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[–] Lyre@lemmy.ca 141 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Zozano@lemy.lol 5 points 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.

[–] Aux@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] scholar@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago

"That was never the case." "That then became the case."

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[–] Jolteon@lemmy.zip 134 points 4 months ago (4 children)
[–] ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You can, it's just awful time consuming

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Probably a pretty relaxing way to spend an afternoon if you do it on purpose 🤷

"What did you do over the weekend, Bob?"

"Oh, not much. Sired a few goths, threw some meditation rice. You know, the usual"

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Man if I can't have Caesar salad you might as well just drive a stake into my heart now.

[–] oxideseven@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 months ago

Substitute with the much superior shalot. Reign supreme into eternity.

[–] ObsidianZed@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

I mean, you probably can, once.

[–] VubDapple@lemmy.world 49 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Jokes on you Anon! If everyone is a vampire then who's blood do you suck?

[–] SpacePirate@lemmy.ml 53 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (5 children)

You farm the remaining humans like livestock? We mastered factory farming 100 years ago, no reason things need to change just because the animals can talk back.

(banned from /c/veganism)

[–] bizarroland@fedia.io 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Okay but among those people who choose to remain human, how many of us would be okay with donating blood every two weeks in exchange for food and rent?

Think about it. If the vampires have all the power, why would they kill their food source when the longer they let their food source live the more food they get out of it?

Let us tra-la-la and have happy-go-lucky existences, which will probably make our blood taste better to them, and they can spend their eternities competing for resources or whatever makes a vampire happy after the first 500 years.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 10 points 4 months ago (3 children)
[–] odium@programming.dev 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm sure there are multiple already in existence

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[–] oxideseven@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I've been saying this since I was a kid. Every time I see a blood donation place. That's a vampire organization and you can't convince me otherwise :D

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[–] kuadhual@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago

There's one already, where the vampire is a head of state and religius leader. (Luminous Valentine)

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Fun fact, human blood can be vegan, as long as the human is consenting

[–] commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 months ago (5 children)

the definition of veganism has nothing to do with consent, only exploitation.

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 months ago (7 children)

And if I'm consenting, then it isn't exploitation when a hot vampire gives me the biggest fucking hickey

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[–] embed_me@programming.dev 5 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Doesn't consent imply the absence of exploitative forces?

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[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

This was part of the plots in the movies Blade & Blade 2.

The problem becomes apparent in this film: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0433362/

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

We mastered factory farming 100 years ago

Speak for yourself! I haven't even begun practicing yet!

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[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

He would quickly become pro-immigration

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Or a bunch of redneck vampires invade Mexico

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[–] Triasha@lemmy.world 40 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Anon has not considered the consequences of an entire nation of hungry vampires devoid of humans.

[–] Swemg@lemm.ee 13 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Well we have cows, might as well have human farms. Maybe genetically modified human with pockets of blood on their belly

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Delicious, juicy blood pockets.

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[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 36 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I think Anon needs to retake middle school biology. You see there's this thing called the predator/prey relationship and if the predators outnumber the prey, things are gonna get real dire REAL fast. Like this:

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0433362/

[–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah this is always the best thing when reading things like that; at the end of eternity we’ll be left with an immense amount of shrivelled, dusty and extremely hangry immortals.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I was in a band called Extremely Hangry Immortals.

We mostly played industrial horrorcore and metal covers of food commercial jingles.

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[–] quantumfoam@lemmy.world 35 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Wasnt there a movie about this where almost everyone was basically a vampire, and started running out of humans and human blood to eat?

[–] Mrderisant@midwest.social 29 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I think it was Daybreakers

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If I'm not mistaken, it's also the source of that meme of William Dafoe looking up

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[–] nikaaa@lemmy.world 25 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Vampire here.

I don't drink blood (because that's disgusting, and also crual and unfair), I drink vaginal juices.

AMA

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Hoe many liters do you need on an average day?

Do you avoid or embrace periods?

That's all

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[–] paultimate14@lemmy.world 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

OP really thinks vampires aren't gay?

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[–] SomeGuy69@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Congratulations, you're ageless, will never retire and you have to do a lot of manual labor, as it's cheaper than a machine, if you convert a country. If only a few are converted, others will want to hunt you down and put you on a shelve as trophy.

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[–] DarkSpectrum@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

OP: Killing people isn't a con

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[–] Arbiter@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago

Anon might be Dio

[–] Omega_Man@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Can vampires sustain themselves on alien blood? Just imagining a brood of vampires conquering Earth and then setting their eyes to the galaxy. Like they have vampire scientists who find ways to let them enter sunlight and enjoy Italian food once more.

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[–] Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Another con is that vampires are even more immortal than they appear. Even if the vampire's body is completely destroyed, their soul will wander through the universe, unable to affect anything, but still conscious. They can't even communicate with other vampires in that state. They'll get to see universe die starting 10 to the power of 16 years from now (end of star formation) until it's finally dead at 10 to the power of 10 to the power of 120, when universe reaches its final energy state. But at least a new universe will start at 10 to the power of 10 to the power of 10 to the power of 56. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future)

[–] MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works 13 points 4 months ago

Where does that lore come from? I thought they literally gave up their soul to the devil, or whatever evil thing rules hell, to have physical immortality?

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[–] nifty@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

People suggesting you’d have to kill for blood haven’t seen true blood. IIRC the vampires in that book/show found a way to coexist with humans because human nations created artificial blood (that you could buy like soda at a convenience store etc)

Edit a whole bunch of other stuff happened, but that’s one aspect from that setting

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[–] AdamBomb@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

For more about how an empire of vampires would turn out, read “Empire of the Vampire”

[–] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Devastating they didn't go with "Vampire Empire"

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