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Independant Dracula Untold OC blog. Following back on thelonelyden. Mun is 21

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Oil painting by Lizz Lopez

This artist on Instagram // BigCartel

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 Sakura Endo by Minori Nakada for OVE Magazine — July 2018

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Dracula Untold (2014, dir. Gary Shore)

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reasons i haven’t replied back:

- i’m socially exhausted - i don’t have the time right now - i don’t know how to reply - i have a bad memory and got distracted - i’m having a depressive episode and don’t have the energy to socialise

not reasons i haven’t replied back:

- i’m ignoring you just because - i hate you - i’m fed up with you - i don’t want to be your friend anymore

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Creatures of the night.

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Fun fact... our earliest ideas of Western literature's "bloodsucking monsters" reflected the people's fears of the time: i.e. the anxiety around sexuality, homophobia, xenophobia, and racism of Victorian and imperialistic England. Dracula has explicitly homoerotic moments (deliberately to incite fear in the readers of the time) as well as scandalizing implications and images of oral sex; gender subversions, especially in a sexual manner, abound, and fear of having one's flesh "penetrated" by Dracula or the weird sisters' fangs and being corrupted by them is not subtle. It was also considered "scary" to British readers fresh from conflicts with colonized India that a "foreigner" like the Count could learn to speak English and "invade" their country by posing as one of them, stealing or seducing their women, turning their men gay, and also spreading "disease" (syphilis was rampant at the time), etc... The symbolism of Count Dracula needing to bring the very earth of his foreign country into his new house in England to disguise himself as a regular citizen (and then planning on doing the same to another house, then another, eventually taking over the whole country) can't be ignored.

And Carmilla, written 26 years before Dracula, is a lesbian vampire! So is Christabel's (1816) intruder, wherein a female vampire-like being slips into a woman's house to seduce her and most likely plans to assume the appearance and gender of her absent male lover in order to marry her! The Vampire, one of the first-ever known published vampire works (and written some 150 years before any of these others), depicts a male vampire threatening to steal into a good Christian maiden's bedroom in order to seduce her and teach her that "his ways" (aka the sexual liberation and kiss of the vampire) are superior to Christianity's teachings!

God-fearing Victorian England was like oooo so scary and corrupting!!, but it's no surprise we're like, UH YES PLEASE.

Point is: sex and sexuality have always been part of our understandings and depictions of vampires. Always, or at least since the 1700s, long before Dracula was ever written. Vampires have always represented sex (and fear of sex); they've also always been tied up with elements of homosexuality and queerness; race and foreignness; gender roles and their subversion, etc. All of the cultural and social prejudices that ran roughshod over the Western world at that time.

Romanticizing and humanizing vampires is a good thing. It shows that our society is moving away from the fears that Victorian England was so terrorized by; we are embracing the sexuality, queerness and homosexuality, foreignness and power that vampires represent. More than embracing, we are desiring these things, in characters as well as in our cultural landscapes! Our fears regarding this have turned to wants, and our romanticizing and humanizing of vampires reflects that. It's a good thing.

(Our fears are now reflected in other horror media, but that's a story for another time.)

TL;DR - ROMANTICIZE VAMPIRES!!! BE HORNY FOR THEM IF YOU WANT!!! It shows we are embracing what they stand for, and it's also literally what they've been about since they began appearing in popular media over 300 years ago... It's not like associating vampires with sex is weird, like people are just taking some horrifying creature that was never meant to be sexual and making it that way. Anyone who's like 'hurr they're meant to be scary because they drink blood so just be scared of them and stop desiring them' is only giving half a take, and it's a bad one at that. INTERACT WITH MEDIA HOW YOU LIKE*, AND ALSO, VAMPIRES + SEX/ROMANCE PRETTY MUCH GO HAND IN HAND AND ALWAYS HAVE.

*in a way that doesn't harm others!

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vampire starters

as requested by anon. Feel free to change pronouns, lore, or anything else !

Human

“Oh, bite me. Wait–don’t do that.”

“Woah, those are some freaky colored contacts/fake fangs/fake bloodstains.”

“Is that why you’ve always been so…weird?”

“I’m not afraid of you.”

“You got a little something on your face there…and hands, and..oh gosh..”

“So…how old are you?”

Turning

“What’s happening to me?!”

“Did you just…bite me?”

“This..hurts…”

“Get away from me!”

“I feel…weirdly stronger…”

Newly Turned

“I’m still not used to this…”

“Being immortal sounds pretty cool.”

“Am I supposed to…kill things?”

“I want cool vampire powers.”

“I can’t believe this actually happened to me.”

“I have so many questions.”

Born a Vampire

“Drinking blood isn’t weird for me.”

“We watch Dracula to make fun of how dumb humans are.”

“You don’t have to drink human blood, dumbass.”

“Someone around here should show you the ropes.”

“I’m actually not that old.”

Ancient

“I’ve lived through hundreds of generations.”

“Doritos are the greatest invention in the history of time.”

“So many people have died in front of my eyes.”

“There’s no such thing as ‘the good old days’. Every time sucks.”

“I wish I could be with you forever.” / “I can’t wait until your ass dies.”

Lore

“I don’t sleep in a coffin.” / “I sleep on silk sheets.”

“No, we don’t turn into bats.”

“Are you checking to see if I sparkle? Because I do, with my shining personality.”

“Most of the crap in movies isn’t true.”

“I’d stay away from anyone that smelled like garlic. So would you, if you’re a reasonable person.”

Hungry

“No matter how much I eat, it’s never enough.”

“You’re bleeding…”

“Go. Now. Before I-”

“Everyone’s blood smells different. Yours smells like chocolate/dog shit/cheese fries.”

“I shouldn’t have waited this long…”

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So it’s been established that vampires can tell a person’s blood type. But can vampires determine.... like, blood alcohol count?

Just *sip* “oh you should not have been driving my dude”

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@anmcrtist what’s your take on this

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Vampire: *sips blood*

Vampire: *pushes you out of the seat* Move over, bitch, you’re too drunk for this shit.

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Vampire designated driver

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me: cruising down 505, minding my own business

also me: checks rear-view mirror to see a drunk dude in the passenger seat with nobody in the driver's seat