Meant to comment earlier but both honoured and somewhat taken aback to have helped inspire a post!
I do think people are a /bit/ more willing tom accept immortals' relationships with /each other/ won't be expected to be "one forever" as well, but that's probably more marginal.
Also whilst I've not read the books I've seen people arguing vehemently recently Anne Rice wrote her vampires as asexual (though Lestat would still be biromantic, I think?).
I kept thinking that maybe bisexual artists/writers are drawn to vampires and maybe that's why we have so many bisexual vampires 🤔 And maybe it's a cycle of bi creates, bi relates, bi creates etc until we have a "stereotype"
Interview with the Vampire was certainly my gateway to thinking about bisexuality (for myself), way back in HS, and I've been a vampire person ever since. I have a lot of thoughts about the ideas in this piece (and my own vampire sexuality theories), but I've tried to type them out in the last five minutes and failed. So I'll just say...I treasure vampires as the bisexual menace personified, a danger to the status quo.
I did always really like vampires and mermaids (and fairies) and I believe there’s something inherently more free (and bisexual) about those folkore creatures that seem human yet aren’t quite. It opens the door to that sweet liminality where the rules are not the ones one is used to. They also all lure people in and trap them into something dangerous or devour them :)) but that is still quite a tempting thing and not always entirely bad lol.
I love the idea of bisexual vampires it just feels so like a vampire thing to do 😂. But I guess I’d understand it more as they’re just fluid with sexuality as I don’t think we’re 100% straight or queer all the time but oh well
Also I’m not sure if you take recommendations but what do you think about ‘dressing for the bisexuals’ 😂my friends say I look super straight and I tell you I’m so confused by it
Why would sex between hetero-appearing people be necessarily hetero? I’ve had to face the truth that all sex I’m involved in is queer because *I am queer* so…
I’ve seen that idea before, it’s an interesting one (that you always have queer sex if you’re a queer person). What makes sex hetero or queer, though? Just the people’s orientations? I think talking about “conventional” or “unconventional” sex and maybe roles and dynamics and stereotypes would be easier? Just a thought though, idk
Meant to comment earlier but both honoured and somewhat taken aback to have helped inspire a post!
I do think people are a /bit/ more willing tom accept immortals' relationships with /each other/ won't be expected to be "one forever" as well, but that's probably more marginal.
Also whilst I've not read the books I've seen people arguing vehemently recently Anne Rice wrote her vampires as asexual (though Lestat would still be biromantic, I think?).
Anyway, fun piece!
It was a good comment!
I kept thinking that maybe bisexual artists/writers are drawn to vampires and maybe that's why we have so many bisexual vampires 🤔 And maybe it's a cycle of bi creates, bi relates, bi creates etc until we have a "stereotype"
Interview with the Vampire was certainly my gateway to thinking about bisexuality (for myself), way back in HS, and I've been a vampire person ever since. I have a lot of thoughts about the ideas in this piece (and my own vampire sexuality theories), but I've tried to type them out in the last five minutes and failed. So I'll just say...I treasure vampires as the bisexual menace personified, a danger to the status quo.
There’s also the vampire who introduced a huge chunk of my generation to bisexuality: Catherine Deneuve in The Hunger!
I did always really like vampires and mermaids (and fairies) and I believe there’s something inherently more free (and bisexual) about those folkore creatures that seem human yet aren’t quite. It opens the door to that sweet liminality where the rules are not the ones one is used to. They also all lure people in and trap them into something dangerous or devour them :)) but that is still quite a tempting thing and not always entirely bad lol.
I love the idea of bisexual vampires it just feels so like a vampire thing to do 😂. But I guess I’d understand it more as they’re just fluid with sexuality as I don’t think we’re 100% straight or queer all the time but oh well
Also I’m not sure if you take recommendations but what do you think about ‘dressing for the bisexuals’ 😂my friends say I look super straight and I tell you I’m so confused by it
Why would sex between hetero-appearing people be necessarily hetero? I’ve had to face the truth that all sex I’m involved in is queer because *I am queer* so…
I’ve seen that idea before, it’s an interesting one (that you always have queer sex if you’re a queer person). What makes sex hetero or queer, though? Just the people’s orientations? I think talking about “conventional” or “unconventional” sex and maybe roles and dynamics and stereotypes would be easier? Just a thought though, idk