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Eerie Episode: Vampires, Twihards, and The Gothic (Patreon)

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The girlies venture into Vampire Lore™️ in Part I of a series of Eerie Episodes. They explore the shocking disease that turned people into vampires, the impact of vampiric literature, how Stephanie Meyer bastardized Gothic traditions via Mormonism, and more! Digressions include a plug for our upcoming virtual live show, an earnest diary entry from a day-one Twihard, and advice for a binchie who can’t stop dating people who want them to suck their blood. 

Get tickets to our virtual Halloween live show here! 

SOURCES:

Vampires: Real Origins, Legends, and Stories 

The Bloody Truth About Vampires 

Born to the Purple: the Story of Porphyria 

Attention, Predation, Counterintuition: Why Dracula Won’t Die by Mathias Clasen

The Weird and the Eerie by Mark Fisher

(Un)safe Sex: Romancing the Vampire by Karen Backstein

Twilight’s Heteronormative Reversal of the Monstrous: Utopia and the Gothic Design by Kelly Budruweit

My Vampire Boyfriend: Postfeminism and “Perfect” Masculinity

Comments

katie

i used to pray for times like these

liz

we are being FED!!

girlypop

fang u for dropping a new ep 🎃

Grace

running!!!!! 🏃‍♀️💨 as fast as a vampire!!!! 🧛‍♀️🧛‍♀️ to linsin!!!! 👂👂

sally!

throw back to freshman year when i gave a presentation on vampires as my “favorite thing” 🫡

sally!
>>120579609

i don’t even like vampires like that. i think i took too much zoloft tbh

Mary B

my counterpoint to everyone who was team jacob is a lesbian now is that the only reason i was team edward was bc the idea of falling for a ridiculously hot wealthy vampire was much more unrealistic and therefore palatable than falling for your guy best friend

Mary B

Also I work in health information and recently had to code for Other superficial bite of other specified part of neck, initial encounter, so just know if you're into that it is billable.

Luca Jacoe

Needed this today thanks girls

Julia

One day us teen wolf obsessed werewolf girlies will get our time in the spotlight 🥲

Coco

This is all I have ever wanted

amelie

Thank God we’ve been fed I needed something to get me out of this Damn Bed!

Allyn (uh-lyn)

Please have Jamie loftus (chuck E cheese historian) on to talk animatronics please

lila davidson

you’re so in my brain bc i’m currently obsessed w amc’s interview with a vampire remake.. need to know if y’all have seen

Mich

Omg!! That’s my diary entry….. I feel starstruck wow. If you wanted to include the visual of the entry I give my consent just blur out my last name pls ~<3 the grammar and spelling really makes it

Wawallama

Just on the obsession with twilight I was in a youth choir and we had a 3 day school holiday thing and one day we had to dress up as characters and 9 yr old me went as Bella swan core/ skinny jeans long sleeve shirt with the three clip buttons at the top and converse and nobody got the vision but I was way ahead of my time

Emily

New episode, new music, AND Britney’s book release? All on the same day? Unbelievable

via

#devastated they didn’t read my email, but loved the episode regardless

Livia Kelly

how do i submit a Q&A i have an urgent question

via

ok but carmilla was the first vampire story published, even before dracula and no one talks about it!

via
>>120586248

and it was a lesbian vampire story, it’s so so so good

Tilda

The Nicki Minaj ref had me dying

Kayla

RIP (rot in peace)

riley

paused the ep to listen to anything you want NEED the rest of the album soon

Anya

obsessed with eliza’s critical analysis of twilight… more literary criticism on the pod please!!!!

Anya
>>120590450

also, if anyone is interested in feminist vampirism and the american gothic i’d recommend luella miller by mary wilkins freeman! it’s a short story that explores the vampiric effect of domestic labor upon american women in the 19th century

Amber Roberts

Just here to say my partner that is from Connecticut took me to Stew Leonards with no context on the first day we visited his home town. I’m from California but I’m so glad I can relate to the stew leonard experience… I hope everyone can experience it one day.

pangea

Let her Rot !

avvsies

Julia and Eliza are keeping me company in the middle of the night as I’m pumping for my 3 week old ♥️♥️♥️♥️

hannah

would to hear more ab the confederate/vampire correlation though i could figure it out with a quick goog searchi am interested in your takes!

hannah

(i have never seen twilight)

Pietra

Med student here y’all killed porphyria

annabelle allen

i remember reading dracula in high school for sophomore year english class and it was my fave book i have read for academic purposes to this day

Ashley Stafford

Hi binchies my friend is a professor of witchcraft and womens history so if u need to interview anyone she’s so badass

Anna

plz watch interview with a vampire

Anna
>>120612569

there’s a movie and a remake hbo show, but it kinda explore vampirism and queerness

Jane

if you need another animatronic grocery store experience, go to jungle jim’s in cincinnati. it’s the largest, most insane grocery store i’ve ever been to

myfriendshannon

oooo a very interesting analysis of twilight!! another part of the appeal of the tightly controlled and gentlemanly vampire is that he has to be invited in… while in gothic fiction this can serve more to show the vampire’s duplicitousness and insidious danger he may pose, in new gothic this could be interpreted as another element of his high standard of morality and restriction when it comes to, for lack of a better word, consent. the invitee controls his movements

anni

this was so big brain

kairan sasha sorrell

GOD THE NEW INTRO CRACKED ME UPPPP genuinely all out cackled i did NOT expect that

kairan sasha sorrell

also i would genuinely love a whole episode on animatronics. Such a deep well for content! start with john oliver's story on chuck e cheese i think its so fun. im also a die hard rock-afire explosion fan for life

Luisa Giancristofaro

obsessed w the florida appreciation moment 🤭🤭 we need some good pr LMAO

Amanda

any mention of stew Leonard’s makes me ascend. Anybody who’s never been there can never understand

Ali

WHO edited in the spooooook sounds ?! gurl WHY

Julia and Gabby

Girlies does anyone know if me and my friend can buy one ticket to the Halloween show and use the same laptop or is that cheating

Rosabelle Mejia
>>120586248

Yes !! + Carmen Maria Machado’s edition and the interview she does with Electric Lit playfully toys with (queer) themes of the gothic, sooooo good !!

Allie

My toddler’s bop to the theme music gets more and more lively every time she and I tune in together 👯‍♀️

Allie

I’m sorry, I can’t get past being 5 when BDP2 came out, in my old hag era

Maya Harris

we need an ep on the revival of cannibalism in media and the crossover of vampires and cannibalizing their victims

Rachel Diazena

my husband diREEEECT ancestor was sarah osgood who confessed to witch craft in salem and her husband was like “idk she doesn’t seem like a witch but she ain’t no liar…..” and then she recanted and survived and now i got my man

Luteal Swan

I need a Grace reveal. For research purposes

Luteal Swan

First time hearing the news that you cannot eat pizza that’s been left out for over 2 hours……

Jane
>>120614263

lol come to cincinnati for jungle jim’s, stay for the vampires

alexandria

I screamed when you said your team Jacob = lesbian now theory. I have so much to think about

Maddie Mccrady

The real Ontario girlies know Farmboy is the best animatronic grocery store!

ro 🤸‍♀️

julia NEED you to know that my elementary school took us to stew leonard’s as a field trip. i literally have no idea what the educational purpose was and don’t remember much bc i was 7 other than receiving a chocolate chip & seeing the animatronic cow.

Jovie

yall should watch the interview with the vampire show!

Isø

Here’s a nice normal girl in an extraordinary world Show us your fangs Yay Mona! Grab your cat, Grab your cape, Boogeyman! (Boogeyman!) There's no escape. Give a heebie-jeebie grin. Fight those nasties 'til you win! Till you win... Aaahh!!! Mona the Vampireeeeee

izzy

Eliza I too am a Gothic literature nerd, for my English lit undergrad dissertation/thesis I wrote about dark academia as a modern Gothic genre specifically in relation to the internet’s obsession with the aesthetic! I used the secret history as an example because the characters are terrible/evil people but everyone dreams of being them / dating them :p also, Gothic’s relationship to queerness is SO interesting. Lady Gaga is a modern example of why the two are so interlinked… the meat dress is basically her version of Frankenstein’s monster and the CAMPERY of it all is undeniable

Isø

One of my most treasured memories is being 14 in 2008 in the throes of Twilight fever - my friend and I literally collapsed on the street screaming and crying when a bus with a Twilight film poster drove past, the first we’d seen. I’ve never been so overcome with the THRILL of it all, nothing will ever compare. Then seeing the film in a packed cinema with all the girlies shrieking together as one, so special!

✨

People going crazy for a monster novel with epistolary structure written by a MAN when Mary Shelley did it 80 years earlier ...... 👀👀👀

Amanda Crampton

I grew up going to an animatronics supermarket in christchurch, nz it was truly a fever dream

Elias Schwalbe

Not Julia reading the Wikipedia article for mercy brown word for word 💀

Elias Schwalbe
>>120697282

girl I know you threw that jstor article on your source list to make it look more professional. And why are we not citing the oprah article?? Putting in my application for a research assistant

Baldur15

YALL NEED TO WATCH WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS ON HULU

Boodles

Will no one mention Carmilla??? No lesbian vampires for the binchies???

Coco

My mom was so happy my sister and I were reading finally when we were in middle school and DEVOURING the twilight saga so she took us to the movie as a mother daughter treat ✨ and I think it was breaking dawn part one and they were just breaking beds and she was like …. Y’all are really reading smut lol but then she became fully obsessed as well

izzy
>>120704137

This deserves a whole separate episode tbh, it’s the most interesting part about gothic lit to ME! Lesbianism is the ultimate threat to patriarchy so we make GREAT vampires

Melissa Zargon

Eliza (and other twilight fans) I highly recommend listening to the big hit show podcast. They did an entire season/ deep dive on twilight

Rosabelle Mejia

Julia’s final yas fueled something inside of me

Sophia H

Ladies I NEED you to look up Vampire Jack Townsend on YouTube and Instagram

lauren baker

what we do in the shadows stans rise up

mimi

i was at the New Moon midnight book release party in a midwestern barnes & noble... wearing my best american eagle henley shirt, lace cami underneath, pacsun skinny jeans... the heaviest black eyeliner, pseudo-scene-girl bangs straightened (fried) to the gods... tbh i don't remember that much except that they had a special Twilight frappuccino at the starbucks lol

Shannon May

Please please please check out Midnight Mass - it IS modern gothic vampire and makes an AMAZING correlation between vampire and the biblical depiction of Angels! It’s horror it’s religious fanaticism commentary, I literally sobbed at the last episode, I think y’all would LOVE🙏

Kieran W

Mona the vampire was an iconic Canadian kid’s tv show and was one of my earliest exposures to slayification

Jen Campbell

cackling at julia's yas screech

Sara Guest

Has anyone read Lusus Naturae ??? Short story by Margaret Atwood about a girl with Porphyria... sooo good

janec
>>120714854

I was shocked too but apparently it’s a Canadian show!

Lena

heavily cited “"Kiss Me with those Red Lips": Gender and Inversion in Bram Stoker's Dracula” about queerness and masculinity in a college essay, highly recommend https://www.jstor.org/stable/2928560

Bolla Lo

And the desire for said immoral blood ingestion is not their moral obligation, is kinda giving boys will be boys no?

Bolla Lo

And alsoooo hot takes on omega verse fanfiction, bodily autonomy and repressed female sexuality will be much thought about

Luca Jacoe

I should get a degree in binchtopia cuz everyday in class y’all’s voices r in my ears over my teachers

Julia
>>120641619

Lmaooo I eat (vegetarian cheese) pizza that I left out overnight all the time and nothing ever happens

Lucy Johanneman

hi! cincinnati native 😀😀 never met anyone that is a self declared vampire BUT if anyone ever comes here and wants to have a weird experience please go to mixwells in the northside. if you’re going to meet a cincinnati vampire it’s there

Luteal Swan
>>120641619

Same and when I ate meat I left that shit out too haha. Maybe because it’s super processed? Idk

Lauren Daniels

girlies is it okay to buy one ticket and watch it with my bestie on the same computer?

Sam Haimowitz

wait omfg one of my FAVE vampire/werewolf/supernatural shows is Being Human, anyone else?!??

leafy

y’all! do you remember the fashion horrors Stephanie Meyer conjured up? I recall an Edward outfit that was like…a khaki monstrosity with a crème turtleneck. and Bella wore a long sleeve Henley with like a long denim skirt. I shoulda known from that alone she was a mormon! god and Edward drove a Volvo sedan haha pretty sure she intended for those visuals to be hot & cool I cackled aloud!

Kendall Castillo

Omg come to brazilllll (Florida). Also the billboard boat ads in Miami…hellscape

Leana
>>120697282

Not to pit two girlies against each other but I loved what eliza had to share and her insights

Cora

Hello but am I the only one who literally almost fainted after Julia say blood 10+ times in a span of 30 seconds 🤪

Molly Callison

I did my undergrad thesis on Gothic theory and LOVED Eliza’s research on this topic!!!! Fred Botting my love 🫶🫶🫶 further reading if you’re interested: Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination by Toni Morrison and The Uncanny by Nicholas Royle

Molly Callison
>>120686125

HI?? I also did Gothic lit for my undergrad dissertation and i’m fascinated by your internet lens here!! secret history and gaga is an insane combo—do you have a link to your thesis? i’d love to check it out!

Stephanie

I have to plug my friend chase Bergrun’s book red for any poetry binchies! It’s erasure poems from Dracula that explores femininity and violence and gender

Elizabeth Terrell

My old roommates dad (his name is Edward) went to BYU with Stephanie Meyer and I think they were in a play together about a vampire falling in love with a human and Edward played the vampire… I think Stephanie Meyer says that she came up with the idea from a dream but I’m pretty sure I know the the real Edward who inspired twilight😘

Haleigh

when you're from Ohio and love vampires but didn't know about the vampire clubs

Alexis

Not me rewatching twilight after listening to this ep. 👀👀👀✨

izzy
>>120686125

HELLO yes absolutely! Is it possible to dm on here? If so maybe send me your email address?

Jess

Okay where are these vampire lesbian sex parties you speak of asking for a friend

giulia cilenti

LOOOVE this ep, if there’s more vamp/twilight info u have to share plssss make another ep

Senda

Eliza you might like What We Do in the Shadows, its a vampire mockumentary. They do talk about what living thru so many hundred years does to them mentally it’s also rly funny

Nidhi

ily and love this episode i just had a question. i am so desperately trying to listen to the mediasodes you talk so highly of. WHICH patreon subsricption level is it?

The Immaculate Witch Kaitlin Reckord

I can't believe there's been no mention of The Originals! For me this was waaay better than TVD and like in sexy spooky mystical New Orleans! Also Klaus is like the only bad boy I stan

Sam Haimowitz
>>120805480

OMFG THE IMMACULATE WITCH KAITLIN RECKORD???? HEY SLAY! 👋🏼 I am so happy to hear someone else watched and loved Being Human — I haven’t seen the UK version either, but damn I literally have chills just thinking about it LOL absolutely incredible show. and YES THE ENDING DESTROYED ME

The Immaculate Witch Kaitlin Reckord
>>120805480

THANK YOU 😘 Damn I needed to rewatch it! It was prime Canadian TV! And GAWD I loved how they made the house a character in the end! I ALSO HAVE CHILLS THINKING ABOUT IT. Nora and Josh, Aiden and Sally, my heart! 😭

Sam Haimowitz
>>120805480

YES YES YESSSSS oh my god that’s it you’ve inspired me to do my kajillionth rewatch. that show is actually so fucking special to me LOL. SALLLLLYYYYYYY 😭😭😭

The Immaculate Witch Kaitlin Reckord
>>120805480

I am also gonna do a rewatch!! Where do you watch it!?? I'm in Canada so prime is weirdly iffy for Being Human, like it has some episodes but not others- and I WILL NOT commit sacrelige by skipping episodes! 😤 I know SALLYYYY and Josh toooo 😭😭😭

Sam Haimowitz
>>120805480

ohhhh yeah no skipping here!!!!! I think back in the day I watched it on Syfy 😭 but Freevee has seasons 1-4, I’m just trying to convince my fiancé to do the free trial for AMC+ so I can watch the last season lol!!!

KE

lesbian vamp-loving binchitas…. you gotta read long time dead by samara breger