I do love this analysis, and I also adore how in modern times (thanks to Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles) some vampires have shifted from being a figure of fear, but a figure of self-reflection, especially as a representation of the "other". Those vampires are still monstrous, but still inherently human, some more, some less
as someone with a vampire hyperfixation, i get the visceral urge to fight anyone that calls edward cullen a vampire. no he's not, he and the rest of Twilight's "vampires" are unseelie fae by any and every measure. however, i will acknowledge your analysis, it's actually quite fascinating, and still holds up despite my misgivings.
And Magnus Does horror real well, working through it at work since I don't need to focus on auditory stuff while I work, it has a level of writing most writers lack.
It’s weird. My fear of mosquitoes is primarily due to their sound. If I hear that tell tale whine while I’m falling asleep, suddenly I’m up, heart pounding terrified. I don’t know why? I’m not scared of any other insect.
THANK YOU for talking about the Magnus Archuves (in general) and their depiction of vampires!!!!! No one talks about it enough and it has changed my brain chemistry permanently!!!!!
I actually donated blood a few days ago and it was so viscerally uncomfortable to know that my blood was being taken from me- even with my express consent
every time the magnus archives comes in i literally cheer like that like you're so real! i also love the type of horror you love so every video feels very catered to me
MAGNUS ARCHIVES AGAIN WOOO WOOOO, loved the story of the vampire hunter, i also loved the monster of Midnight Mass, he couldn't stopped feeding, he wanted so bad that it was the demise of it when the prey fuxked up their wings
"heed my FUCKING WARNING" literally had me laughing loud enough that my roommate described it as evil villain laughter (probably bc 1-that's just how I laugh and 2-my roommate did in fact have context, and knows that my bio-major ass watches anatomy videos for fun lol) i love a good video essay, and your sense of humor just made me love this one even moreso!!
Connor: "Mosquitos comes up (as the most hated bug) and not black widows. Why is this?" Me, a spider enthusiast: "Because they're arachnids, not bugs. 🙄" all joking aside, this was such a banger video! i loved this!
I feel that’s a bit pedantic. Mosquitoes technically aren’t true bugs either since they’re not in the Hemiptera order. If you want to use the more widespread and arbitrary definition of bug as “weird little icky thing,” spiders definitely do count as bugs just like worms and other chelicerates.
I'm glad you liked it! I've overlooked vampires in horror throughout most of my life, so it was fun to really get into the headspace of why they were scary!
Your opening line was as wild as my Medieval Ghosts professor's back at uni! Also, as a historian, love to see a very nice, well researched essay on the modern interpretation of the vampire myth 😊
I sadly had to heed the warning. Love your videos and wanted to watch this one but I think it just made me learn I have the fear of blood that you mentioned lol.
This is incredible! I love the look at how popular vampires have changed between the centuries. Now obligatory TMA comment - Are you keeping up with The Magnus Protocol? If so - hope to hear your thoughts on it! The fact this universe has The Magnus Institute in my local city is driving me wild.
really cool video! loved your analysis of the different vampires we’ve seen over the years :). wrt the tma vampires, what i really love about them is how i think they intentionally subvert those upper class, aristocratic themes because they are present in other characters (elias springs to my mind). it’s a clever move!
Just found your channel overnight, and I love your content/work. I heard this stat recently: Mosquitoes have been responsible for the deaths of 1/3 of all humans who’ve died. Facial expressions are consistent across time and geography. I think many of our specific fears are also (we probably had the causes drilled into our DNA at some point).
Mosquitoes, ticks, fleas, vampire bats...theres even a fish called the Candiru, "The vampire catfish". Lot of creatures use blood as a medium for food and procreation. And of course virus and bacteria are spread. Because humans did not understand disease vectors maladies were blamed on vampires
gotta be the animal guy because autism reasons, its not /that/ important feel free to ignore. all spiders are venomous but a spider will almost never bite you unless youre like actively trying to get bit its hard to get a good number on deaths by spider per year because actually just that rare. i feel like people hate mosquitos more than spiders because theres just so goddamn many of them. (disclaimer im not a spider liker, i also live in australia) also pretty much everything that eats blood has an anticoagulant in their saliva, thats actually how mosquitos and ticks transmit their diseases. (and also bats but with bats its probably rabies)
I for one appreciate the animal ramble. Probably another reason people hate mosquitoes more is because mosquitoes seem to go out of their way to feed from you, especially if you're naturally a mosquito magnet. Spiders are usually just chilling out, and like you said probably won't care that you're even there let alone actively try to bite you. It also doesn't help that mosquitoes choose a lot of really inconvenient places to bite. I got one near the underside of one of my hinge joints once, and believe you me it was somehow worse than the one time I'd gotten one on the top of my foot.
@@lalas181 that's true actually things like mosquitos and ticks can sense the co2 you exhale and are attracted to that I think I saw once that ticks will swarm dry ice if you bring some into the wilderness
I'm trying to write a fantasy book so since you asked for ideas here is one, that also ties with the Magnus Archives too. What do you do when the horror of your world is not a predator, a serial killer or the end of the world by our own doing but instead is something aided or orchestrated by magic. Using this video and Tma as an example: What do you do when the bloodsucker is not only a parasite that can leech you blood once it enters in contact with you, but someone with the power to control blood, similar to the flesh, someone with the power to rupture your veins, feel you heartbeat from a distance to locate you, know when you're lying by the difference you the same heartbeat, and IF you manage to harm it in any way is able to manipulate it's blood own blood into sharp shapes or drawn with it from a distance. One thing is Jonathan Sins being controlled by the web, a powerful entity, even if he doesn't know what he is yet, being controlled by another, and another completely different is Sasha falling into the trap of the stranger. Sasha is human, no magic of her own to protect herself, unlike Martin in later episodes.
AWESOME Video btw, finally I found another channel in the field as the Goat, Wendigoon, hopefully you get as big as him someday, and I will be here to see it ❤.
Amazing video as always! Vampires are such a cool concept so I’m glad you decided to dissect why! A cool topic I’d love to see would be time loops and the horror that they can serve. There’s a bunch of different time loop media but I find the horror that is made from the helplessness is underplayed. Was wondering what you think about that. Great video again! Looking forward to the next one :D
I've never been to much into vampires, so i don't know to much about them, but the show What We do in the Shadows seemed to have a most realistic depiction i've seen. that combined with the comedy of the show made it less scary and more absurd and funny
I just love him as a creator. In the future, i’d love to work with him, but as of now, I can only reference him as a well liked and thoughtful creator in the community! So much love though…
I think what’s extremely interesting about twilight specifically is how absolutely Mormon it is. Like especially the marrying at 18 to have sex is an extremely Mormon thing to do because it’s the only way they’re “allowed” to have sex. And also the fact that twilight was originally a my chemical romance fanfic makes it so I absolutely can’t take it seriously
if anyone wants to learn more about european vampire lore I would recommend reading “The Slavic Myths” by Noah Charney and Svetlana Slapšak, they have two big long sections on the original slavic vampire/werewolf (vukodlak, vampir) ((apparently thought of as the same thing?)) Very fascinating and well researched stuff
Blood letters would disagree with you on the not having blood loss goals thing, That weird high from a certain level of blood loss also probably has a few addicts.
I think it might also be relevant to bring up how the concept of a "bloodsucking elite" that was developed in Europe might have antisemitic undertones. Blood libel was shockingly common throughout Europe's history Obligatory disclaimer that this doesn't invalidate any other interpretations like the nobility one. It's just something to keep in mind
The discussion of Gothic horror in the first 5 minutes just seems wrong. There's no simple class subtext in 19th century English Vampire stories and very few vampires in traditional Gothic horror. Vampire victims are generally upper class and if there are lower class ones they're generally treated more disposable than the main victims. Lord Ruthvern is depicted as hanging out and indulging in the vices of the poor and is a threat to the good aristocratic woman. The protagonist's peasant crush is a sympathetic victim of Ruthvern but also a symbol of the aristocratic hero's weakness and immaturity. Generally Polidori portrays the class system as good and those who violate its boundaries as weak or evil. Carmilla has peasant victims but they're purely disposable and its only the upper class ones we're really expected to care about. Dracula is much more an evil immigrant than an evil aristocrat since Arthur Holmwood is portrayed purely positively. Even Mina is part of the educated, aspirational middle classes, the novel is okay with the idea that foreign aristocracies might be parasitic but respects the logic of the British class system. 1800s vampires were aristocrats because that was generally the rule for important characters in European fiction until realist fiction became a movement under the influence of class politics. The supernatural was avoided in realist fiction so important lower class characters are almost nonexistant in Gothic literature. Lower class characters were more common in American horror stories which became anti-aristocratic much earlier but there are no 1800s American Vampire stories of note. Vampires being scared of crosses and religious stuff has nothing to do with Vampires being opposed to religion its just how Exorcism works. Crosses drive off vampires because Jesus was an exorcist who drove out demons that's it. None of the people claiming that vampires are universal are actual folklorists who have basically debunked the idea. Dragons are much more widespread but also aren't universal. These 'archetype' theories just don't hold up at all.
Oh, a video essay about vampires? Cool! This'll be a nice break from always thinking about my special interest, The Magnus ArchiOH MY GOD.
TrevorTheTramposting
"HEED MY FUCKING WARNING" The most amount of blood shown in the video is two shirtless guys hold a vial of blood each.
You forgot the little bat dude
Yeah, i realized when I was done editing that there wasn't as much blood as I expected... Perhaps a little update to the description...
Vampires are such a spectrum because on one end you have TMA vampires, then on the entire opposite side there’s the what we do in the shadows vampires
i love that the clip you used for conspiracy theorists at 2:07 was wendigoon drawing a diagram of the JFK assassination LMAO
Feel the same lol I was Leo pointing at the screen yelling hey that’s Wendi!!
"Imagine you are a refrigerator"
Okay, wild opening line, yes, I'm going to keep watching--
A writing teacher once told me publishers decide whether or not to keep reading based on the very first line.
@@spookymcg You aren't wrong! It's a good strategy.
I just found the opening line of this video fucking hilarious and I applaud you, mate!
i saw this video and thought almost word for word, "Oh, you're going to mention the TMA vampires, aren't you?"
and i was right :D
I do love this analysis, and I also adore how in modern times (thanks to Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles) some vampires have shifted from being a figure of fear, but a figure of self-reflection, especially as a representation of the "other". Those vampires are still monstrous, but still inherently human, some more, some less
i felt that magnus archive mention celebration so hard lmao
“Imagine you’re a fridge.” Is a crazy hook
as someone with a vampire hyperfixation, i get the visceral urge to fight anyone that calls edward cullen a vampire. no he's not, he and the rest of Twilight's "vampires" are unseelie fae by any and every measure. however, i will acknowledge your analysis, it's actually quite fascinating, and still holds up despite my misgivings.
And Magnus Does horror real well, working through it at work since I don't need to focus on auditory stuff while I work, it has a level of writing most writers lack.
It’s weird. My fear of mosquitoes is primarily due to their sound. If I hear that tell tale whine while I’m falling asleep, suddenly I’m up, heart pounding terrified. I don’t know why? I’m not scared of any other insect.
Came for the Magnus Archives content, stayed for the... **gestures emphatically** everything else. Love your stuff!
THANK YOU for talking about the Magnus Archuves (in general) and their depiction of vampires!!!!! No one talks about it enough and it has changed my brain chemistry permanently!!!!!
I actually donated blood a few days ago and it was so viscerally uncomfortable to know that my blood was being taken from me- even with my express consent
TMA mentioned!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 I cheered! Clicked so fast when I saw you released a new video. Great analysis as always. Keep up the good work!
great vidya. great take on our beloved leeches with feelings, and it feels really well-researched and polished!
Leeches with feelings is great, I haven't heard that before
every time the magnus archives comes in i literally cheer like that like you're so real! i also love the type of horror you love so every video feels very catered to me
MAGNUS ARCHIVES AGAIN WOOO WOOOO, loved the story of the vampire hunter, i also loved the monster of Midnight Mass, he couldn't stopped feeding, he wanted so bad that it was the demise of it when the prey fuxked up their wings
"heed my FUCKING WARNING" literally had me laughing loud enough that my roommate described it as evil villain laughter (probably bc 1-that's just how I laugh and 2-my roommate did in fact have context, and knows that my bio-major ass watches anatomy videos for fun lol)
i love a good video essay, and your sense of humor just made me love this one even moreso!!
Connor: "Mosquitos comes up (as the most hated bug) and not black widows. Why is this?"
Me, a spider enthusiast: "Because they're arachnids, not bugs. 🙄"
all joking aside, this was such a banger video! i loved this!
huh. that’s a great point…
I feel that’s a bit pedantic. Mosquitoes technically aren’t true bugs either since they’re not in the Hemiptera order.
If you want to use the more widespread and arbitrary definition of bug as “weird little icky thing,” spiders definitely do count as bugs just like worms and other chelicerates.
I've had very similar thoughts on twilight for a while now, and it's super interesting to hear someone else talk about it. 10/10 video!
First! But seriously, I love this analysis of vampires. Good shit
I'm glad you liked it! I've overlooked vampires in horror throughout most of my life, so it was fun to really get into the headspace of why they were scary!
Oh I can't WAIT for his Magnus Protocol takes even though we're only 4 episodes in
i still haven’t listened!
Your opening line was as wild as my Medieval Ghosts professor's back at uni! Also, as a historian, love to see a very nice, well researched essay on the modern interpretation of the vampire myth 😊
I sadly had to heed the warning. Love your videos and wanted to watch this one but I think it just made me learn I have the fear of blood that you mentioned lol.
The Loss comic popping up for a split second had me rolling.
This is incredible! I love the look at how popular vampires have changed between the centuries.
Now obligatory TMA comment - Are you keeping up with The Magnus Protocol? If so - hope to hear your thoughts on it! The fact this universe has The Magnus Institute in my local city is driving me wild.
ahhhh i've been wanting to see someone talk about the magnus archives vampires for so long!! another great vid
really cool video! loved your analysis of the different vampires we’ve seen over the years :). wrt the tma vampires, what i really love about them is how i think they intentionally subvert those upper class, aristocratic themes because they are present in other characters (elias springs to my mind). it’s a clever move!
Just found your channel overnight, and I love your content/work.
I heard this stat recently: Mosquitoes have been responsible for the deaths of 1/3 of all humans who’ve died.
Facial expressions are consistent across time and geography. I think many of our specific fears are also (we probably had the causes drilled into our DNA at some point).
Mosquitoes, ticks, fleas, vampire bats...theres even a fish called the Candiru, "The vampire catfish". Lot of creatures use blood as a medium for food and procreation. And of course virus and bacteria are spread. Because humans did not understand disease vectors maladies were blamed on vampires
gotta be the animal guy because autism reasons, its not /that/ important feel free to ignore. all spiders are venomous but a spider will almost never bite you unless youre like actively trying to get bit its hard to get a good number on deaths by spider per year because actually just that rare. i feel like people hate mosquitos more than spiders because theres just so goddamn many of them. (disclaimer im not a spider liker, i also live in australia)
also pretty much everything that eats blood has an anticoagulant in their saliva, thats actually how mosquitos and ticks transmit their diseases. (and also bats but with bats its probably rabies)
I for one appreciate the animal ramble. Probably another reason people hate mosquitoes more is because mosquitoes seem to go out of their way to feed from you, especially if you're naturally a mosquito magnet. Spiders are usually just chilling out, and like you said probably won't care that you're even there let alone actively try to bite you. It also doesn't help that mosquitoes choose a lot of really inconvenient places to bite. I got one near the underside of one of my hinge joints once, and believe you me it was somehow worse than the one time I'd gotten one on the top of my foot.
@@lalas181 that's true actually things like mosquitos and ticks can sense the co2 you exhale and are attracted to that I think I saw once that ticks will swarm dry ice if you bring some into the wilderness
Keep up the great work. Very informative and interesting on any level.
Much appreciated
Great job! Looking forward to seeing what you do next!
You deserve all the growth you're doing, man. You've quickly become my favorite yt essayist. keep up the good work!
This is such a nice thing to say, thank you!
I'm trying to write a fantasy book so since you asked for ideas here is one, that also ties with the Magnus Archives too. What do you do when the horror of your world is not a predator, a serial killer or the end of the world by our own doing but instead is something aided or orchestrated by magic. Using this video and Tma as an example: What do you do when the bloodsucker is not only a parasite that can leech you blood once it enters in contact with you, but someone with the power to control blood, similar to the flesh, someone with the power to rupture your veins, feel you heartbeat from a distance to locate you, know when you're lying by the difference you the same heartbeat, and IF you manage to harm it in any way is able to manipulate it's blood own blood into sharp shapes or drawn with it from a distance. One thing is Jonathan Sins being controlled by the web, a powerful entity, even if he doesn't know what he is yet, being controlled by another, and another completely different is Sasha falling into the trap of the stranger. Sasha is human, no magic of her own to protect herself, unlike Martin in later episodes.
AWESOME Video btw, finally I found another channel in the field as the Goat, Wendigoon, hopefully you get as big as him someday, and I will be here to see it ❤.
Insane comparison, thank you so much!
Thanks!
Loved this! Your writing is so tight. You cover your topics so thoroughly. Brilliant.
this was great! really glad i'm getting in on the ground floor of this channel
Amazing video as always! Vampires are such a cool concept so I’m glad you decided to dissect why!
A cool topic I’d love to see would be time loops and the horror that they can serve. There’s a bunch of different time loop media but I find the horror that is made from the helplessness is underplayed. Was wondering what you think about that.
Great video again! Looking forward to the next one :D
Super interesting suggestion, thank you!
Off-topic: I'm planning the same Omori tattoo!
Nice video as always 👌
hell yeah!
I've never been to much into vampires, so i don't know to much about them, but the show What We do in the Shadows seemed to have a most realistic depiction i've seen. that combined with the comedy of the show made it less scary and more absurd and funny
discovered you recently through your 'quiet horror' video and gotta say I'm loving the content
Dude epic video. I’d love to see you cover zombies. Keep making shit, this is really good
loved the video, and love the nails!
Love that wendigoon keeps popping up in your videos lmao
I just love him as a creator. In the future, i’d love to work with him, but as of now, I can only reference him as a well liked and thoughtful creator in the community! So much love though…
FUCK YEAH TMA MENTION!!!!!!
Love your content dude!! Keep up the great work 💖💖💖
I think what’s extremely interesting about twilight specifically is how absolutely Mormon it is. Like especially the marrying at 18 to have sex is an extremely Mormon thing to do because it’s the only way they’re “allowed” to have sex. And also the fact that twilight was originally a my chemical romance fanfic makes it so I absolutely can’t take it seriously
UNEXPECTED MAGNUS ARCHIVE RANNNT woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO000OOOOO
if anyone wants to learn more about european vampire lore I would recommend reading “The Slavic Myths” by Noah Charney and Svetlana Slapšak, they have two big long sections on the original slavic vampire/werewolf (vukodlak, vampir) ((apparently thought of as the same thing?)) Very fascinating and well researched stuff
I love tma raaaaah
"-inside you."
Blood letters would disagree with you on the not having blood loss goals thing,
That weird high from a certain level of blood loss also probably has a few addicts.
I think it might also be relevant to bring up how the concept of a "bloodsucking elite" that was developed in Europe might have antisemitic undertones. Blood libel was shockingly common throughout Europe's history
Obligatory disclaimer that this doesn't invalidate any other interpretations like the nobility one. It's just something to keep in mind
I don’t have to imagine that I’m a refrigerator I have done salvia before
love that for you
@@spookymcg it was just as terrifying as you described
On that topic have u watched movie called The Transfiguration? If not check it out.
i kinda like blood idk why DAMN i am weird
The discussion of Gothic horror in the first 5 minutes just seems wrong. There's no simple class subtext in 19th century English Vampire stories and very few vampires in traditional Gothic horror.
Vampire victims are generally upper class and if there are lower class ones they're generally treated more disposable than the main victims. Lord Ruthvern is depicted as hanging out and indulging in the vices of the poor and is a threat to the good aristocratic woman. The protagonist's peasant crush is a sympathetic victim of Ruthvern but also a symbol of the aristocratic hero's weakness and immaturity. Generally Polidori portrays the class system as good and those who violate its boundaries as weak or evil. Carmilla has peasant victims but they're purely disposable and its only the upper class ones we're really expected to care about. Dracula is much more an evil immigrant than an evil aristocrat since Arthur Holmwood is portrayed purely positively. Even Mina is part of the educated, aspirational middle classes, the novel is okay with the idea that foreign aristocracies might be parasitic but respects the logic of the British class system.
1800s vampires were aristocrats because that was generally the rule for important characters in European fiction until realist fiction became a movement under the influence of class politics. The supernatural was avoided in realist fiction so important lower class characters are almost nonexistant in Gothic literature. Lower class characters were more common in American horror stories which became anti-aristocratic much earlier but there are no 1800s American Vampire stories of note.
Vampires being scared of crosses and religious stuff has nothing to do with Vampires being opposed to religion its just how Exorcism works. Crosses drive off vampires because Jesus was an exorcist who drove out demons that's it.
None of the people claiming that vampires are universal are actual folklorists who have basically debunked the idea. Dragons are much more widespread but also aren't universal. These 'archetype' theories just don't hold up at all.