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I mean, true, but that is the taco Bell / burger king fastfood you won’t instagram. You only highlight tjw good stuff.

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That’s just the thing - women provide more challenge.

If you had been doing the same thing for hundreds of years you’d be bored of an easy solution as well.

I like the Witcher universe explanation for vampires drinking human blood:

In the books a vampire (Regis) explains that drinking human blood is just for getting high / drunk.

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There are various different explanations across universes. But the biggest issue is - why can’t vampires just drink animal blood? It has to either be some kind of magic, allergy or inefficiency usually. Regis exists to show the book’s theme - that not every monster is a monster, and that not every human is human. So he needs a reason not to hurt people, otherwise he’s also a monster.

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Some fiction has it. In vampire the requiem, low level vampires can survive on animal blood. But more powerful ones need human or even vampire blood.

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Does it make them weaker or do they just die because they need more nutrients?

I remember Lumley’s Necroscope having some spiel about drinking vampire blood too. But that series of books has vampires be a leech-like creature that infects a host, not an illness or something magic that does that

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In BTVS they can. There’s a vampire who’s cursed with having a soul and is therefore unwilling to hurt humans, so he just toddles down to the butcher and gets blood from them.

Soulless vampires either like the hunt or just prefer the taste of human blood. For instance, some vampires just raid blood banks instead of hunting humans.

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VTMB, too. Getting in good with the blood bank peeps (or just robbing it) is a good get.

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I like vampires in the Pratchett universe, who often see human hunting as a sport and leave religious symbols, stakes, and garlic around the castle to level the playing field. (Not to mention the black ribbon society, the vampire equivalent to AA.)

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Thrill of the hunt?

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I mean in the dracula movies he has hypnotism so seems like he can go for anything he likes.

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Yeah, but have you tasted men? They’re fucking gross

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You just reminded me of an interaction between some teen and a German frozen pizza manufacturer

Teen: “Your chocolate pizza tastes like son-of-a-whore”

Manufacturer: “Got too hungry and bit your own finger?”

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Dr. Oetker is dishing out burns now?

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