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"Few creatures of the night have captured our imagination like vampires.
What explains our enduring fascination with vampires? Is it the overtones of sexual lust, power, control? Or is it a fascination with the immortality of the undead?"

Feel free to post any vampire-related content here. I'll be posting various vampire media I enjoy just as a way of kickstarting this community but don't let that stop you from posting something else. I just wanted a place to discuss vampire movies, books, games, etc.
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who is the best Dracula? [NEED YOUR INPUT] (media.piefed.social)

submitted 4 days ago by Sergio@piefed.social to c/vampires@lemmy.zip

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I was finishing up this image/meme when I suddenly remembered a bunch of other Draculas that could be there:

I was gonna just add them all in, but then I was like: is that too many images? Maybe I should remove some and keep it at 12? But which should I remove? I was paralyzed by fear and horror, and felt a mist rising around me, and in the distance a wolf howled. So I decided to leave it as a topic of discussion: WHICH SHOULD I ADD/REMOVE, IF ANY?

This was inspired by discussion during the recent meme full of vampire pics, when @railcar@midwest.social mentioned a bunch of Draculas at once.

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[–] Scaatis@feddit.org 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So many Draculas and not one of them has the canonical mustache!

[–] Sergio@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago

omg at first I was like wat, but you're right...

His face was a strong—a very strong—aquiline, with high bridge of the thin nose and peculiarly arched nostrils; with lofty domed forehead, and hair growing scantily round the temples but profusely elsewhere. His eyebrows were very massive, almost meeting over the nose, and with bushy hair that seemed to curl in its own profusion. The mouth, so far as I could see it under the heavy moustache, was fixed and rather cruel-looking, with peculiarly sharp white teeth; these protruded over the lips, whose remarkable ruddiness showed astonishing vitality in a man of his years. ...

https://gutenberg.org/files/345/345-h/345-h.htm

quoting the whole paragraph to point out that Count D also has a unibrow and elf/vulcan ears. Plus, "hair growing scantily round the temples but profusely elsewhere" almost sounds like a mullet! The paragraph that follows also says he has hairy palms and bad breath. If I ever learn to draw, I'ma draw a pic emphasizing this info.