Morning ramble about vampires: HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!!!!! 🥰💖🩷💗💕✨ oh my gosh, happy love day my sweetheart!!!! Look what I got to spoil myself, adding to my army of fluffiness 🤣 eeeee!!!! I’ve always loved Valentines Day, even when I’m single: stuffed animals, pink, chocolate, flowers, food!!!! It’s a day with everything I love! Hee 🩷 do you have any plans?? Me, I’m going to tuck in right at home and order a pizza, finger myself and show you of course, do some roleplays and cock ratings, and watch vampire flicks! 🤣🧛
Something about vampires and werewolves is so erotic: maybe for werewolves, it’s the loss of inhibition and reverting back to primal instincts to breed and claim your territory and for vampires, maybe the relinquishing of propriety and modesty and to crave the the grotesque.
I think that’s why Nosferatu is such a valuable addition to vampire lore: other vampires use their powers of hypnotism and seduction to lure their prey to them, usually with the climax being the exposure of the vampire for what he is, and their beauty allows you to be distracted from the horror they commit. Even Dracula in Bram Stoker’s Dracula (the movie) is hailed as an ultimate romance, when he did in fact target and destroy Lucy (Mina’s closest friend) purely out of convenience and later, anger. In fact, many of our favorite vampires have an incredibly sadistic quality to them but you adore them anyway, and in part, because their charm and appeal blur the lines of what is moral. It’s really an Ancient Greek philosophy: the quality of your soul shines upon your face, so if you’re handsome/beautiful, you MUST be inherently good as you’ve been favored by the gods. This belief is still very present today.
So while Orlock from Nosferatu is based on Dracula, he has really become his own entity and therefore, his own appeal. He looks horrifying: rat-like, so pale he is almost blue, he looks very obviously demonic. There is no mistaking for what he is, you know immediately. Due to his unsettling appearance and wraith-like demeanor
