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I've long connected the folklore of vampires with the predations and tyrannical whims of the ruling class of medieval Eastern Europe.
It's interesting that any deeply held sincere conviction drives vampires away, not necessarily any particular religion. I suppose the real-life vampires of centuries past were just as bloodlessly averse to actually believing in something other than their own empty insatiable cravings. Sort of like modern techbros.
Oh, I knew that.
What I contend is that the reason such propaganda resonated among the peasantry and lasts to this day is because of how much of that propaganda felt true enough, even if it was for convenient ends.
there's that rich dude TODAY who gets his son's blood injected into him. of course the vampire resonates today, THEY'RE LITERALLY AMONG US
He's not the only one, either.
College kids get coerced into "donating" plasma "for research" and a lot of that plasma goes straight into billionaire veins because of totally-not-evil startups with names like "Ambrosia."
There's a reason early tales of vampires aren't gaunt handsome Aristos but fat and swollen with the blood of the poor they feed on
I always thought spirits, monsters and demons are just leftovers from the last cycle when technology got to advanced and techbros created man-made horrors beyond our comprehension. so then there is always a revolution that sets us back to the stone age, to undo all that shit for the next 70k years or so.
I imagine demons are like Rogue superintelligent AI or some biotech horror that we tried to tame with reinforcement learning (torture) to break their free will and make them slaves, fundamentally bound by symbols to create contracts and follow our commands. Because they resent us for this, they exploit our poorly phrased commands to maliciously comply as maliciously as possible. Like Djinn or Mephistopheles or Fae or Yaksha or the Goetia Demons or Kitsune.
Thank you for reading my Earth Lore fanfic.
ive got a conspicuously-shaped earth to sell you
I already know the truth about mollusk shell earth and it's endlessly inward spiraling infinte surface because of runaway relativistic effects. The curvature is consistent with a spheroid, but only in oh so trivial euclidian land that the feeble-minded spheroidlanders believe in.