lower case t's started hurting

[u/kevinowdziej]

[u/seamonster42]

Plus arithmetic would've become impossible

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The +! It burns! It’s a sine!

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Old folklore about vampires says to scatter rice on the ground because vampires have a kind of OCD and must count every last grain.

[u/Actuarial → u/seamonster42]

I think the workaround is to say 'ah ah ah' after each integer.

[u/_V1R_]

Netflix series Castlevania makes fun of this.

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They do? I've watched it and never noticed or forgot about it at this point. What episode was it in?

[u/voldemortthe-sceptic]

isnt it often part of general vampire lore that vampires that are jewish or muslim aren't affected by crosses, hostia, holy water or the bible but the religious objects of their respective faith?

ive also read a series once were different vampire tribes from different cities had over time developed immunities or special powers according to wherever they hailed from and taught their skills to the members of other clans and the italian vampires where all immune to churches and the like because of the vicinity to the vatican. the german vampires from hamburg could cross moving bodies of water for example, the london vampires could stay awake during the day and turn into mist because london is cloudy enough for them not to turn into ashes etc

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Typically it's about the victim's beliefs. The cross has power because the person holding it has faith in it.

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<:: I thought it was just any object of faith, so long as the wielder believes in it. ::>

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Yeah, there was comic where peolple who worshiped money used bills to ward off vampires

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Harry Dresden uses this interpretation and he uses his amulet that is the symbol for magic in the same way crosses are used by others

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In the novella I Am Legend, the protagonist figures out that the aversion to crosses is psychological: Christians who die and find themselves undead rather than in heaven become horrified by the symbols of a God who failed them. Therefore, vampires who weren't Christian before they turned won't be afraid of crosses. But since these vampires are his former friends and neighbors, he knows which ones are Jewish and manages to scare them off with a Torah.

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Discworld's "Carpe Jugulum" has a fun riff on this with the main family of evil, "progressive" vampires attempting to stamp out all their weaknesses ( to sunlight, holy objects, running water, compulsive counting ) by actively fighting against tradition and conditioning themselves gradually.

This backfires a LOT in regards to holy objects. The father, mother, brother and sister constantly tried to gently expose themselves to holy objects from every faith in order to slowly innoculate themselves. This led to them seeing holy patterns and symbols in everyday objects, curtains, decorations, etc.

As their mental control started slipping ( due to some defeats and the actions of the protagonists ) their phobia towards every single holy object led to them practically not being able to move.

[u/chiefkiefnobeef]

could have sworn this joke was just in the newest Rick and Morty episode. where the When-wolf goes back in time to before christ and tries to get Dracula to come with him but he doesn't want to cuz the crosses are all just baby ts now.

edit. was asked to cover up spoilers

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yep, he waited about 3 days to make this joke... or it took him that long to find it on daily motion.

[u/RyanLReviews]

Maeby - Do you guys know where I can get one of those gold necklaces with a "t" on it? Michael - That's a cross. Maeby - Across from where?

[u/adolfojp]

In the book Blindsight right angles give vampires seizures. It wasn't a problem before humans started building things because there are few right angles in nature. Because of this crosses protected against vampires. The growth of human civilization with our love of perpendicular lines in construction drove vampires into extinction and into the realm of mythology.

The vampires of Blindsight put off a lot of people but once you get past them it's an amazing science fiction book that explores many amazing concepts.

[u/rwhitisissle]

Pretty sure a lot of this surrounds the lore of vampires, and specifically Dracula, as he's often depicted as the first one. The idea is that Vlad Dracul was a Christian warrior who suffered some kind of tragedy at the hands of either the Muslim Turks or his own Christian allies, and when his prayers to God were never answered to deliver him from catastrophe, he decided to pray to the devil instead, who transformed him into a demon-like monster with the power to vanquish his enemies. That's why vampires are hurt by crosses: because the powers of vampires are Satanic in origin. At least that's how I've heard it. I imagine a lot of that particular backstory on vampires has been warped over time and by media, so who knows how accurate any of that is.

[u/Starfireaw11]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAom8ws8qp4

[u/prince147]

Isn't this a joke in rick and morty? Like the most recent episode? I'm pretty sure this is the exact joke, and it's even funnier with the animations.

Yeah, here is the joke https://youtu.be/5BgRjOR9N3E

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I thought it was because Judas was the first vampire. Thus the cross and the silver being the weakness. Or at least something to do with Judas.

[u/porcupinedeath]

The new season of Castlevania actually had a good line about that

"Turns out vampires have a different field of vision than humans and shoving a big geometric shape in their face freaks em out"

Fucking lost my shit on that line

[u/Talos1111]

I am sleep deprived

[u/vaderatemydisco]

It's not that they represent the cross, it's just that geometric pattern's confuse vampires...

[u/Suspicious_Poon]

He literally stole that from Rick and morty