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Check your assumptions (media.piefed.world)

submitted 7 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world to c/curatedtumblr@sh.itjust.works

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[–] BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Vampires are classically allegories about scary foreigners spreading diseases and sexual immorality. See Stoker’s Dracula and Le Fanu’s Carmilla for the Ur-examples. There is, however, a really good modern reading of Dracula as healthy queer polyamory vs toxic polygamy. And Carmella is the inspiration for many of the canonical works of lesbian literature.

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 5 points 7 months ago

Eh. It's true that Dracula was a scary foreigner, but he was also nobility, and most subsequent vampire works definitely lean into the nobility aspect instead of the foreigner aspect. Debaucherous nobility is a common theme in works that deal with non-monstrous aristocrats, too.