• Lyre@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    People have more or less completely forgotten that vampires are meant to represent the monstrosity of an unchecked aristocracy/wealthy upper class. They sold their souls for power and now live exclusively by feeding off those beneath them. You don’t just ‘become’ a vampire like you don’t just ‘become’ rich. You can certainly become enthralled to a vampire though

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      4 months ago

      I never actually realised this. Now I’m going to be thinking about every depiction of vampires I’ve been exposed to, for the rest of the day.

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      4 months ago

      That was never the case. Traditional folk tales about vampires were a way to understand corpse decomposition. The narrative changed in 1819.