• Patapon Enjoyer
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    7 months ago

    You don’t have to add the “gay”, there is not and there cannot be any vampire literature that isn’t extremely gay.

      • @[email protected]
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        57 months ago

        Early 2000s vampire stuff was not gay. Somehow, the gayness as taken over.

        Not a bad thing, just interesting.

        • @[email protected]
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          17 months ago

          I suspect it’s more just that 1990s gay men didn’t code themselves that much in the way of fashion.

          Some were swept up in grunge, others went normcore, many wanted a career so coded themselves around that.

          The Lost boys might equally be a bunch of California grunge gays, but that has no visual coding to it to be seen.

          • @[email protected]
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            17 months ago

            Possible. A lot of 1990s gay men were very fabulous but I suppose plenty kept it more low key since it was less acceptable back then.

        • GladiusB
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          17 months ago

          Twilight changed it. Vampires used to be ruthless killers. They turned them emo.

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            47 months ago

            Anne Rice did it waaaaay before Twilight was the wet dream in the author’s head. Even Dracula had crazy bitches in it. Sexual taboos are more freely explored in fiction, and the supernatural turns fiction up to 11.

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          7 months ago

          He was a very unique and cool looking young man. When he got older and started doing 24 I couldn’t believe that all the attitude, and all the coolness factor was gone.

          But to your point, when straight dudes think another dude is cool, or handsome, they don’t want to bone them. They want to be like them, or befriend them, or sometimes fight them. We don’t always make sense.

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        27 months ago

        All the same vampire stories have always been about same sex people feeling wrongful desires as the suck on each other’s necks. It’s a genre about being gay and or kinky.

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    307 months ago

    This is conservatives’ worst fear, especially for the weirdos who live on compounds or quiverfull movement crazies. The idea that they will produce a ton of kids who might end up thinking for themselves and writing gay vampire fiction scares these people to death.

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        57 months ago

        The only person I knew who was obsessed with Anne Rice came from an Uber Christian background and she is now a big leftie atheist. That’s just one person though so there’s probably tons of ultra conservatives who love reading about vampires docking or whatever.

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          7 months ago

          I was raised in a fundamentalist Christian household and I loved Interview with the Vampire, and The Vampire Lestat novels in junior highschool.

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                  37 months ago

                  Seriously though, reading about the relationship between Louis and Armand forced me to evaluate my preconceptions about homosexuality, and figure out how to be okay with it if I were going to continue liking those characters. So, I think that it did have an impact and started me along the path to growth and acceptance.

  • DevopsPalmer
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    247 months ago

    Isn’t that the American dream though? Fight wars so your kids can write gay vampire fanfiction?.. To be fair, why does anyone care though, if it tickles his fancy and isn’t illegal mind your business

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      107 months ago

      I’d go one step further and say it’s nice. It’s nice to see someone enjoying a level of freedom and openness that’s almost been unheard of before, and it’s nice that his ancestors in part helped create it, whether intentionally approving of the results or not.

      That’s the thing about Western Liberal Democracy if it’s not free, it stops being Western Liberal Democracy. Part of the system is the freedom we have under it.

  • @[email protected]
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    167 months ago

    Yes countless soldiers fought and defended America so that freedom persists. *deep whiff* smell the freedom, y’all. It applies to gay vampire fiction writers, too!

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      67 months ago

      Does anybody really think that tens of thousands of conscripted young men living in tents, knocking on death’s door, weren’t getting at least a little jiggy with it?

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    47 months ago

    Imagine the kind of burn Homer would have gotten today for writing The Illiad about the glorification of war, or the Oddyssey, about getting lost so bad on the way home, that you end up fighting cyclops and shagging mermeids, and only your dog recognizes you when you arrive

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    27 months ago

    Truly the civilisation has peaked, I pity the future generations, as there is no more to achive