maybe genetically modified human with pockets of blood on their belly

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Delicious, juicy blood pockets.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

what? so you have to bend over? naw. put that blood pocket on their neck like nature intended.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think Anon needs to retake middle school biology. You see there's this thing called the predator/prey relationship and if the predators outnumber the prey, things are gonna get real dire REAL fast. Like this:

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0433362/

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wasnt there a movie about this where almost everyone was basically a vampire, and started running out of humans and human blood to eat?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think it was Daybreakers

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If I'm not mistaken, it's also the source of that meme of William Dafoe looking up

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Vampire here.

I don't drink blood (because that's disgusting, and also crual and unfair), I drink vaginal juices.

AMA

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hoe many liters do you need on an average day?

Do you avoid or embrace periods?

That's all

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

OP really thinks vampires aren't gay?

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Congratulations, you're ageless, will never retire and you have to do a lot of manual labor, as it's cheaper than a machine, if you convert a country. If only a few are converted, others will want to hunt you down and put you on a shelve as trophy.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

OP: Killing people isn't a con

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Another con is that vampires are even more immortal than they appear. Even if the vampire's body is completely destroyed, their soul will wander through the universe, unable to affect anything, but still conscious. They can't even communicate with other vampires in that state. They'll get to see universe die starting 10 to the power of 16 years from now (end of star formation) until it's finally dead at 10 to the power of 10 to the power of 120, when universe reaches its final energy state. But at least a new universe will start at 10 to the power of 10 to the power of 10 to the power of 56. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Where does that lore come from? I thought they literally gave up their soul to the devil, or whatever evil thing rules hell, to have physical immortality?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Anon might be Dio

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can vampires sustain themselves on alien blood? Just imagining a brood of vampires conquering Earth and then setting their eyes to the galaxy. Like they have vampire scientists who find ways to let them enter sunlight and enjoy Italian food once more.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

People suggesting you’d have to kill for blood haven’t seen true blood. IIRC the vampires in that book/show found a way to coexist with humans because human nations created artificial blood (that you could buy like soda at a convenience store etc)

Edit a whole bunch of other stuff happened, but that’s one aspect from that setting

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Can vampires sustain themselves on other vampires blood?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

In Vampire: The Masquerade, it’s considered one of the most taboo act as you literally take in the life force and soul of that other vampire.

But it’s an alluring concept as it can make the aggressor more powerful (at the cost of some humanity… it’s cannibalism after all) AND the victim vampire is utterly destroyed (so one of the permanent ways to take out an adversary)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

For more about how an empire of vampires would turn out, read “Empire of the Vampire”

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Before much longer, no one will be able to go out in daylight.

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