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Jan 10, 2018 7:55 PM
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TheReferenceGoddess
This is useful information for my ... writing. Yes, my writing.
ThatOneGuyFrom6thGrade
This is incorrect. The people believed the mirrors reflected the soul. Vampires had no soul, and this no reflection.
CotPookie
If a vampire wore a monocle with a mirror on the inside, they could see in 360°
Portto99
wantednokes
So could they have seen their reflection in glass this whole time?
JayEnfield
Additional fun fact: Mirrors spent a LONG time being backed in mercury.
warick
Some myths state that the mirror had no problems reflecting, but that the vampire can't bear to see his own reflection.
srs00
This, and the old switch from reflective cameras. A bunch of vamps not knowing their picture is being taken, and acting accordingly.
Barfolo
I assumed vampires didn't appear in old photos because film used to be developed with silver nitrate.
JoeTheMadScientist
Pangs
Vampire legends aren't really consistent on this point. Thanks for the "facts".
mikev2
Mdmd3737
Always upvote Buffy
DrSharkbite
scon
I was waiting for this.
Gafflesmaxx
This is the fucking perfect use for that gif!!!! I'm fucking dying
eriksarcasm
Huh. Anyone see Thirst? Korean vampire flick from Chan-Wook Park, director of Oldboy.
eriksarcasm
Theres one scene where the director very deliberately shows a vampire's reflection.
boruto
That movie messed with me. I wanted to like it but it had one of those endings that just made me mad.
RenaissanceFaireMan
Wouldn't a vampire see at least their clothes in a mirror?!
LordSupergreat
No, because magic.
RetConMan
https://imgur.com/v4xoRni
addms
What is the gif from? I’ve seen it but it’s doing me a concern.
azazyel
I want a movie about how vampires colonize space.
DaringSteel
Well, there's always Dracula's Moon Base.
TitaniumMonkeyBalls
You mean the Wraith?
xrufus7x
Dracula 3000 is a thing. It is awful but it exists.
Murrman1975
Not exactly the same, but you may like Lifeforce.
TharrickLawson
Have you read Blindsight?
melancholyterminator
This post is brilliant, this right here, this is why I trawl through the shite, god bless you
snargard
Mercury.
chiechien
Sweetest of the transition metals
thankgodfordeaddinosaurs
Venus.
SlickerThanNick
Uranus.
ToyotaCelica
Ha HAAAAA he said anus everybody ha haaaa so funny. No, seriously, I legit laughed +1
snargard
Mirrors were silvered with Quicksilver (Mercury) usually until 1940.
Foxyrain
I was having a pretty shitty day and seriously that gif made me laugh so hard, totally cheered me up
MFuzzySmock
Glad to help!
AgamemnonsMemes
I always thought i read it wad that the mirror reflected your image because you have a soul and they dont
Amesang
Do inanimate objects have souls?
AgamemnonsMemes
They have different rules? I dunno.
JohnMagneTrane
Other Fun Fact, people aren't burning them inside their vans either, so there actually are no more vanpyres.
MFuzzySmock
Dontdeprivemeofmydelusion
idclimbhimlikeatree
Id climb him like a tree.
Ethaniel32
Always upvote Spike
zombiebiologist
I love Witcher vampires, more like elder races than random monsters. Then again it could just be Emil Regis, the biggest bro to ever exist.
DYLANLEE79
Also vampires are allergic to silver because it has antimicrobial properties, vamparism is an infection.
epiclong1
Porific hemophilia. Saunguinare vampris
ThisIsN0tMyName
A viral infection (according to...movies) but antimicrobials fight against bacteria.
TheReferenceGoddess
Well I found some experiments that show possible antiviral properties of silver against HIV. Sources are kind of old though.
PartOfTheRebelAllianceAndATraitor
We Vampires have known about this for years now. We've also bred out most strands of garlic we can't stand. Oh, and Welcome Mats? Yeah...
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masons163
Tf?
TittySprinklesNarratedByMorganFreeman5
I've been looking for this for so long
CloseupCaptionReaction
And now you even have 2 other variations
Zeda
Cute.
JoshuaArnold561
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PhailRaptor
But... it's silver....
BasicHuman
HeGotWeirdFetishes
This is fucking gold. Nice periodic table reaction +1
OhYesDaddi
gottakeepgoing
Anne Rice vampires don't poop so they can't shit themselves. Interview with the Vampire, the part where Louis turns is where it says this.
gottakeepgoing
However all sequels where Lestat talks about Louis he says Louis lied a lot about the whole vampire history and embellished on things...
ElbowDeepinaTinyOctopus
A claim of "unreliable narrator" from someone who is almost certainly a unreliable narrator themself is... odd.
gottakeepgoing
True, but Lestat is less boring I suppose. Did you read at least until Memnoch the Devil? Nearly a perfect book.
ElbowDeepinaTinyOctopus
Its been a while, but I've read the collected Vampire Chronicles through Akasha's awakening and destruction. Can't recall titles.
gottakeepgoing
That's the third book, Memnoch was 5th, preceded by the body thief. After book 5, I mostly quit, failing to find the sequels to be any good.
inquirerofquantumstuff
FYI Anne Rice also right hardcore porn novel under the pseudonym A N Roquelaure
gottakeepgoing
Shocking. She also wrote at least a couple of books about the life of Jesus Christ from his p.o.v. that were decent.
ImgurNeedsMoreSmartass
And that's why vampires never won second place in any Olympic discipline
roflipop
Champions. Always first.
GrateFan
SuperBigNuts
Sephority
I feel like vampires super strong and flyey and whatever else power they ascribe to depending on genre would have no problem getting gold?
Darkspire
Much like a champion vampiric pole vaulter, the joke sailed over your head. (they hate silver)
Sephority
No I got it. Just making a point.
TongueTiedLabourerfromtheLandoftheLittlePeople
Freefall
WhiteningMcClean
Why don't vampires like Italian food?
darksamus8
Too much gahlic
WhiteningMcClean
because vampires aren't real
celestedrake
Personally I am glad for this. Being an anemic, blood-loving, pale skinned person who burns easily in the sun, it's the one reason I am (1)
celestedrake
probably not a vampire. Either that or my Italian genes are too strong for the anti-garlic vampire stuff... (2)
Genini
You don't win silver you lose gold.
zerovanity59
Eratosthenes of Cyrene, Beta, the Second Best at Everything! Wins silver all the time.
ncderp
Ouch
ElbowDeepinaTinyOctopus
Pretty much. Studies on satisfaction of Olympic athletes tend to find Bronze winners to be happier overall than Silver. Bronze is just happy
ElbowDeepinaTinyOctopus
to be there on the podium at all, while Silver was on the verge of Gold...
AdolfSchicklgruber
Probably depending on the whole Szenario. Imagine a sport where the world Champion is that good that you realistically only can fight over
FIuxuation
Womens Downhill World Cup Racing you mean?
AdolfSchicklgruber
The second place. I think most people would be happy. But that's a special Szenario so I dont know where I am going with this......
ImDyslexicSoWhat
But a vampire has no reflection in a window...
PotatOSLament
Maybe the glass is just really clean?
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Leevalleyoftheshadowofdeath
DiscGolfJunkie
DoubleRainbowGuy
richardson1701
Ah, but they wouldn't be reflecting off the glass in this hypothetical, now would they?
CaffeineManic
Nor a pool of water?
FairyKingOberon
Depends on the water. Vampires can't cross rivers at all in some canon
ToyotaCelica
Legacy of Kain!
Satherian
D&D!
AlwaysandEventuallyHannah
The original Dracula! Also he could only go out to see at high tide or low tide
BababaMoooya1
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Themurderguy
But what if vampires are actually invisible if not being directly looked at?
AceBandito
It could certainly have been originally the silver thing, then just grew to be all reflections. Like how stake to the heart was originally 1
AceBandito
for staking a vampire to the ground for the sun to come overhead and kill them, then grew to be the way to kill them itself. 2
iwillcutoutyourheartwithaspoon
Depends perhaps on the canon? Bram Stoker would agree with you but I'm not sure if modern authors like Meyers have kept the tradition alive.
redgingerberry
At least pick a good vampire author like Anne Rice, Christ
thesmelge
Meyers shat on every part of vampires. It's a canon that's been going centuries. Authors build on what came before. 1/2
thesmelge
Meyer turns up, shits on it all and makes a bunch of her own stuff up instead. 2/2
Percalope
.....Why is that a bad thing? She just made her own universe where mythological creatures were different from the norm. 1/2
Percalope
I don't think there's anything wrong with that - plenty of famous literary works (e.g. Lord of the Flies) did the same. 2/2
DaringSteel
It's not a bad thing because she did something new. It's a bad thing because the books were horrible.
CrissCross35
She ain't writing about vampires, they're bloody fairies that glow in the sun
WorkerLurker
They are gargoyles with a blood addiction
DaringSteel
Hey, watch your comparisons there. The Fair Folk can get pretty hardcore.
AzzyBedlam
I used to be super obsessed with Celtic mythology, and there actually were a couple varieties of elves and fae that sustained themselves 1/2
AzzyBedlam
On human blood. So yeah, they're probably elves. It just fits better. 2/2
DaringSteel
Except the Fair Folk are way more hardcore than those sparkly fuckers.
officialgifpolice
Faeries
FairyKingOberon
Hey, don't call them fairies...we don't want those sparkly bastard either...
Emmaterasu
Are you a fairy?