zenosanalytic:

scissorbritches:

megphail:

jaclcfrost:

vampires getting the urge to be intimate w/ their partners while feeding is so fucking funny to me… like imagine you’re just sitting there eating soup but getting REALLY into it? you just. want to fuck, b/c of the soup. want to fuck the soup

kinkshaming vampires

It makes sense, I think, once you understand that the modern version of vampires started by English gothic literature are all about sex, metatextually, and that fans of vampire lit(obvsl stuff like The Strain takes it in a different direction) implicitly understand this. Let’s deconSTRUUUUUUUUCT!

Like, I haven’t read Stoker myself, but from how everyone adapts it and from what people who have read it say/write about it, it seems pretty obvious that a big part of it is tiresome British anxiety over “white women” having sex with “swarthy” Eastern European “foreigners”. Carmilla is an equally obvious and iconic expression of anxiety over both female sexuality in general and women loving women in particular.

Then there’s the cuckold angle to vampires. They sneak into houses(or, in more obvious cases, are invited by the women themselves while the men are unaware) and have intimate interactions with women who don’t “belong” to them under the noses of the men who they do “belong to”. Humans are natural xenophiles; most of them(secretly, neurotically, or otherwise) are titillated by the idea of both promiscuity in general and “alien” people having sex with people they also have sex with in specific, regardless of how monogamously and patriarchally they live their lives. And are equally titillated by the idea of having, possibly secret, sex with those “aliens” themselves, obvsl.

Then there’s the blood thing. Not to get into it too deeply, but women are socialized to be ashamed of “blood”, and to associate it with pain, corruption, adulthood, sex, and pleasure. Vampires don’t just like “blood”; they need it to live. The very aspects of female biology and sexuality women are brought up to think are shameful and disgusting -and encouraged to alienate themselves from- are vital, nourishing, and desirable to vampires. So vampires don’t just play into the conventional pain/pleasure association around blood and sex through feeding, they do so specifically by bringing the whole food/sex/nourishment/satiation/exhaustion thing into it. And in a way that doesn’t erase or valorize the objectification and exploitation of women; while usually rejecting the common “sullied” and “broken” virginity narrative in favor of one where feminine sexuality is life-giving and pure, the vampire is still, literally, parasitically eating up the life of the woman after all.

Basically, vampire-eating ain’t about eating, friend. It’s kinks all the way down. Becuss of the sbymbols.. The symbols hol dall the power.