If a story, game, show, or movie contains vampires, I am immediately bored and will suspect the creator of being uncreative. Vampires are not cool. They have never been cool. The are the most overdone “monsters” in any form of media. And they are almost always the same; people with the mannerisms from 1800’s England or France and the dress sense of a 2005 Hot Topic. Why not ancient Babylon? Why not South American vampires? Why are their personalities always the fucking same? Why are they always so fucking formal? Why always the 1800’s; this one bugs me the most because the media often claims that Vampires are thousands of years old, so supposedly they kept up with the times until the 1800’s and then just stopped. It’s because writers who use them are lazy and uncreative.

“Oh it’s a metaphor for the duality of man and how there are secretly monsters living among-” shut the fuck up. Use a different metaphor if it’s that important to your story. But it never is. That’s never important to the story because they are always just so fucking lame. Always the same powers. Always the same weaknesses. They have been done to hell and back.

Use. A different. Monster.

  • Katerina@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    18 days ago

    I like Vampires because they’re hot, not because they’re a monster. I think that’s why you might not like most vampire media, because it’s catering to a public that finds them hot and appealing.

  • Spacehooks@reddthat.comEnglish
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    18 days ago

    Just to put different stories out.

    In Trinity blood is post post apocalypse. some vampires were engineers building advance tech rebuilding what was lost. Even had ways to blanket the skies with anti UV clouds letting in sunlight without burning up. Plus didnt have the woe is me mentality. Vampires couldn’t even eat ppl in the new terran empire cause they are all property of their vampire empress.

    Day breakers was pretty dumb scifi but vampires were the main population and needed to resolve the blood issue with dwindling good source.

    Penny dreadful vampires are from ancient times but story set in england 1800s lol. Loved the show but ending was rushed due to cancelation.

    There are also other stories that deviate/are based on vampires tropes in anime. like Ragna crimson where the “dragons” are effectively vampire covens with queens and gods that hunt a kingdom to extinction because someone’s Cafe shutdown there.

    Point is there is plenty of ways vampire stories evolved over time in media. its just popular western media that is letting us down.

  • Fredselfish@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    18 days ago

    Supernatural started doing that later in the seasons and annoyed the fuck out of me. I 100% agree.

  • marzhall@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    18 days ago

    The scifi book Blindight uses them in a way you may find interesting (they’re just a fork of humanity like the species of fireflies that attract mates only to eat them by who died out due to a genetic fluke, brought back by modern science for their intelligence traits), and that’s only a small part of a biologist writing a very “mates ya think” novel exploring consciousness.

    • Glytch@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      17 days ago

      Blindsight is fucking terrible and the vampire captain is only part of the problem with it. It was billed as being hard sci-fi then has fucking vampires in it? An evolutionary offshoot that somehow developed an neurological reaction to right angles? Fucking stupid. Then it’s also filled with some really fucked up opinions about neuro divergence and has a very dissatisfying non-ending.

    • Shanmugha@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      18 days ago

      Immortal, but not invincible, plus sun becomes lethal, plus the fucking thirst. Even I would spend quite some time weighing all things