there'll be nothing left of you and me

Who let Nosferatu become a cornerstone of vampire cinema? Literally The Worst vampire representation ever put to celluloid. I tell people I’m a vampire and they don’t believe me because I’m not bald and surrounded by an army of rats. Vampires don’t look like that!!!!! And we can control rats obviously but we don’t have them follow us around.

Also, the movie was using the rats as a visual metaphor for the plague, perpetuating yet another harmful stereotype.

And!! Nosferatu doesn’t even mean vampire.

I wish Florence Stoker succeeded in getting every copy of that horrid film destroyed. If people want to understand what vampirism is really like there is already the perfect five film saga.

🧑🏽‍🦲 bald-ur-gayass-tarion Follow

speak for yourself op

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op fuck your entire unlife

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@edwards-colon is a fakefanger FYI.

here’s a link to the ghoulgle doc.

tldr; they’ve been making posts romanticizing vampirism for years. they talk about older vampire issues to fit in with the undead community but they’re mortal. block and report.

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I got turned dumbass. And my sire is 103, it’s the one who told me about this shit. Keep your fangs out of necks they don’t belong in.

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103? so it was a baby when nosferatu came out? a little baby? little babybat vampire going to the cinema? to watch nosferatu symphony of horror? as a little baby? little baby vampire?

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wait backup nosferatu doesn’t mean vampire?

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the word nosferatu was popularized by bram stoker’s novel to mean undead in romanian, he got it from a travelogue by emily gerard, no one’s really sure where she got it.

🧛🏻‍♀️ Christabel-deactivated

Good L*rd, I knew Miss Gerard! She was a dear friend of mine. 😃 Oh my, I remember Emily telling me all about her The Land Beyond The Forest research. It’s a funny story, actually, the etymology of Nosferatu.

I’ll tell you all about it in just a heartbeat— A sweet young damsel has wandered into my castle and I must perform my duties as hostess.

I’ll return shortly.

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hey chrissy make sure it’s not a hunter. lotta slayers are damsels nowadays

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chrissy????

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THEY SLAYED CHRISSY

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now we’re never gonna figure out where nosferatu came from this fucking sucks

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fucking sucks 😳🥴🥵🤤🫦

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The 13th annual international gender census, collecting information about the language we use to refer to ourselves and each other, is now open until 13th August 2026.

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