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I do not believe this darkness will endure.

the intersection of power and privilege, race and class, gender and sexuality, all of these things are what actually make a good vampire story, imo. and you can't explore one without addressing the others.... like im simply not interested otherwise. i love a sympathetic queer vampire as much as the next person but the vampire is such a versatile metaphor, you have to be willing to engage with it in its other interpretations, too, including vampirism as class, colonialism, and white supremacy

#and you have to read and understand the bigotry within the originals! you cant ignore it!#grisping my laptop. i am very passionate about this topic.

ndnbutch

but if I were to say that I don’t think vampires inherently and universally represent queerness and that if that’s the only way you engage with any story containing a vampire then a lot of very important messages are going to go straight over your head? i would be killed to death.

shelterwoodpod

ESPECIALLY an issue when vampires very explicitly represent fear of outsider immigrant non-white invaders! Dracula can absolutely be read with a queer lens but we cannot let our desire for ~spooky gay stuff~ blind us to the very real xenophobia, antisemitism, and orientalism present in a LOT of the foundational media in vampire history! nor the racism present in modern vampire stories!!!

#this is why so many of the 'queer retellings' suck btw #the (white) people writing them either don't notice or are too afraid to grapple with the racism and xenophobia inherent in the originals #ignoring how vampirism was used to depict the colonial anxieties at the time just leads to them being replicated again and again #i just talked abt something similar a few days ago with sapphic retellings #reclaiming vampirism as 'feminine rage' or to explore women's sexuality falls flat #when you only ever write about rich white women getting to do it.#particularly when you have servants/working class characters who are suffering in the background of your heroine's gothic estate #and it's like. well it could be interesting if done on purpose. vampirism as colonialism and classism and white supremacy.#but they never do it on purpose. it's just individualistic liberal white feminism. unfortunately #and so you have vampirism as class and/or white privilege that goes completely unexplored in the text #and they can't meaningful write or engage with characters of color being vampires. bc again they'd have to grapple with the racism #& they ignore the implications of their white characters feeding on them too

hergreywarden

"What I am trying to say, is that I trust you. I am comfortable around you. I know that you will be there when I need you.

You are our leader, and my friend, and sometimes, I think that maybe we could be more than that..."

#da #da:o

expressions-of-nature

Burke Mountain, Vermont by Dave Schmidt

fruitcd

I wish exordia was the most popular book on the planet so I could make posts like “this is serendure bitch get your sensitive ass back to prajna” and get 10 billion notes

lokorum

when the symbol of your best memories turns into an all-consuming hate mmmmm ( ꈍ◡ꈍ)

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bunniope

if he was bitten by a small burger he would be slider-man. just something to consider going forward

so-much-for-subtlety

pingintech

literally a cartoon bad guy

#that’s a fucking Thing

zorja

antique amputation saws.

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knifeforsale

SATURDAY NIGHT SPECIAL | LISTING

#knives

opusculums

the watermelon woman dir cheryl dunye

#the watermelon woman #film

hansmannette

queen of peace

#da #da2

jadeempire

this is not a word I like to use lightly due to [redacted mental illness I have] but some Veilguard defenders are genuinely, honestly fucking delusional

jadeempire