#vampire media

[snail-shell2335]

Do You Know What It Means To Be Loved By Death?

[monsterblogging]

I have noticed there is a little bit of confusion over the nature of what vampires are and therefore what they ought to be in fiction, which manifests when people say "vampires have to be this level of dreadful because they are horror monsters."

Vampires are not inherently "horror monsters." They began as folklore that developed to explain a variety of phenomena experienced by people who didn't have modern scientific understanding.

Claiming they have to be a certain way because they're horror monsters is a little bit like claiming you can't write a story where snow isn't a terrible horrible danger because one time a guy wrote a story where everybody died in a blizzard.

[fartzsack]

Interview With The Vampire ( s2ep5 )

[fluffycakesistainted]

When the idea came to me for this movie, I thought about other supernatural creatures as a thing that they could confront at the juke joint. [...] And I kept coming back to vampires because of everything that the vampire implies in public consciousness. Vampires—it's not a steadfast rule, but it's pretty commonly associated with sensuality. Vampires are expected to be sexy, usually expected to be fashionable, usually expected to be knowledgeable, usually expected to be very powerful. It’s not thought of as wrong if a vampire is converted to vampirism but they maintain a human personality, the human memories. It’s a fascinating premise. I mean, you’ll see a version of this almost in every culture. [...] If I’m trying to have a conversation about our common humanity—which for me, this movie is about. [...] So for me, the vampire was a creature who’s, like, human adjacent, who was human at some point, became something else. But through their advanced age, they could see society for what it was. 

--Ryan Coogler - Fresh Air, NPR

[heartzpotion]

Adding to the vampyon agenda…

This is based off the myth that vampires have to count every single grain of rice if thrown infront of them! Also based off an idea I got by someone in a discord server and a silly video on TikTok.

[raccoonboywrites]

Vampires getting sexual gratification from drinking blood. Blood as an aphrodisiac. Blood making their cocks get even harder. Sex covered in blood

[amongaesthetics]

Okay so I’m rewatching Buffy for the nth time and I just noticed something about episode 4.

Like, I remembered the plot well enough- you don’t forget “it’s scary to fall in love with my substitute teacher because what if they’re secretly a praying mantis who wants to eat my face.”

But what I didn’t quite put together is that the teacher who gets killed in the beginning of the episode was probably the only person on the show who believed in Buffy as Buffy Summers and not Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Like, everyone who knows Buffy Summers thinks she’s a screw up- bad grades, no commitment to homework, skipped classes, got in fights, burned down a gym, was expelled from her past school. Only those who know about the Slayer know to overlook these blights as necessary to her fight against evil. Normal people, those who don’t know, always think she’s a screw up- even her mom.

This teacher on episode four who dies before the intro saw Buffy Summers. Saw the sharp girl in the back of the class, quick-witted, good on her feet, with all her flaws and blights and said, ‘don’t listen to anyone’s negative opinion about you. I see your potential. I see your ability. Put in the effort and show them how well you can succeed because I know you can.’

Giles is good enough- he becomes a father figure even- but it’s hinged in his belief of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, not for Buffy Summers. The way his guidance and care for Willow, for example, isn’t clouded by his belief that she must be something in the fight against the end times. Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Giles must shape up- and while played for comical relief, this is demonstrated in his inability to understand her desire to be Normal Teen Girl who tries out for cheerleading and skips fights to go to prom.

Buffy only mattered to people, only felt like she succeeded, as Buffy the Vampire Slayer- except for this random guy who dies 5 minutes into the episode and is never mentioned again.

And I think Buffy being robbed of that genuine belief in her is what comes back to get her after college since nobody ever says that to her again.