don't be vampirist
don't be vampirist
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Also, many vampires are pretty low on pecking order when it comes to powers.
The newly-minted millennial vamps are barely stronger than your average gym goer, due to how little blood they actually get. A count? Sure, he has henchmen to bring him gallons of the pure stuff per day, and his powers diminish greatly if he doesn't maintain that flow.
We've got this one guy on our night shift. Good guy, works in the back stacking shelves, but he can barely levitate half a meter and can carry as many boxes as I can.
I asked him once, why can't you fly around and turn into a bat and stuff?
He looked at me like I'd just slapped him, but he carefully explained to me that the blood of virgins isn't exactly lying around, and any attempt to procure it himself would just land him in jail like anybody else. Apparently a lot of new vamps just go to the butcher shop to get pig blood, and it's usually enough to get by, but it's becoming harder and harder to find a supplier as veganism is becoming quite popular where he lives as his area is gentrifying.
Honestly, the number of people who never consider the socio-economic problems of vampires is frankly quite sickening.
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This feels like a “what we do in the shadows skit” I love it
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He was a count because he lived in a castle that allowed him to control a county. You can't be a count without having either the political or supernatural power to maintain your fief. The idea that nobility are divinely appointed is just propaganda from second sons and feckless princes. It's not like the Ottomans ever viewed vlad as a noble.
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My understanding is that although a county is administered by a count (or earl, in Britain), the rank of nobility didn't generally implicitly confer land holdings. Likewise with duchies, principalities, baronies, etc.
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Vlad was a voivode, a military prince. Count was just a way to integrate himself with Victorian peerage when he came to take Harkers woman. But like I said, peerage is largely for second sons and feckless princes. Not castle owning vampires.
Centralized states that already razed any castles that could rebel from the monarch like Victorian England don't have vampires living in castles in the first place.
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just realized the muppet that counted was Dracula
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And some vampire traditions have them with arithmomania, which is why to escape them you drop a large number of something in front of them (so they'll be compelled to count every single grain of rice while you make your escape, for instance).
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Feels more "red scare"...
Vampires aren't just in castles in europe. They could be your friends, your family even YOU
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Collin Robinson entered the chat
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VLAD DRACULA tepes has a teleporting castle.
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How come Count Duckula also lives in a castle then? Feels like there’s some kind of co-morbidity going on there.
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Count Duckula
the reading comprehension on this site i swear
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