Making this art hit so different now that I'm listening to @re-dracula! I definetely recommend any vampire enthusiasts to check their awasome work, you won't regret this experience.
DON'T STEAL MY ART! Credit me wherever you may use it
I've been sleeping on this show– no, correction - I've been sleeping on this MAN for too many years. With Nocturne out, I finally decided to watch the OG castlevania series, and to say I love this miserable man would be an understatement.
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I was even motivated enough to make an edit; which is something I never do. 😭
IWTV is one of the coolest adaptations I’ve ever seen. the book’s canon is still canon but Louis is literally owning up to his own unreliability as a narrator and telling the story over - with all the gay stuff he didn’t want to reveal before!
Idk what to do with my life now that @re-dracula reached its final episode. That was one hell of a badass experience I don't recall from reading the novel, it only enhanced my love for Dracula!
And Quincey singing to tAKE HIS HEART BACK TO TEXAS OMG
(I could picture the whole gang at his funeral and both Arthur and Jonathan taking care of the papers to bury him in his homeland)
At least I just bought Carmilla to get ready for the miniseries. Congrats to this amazing team! 👏
From the classic bite of Bram Stoker's novel explained to some really convoluted metamorphoses, here are 6 ways humans are turned into vampires throughout modern media.
Shiki
This series had a slow process, similar to the classic Dracula. The shiki chooses one victim to feed off of over the course of three nights and holds said victim entirely under their sway through a means of hypnosis. Growing increasingly more anemic and unable to tell their family and friends what's happening, the victim eventually passes away from heart failure.
However, the vampire bite itself doesn't guarantee a new vampire. It's caused by an unspecified genetic factor that responds to a vampire bite. The shiki in the series gather around the grave of their latest victim and wait for signs of life, digging up their new member if they do and giving up if they start to smell the body decaying.
It led to a pretty devastating moment for one of the vampires who desperately tried to turn the rest of her family, but none of them had the genetic factor and she ended up killing all of them for nothing.
Hellsing
Vampire bites virgin human of the opposite sex.
Okay, seems simple enough, but what exactly are we considering virginity here? This is an arbitrary concept with a definition that has changed multiple times over history, not to mention the 'loss of virginity' definition today varies according to who you ask. What are we considering gender? Are we strictly adhering to an individual's biological characteristics or is transgenderism/gender-fluidity at play? What about intersex individuals?
This one seems straightforward until you consider all the non-heteronormative angles, but really...I'm pretty sure no one watches this series for the plot. I think we all just showed up to see a vampire annihilate the Third Reich.
Twilight
I've never read/watched the books/movies, but I've heard it's venom in this series. Is it venom? If so, that's an interesting take.
Vampire in the Garden
Saliva.
The vampires of this series are the result of a genetic mutation and can change another human into a vampire by introducing an unspecified pathogen/chemical found in their saliva into the human's bloodstream.
Soulless (or the Alexia Tarrabotti novels)
All right, this book series is fun and I highly recommend. British sass, steampunk Victorians, LGBTQ+ representation, fabulous vampires, and dorky werewolves, I love it.
Anyway, vampires in this series have what's called 'feeder fangs,' but the female vampires have a second smaller set called 'maker fangs.' So only a female vampire can create a new vampire.
Also, the supernatural system of this world revolves around souls. People can have an average 'amount' of soul, for lack of a better word, an unknown percentage of people can have 'excess soul,' and a rare number can have no soul. Excess soul lingers after death, so people with excess soul become ghosts when they die. Or, if they are bitten by a vampire or werewolf, they can become that supernatural being and gain immortality.
But since there's no feasible way to measure how much soul one has, becoming supernatural is a roulette with death. Similar to Shiki, immortality by vampire bite is not guaranteed.
Vampire Knight
Vampires can reproduce with each other and give birth to children, essentially making them just a long-lived, virtually immortal sub-species of humanity that needs blood to survive.
There's also a vampire hierarchy of which only the rare 'purebloods' can create new vampires, but the former human vampires are unstable and often become mindless, blood-driven monsters, adding to the classicism of the upper hierarchy.
(If I remember right, it's been awhile since I read these.)
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These are all the methods I can think of, but reblog if you can think of another method or one that's similar to the ones above.
if you wanted to see the ‘the invitation’ and haven’t yet don’t read the rest of this post but i’m trying to empathize with the protagonist of the movie but am unable to because i find the whole idea of an eternal vampire foursome very very sexey