No we can talk here - eviltoast
  • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.netEnglish
    90·
    2 days ago

    Soulless ✅
    Spreads misinformation ✅
    Blood sucking parasite ✅
    Needs to be invited into your life ✅
    Run by a larger blood sucking parasite ✅
    Turns people into other blood sucking parasites ✅

    Vampires are just social media for the 1700s

      • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
        2·
        4 hours ago

        This but unironically. I’ve always viewed them as manifestation fear of nobles/oligarchs. I’ve seen people compare zombies to things like over consumption and consumerism which I’m less convinced by.

        • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml
          1·
          4 hours ago

          They all seem particularly salient metaphors, this can’t be some kind of mistake. Either the authors have incredible insights or these are some kind of ancestrally recurring patterns. At this point, vampires, ghouls and zombies have become part of our daily lives, they are absolutely everywhere

          • wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works
            1·
            3 hours ago

            Yes, monster myths have always held the function of moral lessons for the many cultures that birthed them. The Wendigo is a moral metaphor for the taboo against eating human flesh, and the necessity of working together through harsh winters, as opposed to greedy wendigo, that works only to sate itself, and thus is cursed never to be sated. The Vampire is a moral warning against demanding excess in all things carnal, monetary, and gluttonous, and for this reason it resonated with Victorian england. The zombie, however, was originally just someone who had been drugged into submission. The modern zombie does, however, make an excellent metaphor for herd mentality and “us-vs-them”. We change our monsters (or make new ones) to fit the social mores and taboos of the culture of the time. There is a reason that many examples of “The Monster” in literature focus not on the actual villainy of the Monster, but on the villainy of the other humans in the story. Monsters are a mirror, held up to the face of the reader, demanding that we stare at the worst parts of what it is to be human.

      • go $fsck yourself@lemmy.worldEnglish
        143·
        2 days ago

        Then credit the author. That way people who enjoy it can know where it came from and may wind up reading his books.

        So, yes. It was “stolen” as in plagiarized, since it does not provide appropriate credit.

        • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
          1·
          4 hours ago

          But is this even plagiarism of Terry Pratchett? Every reply seems to mention different books and that it’s not from them. Unless this is a quote from Terry Pratchett it isn’t plagiarism. Two pieces of media can be similar and not be plagiarism.

        • WhatsTheHoldup@lemmy.mlEnglish
          25·
          2 days ago

          Then credit the author.

          The author was plagiarized by copying the genes of two parents. Credit the parents.

          That way people who enjoy it can know where the author came from and may wind up reading his parents books.

    • thejoker954@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 days ago

      Its not really stolen from Discworld. I mean I could argue it was “stolen” from Myth-adventures as much as it was “stolen” from Discworld.

      Pratchett takes the piss on a lot of ‘norms’.

      Yes there is a vampire temperance league and there is a side character who is a vampire who talks like that, but it’s just background pretty much.

    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
      6·
      2 days ago

      But the sun hurts vampires, wouldn’t they be happier without it? At least until everything else dies and they starve.

        • stebo@sopuli.xyz
          2·
          2 days ago

          that’s what I meant, i doubt I’d want to be alive even for a few centuries, one will be much more than enough

          • Sixty@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1·
            1 day ago

            I’d rather live as long as possible, the idea doesn’t seem to bother me oddly enough. I’ve thought it through and still think I’d prefer extended life lifespan. I could elaborate, but people don’t generally like hearing my views on such things so I’m not going to.

            That said, I think your opinion is the most common that I’ve heard, and it’s understandable.