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[lustik]

Illustration by Olya Grebennik.

[captainlordauditor]

blood is not kosher

assuming vampires breathe, and are therefore alive, what do they do

[animatedamerican]

If they’re alive and they need it to survive, it’s permitted (provided they don’t kill people in so doing).

If they’re not alive, halacha doesn’t apply to them.

Either way, there is no reasonable halachic restriction on a vampire drinking blood.

[captainlordauditor]

but would it need to be from a kosher animal can they drink, like, dolphin blood

[animatedamerican]

Okay now that gets interesting and I would want to actually ask a rabbi whether that would be a thing.  like, if one must consume the blood of living things to survive, does it make a difference whether one limits it to the blood of kosher animals or not.  I could see it being ruled either way.  (I would think if there is only one type of blood one can metabolize or if only one type of blood is available, one can consume it regardless.)

[acleverforgery]

I remember learning that human blood (not sure about animal blood) is permissible to consume if it has not been “poresh” (”separated”) from the body (in the context of “if you cut your lip or your finger and immediately and instinctively put it in your mouth, you don’t have to spit out the blood”).

So 

Drinking blood out of a goblet or vacuum-sealed bag would be assur, but sinking your teeth into someone and drinking directly (so that the blood never touches the air or is in a vessel) would be okay.

[animatedamerican]

I know that applies to one’s own blood, but I don’t know if the principle applies to someone else’s.  But it may count as a possible precedent!

[alternativetodiscourse]

Okay, so I asked my rabbi about this (… yes, my actual rabbi). Short answer, @fenrisesque​, is that the ideal situation is for the vampire to intravenously ingest blood that was donated by a human in order to stay alive, assuming that donation doesn’t kill the person. If homemade intravenously doesn’t work, then storebought oral ingestion is fine too. This applies whether or not the vampire can drink animal blood. Long answer, which I find fascinating but is long so under a cut:

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[strange-gods]

Oh man! I don't know if this is how your requests usually go, but I would love to see something of a psychopomp leading the spirits of the dead? Bonus points for the implication of the spirit guide leading them astray - something to the end of a great spiritual greed.

I’m sure everyone will be fine.

[wrongroot]

Basically, literature ends here

[lisasterle]

An assortment of sketches, both pencil and ink that I’ve shared on my IG over the past few months. Some original characters, and bonus fan art: Lenny from Legion, Usagi, Mirchiru, Haruka and Trico from the Last Guardian.

My IG is lisasterle, feel free to follow to see more sketch work. I usually only post finals on tumblr.

[wrongroot]

I love

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New Gods #7 is awesome.

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Tel Aviv, right?

[wrongroot]

...and every time i started to have a thought i went to a pub instead.

Sarah McCarry

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By bcrypt

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[mysharona1987]

Fact: In the 20s Agatha Christie faked her disappearance to get revenge on her cheating husband and Arthur Conan Doyle became so obsessed with finding out what happened he stole one of her gloves and gave it to a psychic medium he knew to try and find her.

THIS IS A THING THAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED.

It’s like Gone Girl, only with wacky detective fiction authors.

[sarahreesbrennan]

I love that Agatha Christie Mysteriously Disappeared herself (best revenge) and I love that Arthur Conan Doyle tried to Detect her Whereabouts. I always love the intersections of writers’ lives and careers–and their intersections with other authors. WRITER PALS. Arthur Conan Doyle apparently co-wrote a comic opera with J.M. Barrie, who he was on a cricket team with–they never finished it.

[wrongroot]

Actually, it is well known what *really* happened. Thanks, Doctor Who.

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Possibilities of growth

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House of the Silver Moon

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