As a sexy vampire enjoyer, YOU'RE SO RIGHT THAT THEY'RE CANNIBALS AND CORPSES AND MAKING THEM CAPABLE OF SEXUAL REPRODUCTION LIKE HUMANS DO IS SOOOOOOO ANNOYING!!! AAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!
When people write sympathetic sexy vampires, they re-write their inherently transgressive sexuality into something 'suitably' heterosexual and procreative in the traditional fashion, and/or they make them self-loathing praying the gay away types, who are either 'fixed' by the human love interest, or die trying to be good and straight to let their human lover move on. I LOVE when vampires represent transgressive sexuality like the Gothic vampire did, I want more of that, but modern sexy vampire stories are just as bigoted as the fears which originally spawned the deviantly sexual vampire in the first place, and it makes me angry.
To make the vampire sexy, they make them very white, they make them very living, they de-emphasize the inverted vampiric procreation and make them fertile in a traditional sense. They make their gender presentation more traditional, and do away with the implicit bisexuality. To be sexy or sympathetic these days, they have to not be disabled, queer, non-white, or sterile. They have to have social hierarchies that are broadly patriarchal and emphasize sexual procreation to pass on the bloodline, instead of new vampires being sired occasionally by existing ones to form atypical familial structures with no central mother/father heterosexual coupling at the top. Instead of a sparse gaggle of social outcasts who chose each other, we get strictly defined family trees bound by biological descendence ties.
They even have a tendency to remove the 'unholy' quality of vampires! They make VAMPIRISM compatible with CHRISTIANITY!
I YEARN for sympathetic portrayals of sexy vampires that are still innately transgressive in their sexuality and gender. I want vampires who are genderfucked and bisexual and unholy corpse-things abandoned by God and severed from his warm light, and I want that to be treated with a degree of nuance and neutrality. For it to be examined more closely by the narrative. For the conclusion to be 'these scary looking corpse-things that are incapable of traditional sexual reproduction and can't go to church are kind of appealing, and kind of relatable. I am also a deviant other which society and christian morality shuns, whose body the people fear and revile, and I want to be a weird freak with you, my strange, beloved companion. The world has harmed you severely, and you have been embittered, relegated to its shadowy margins. We can be free together, though, roaming the night hand-in-desiccated,-waxy-claw'.
AND I WANT A VAMPIRE WHO TRANSES ALL OF THEIR FLEDGLINGS' GENDERS, GOD DAMN IIIIIIT!
DRACULA MASCULINIZED ALL OF HIS 'BRIDES', I NEED FIFTY RETELLINGS WHERE HE GIVES THEM TOP SURGERY RIGHT NOW!!!!!