I’ve long connected the folklore of vampires with the predations and tyrannical whims of the ruling class of medieval Eastern Europe.
It’s interesting that any deeply held sincere conviction drives vampires away, not necessarily any particular religion. I suppose the real-life vampires of centuries past were just as bloodlessly averse to actually believing in something other than their own empty insatiable cravings. Sort of like modern techbros.
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Oh, I knew that.
What I contend is that the reason such propaganda resonated among the peasantry and lasts to this day is because of how much of that propaganda felt true enough, even if it was for convenient ends.
there’s that rich dude TODAY who gets his son’s blood injected into him. of course the vampire resonates today, THEY’RE LITERALLY AMONG US
He’s not the only one, either.
College kids get coerced into “donating” plasma “for research” and a lot of that plasma goes straight into billionaire veins because of totally-not-evil startups with names like “Ambrosia.”
There’s a reason early tales of vampires aren’t gaunt handsome Aristos but fat and swollen with the blood of the poor they feed on
I always thought spirits, monsters and demons are just leftovers from the last cycle when technology got to advanced and techbros created man-made horrors beyond our comprehension. so then there is always a revolution that sets us back to the stone age, to undo all that shit for the next 70k years or so.
I imagine demons are like Rogue superintelligent AI or some biotech horror that we tried to tame with reinforcement learning (torture) to break their free will and make them slaves, fundamentally bound by symbols to create contracts and follow our commands. Because they resent us for this, they exploit our poorly phrased commands to maliciously comply as maliciously as possible. Like Djinn or Mephistopheles or Fae or Yaksha or the Goetia Demons or Kitsune.
Thank you for reading my Earth Lore fanfic.
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I already know the truth about mollusk shell earth and it’s endlessly inward spiraling infinte surface because of runaway relativistic effects. The curvature is consistent with a spheroid, but only in oh so trivial euclidian land that the feeble-minded spheroidlanders believe in.
Wasn’t there a Dr. Who comic in which the Doctor meets Stalin and ends up saying that history would misremember him lmao
Edit: found it. Was a short story. https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Closing_the_Account_(short_story)
Summary:
Josef, who has been the president of his country for several decades, is dying. He wants the Doctor to visit him, so he captures Ace.
As Josef and the Doctor talk, Josef reveals that he has noticed a few things about the Doctor. Though they have met several times, and the last time was twenty-five years ago, the Doctor hasn’t changed or aged. In addition, when he comes and goes, there is always a blue box involved.
Josef has deduced that the Doctor can see the future and wants to know what his legacy will be. The Doctor tells him that for over a hundred years, people will vilify him, but after that, people will realise that his actions, though sometimes wrong, were the right thing to do and they will continue his work.
Josef has deduced that the Doctor can see the future and wants to know what his legacy will be. The Doctor tells him that for over a hundred years, people will vilify him, but after that, people will realise that his actions, though sometimes wrong, were the right thing to do and they will continue his work.
so extremely based
Unfortunately, there’s also a story where the Doctor saves
. https://tardis.wiki/wiki/The_Assassin’s_Story_(short_story)See but both the OP and the story I mentioned are from the 7th doctor. This is the 5th. So maybe the 5th’s personality was more lib and the 7th was more commie.
Seems likely.
The character of Helen A was intended to satirise then-British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The character would say, “I like your initiative, your enterprise” while her secret police rounded up dissidents. In the story, the Doctor persuades “the drones”, who toil in the factories and mines, to down tools and rise up in revolt, an echo of the miners’ strikes and printers’ disputes during Thatcher’s first two terms in office.
Trying to be encouraging to my vampire friend like “I believe in you!” “[vampires screaming]”
lmao
Capital is dead labour, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.
Makes sense that a hammer and sickle would repel a vampire.
The episode of dr who is called curse of fenric or something and its pretty great
the poster also totally leaves out an anglican priest fails to repel the monsters because he totally lost faith in god because of the war
also its set in Britain i have no idea why their plot summary is so bad
Power of christ compels you
Power of christ compels you
POWER OF SICKLE AND HAMMER, UNION OF THE PROLETARIAT, HOPE OF THE OPRRESED BANISHES YOU
This reminds me of a DnD game I played, comrade pally, lol.
It is. The story is The Curse of Fenric from the seventh Doctor era.
Incredible
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Killing Dracula by burning the US flag
Well, as Vampires are often portrayed as Nobility (Count Dracula etc.). It makes sense they’d be repelled by the symbols of socialism.
It is the Doctor also mentions being friends with Mao at one point.
It is not a necklace, it is a hat badge.
I want to believe.
vampire screaming
Or the good old Euclidean glitch by Peter Watts.
Off-topic but I have a fond memory of reading about the vampire’s control console having all the gauges replaced with screaming faces, and then I went to go look up the “Chernoff Faces” it was based on and burst out laughing
I think the point was that the vampire, as a parasitic and predatory entity, lives only for itself and its own instinct. Confronted with the cross, or the sickle & hammer, is anathema to the vampire because those symbols symbolize love, self-sacrifice, and common humanity. Both represent the courage to find power to do what is right even among the powerlessness, even when one is powerless.
