MoriMox

thinking again about vampirism as disability

what if you slept all day and woke at night, lonely and frustrated. what if you couldn't go to social events, or even mundane public spaces like stores. what if you couldn't see the sun. what if you couldn't go to the pool, or the beach, or the creek. what if you couldn't eat what everyone else is eating. what if you couldn't eat at all. what if your basic needs came at the cost of your loved ones' quality of life. what if you became agitated, confused, maybe even violent if your needs weren't met. what if people blamed your behavior on demons, or worse, your own inherent evil. what if people saw you as a threat to your own community. what if the default response to your suffering was either indifference or violence. what if people thought you were better off dead, that you no longer count as human, that they're doing you a favor by letting you disappear. what if people assumed you must somehow deserve all of this. what about that.

this concept is explored well in @anim-ttrpgs's Eureka, I strongly recommend you take a look at it

I love that the English language has so many words for a large collection of things with no obvious organising principle. Hodgepodge. Welter. Myriad. Plethora. Farrago. Jumble. Miscellany.

bodies should have crash logs. why the fuck did that just happen.

Short story collections are fun becuase you go Eeeeegh do i really want to be thrust into a new story every 20 pages it's a bit disorienting and exhausting. And then 20 pages later you're like oh holy shit that changed my life. So you start a new one and go Eeeeegh

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