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Killing Dracula by burning the US flag
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
It is. The story is The Curse of Fenric from the seventh Doctor era.
Trying to be encouraging to my vampire friend like “I believe in you!” “[vampires screaming]”
lmao
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Incredible
I want to believe.
vampire screaming
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.”
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.
ive got a conspicuously-shaped earth to sell you
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.
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
Yes it is and it’s amazing.
It is not a necklace, it is a hat badge.
It’s from Season 26, ep 8, “The Curse of Fenric”, specifically part 3.
The Doctor reveals that faith or strong belief repels “hemavores” or vampires and repels a bunch by closing his eyes and believing in something. A higher ranking Soviet soldier that landed with a group of such soldiers in England during the second world war (reasons I forget) ends up separated from most of his troops who are still on the beach and instead with the Doctor, his companion Ace, and a priest. He insists he must go back for his men. Ace (the Doctor’s present companion) asks him to teach the soldier “the singing” to scare them off. The Doctor states he either really believes in something or he doesn’t to which the Soviet soldier replies he believes in the revolution. Some scene-cuts later the soldier, leaving the church is confronted by a group of these creatures and pulls out the pin, focusing on his belief in the revolution and they clutch themselves and start screaming as he walks slowly through them.
Someone made an edit with the Soviet anthem playing layered over it but in the original show it’s just dramatic music stings with some ringing noises like those that accompanied the Doctor’s actions earlier, no anthem plays.
And as mentioned elsewhere a priest in the episode can’t repel them because he lost his faith due to the war.
Billy Butcher: “Fuck off, you pale cunts! I’ll bollocks every last one of you!”
Vampires: “Oh, shit! He believes in himself! Run away!”
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.
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
It is the Doctor also mentions being friends with Mao at one point.
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.
