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[-] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago

Is that actually a standard vampire rule? I honestly thought that was something Adventure Time made up.

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 1 month ago

It is a very old thing, actually!

[-] slaacaa@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

Yes, without permission it’s vampiric assault, a serious crime. Victims are coming forward more and more since the #Vtoo movement

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

If you were bitten against your will, you can’t become a vampire unless you want to.

[-] smokebuddy@lemmy.today 6 points 1 month ago

the body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down?

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Tide goes in, tide goes out. You can't explain that!

[-] TheRedSpade@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

I don't know if you can call anything to do with fictional beings "standard". All of it is subject to interpretation and the whims of the storyteller.

That said, while it tends to be absent from modern lore, it's a very old rule as the other commenter said.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Depends on what you consider modern. It's still there in The Lost Boys.

[-] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 month ago

Such a great bad movie. The dude playing the sax steals the show

[-] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 weeks ago

I don’t know if you can call anything to do with fictional beings “standard”.

By "standard" I was meaning a well established trope. I was under the impression that Adventure Time was the origin.

[-] GlendatheGayWitch@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

In American lore, they also have arithmomania, where they compulsively have to count things. So you'd throw some straw behind you to escape the vampire because it would have to stop and count the straw that you threw. That's why The Count in Sesame Street is a Vampire who likes counting things.

[-] CCMan1701A@startrek.website 4 points 1 month ago

Yes. If you read Dracula, Dr Van Hellsing explains all this and many other interesting things...

[-] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

All part of the narrative that a vampire will seduce you, because without you inviting it in then it can’t.

Adventure Time just riffs on it

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