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Feedback 034 - Eventually Possessed Anyway (Patreon)

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2025-04-08 19:44:10
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Are you prepared to listen to the true facts about things that people wrote after listening to shows about vampires last month? ARE YOU?!?!?

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Drix

I also have problems with the take of any given religion having power over vampires and how it can inform our reading of it. I like the interpretation that Chris brings up, that it's actually a person's will that is the true power. This is actually touched on in Terry Pratchett's "Carpe Jugulum", a Witches novel that has Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg facing off against vampires.(Spoilers ahead): At one point in the book, Granny gets bitten/vamped on by the antagonistic vampire clan. However, things take a turn as she remains fine, but the vampires suddenly start developing a craving for Tea and wearing Sensible Footwear. Because if there's one thing Esmeralda Weatherwax has, it is sheer will. "I didn't get vampired, you got Weatherwax'd"

Mark Simmons

I guess there are a few ways to spin the "holy objects work on vampires" thing. There's the take that it's really the power of belief that repels them, so the object itself doesn't have to be religious - you can believe in science, or love, or whatever. (In one Sylvester McCoy "Doctor Who" serial, I recall that Ace's belief in the Doctor shields her from the future vampires.) There's also the interpretation that this proves Catholicism (and its spinoffs) are objectively true. That comes up in "Midnight Mass" by "The Keep" author F. Paul Wilson - I just read that, and it's not very good - and in John Steakley's "Vampire$" where the Pope is endowed with personal anti-Dracula powers. The latter is kind of the punchline of "The Exorcist," right? The demonic possession restores Father Karras's faith because, if the Devil is real, then so is God. "Exorcist III" (based on Blatty's sequel novel "Legion") strikes me as a lot scarier because it raises the possibility that it *only* proves the existence of the Devil.

Mooncubus

What if for the 1000th episode you cover the Tomb again and see how you react to the very first story you covered, now with all these years of other stories under your belt. Alternatively you could do a retrospective looking back on everything you covered and talk about some of your stand out favorites. Or just some of your favorite moments over the years making this show.

Daniel Restione

Re: your sign off. Best be prepared for an afterlife where the sheer will power of all of us patrons will keep you broadcasting long after your limbs grow cold. You will have no choice! ❤️

It's a Ghost.

Regarding churches possessing holy relics, I found it interesting that the one time I took a tour of Jerusalem with a tour guide, the tour guide described all the locations and sites he showed us as being "by tradition." So he'd be like, "by tradition" this is where Jesus did this thing or that thing. It was a great tour, but I also remember thinking, "I'm glad none of us are especially religious."

ESTY

I don’t buy the whole “it’s your faith that gives the object it’s power” theory. The one true, holy foreskin of Jesus can still repel vampires, but a phoney foreskin can not (and boy, you do *not* want to look silly flapping a falsey foreskin in front of a Dracula, with only your hopes and prayers for protection!)

Rick Hound

While discussing centipedes/millipedes, I was reminded of the manga series Tokyo Ghoul; it has a lot of centipede imagery as well as vampire-adjacent creatures, and including similar traumas from abusive close family members. Strangely coincidental

Richard Horsman

Your 1000th episode should be the one where you finally cover Melmoth the Wanderer and it should be 8 hours long.

Newk

No Chad, you guys read it correctly, I threw my sisters away. And if this isn't the appropriate place to confess I don't know what is

Derrick Mcmullin

I too thought I wasn't familiar with "Seventeen" by Janice Ian, till I played it on my phone. Turns out I have heard the opening a million times on TV shows. This time I listen to the whole song and was struck by the depth of the lyrics about growing up outside the popular crowd. The upbeat tempo really hides the sadness.

Rob Valentine

The Family of the Vourdalak would be a great story to cover next March. Put a stake in it for later.

Eric - Speaker in Digressions

On the topic of "vampire masquerade as metaphor for The Closet," on the Strange Studies Discord I recently recommended Max Gladstone's short story "A Kiss with Teeth." It's about a vampire trying to pass as a normal human, even settling down to raise a family with a former vampire hunter. The outcome is a heartwarming antidote to any disappointment you might have encountered in Clifford M's sad fate. You can read it on the Reactor website (published 2014) or listen via a March (is for Draculas) 2020 episode of "Levar Burton Reads" (which is how I did it). Links on Discord.

Aaron La Vene

Some bangers talked about here. Fright night is one of my favorite movies in the 80s. I know that’s a Hot take. But this movie starts off as a cheesy fun campy “there is a monster next door Dracula story “. With a fake lying Vincent price to boot. Into an intense film with gruesome sequences and practical effects. The acting by the antagonist is one of the best “Dracula” I hate that pompous Ass. A super great fun film everyone should see And then midnight mass. Top tier Flanagan I agree. Best of his work imo as well that’s

Wulf Mungus

Funny that Chad's personal stories was brought up. I was just thinking about that fact recently. It's like bonus side content

Stewart

The Doctor Who series The Curse of Fenrick has perhaps my favorite example of warding off vampires with faith. In one sequence we see Soviet soldiers holding the vampires off with their faith in Communism, as represented by the hammer and sickle.