#vampire mythos

[harrowedworld]

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[allengreenfield]

The Last Voyage of the Demeter: The Real-Life Lore Behind Dracula in History | SYFY WIRE

[macomico]

careful she bites 🩸❣

[jawz]

i’m late af but we finally saw Sinners last night and it was SO FUCKING GOOD. best movie of the year for me

[mintflavoredcookie]

[ID: Two black and white drawings of a Black woman with her hair up in a ponytail. The first one is a full-body shot, with her in a confident pose. It shows that she's wearing a simple cardigan with stars at the end of the sleves and a long skirt with a pattern showing the diferent phases of the moon on its ends. She also has simple round sunglasses that she's lifting from her face. The second drawing is a close-up shot of her face, showing her sunglasses actually in her face together with a face mask. She makes an annoyed face at the viewer. End ID.]

Im going to rework this oc of mine(i got a new idea but i'll need to do some research) but heres a design for her i doodled on my phone when i was bored. I'll probably take the mask away, i dont like it

[folkofthecorner]

happy halloween yall have some art as a treat :>

[nosenipped]

adding into the vampire au idea .. perhaps if he hadn't gone into a coma immediately, he wonders around the palace like a ghost. jack using his gat to shield his eyes after the vampiric process, nods head. bringing back the faceless jack frost ideas hehehe

[harrowedworld]

💀 With a thought, you slow a heartbeat or stop it forever. The touch of Obcasus.

What would you do if you had the power of the Reaper?

[tatters-the-bat]

A vampire has become so good at supernaturally fast counting that he's practically immune to the requirement of having to count things that he sees.

He encounters a vampire hunter, who menacingly brandishes a bag of rice. The vampire glances inside and pauses for only a second before saying, "1,836" and continuing his approach with a wide, devious grin.

The vampire hunter narrows his eyes and removes a grain of rice, taking a big step back. The vampire pauses and sighs.

"1,835."

Once he finishes saying it, the vampire hunter removes another grain of rice; the vampire can only take a single short step.

"..... 1,834. You know you're going to run out of rice eventually, right?"

The vampire hunter takes out another grain of rice.

"1,833."

The vampire hunter puts the grain of rice back into the bag.

"............................. 1,834. I hate you."

[ghostpoetics]

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[theonewiththevampires]

People claiming that vampires are a metaphor for, 'nobles' or the, 'ruling elite' are fascinating to me because I can't think of a single story where that's true and yet they act as if this is not only the most common metaphor, but the only one. Apparently, Dracula is about the dangers of the upper class.

Guys. It's about sex. Vampires have always been about sex.

[raayllum]

Callum falling for what his people consider to be death incarnate "What, like it's hard?"

[makosxa]

The Shambler from the Stars or here's my take on the star vampire's gijinka–

[knees-and-bees]

It will never not annoy me that “garlic” by itself is seen as a ward for vampires.

Because it’s not. At least, not in the source people think it seems to originate from. Because Bram Stoker’s Dracula never said it was garlic itself that was repelling, rather, that it was garlic *flowers* that were repelling.

And while an argument can be made for garlic being repulsive, its roots aren’t from “Dracula”. Rather, it originates from Garlic’s antimicrobial properties, similar to that of silver (both of which are notably repulsive to vampires).

The antimicrobial properties of these two materials are why they were seen as “purifying” in the face of evil. Seeing as people used to connect the spread of disease with an inherent “Evilness” the air possessed. And silver being used in the production of mirrors when these mythologies were truly forming in the western world may be an explanation as to why vampires don’t seem to reflect in mirrors. As for stakes (or wood in general) there are those who argue for the reason behind that being because the wood used was used to make crosses. (+ the connection of religion is the opposite of evil and that’s why holy water and the sun works)

In conclusion the stuff we use to avoid vampires is quite literally just- old medical advice and religious beliefs protecting against evil.

(Yes I got reminded of this because I’m studying Wolf Alice (short story not the band) in my English literature class)

[shivtomdivorce]

blindsight set up rocks. what if aliens came to earth and you were chosen as part of the team to make first contact. and your space ship captain is a vampire