I’ve always found this message ironic considering (at least to my knowledge) the whole exchanging of blood in vampire mythology was a literary euphemism for sex. Am I wrong on this?
Nope, nope pretty sure vampirism just another metaphor for desire and lust. Oh zee taking of your life ezzences, how it mimics the ‘little death’ of orgasm! How deeeeeep.
Actually, it was prolly something else first, like with Stoker. Dracula was actually a freaking monster who ate people and seduced them to the evil like Satan. Nya nya, I crawl down walls and can turn into bats! nya. But still, the seduction was always there.
Sucking is prolly a big part of that. It would be different if Dracula was all like, actually, I’m just going to bleed you into this bucket and drink out of that, thanks.
So the oral sexualness of the sucking is probably a big part of the vampy sex appeal. And let’s not even get started on the animalistic/Other/forbidden ness of the whole shebang. Ooooh, you’re so evil Dracula! And forbidden! And your untamed animal passion!
Come to think of it, the popular vampy sexy thing was probably formed on the basis of some giant icky gender norm. Oooooh, those pesky animal urges and passions I must control! How pesky and masculine they are. When really, coding the vampy thing as Ultimate Bad Boy is really a shallow reading of the vampire myth, fit around every harlequin romance known to womankind. But seriously? He’s a vampire. He’s dead, and he wants to kill and EAT YOU. That’s not hot. That’s creepy. This is the same mindset that allowed “Oh Bella, how I love you. I love you so much I watch you while you sleep. I’ve been doing it for months. I do it so much I oiled your window so I could enter and leave quietly so as not to wake you. See how much I love you?” to be THAT”S SO HAWK LOLX to all the shrieking fangirls. Ick ick ick.
I’ve always found this message ironic considering (at least to my knowledge) the whole exchanging of blood in vampire mythology was a literary euphemism for sex. Am I wrong on this?
Nope, nope pretty sure vampirism just another metaphor for desire and lust. Oh zee taking of your life ezzences, how it mimics the ‘little death’ of orgasm! How deeeeeep.
Actually, it was prolly something else first, like with Stoker. Dracula was actually a freaking monster who ate people and seduced them to the evil like Satan. Nya nya, I crawl down walls and can turn into bats! nya. But still, the seduction was always there.
Sucking is prolly a big part of that. It would be different if Dracula was all like, actually, I’m just going to bleed you into this bucket and drink out of that, thanks.
So the oral sexualness of the sucking is probably a big part of the vampy sex appeal. And let’s not even get started on the animalistic/Other/forbidden ness of the whole shebang. Ooooh, you’re so evil Dracula! And forbidden! And your untamed animal passion!
Come to think of it, the popular vampy sexy thing was probably formed on the basis of some giant icky gender norm. Oooooh, those pesky animal urges and passions I must control! How pesky and masculine they are. When really, coding the vampy thing as Ultimate Bad Boy is really a shallow reading of the vampire myth, fit around every harlequin romance known to womankind. But seriously? He’s a vampire. He’s dead, and he wants to kill and EAT YOU. That’s not hot. That’s creepy. This is the same mindset that allowed “Oh Bella, how I love you. I love you so much I watch you while you sleep. I’ve been doing it for months. I do it so much I oiled your window so I could enter and leave quietly so as not to wake you. See how much I love you?” to be THAT”S SO HAWK LOLX to all the shrieking fangirls. Ick ick ick.