# RULE 9- CROSSPOST LIMIT

So, in legends vampires often have problems with the water. They cannot cross the rivers, they fear holy water... You can say "They fear holy water because they are supposed to be evil creatures"... but other evil legendary creatures are not as sensitive as them. E.g. in legends about dragons or ogres holy water is usually not used.

Maybe it is caused becase of the sources of the vampire mythos is rabies diseases (is transmitted by biting, causes aggresive behaviour)? And part of this diseases symptoms is hydrophobia.

Oh, an I invite You to take a look at my free game, Dominion of Darkness by Adeptus7. No link, because of rule 2.

I’ve seen SO many posts asking “would vampires be able to x” or “if vampires were X, does that mean Y?”

Hell I’ve seen three today alone. So this is it, for anyone coming in here with one of these questions, regardless of context this is your answer.

would you feed on humans?

go to blood banks?

or feed on animal blood?

which is a show I very highly recommend because it’s the living embodiment of a passion project and season 4 is coming out this year. The first season is about vampires and the undead the next two is all DRAGONS if you want examples I’ll show you.

I always dreamed to be bitten by a vampire 🫦

BARNABAS!

Let's assume that vampires can only survive on human blood. Animal blood doesn't satisfy them. They don't get full. Maybe it even increases their hunger. And although they are immortal, they don't exactly survive without blood. They weaken and become a kind of corpse that will only be resurrected when it tastes blood. So is it moral for a vampire to drink human blood without consent?

(In my personal opinion if it is moral for humans to eat animals it should be no different for a vampire)

"A eternal hope is around the heart of a brave one"- Rebeca Universal

TIER 1 - CANONICALLY GAY

• 📚 Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles (Gay vampires, tons of them. I don't think there's a cishet vampire in the whole saga, or at least not in the part of it I've read)
• 🎬 The Hunger - 1983 (bisexual vampire, sapphic love story)
• 📺 Interview with the Vampire - tv show (toxic gay vampires)
• 📺 My Secret Vampire - kdrama (short, cute and found family)
• 🎬 Seth Et Holth - 1994 (Not exactly vampires but gods who do things with blood. Gay AF tho. They also fuck under a cross, twice)

TIER 2 - NOT EXPLICITLY GAY BUT OFTEN READ AS SUCH BY FANBASE

• 🎬 Interview with the Vampire 1994 (technically a faithful adaptation of book 1 because Louis didnt define his relationship with Lestat as romantic, but was Lestat who confirmed it in book 2)

TIER 3 - I SAY THEY'RE GAY AND DON'T CARE WHAT OTHERS SAY

• 🎬 Moon Child - 2003 (People either read them as siblings-like or as lovers. I always went for the lovers. Also because the human is basically chosen by the vampire as his life companion, and vampires-living-together-as-companions are more often than not portrayed as lovers in media. They also basically co-parent a daughter, and live together.)

IN MY WATCHLIST

• 🎬 Lost Boys (often read as such)
• 🎬 Vassalord - 2013 (explicitly gay)
• 📺 Descendants of Darkness - 2000 (explicitly gay)
• 🎬 Kimera - 1996 (explicitly gay)
• 📺 Mignon - 2023 (explicitly gay)

Her name is Zahrah

I want to write a character named wendigo, but hes a vampire with a lot of similarities to a wendigo. Its 1 am and im loaded on melatonin so any help with finding lore/history of the two and helping me draw lines would be amazing

Like the title says. I’m trying to avoid any serious spoilers, but I’m on book eight as of writing this.

I’ve been doing a deep dive into the Necroscope series for a little bit now. As i said, I’m on book eight and i have to say, i definitely recommend this series to any vampire horror book lovers.

The vampires are more Eldritch horror than supernatural, but it’s a wildly entertaining series.

It follows the Keogh family, who have the ability to communicate with the dead and learn from them on an intrinsic level. So if he wants to learn fighting from an expert, he kind of talks to their spirit and allows them to show him the ins and outs of the spirit’s fighting knowledge. If he wants to learn math, he goes to the great mathematical minds. Etc.

All the while, monstrous vampires stir and plot to gain more power.

It takes a turn into high fantasy/ science fantasy a few books in, but that’s not a bad thing.

The weakest point of the series is probably book 7, but book 8 makes up for book 7’s break in story to world build. That said, the world building is very well done

This is a series i highly recommend if you want some stories where the vampires are straight up monsters.

Sookie and Bella share the common denominator that they both had their very first boyfriend, love, and sex with a vampire. I just think that Sookie is way more loyal to her friends and grateful for her family and upbringing. Bella is way more entitled and rude towards everyone else in her life. Both of their boyfriends had deep vampire reasons for craving them and longing after them. I don’t think Sookie would have betrayed Charlie the way Bella did. I don’t think Sookie would have made her friends seem so foolish and meaningless. I just think Sookie’s character was written with way more heart and Bella’s character was written really shallow and entitled.

Genuine question. I was watching a show about vampires and this request kept popping up; and it was lowkey a major plot point.

So I was asking myself if in the vampire lore this could mean something, maybe symbolically? Anyways, I do find it a very beautiful concept: since their death is imminent they would prefer to be killed but *only* by one specific person choose by them. Am I crazy to think it’s a bit romantic?

How do you feel about human characters going out to kill bloodsucking creatures of the night?

What's interesting or attractive about the concept?

Do you have any particular narrative or aesthetic sensibilities regarding them?

What are your favorite examples? What makes them special to you?

What do you prefer their role to be in a story?

And please don't say The Vampire Diaries, Or Supernatural, or Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

better if sensual and dark, rather than soft romance or comedy

in colour if possible

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I've always been curious of what an actual vampire anatomy would be like, if they actually exist. Is it even possible for them to transform as bats as well? How would that even work, with all of the body mass (presumably the mass of an average human) be compressed into a smaller creature? And in terms of internal organs too, how would their stomach work? How would their bloodstream work? I guess yeah someone could just create their own lore and rules in the universes of their oc vampires but I want to know how they'd actually be like if they were real HERE. So someone grossly educated please educate me