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Love that this suggests that for vampires, it’s all in their head
Loony Toons logic. You won’t fall until you realize you should be falling.
So true
Love that this suggests that for vampires, it’s all in their head
That’s what Terry Pratchett’s Carpe Jugulum tells us. With sufficient exposure and willpower vampires (or “vampyres” as this more modern variety calls themselves) can become immune to sunlight and holy symbols!
Out of those 41 books, that one’s a fav.
Man, they’re all a fav. I’m finishing up a full read-through, and until The Embuggerance every book seemed better than the one before it. Even after The Embuggerance they’re still excellent.
GNU Terry Pratchett
Also a plot point of an older also amazing book (spoiler alert?)
!Richard Mattheson’s I Am Legend. Not even close to the same as the movie!<
Literally Charles McGill
This is funny, but I think stereotypical vampire lore still stands. I think it’s only direct sunlight that is an issue. If a vampire stands in a room with an open window, but off to the side, they’re generally considered fine. If light reflected off a wall is ok then why is the moon not?
Science: The poison is in the dose.
Language: It’s a good joke, I love it!
My theory is that vampires can only handle sunlight in small doses, not when the sun is directly shining on the Earth.
Huh… turns out I’m a vampire.
also, from what I can find, it looks like the moon only reflects 1-3% of UV light back
count Dracula wasn’t destroyed by sunlight, he just had weaker magical powers. during the day he could only change form at dawn, noon, and dusk, although he maintained that power throughout the entire night.
He wasn’t, but Count Orlok from Nosferatu (1922) was
Nerds saving lives, one vampire factoid at a time.
I always head-canon that sunlight reflected off of moon rocks has some property that makes it not dangerous for vampires, sucks out the hamon or something.
