Imagine living for centuries and still not having any money saved up.
That absolutely would be me as a vampire.
If you're a broke vampire, just say that
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rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 1 day ago
FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Bob, I’ve been asking for a raise for 175 years now, this is not cool.
Rusty@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 day ago
I would be the reason the abandoned looking house in town is believed to be haunted. I would sustain myself on curious children and authority figures searching for said children.
NielsBohron@lemmy.world 1 day ago
On the other hand, if you’re immortal and you can’t manage to build a fair bit of wealth what are you even doing with your time?
samus12345@lemm.ee 1 day ago
“You had a balance of 93 cents. At an average of 2 1/4% interest over a period of 1,000 years, that comes to…$4.3 billion.”
CaliforniaSober@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Even Fry could manage this shit backwards….
Kinda like if trump just shut his mouth and sat in his dad’s wealth he’d be rich yet here we are…
oo1@lemmings.world 1 day ago
They just ned to sell their crypto.
umbraroze@slrpnk.net 21 hours ago
I’m an amateur writer. One of the worldbuilding things I wanted to explore for my fantasy/steampunk word was the fact that the life of vampires who originate from commoner class must really suck, pun very much intended. You’d end up as a “high functioning” undead who gets even the few rights you previously had stripped from you. Fertile ground for social commentary.
So in this setting there’s an autonomous vampire state that’s essentially communist. In other nations, vampires are, if not persecuted outright, at least constantly struggling for recognition, and are exploited as night shift workers in the emerging industry.
I wish I could find the urban fantasy story that inspired me to explore this. It was also based on the “hey, not all vampires live glorious lifestyles” premise. I think this was in some Humble Bundle.
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 6 hours ago
Sounds like “Anno Dracula” by Kim Newman.
Dracula managed to kill Van Helsing and then married Queen Victoria. AS Prince Consort he’s brought the undead to the Empire. There are vampire trollops who live no better than their ‘warm’ sisters, and great Lords.
Fun book, and first of a series.
Allonzee@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
When you’re immortal, compound interest really does become miraculous.
Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
I dunno. I feel if you live long enough you’d eventually become wealthy. If not you’re just incompetent
LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 13 minutes ago
I’m 1000 years old but I still don’t have my shit together
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 20 hours ago
at least constantly struggling for recognition, and are exploited as night shift workers in the emerging industry.
This reminds me a bit of Reg Shoe, leading dead rights activist in Ankh-Morpork.
Of course the Discworld is more funny, less grimdark, compared to your ideas.doc_dish@lemm.ee 18 hours ago
Or the vampire in Feet of Clay who gets jobs in a pencil factory, as a sunglasses tester, making holy water, etc.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I too have some similar concept, but for a Metal Gear (the 2D ones) clone in an Urban Fantasy setting, with the vampires primarily being a stand-in for autistic people, and the vampire myth being adjusted accordingly, with the whole “virality” thing mostly relegated to genetics, but present as a commonly held myth, alongside with power-scaling adjustments (especially due to the protagonist being a vampire), with also its own myth that make the common people afraid of them…
hansolo@lemm.ee 21 hours ago
If you want to future-proof your social commentary, the tech broligarch version of non-geographic nations that overlay existing nations are called Decentralized Autonomous Organizations.
…wikipedia.org/…/Decentralized_autonomous_organiz…
lpoandlaw.com/…/the-future-of-legal-daos-why-the-…
So even if you wanted to merge this into a magic/etheric style framework, it would be easy. Offshore DAO registered far far away meant to be egalitarian representation with a maguffin talisman that a big bad wants to get from vamps to consolidate power and upend the non-exploitative organic system.
abbadon420@lemm.ee 1 day ago
If I had a nickle for every time I offended a vampire in the workplace…
ceenote@lemmy.world 1 day ago
At least they’re happy to give up the desk by the window.
SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
One nickel … Two nickel …
guy_threepwood@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Ah hah hah
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
You would have two nickel. Which isn’t a lot, but since vampire doesn’t exists so i want my nickel back
abbadon420@lemm.ee 1 day ago
I’m offended that this is how you remind me
lazylion_ca@lemmynsfw.com 1 day ago
I wouldn’t worry. Colin Robinson seems to have a pretty thick skin.
MeatPilot@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Initiateofthevoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
You know, a lot of people say that about me, but if anything I have very thin skin. Other vampires say that I have thick skin because I can go out in daylight and so it’s okay for them to joke about me because my skin is so thick, but my skin isn’t thick at all. You can’t just put a vampire in a thick suit of skin and the sun won’t burn him, that’s not how skin works I don’t think. I think light goes through skin, that’s why we can still see some light when we close our eyes. Have you ever done that? Have you ever closed your eyes, but you could still kind of see light through your eye lids? I like to do it sometimes. I close my eyes and pretend the lightbulb in my room is the sun shining on all of us. Me and all of my vampire friends. So warm. Do you want to try that? Do you want to close your eyes with me? I can see the light right through my eyelids, so that must mean that the skin on my eyelids is actually pretty thin, right? Can you see how thin my eyelids are?
DJDarren@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Everyone knows that vampires live in a detached single family home on Staten Island.
ebolapie@lemmy.world 1 day ago
huppakee@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Buy that castle is probably cheaper than heating it
ILikeTraaaains@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
The castle in the photo needs restoration, which is hugely expensive compared to restore a house.
I don’t about Romania, but in other European countries historic buildings are required to be maintained by the owner and it is restricted what they can do.
In Spain if the castle/palace is considered as a good of cultural interest, the restrictions are even higher. You cannot do activities that can damage it, like converting it into an hotel or restaurant. Also required to allow the public to visit it for free, at least four days each month.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Before John Polidori—Lord Byron’s doctor—wrote The Vampyre (incidentally, it began at the same retreat where Mary Shelly conceived of Frankenstein), the idea of vampires as nobles who can pass among humans basically didn’t exist. They were more akin to zombies or werewolves, prior to that. Polidori’s Lord Ruthven was a British nobleman based in no small part on Lord Byron. Then a few decades later you get Carmilla, another upper class vampire, this time female. And then just a couple of decades after that, on the cusp of the 20th century, Bram Stoker writes Dracula, the first time we get a vampire who is not just noble but royal, and we get the full furnishings we associate with vampires today. The foreign accent, the castle, the wine (though interestingly, the wine Dracula serves is actually a white wine, not the blood-red we usually think of).
Also fun note: this Saturday marks the start date of Dracula. Over in !vampires@lemmy.zip I’m planning a read-through in real-time, if anyone wants to join me.
procrastitron@lemmy.world 1 day ago
There’s also “Dracula Daily” which starts at the same time and is a great way to micro-dose the novel.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 day ago
That’s what inspired me!
I decided to do that, and then when someone started the vampires community I thought…why not see if anyone wants to chat about it with me.
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 day ago
A count is just a title, nothing to do with royal blood. Anyone nobleman could be made a count, earl, baron, duke, etc. Right?
Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Yeh that’s right. But if we go off the idea that Dracula is meant to be Vlad III (which, I’ll admit, is actually something Stoker tacked on right before publication), well…he was royal.
FourWaveforms@lemm.ee 7 hours ago
Vampires don’t live in castles either
Donkter@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
I’m in the middle of reading Dracula for the first time right now and while the count part makes it seem normal for Dracula to be living in the castle, the castle is absolutely a vampire stronghold that has been in the dracula family for centuries because they are vampires.
Like I’m sure the count thing is a good excuse but it’s implied that they’ve been around and probably in the castle since before “counts” were a thing.
groet@feddit.org 18 hours ago
Its also probably fairly easy to become an aristocrat if you are immortal. You start as a mercenary to earn money, then you win a decisive battle for your lord and he gives you a noble title and lands.
justsomeguy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
What was that post I kept seeing about vampires? If you’ve been living for centuries and you’re still broke just walk into the sunlight.
Initiateofthevoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
To be fair, the number of times entire villages, towns, cities, and even kingdoms were completely wiped off the map… I could see a vampire being forced to start over. A lot.
They can expect vampire hunters in their castle, but nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I’m just imagining an ancient as shit vampire from Gobekli Tepe bitching about some long forgotten warlord who destroyed his horse meat business, and that he would’ve beaten Indo-Europeans to the taming of the horse of that hadn’t happened.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
wanderwisley@lemm.ee 1 day ago
What is the vampire opinion on the current state of tariffs, and global warming, and do they agree with evangelicals?
SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
At this point in time the vampire community refuse to make any political statement. Meanwhile they find global warming rather concerning, what with the sun being stronger now. Evangelical blood is highly prized within the community.
wanderwisley@lemm.ee 1 day ago
We are gonna get a statement next from the werewolves community and the swamp things Coalition after a word from our sponsor, Count chocula.
sirico@feddit.uk 6 hours ago
So I don’t get a castle? I thought it’d be my chance to get on the property ladder now I’m all Nosferatu living in a sewer eating rats like all the other millennials.