Well played polite vampires! Otherwise you could have been subject to this rebuff!
this post was submitted on 20 May 2025
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Spoilers for a very recent movie from this year.
Sinners (2025).
Soulless ✅
Spreads misinformation ✅
Blood sucking parasite ✅
Needs to be invited into your life ✅
Run by a larger blood sucking parasite ✅
Turns people into other blood sucking parasites ✅
Vampires are just social media for the 1700s
Also, unable to do any self-reflection
Describes the right wing propaganda machine too.
Knows all your private information ✅
Vampires are capitalism!
This but unironically. I've always viewed them as manifestation fear of nobles/oligarchs. I've seen people compare zombies to things like over consumption and consumerism which I'm less convinced by.
They all seem particularly salient metaphors, this can't be some kind of mistake. Either the authors have incredible insights or these are some kind of ancestrally recurring patterns. At this point, vampires, ghouls and zombies have become part of our daily lives, they are absolutely everywhere
Yes, monster myths have always held the function of moral lessons for the many cultures that birthed them. The Wendigo is a moral metaphor for the taboo against eating human flesh, and the necessity of working together through harsh winters, as opposed to greedy wendigo, that works only to sate itself, and thus is cursed never to be sated. The Vampire is a moral warning against demanding excess in all things carnal, monetary, and gluttonous, and for this reason it resonated with Victorian england. The zombie, however, was originally just someone who had been drugged into submission. The modern zombie does, however, make an excellent metaphor for herd mentality and "us-vs-them". We change our monsters (or make new ones) to fit the social mores and taboos of the culture of the time. There is a reason that many examples of "The Monster" in literature focus not on the actual villainy of the Monster, but on the villainy of the other humans in the story. Monsters are a mirror, held up to the face of the reader, demanding that we stare at the worst parts of what it is to be human.
This is just stolen from a Terry Prachett Novel.
And I would have not read it if it was not "stolen".
Then credit the author. That way people who enjoy it can know where it came from and may wind up reading his books.
So, yes. It was "stolen" as in plagiarized, since it does not provide appropriate credit.
But is this even plagiarism of Terry Pratchett? Every reply seems to mention different books and that it's not from them. Unless this is a quote from Terry Pratchett it isn't plagiarism. Two pieces of media can be similar and not be plagiarism.
Not sure, but I was mostly outlining how dumb that person's argument is.
"Plagiarism is cool and everyone should do it."
-King Louis XIV
Intellectual property is the fangs of IRL vampires, you know it's true!
Then credit the author.
The author was plagiarized by copying the genes of two parents. Credit the parents.
That way people who enjoy it can know where the author came from and may wind up reading his parents books.
Lmaoo
Which one? I've been meaning to give his stuff a shot. Something like this sounds like a fun place to start
Carpe Jugulum has vampires who 'reform' and integrate into society (but I won't spoil anything else)
I'd start with either The Watch, or The Witches. Both are great, I'd avoid The Unseen University initially, his writing gets significantly better so the early books are harder to read.
The Watch subseries mentions vampires quite a lot, and is a really good read. IIRC, the fifth elephant and thud! Have them as more than just ‘extras’ and names mentioned.
While you can pick up most any discworld book as a first one, and have a good time, a lot of people recommend reading at least the sub series in order, the watch series starts with Guards! Guards! And is really enjoyable all the way through, and a great place to start your discworld journey.
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I think it might be https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truth_(novel)
It was somerhing with the https://wiki.lspace.org/Ankh-Morpork_League_of_Temperance
I see Terry Pratchett, I upvote! GNU
Come on man. Bury the hatchet, with Terry Pratchet.
Its not really stolen from Discworld. I mean I could argue it was "stolen" from Myth-adventures as much as it was "stolen" from Discworld.
Pratchett takes the piss on a lot of 'norms'.
Yes there is a vampire temperance league and there is a side character who is a vampire who talks like that, but it's just background pretty much.
Don't let them in! It's a trick!
Nah I'm in if ageless isn't false too.
Just not immortal, 'cuz the Sun sure isn't.
But the sun hurts vampires, wouldn't they be happier without it? At least until everything else dies and they starve.
Hahahaha jokes on everyone else, the sun already burns my when I step outside.
Happy little popsicles
That's what he meant there will be a sun death and it would be horrifying to still be forced to be alive
Yeah I'm not into hanging out inside a Red Giant/White Dwarf/Black Dwarf/Floating for trillions of years watching Heat Death personally.
No worries for that. The sun will come and visit them in person before it goes.
you wanna be here forever?
Certainly not, but at least as long as humans are still around.
that's what I meant, i doubt I'd want to be alive even for a few centuries, one will be much more than enough
I'd rather live as long as possible, the idea doesn't seem to bother me oddly enough. I've thought it through and still think I'd prefer extended life lifespan. I could elaborate, but people don't generally like hearing my views on such things so I'm not going to.
That said, I think your opinion is the most common that I've heard, and it's understandable.
ok well I guess good luck on your quest of becoming a vampire
Nice try globalists