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[-] Lyre@lemmy.ca 135 points 1 year 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

[-] Zozano@lemy.lol 6 points 1 year 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.

[-] Jolteon@lemmy.zip 126 points 1 year ago
[-] ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago
[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 year ago

You can, it's just awful time consuming

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 1 year ago

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 1 year ago

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

[-] ObsidianZed@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I mean, you probably can, once.

[-] VubDapple@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago

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

[-] SpacePirate@lemmy.ml 47 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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)

[-] bizarroland@fedia.io 17 points 1 year ago

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 9 points 1 year ago
[-] odium@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago

I'm sure there are multiple already in existence

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[-] oxideseven@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

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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[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago

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

[-] commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago

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

[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

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

[-] commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

consenting exploitation is still exploitation

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[-] embed_me@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

Doesn't consent imply the absence of exploitative forces?

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[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

We mastered factory farming 100 years ago

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

[-] slaacaa@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

He would quickly become pro-immigration

[-] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Or a bunch of redneck vampires invade Mexico

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[-] Triasha@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Swemg@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

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

[-] SoleInvictus 5 points 1 year ago

Delicious, juicy blood pockets.

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[-] licheas@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

what? so you have to bend over? naw. put that blood pocket on their neck like nature intended.

[-] quantumfoam@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year 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?

[-] Mrderisant@midwest.social 28 points 1 year ago

I think it was Daybreakers

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago

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 26 points 1 year ago

Vampire here.

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

AMA

[-] paultimate14@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

OP really thinks vampires aren't gay?

[-] Zozano@lemy.lol 3 points 1 year 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.

[-] SomeGuy69@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

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 1 year ago

OP: Killing people isn't a con

[-] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Arbiter@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Anon might be Dio

[-] Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago

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 12 points 1 year 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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[-] Omega_Man@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

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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[-] nifty@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Or bunnicula who drinks the juices of vegetables

Or Adventure Time where vampires can just eat red

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[-] Maeve@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Before much longer, no one will be able to go out in daylight.

[-] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Can vampires sustain themselves on other vampires blood?

[-] Tuxman@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

In Vampire: The Masquerade, it’s considered one of the most taboo act as you literally take in the life force and soul of that other vampire.

But it’s an alluring concept as it can make the aggressor more powerful (at the cost of some humanity… it’s cannibalism after all) AND the victim vampire is utterly destroyed (so one of the permanent ways to take out an adversary)

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[-] AdamBomb@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Devastating they didn't go with "Vampire Empire"

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