Fun Vampire Fact; the reason that Vampires traditionally cannot see their reflections in a mirror is because mirrors used to be backed with a reflective layer of silver ā which, as the metal of purity, would not āinteractā with Vampires, who are the Devilās work.
However, modern mirrors have used aluminum as their reflective backing for many years now ā and aluminum is not a āpickyā metal at all. So Vampires are able to see their reflections in modern mirrors.
All I can think about is a vampire used to not seeing their reflection in mirrors for centuries, and one day they are just walking along and unknowingly pass a mirror backed with aluminum and THEY NEARLY SHIT THEMSELVES.
āI wanted people to listen with their own language and perspective. Hoping that people fill up their own blank spacesā – Kim Namjoonššššššš
āThere is a certain irony here, because many of the first werewolves to be outed in society from the 16th through the 18th centuries were actually women. Just as our American ancestors had their Salem Witch Trials, Europe had its Werewolf Trials, and a large number of the so-called āwerewolvesā tortured and burned at the stake were female. [ā¦]
In the 17th-century werewolf trials of Estonia, women were about 150 percent more likely to be accused of lycanthropy; however, they were about 100 percent less likely to be remembered for it.ā
āHereās also a pronounced lack of female werewolves in popular culture. Their near absence in literature and film is explained away by various fancies: theyāre sterile, an aberration, orāmost galling of allāthey donāt even exist.Their omission from popular culture does one thing very effectively: It prevents us, and men especially, from being confronted by hairy, ugly, uncontrollable women. Shapeshifting women in fantasy stories tend to transform into animals that we consider feminine, such as cats or birds, which are pretty and dainty, and occasionally slick and wicked serpents. But because the werewolf represents traits that are accepted as masculineāstrength, large size, violence, and hirsutismāwe tend to think of the werewolf as being naturally male. The female werewolf is disturbing because she entirely breaks the rules of femininity.ā
ā Julia Oldham, Why Are There No Great Female Werewolves?
I always thought this was wild, because the idea of a person who goes through a change once a month, like the moon and its tides, with the spilling of blood, was such an obvious metaphor.
That all werewolves arenātĀ āAFABā feels like a man in history did what we always do and wentĀ āHey you know what these cool stories could do without? Women.ā And no-oneās done a popular enough take on it ever since.
By the description of him driving the moneylenders from the temple, we can also tell that he fit inside the temple, which gives us an upper bound as well as a lower bound on his size.
Itās been said that Jesus Christ was larger than a baby but smaller than a temple
I remember watching this one scene in Fullmetal Alchemist where Edward Elric gets up after being completely impaled by a metal rod and here I am struggling to get up after stubbing my toe
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