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The Vampire, by Philip Burne-Jones, 1897
A vampire is a creature from folklore that subsists by feeding on the vital essence (generally in the form of blood) of the living. In European folklore, vampires are undead creatures that often visited loved ones and caused mischief or deaths in the neighborhoods they inhabited while they were alive. They wore shrouds and were often described as bloated and of ruddy or dark countenance, markedly different from today's gaunt, pale vampire which dates from the early 19th century.
Vampiric entities have been recorded in most cultures; the term vampire was popularized in Western Europe after reports of an 18th-century mass hysteria of a pre-existing folk belief in the Balkans and Eastern Europe that in some cases resulted in corpses being staked and people being accused of vampirism.[1] Local variants in Eastern Europe were also known by different names, such as shtriga in Albania, vrykolakas in Greece and strigoi in Romania.
In modern times, the vampire is generally held to be a fictitious entity, although belief in similar vampiric creatures such as the chupacabra still persists in some cultures. Early folk belief in vampires has sometimes been ascribed to the ignorance of the body's process of decomposition after death and how people in pre-industrial societies tried to rationalize this, creating the figure of the vampire to explain the mysteries of death. Porphyria was linked with legends of vampirism in 1985 and received much media exposure, but has since been largely discredited.
The charismatic and sophisticated vampire of modern fiction was born in 1819 with the publication of "The Vampyre" by the English writer John Polidori; the story was highly successful and arguably the most influential vampire work of the early 19th century. Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula is remembered as the quintessential vampire novel and provided the basis of the modern vampire legend, even though it was published after Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's 1872 novel Carmilla. The success of this book spawned a distinctive vampire genre, still popular in the 21st century, with books, films, television shows, and video games. The vampire has since become a dominant figure in the horror genre.
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Watched all of the matrix series with gf, I rate them all. 2 might be my favorite with the world building and I like how 4 ended. It's funny how right wingers took up the red pill when the most reactionary person in 1 was someone who was trying to buy back into the system but in a much better position which really is what the right sells people
last night we watched horror masterpiece Prince Of Darkness, which I thought I had seen already at least a decade ago? But I honestly have no idea. At any rate, Prometheus totally reheated POD's nachos (except adding a few "God hates humanity" toppings)
John Carpenter remains one of my favorite directors because of his commitment to making the score for his films, and actually being pretty decent at it. Its quite inspiring to me, although I will probably never direct any movies... I still like the concept of soundscaping very much.
(Vol. 2, p. 218)^[4]^
You fucked up. That's clearly an endnote. 4 is eq. to 32 in the Collection. You fucked up! Did no-one check this work? How can you not! Surely someone would check the works by Lenin. This is not one minor mistake, the bibliography also contains errors.
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Lenin never actually read any of that he just copied his citations from wikipedia
The new Total War Warhammer DLC is indeed a banger. Nagash and Thanquol are really cool and the Archaon rework is every Timmy's wet dream.
How do you think Columbo wouldve handled the Disco Elysium murder
He'd pick out little things and just keep digging, never really played disco with physical stats or the like so he'd solve it but no idea how he'd deal with physical threats
Chess comment
MY GAMBIT MY LEGACY BHJKEAWSGHUIYAGSRFAGYSRFYGWEF
Dodgers got swept
Like the Planet of the Apes musical bit from the Simpsons:
She can post! She can post? She can post! She can post! She can post! She can post!
I CAN SIIIIIING
It's like I'm putting a GFCI on and my new boss is all do it exactly like this then it doesn't work, next day it's "you put it wrong" not we... If things go well it's him shit goes bad on me. So yeah I'm out, that plus reduced hours means I'm looking elsewhere for employment
Tonight on Kirchen Nightmares, Gordon Ramsay faces his greatest challenge yet. An owner...with a humiliation fetish
The Kitchen Nightmares spinoff they did after Gordon found God
Playing Dream BBQ for the first time FINALLY and @Dort_Owl@hexbear.net I can totally see this being what the inside of your head is like (complimentary)
I love that game and I consider this a high compliment
You're the reason I'm playing! I think I remember when you were in the middle of playing and I was super interested in it so I downloaded it snd forgot about it for a year lmao. Was kinda rough starting but I think I'm now officially engrossed
Potion of true shot for better aim whilst shidding is CRAZY
Lookin' through these artbook scans I've been meaning to go through. This image of the SF cast freaking out as they're turned into their EX 3D models is good.
Trying to explain the elegance of daisy-chained controllers to women on Bumble and getting NOwhere.
Jun Tsukasa gets it.
I came into existence today.
My pal at work who just started warching gundam gave me a great gunpla idea! I told him I have a grunt Zaku im gonna build and wanted to do some battle damage and asked for suggestions. He went with stabbed through the cockpit with a beam saber like the first episode. So now I gotta get another rx 78 to do the stabbing, but that is a great idea.
I should go to sleep but im watching the The saddest call I've ever seen in Disco Elysium
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Decided to leave bluesky the other day (I never actually used it, just used it for sharing creative work) and went back today to check if there were any replies. First post I see on my front page is libslop posting about how all the Russian bots were proved to be real!!!
don't these people ever get tired
All the people screaming at you, calling you a boomer-reactionary for saying internet slang sounds dumb as hell most of the time: why aren't you using 'poggers' anymore? Why aren't you calling people 'white knights' anymore? Curious. Call your food item 'epic sauce' or I'm not listening to your pseudo-descriptivist nonsense.
Gunpla: finished yhe beam sniper for my Jim ground type that I built a while back and now that I have panel liner again have built the feet of The O (Hg)
If you wanna do a straight build, The O absolutely sucks. Terrible color accuracy and really plain without panel lining and stuff. I'm starting to dig the worse made kits cause it mean I get to paint stuff. The green bits in the feet are green cause of me. Same with the ankle joint being silver and the interior being brass colored. Metallic markers rock. The rifle is painted and topcoated and ready to install after I add a beam blast effect
it is october 15 and stalin saved the world from fascism
Science is magic that's reliable
Operation Make Sure the New FOH Manager Likes Me More Than The Chef seems to be going swimmingly. Gotta maintain my running a few things from the shadows situation, if I let the chef in on some stuff he'll just fuck it up
Asriel Dreamurr asks you to be in his religious ska band, accept?
Which religion?
I've never placed a bet with kalshi, but a while back i made a developer account in order to explore the possibility of developing a bot to try to game the market, and now they are constantly spamming me with emails about deposit matching to try and reel me back in.
weird incel youtuber thing
i was watching a video about a fnaf fangame and the guy suddenly begins ranting about how college girls "get fucked by anyone showing them attention" instead of studying.
this clown even used the word "removed" ... for consenting adults having sex 
lmaooo the projection is so obvious. not young womens fault youre frustrated with yourself.
Man-boys being bad at game theory always annoys me. Because the most bro outcome you could want is that you live in a world where everyone is having fun and hooking up all the time. To do that you should be nicer to women who will hook up with just any guy because you are just any guy. That could be you if you weren't weird about it
one of the things that's frustrating about trying to argue with conservatives is that they roughly fall into one of two groups, people who are in it for the bloodlust, and people who are in it out of a sincere (which is distinct from legitimate) fear of the unknown. the bloodthirsty people will cynically pretend to be one of the fearful ones to justify their violent worldview, while the fearful ones will uncritically side with the bloodthirsty ones no matter what because the social structure they offer is already somewhat familiar to them due to being the status quo
Are you sure the bloodthirsty ones aren't just further along in the process? I think they all choose evil knowingly. I have this theory of a working model of the conservative mind, where fear comes first, bloodlust later. And while I think fear is always primary, it's more the fear of losing privilege. Fear of unknown isn't needed from the start, but might show up later.
It goes like this and the starting point may surprise you: (1) they first notice they are trapped in an unjust system that exploits them and is getting worse. They correctly deduce that development could make them lose some real material privileges. This rational fear is almost approaching class consciousness.
They then (2) turn around and instead of showing solidarity, decide to lick some boots in the hopes that they might tread on someone else. Hey, that could be their motto:"Please tread on someone else, sir". In turn for this betrayal they get to enjoy their privilege for a little longer, while racialized people are over-exploited for their benefit and the patriarchy provides free/cheap reproductive labor.
Only then, after having consciously chosen evil for selfish reasons, they then (3) feel cognitive dissonance because they want to think of themselves as good people. That's why they proceed to seek out propaganda that stokes new fears (including of the unknown, to obscure the true motive of loss of privilege). The propaganda, which is readily supplied by hegemonic forces, validates their choices after the fact and explains why the over-exploited people deserve it. This is why their propaganda is always so bad and contradictory. They already decided to believe it before consuming it, it doesn't need to be good.
This lessens the cognitive dissonance somewhat and makes them feel better at the cost of (4) partly numbing their ability to feel empathy like normal humans. They literally lose part of their humanity. That's what makes them, finally, bloodthirsty.
This model has the advantage of:
- explaining both of your observations
- explaining the scientifically proven loss of empathy in racists ("empathy gap")
- adding a temporal dimension / dialectical development
- explains the bad propaganda
- proceeds from material facts instead of human nature or worldview/ideas (idealism)
The fear does come first and it's been proven scientifically!
pretty solid follow up tbh, no notes
i will say tho that i noticed some never fully lean into the bloodlust while others go full boar pretty quickly, idk why
Thanks! One reason might be because of different amounts of contact with victimized people. More contact can lead to less hate (not always but maybe under circumstances that aren't too hierarchical). Even if they try, most can't shut off their empathy completely. Direct human connection and friendship is a potent antidote and might happen by accident.
My self-hating russian bisexual is reactionary about veganism :/
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