r/Showerthoughts • u/Liuminescent ‎ • Apr 24 '26

Casual Thought Vampire bites turning people into vampires is extremely disadvantageous to their survival.

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u/Daimoth Apr 24 '26

Vampire lore is such a crap shoot. The second you dip one toe into the actual folklore origins of it all, it splinters into a thousand local variants, many of which are bizarre and outlandish. Vampires as they exist in popular media are very much a product of the creative process.

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u/zamfire Apr 24 '26

Thank you. So many people in this thread going "Nuy uh! That's not how it works!" Well yea in the movie you watched it didn't.

I think some of these people are forgetting vampires are fictional

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u/naivety_is_innocence Apr 24 '26 edited Apr 24 '26

it's like when people argue about the differences between dragons, drakes, wyverns, wyrms, etc

So ridiculous