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Look at me. I want to dye My hair purple and never notice You notice. I want the scandal In my bedroom but not in the mouths of convenience Store customers off the nearest highway. Let me be Another invisible, Used and forgotten and left To whatever narrow miseries I make for myself Without anybody asking What’s wrong. Concern for my soul offends me, so

- The Tradition, Jericho Brown

"I want to obliterate the flowered field, To obliterate my need for the field And raise a building above the grasses, A building of prayer against the grasses, My body a temple in disrepair."

- The Tradition, Jericho Brown

"you sit understanding

Yourself as a human being finally

Free now that nobody’s got to love you"

- the tradition, Jericho Brown

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queerbookwhore

Online school isnt falling in love with knowledge the way school should be, but instead drinking energy drinks and crying about grades so that my teacher can lecture to me about trigometric functions from her bed

weissguertena

guess who had a short writing assignment for his Supernatural & Horror Literature course!!!

(it’s me. it’s this guy right here. lucky you, im sharing it because im obnoxiously humble about my very correct assertions.)

The prompt was:

“ Class … Next week, we will begin looking at vampires in fiction. Before we do so, I’d like you to write a paper reflecting upon the popularity of vampires in pop culture today. The Twilight series was immensely successful as books and movies. We’ve also seen True Blood adapted from Charlaine Harris’s novels and The Vampire Diaries. Why do you think vampires are so popular in books and films? What is there about the vampire myth that appeals to people? You don’t need to research this paper. I’m more interested in hearing what you think about the vampire and why people can’t seem to get enough of this monster. The paper should run 450-550 words.”

Well, he asked for it. :3c

(Brace yourself, Professor. I’m gonna be That Student™ all semester.) In my ever humble expert opinion, vampires appeal to so many audiences because most people are very horny. The inherent eroticism of someone tenderly and intimately pressing their lips to one’s throat - or for some more extreme folks, the inherent eroticism of being tenderly and intimately murdered - entices even the most bland, otherwise vanilla of people. Nearly everyone yearns to be seduced, and the thrill of being so vulnerable, so much at the mercy of a bloodthirsty predator with a perfectly beautiful face and hungry eyes, is irresistible for many. At our core, I believe a surprising number of people are just exophiles.

Of course, the mystery and intrigue of a taboo romance with a societal “other” defines the genre. That otherness is the territory of the queer community, which is evident at the very provenance of the mythos: most of the earliest works involve lesbians, such as Geraldine and Carmilla, and bisexual men, such as Lord Ruthven - a character modeled after Lord Byron, who himself contributed to the genre - and the very face of vampire fiction, the exemplary Lord Dracula, seducing same gender victims. The harsh, immutable truth is that straight, cisgender vampire fans are allowed to enjoy the genre as a privilege, not a right. Vampires will first and foremost always belong to the persecuted. The influence of the conflict between pagans and christianity can hardly go unmentioned either. This conflict only enforces the appeal of the thrilling, taboo, and undeniably sexual nature of vampire fiction, however. To the average, socially acceptable, respectable citizen, nothing is more appealing than the exotic. Good christian women reveled at mysterious and scandalous stories, and I very much believe that still holds true. Even secular fans in westernized audiences subconsciously view the world through a christianized lens, through no fault of their own of course. Unchristian eroticism is still exotic to modern audiences and, people being people, the exotic and forbidden are still deeply seductive. In the end, what fascinates so many people, in my completely objective opinion, is fear. It’s no secret that arousal and fear frequently go hand in hand, and for a vast number of overworked, understimulated people in backwards, capitalist societies like our own, where they spend most of their lives working tiresome, mundane, predictable jobs, it comes as no surprise to me that so many people are drawn to fantasies that even only momentarily relieve them from that drudgery. For a twenty-something drive-through worker, for a clerk at a local town hall, for a carpenter or a bus driver or a secretary of any old sort of office, the erotic and exotic fantasy of being swept of their feet and gobbled up by a sexy monster - or for some, of doing the sweeping, seducing, and predating - is just the thrill they need to keep them from going mad with boredom and exhaustion. I also think more people are queer than not, it’s just deeply discouraged that we should recognize it and partake of such honest self reflection.

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me reading the classics

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“I mean, I think it’s very much about - for me, it’s a very uplifting song, and I think in places it’s kinda dark, but to me, it’s very liberating. I think it’s about, like, over the last couple years, I guess - it’s about like, self-reflection and self-discovery, and just like, freedom. It feels very free to me, which is, I guess things that I’ve been trying to process and I guess wrestle with a little bit over the last couple years, it’s kind of like, just accepting all of those things.” - Harry on the inspiration for ‘Lights Up’