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@terebi-me
what I'm watching now
Interview with the Vampire (or, The Vampire Lestat, if you're nasty) Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed (just what it says on the tin) House of the Dragon (enhanced by Leslie Jones's watchalong posts) Babylon 5 (a long overdue rewatch - just started s1... "it ain't fair, Jeff Sinclair")
My shows sustain me. Also playing Boggle by myself. When do my 50s start getting better?
I know that’s kind of the go-to thing to show that a vampire character is “one of the good ones” or whatever but it actually seems a little bit more fucked up for a vampire to steal blood from a blood bank than for a vampire to attack people for blood, at least as long as it’s not the kind of vampire where a bite is instantly lethal like it never stops bleeding.
People can recover from losing some blood but blood bank blood is constantly in short supply and is reserved for people who imminently need blood transfusion of a specific blood type or else they die.
I also hate the “I can just substitute human blood with animal blood” like the whole idea of vampirism sort of hinges on the fact the only thing you can feed off of are humans.
YOU get it
Once you start having vampires subsist on animals, well, like, so do humans. In fact the average human probably eats more animals per year than most of the animal-blood-drinking vampires I’ve seen depicted.
That’s not a vampire, all you’ve written is an immortal superhuman who subsists on…food, even if it’s a bit undercooked. That’s a fucking elf.
Some of y’all’s ideas of other options for “ethical” vampires is insane.
“Ethical vampires should feed on criminals.” So it is ethical for a person to get death penalty without trial and/or to be literally consumed by other citizens as punishment for a crime? That’s the prison-industrial complex.
If you’re thinking about adding a comment on this post that outlines some way that vampires could actually be totally ethical, don’t:
1. I heard it before, twice.
2. You’re wrong. Don’t take this as a challenge, you’ve already failed and you’re wrong because
3. Even if you come up with something ethical, which you probably still didn’t, you’re missing the point of vampires!
@reading-comp-posting
I think the DESPERATION yet utter failure to find an ethical means of vampirism when confronted with this post is part of like, a wider trend in the culture of this website or fandom in general or something of complete black&white thinking on morality and also probably Puritanism.
I think somebody should write an essay on this instead of the next comment they’re about to make about how vampires should just feed on cops or politicians or billionaires or criminals or consenting victims (all of which present some pretty serious ethical problems that nobody has apparently considered!)
In your desperate need to find a means for vampires to exist totally without harm to anyone else, in these scenarios you posit, y’all have created so many more ethical problems, all while patting yourself on the back.
Bad Ethics Commented on this Post Masterpost
Great story ideas, terrible ethics.
“Don’t worry guys, there’s this type of person called a ‘bad person’, and if we just kill enough of them everything will be alright!”
“Vampires should just feed off of: [whatever human beings I can most comfortabley other]!”
Criminals
>Prison-industrial complex, already addressed this, already happening IRL.
>Would lead to more “tough on crime” bills like the war on drugs to put more and more people in prison so vampires never run out of food.
Cops
>Particularly hard targets.
>Always armed.
>Always in radio contact with other cops.
>Deaths more likely to be seriously investigated.
>City just hires more cops.
>Resulting moral panic from random attacks on cops easily spun towards more police funding, more heavily armed police, curfews, blame shifted onto minorities.
Politicians & Billionares
>Surrounded by security 24/7. Fucking untouchable if they’re anybody who’s anybody.
>Money&power just goes to the next guy in line.
>Start reading again from the top.
Nazis
>Start reading again from the top.
Landlords
>Start reading again from the top.
All of the Above
>Vampires live forever and always gotta be drinking blood. Who do they eat when they run out of bad people?
>How many provably irredeemable Nazis are there really?
>How long before they start justifying anyone with a dubious tweet from 6 years ago?
“Vampires should just pay people to give them blood!”
>Society’s most desperate and poor people forced to sell part of their body to ‘earn a living’.
>Already a thing IRL.
“Vampires should just find kinky goths who get off from having their blood drunk!”
>Vampires essentially sex workers then.
>What if your every meal had to be filmed and the uploaded as a mukbang fetish video on pornhub
>What if your every meal relied on the next horny John coming around to get his neck bitten
>Ugly vampires starve.
“Vampires should drink from a consenting partner!”
>Relationship is literally draining.
>“You can’t break up with me, I’ll starve.”
>“You can’t break up with me, you’ll starve.”
>Ugly vampires starve.
“Vampires should steal from blood banks!”
>Already addressed this.
“Vampires should drink blood from animals because animal blood is not biologically different from human blood!”
>Fuck
>off
“There should be blood donation drives for vampires!”
>Actually, pretty good.
>Unfortnately, we can’t even supply enough donated blood for the existing IRL mortals who need it.
>What does a vampire do when their gofundme is $20 short?
Conclusion
All of these, as well as whatever other attempt at “solving” vampirism anyone else is going to inevitably comment in response, fail to provide a feasible way for a vampire to ethically drink human blood. However, they’re almost there, just barely brushing past the point, which is that vampires are unethical. Instead of a problem to be solved in worldbuidling, this is the ideal springboard for a story that says something about fucking society! Good stories aren’t about utopian societies or perfect people–unless those utopian societies and perfection are a lie–they’re about societies and people with problems and who cause problems! Vampires are a curse, they exists to cause problems, you take that from them in your story and they’re nothing. If you instead embrace how characters–even as protagonists–cause problems, you might actually stumble onto a theme or two.
These are genuinely excellent and thought out points! I’m going to come back to this post whenever I’m writing or thinking about vampires & vampirethics.
Now I’ll chime in completely unhelpfully with, if the rule is that the vampire can only gain sustenance from humans but the fluid doesn’t matter, they should eat via blowjob.
Vampire the Masquerade and Vampire the Requiem like to hammer home how you can’t be the good guy vampire. You can restrict yourself to feeding on animals and awful people, you can avoid killing the people you feed on, you can try to be a good person, but at the end of the night you are a monster, a predator only pretending to hold onto its humanity, and the more you try to hold the monster inside you back, the more it tried to escape until you inevitably lose control and go into a blood frenzy. You literally have to be a monster to keep the monster inside you satisfied, because if you aren’t, it will break out and will be far worse than anything you would willingly do.
Fascinating but please let’s stay on topic: could a vampire survive on a blowjob-based diet?
A little while ago I posted this gorgeous photo set of John Taylor from Duran Duran. Someone in the tags said he would make a great Dream from Sandman. And, that idea wouldn’t leave me alone, so here you have John as Dream.
it works!
Pam Grier, whose mother was Cheyenne Indian, poses publicity in a Native American headdress, 1985 😍🤎😍🤎😍
📸: Harry Langdon
I really do have to share
my babygirl <3
Step 3. This man.....
it's the positioning of the fingers in the picture that makes this :)
I've slowly been chipping away at drawing scenes from that imaginary Muppet retelling of the Princess Bride, figured it was about time to share what I've drawn on Tumblr!
Jesus God why hasn't this happened already!
listen i am no stan of any celebrity cause i follow them for their art if i like it but at a certain point people need to come to terms with the fact that hypercriticism of a single celebrity that is a laundry list of things that all other people in Hollywood and in the entertainment industry have done, sometimes 10 times worse than he has, cannot be untied from him being a brown jewish indigenous man. Im not saying this makes him impervious to criticism, cause he's human and makes mistakes, im saying that when the hate boner against him is the result of patching together years old likes on social media posts and insane gossip about his personal life and his friendship, people need to ask themselves why it is that they act like this towards him specifically. It's not normal to base a call out post on gossip accounts and hollywood rumors or wildly exaggerating his actions to be more than they actually were to one up people on the internet. like "he supports X because he liked Y" no it just means he's a chronically offline middle aged man who logs on instagram from time to time and you want his career obliterated so you can feel like you accomplished something
and we can see that in the constant goalpost moving
they say that taika fired guz khan. you explain that he didn't. they say 'well okay but he's still a zionist'. you explain that he isn't. they come out with a whole laundry list of bullshit about how he cheated on his wife (like. so did my dad but i'm not boycotting him either) and how he isn't a good dad (how do you know? are you in regular contact with his kids?) and how his movies are mid (fair enough if you think that but again, not a cancellable offence) and a billion other perceived transgressions that they've pulled directly out of their arse
is he a good person? i don't know. i don't know him from adam. he might be. he probably isn't. his work makes me happy. that's all i know
leave Taika alone, he can't help being gorgeous
phrases like "the house always wins" and "it's on the house" but used to imply that the building you're in is alive and personally invested in the situation
the house always wins
the Hausu always wins
Goldfish
Please do not flush or otherwise release into the wild or he will become a kaiju of love
that joke was funnier than you acted.
Ned Low, you naughty li'l psychopath
Y'all weren't kidding—he really is shaped like a rectangle.
With very strong shoulders...
like
a
brick
shit house
CON O'NEILL as IZZY HANDS OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH 2.05 The Curse of the Seafaring Life
I've been seeing these gifs for months but I just got a new HD monitor and I WASN'T READY HOLY SHIT FUCKING GOD HELLO SIR I AM ON THE FLOOR IN 4K FUCKING CHRIST ON A BIKE
"too old to take my top off" he says
"nobody wants to see a 54 year old man shirtless" he says
heh we showed him (and he showed US. his boobs. he showed us his boobs)
CREW || first episode of appearance ⇉ season 2 episode 8
a gorgeous survey of a gorgeous show.
You don’t know the first thing about piracy do you? It’s not about glory, it’s not about getting what you want. It’s about belonging to something when the world has told you you’re nothing. It’s about finding the family to kill for when yours are long dead. It’s about letting go of ego for something larger: the crew.
it's all about ribbon bows on shoes
I’m going to get pissed
Can we become a lighthouse?
I’m genuinely just pissed off actually.
On one hand it’s awesome we got 2 seasons, but on the other there was no fucking reason to cancel it.
Despite the increased amount of marketing around season 2, the budget cuts and limitations around it set the show up for failure, despite still being a massive success.
Stop cancelling queer media you fuckwads.
It just feels petty, y'know?
