• Lyre@lemmy.ca
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    5 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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      5 months ago

      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)

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        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.

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

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    5 months ago

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

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    5 months ago

    Vampire here.

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

    AMA

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      5 months ago

      Hoe many liters do you need on an average day?

      Do you avoid or embrace periods?

      That’s all

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        I don’t need much. Some abilities I can only use using blood (so called blood magic); Such as permanent changes to society; But for everyday life I can completely avoid using blood.

        As for the periods, I don’t really care. I usually avoid them, but only because my girlfriend wants me to. I seek for social compatibility.

    • Zozano@lemy.lol
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      4 months ago

      OP really thinks The Gay isn’t transmissible.

      I’ve been to a few blood chasing parties, and let me tell you, I’ve seen straight men dying to suck other straight men after being bitten.

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      Idk about this specific mask caused vampirism but depending on the type of vampirism you might not fully kill the person.

      Just drain like a liter and move on. The person would feel no different than if they had blood drawn.

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    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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    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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    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)

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    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