• Mardoniush [she/her]
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      195 months ago

      There’s a reason early tales of vampires aren’t gaunt handsome Aristos but fat and swollen with the blood of the poor they feed on

    • @DavidGarcia@feddit.nl
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      175 months ago

      I always thought spirits, monsters and demons are just leftovers from the last cycle when technology got to advanced and techbros created man-made horrors beyond our comprehension. so then there is always a revolution that sets us back to the stone age, to undo all that shit for the next 70k years or so.

      I imagine demons are like Rogue superintelligent AI or some biotech horror that we tried to tame with reinforcement learning (torture) to break their free will and make them slaves, fundamentally bound by symbols to create contracts and follow our commands. Because they resent us for this, they exploit our poorly phrased commands to maliciously comply as maliciously as possible. Like Djinn or Mephistopheles or Fae or Yaksha or the Goetia Demons or Kitsune.

      Thank you for reading my Earth Lore fanfic.

        • @DavidGarcia@feddit.nl
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          35 months ago

          I already know the truth about mollusk shell earth and it’s endlessly inward spiraling infinte surface because of runaway relativistic effects. The curvature is consistent with a spheroid, but only in oh so trivial euclidian land that the feeble-minded spheroidlanders believe in.

  • @bdonvr@thelemmy.club
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    5 months ago

    Wasn’t there a Dr. Who comic in which the Doctor meets Stalin and ends up saying that history would misremember him lmao

    Edit: found it. Was a short story. https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Closing_the_Account_(short_story)

    Summary:

    Josef, who has been the president of his country for several decades, is dying. He wants the Doctor to visit him, so he captures Ace.

    As Josef and the Doctor talk, Josef reveals that he has noticed a few things about the Doctor. Though they have met several times, and the last time was twenty-five years ago, the Doctor hasn’t changed or aged. In addition, when he comes and goes, there is always a blue box involved.

    Josef has deduced that the Doctor can see the future and wants to know what his legacy will be. The Doctor tells him that for over a hundred years, people will vilify him, but after that, people will realise that his actions, though sometimes wrong, were the right thing to do and they will continue his work.

    • Josef has deduced that the Doctor can see the future and wants to know what his legacy will be. The Doctor tells him that for over a hundred years, people will vilify him, but after that, people will realise that his actions, though sometimes wrong, were the right thing to do and they will continue his work.

      so extremely based

      • @bdonvr@thelemmy.club
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        285 months ago

        See but both the OP and the story I mentioned are from the 7th doctor. This is the 5th. So maybe the 5th’s personality was more lib and the 7th was more commie.

        • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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          285 months ago

          Seems likely.

          The character of Helen A was intended to satirise then-British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The character would say, “I like your initiative, your enterprise” while her secret police rounded up dissidents. In the story, the Doctor persuades “the drones”, who toil in the factories and mines, to down tools and rise up in revolt, an echo of the miners’ strikes and printers’ disputes during Thatcher’s first two terms in office.

          waow-based

  • SoyViking [he/him]
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    545 months ago

    Capital is dead labour, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.

    Makes sense that a hammer and sickle would repel a vampire.

  • EllenKelly [comrade/them]
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    385 months ago

    The episode of dr who is called curse of fenric or something and its pretty great

    the poster also totally leaves out an anglican priest fails to repel the monsters because he totally lost faith in god because of the war

    also its set in Britain i have no idea why their plot summary is so bad

  • sisatici [he/him]
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    325 months ago

    Power of christ compels you

    Power of christ compels you

    POWER OF SICKLE AND HAMMER, UNION OF THE PROLETARIAT, HOPE OF THE OPRRESED BANISHES YOU

  • @Jumpingspiderman@reddthat.com
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    295 months ago

    Well, as Vampires are often portrayed as Nobility (Count Dracula etc.). It makes sense they’d be repelled by the symbols of socialism.

  • Venat [he/him, any]
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    185 months ago

    I think the point was that the vampire, as a parasitic and predatory entity, lives only for itself and its own instinct. Confronted with the cross, or the sickle & hammer, is anathema to the vampire because those symbols symbolize love, self-sacrifice, and common humanity. Both represent the courage to find power to do what is right even among the powerlessness, even when one is powerless.