Check your assumptions

dracula became a vampire because he impaled too many people when he was count

Vampires don’t sparkle. Ed just had a weird thing about glitter. Racist.

If you're immortal and can't get your hands on a castle or 2 then what are you doing with your infinite time?

pursuing the perfect cup of tea
- What is this...? Blood?? Again?
This is what the sensitivity training was about. You can be immortal but still only like 37.
- Speaking only for myself, within a year of being turned into a vampire if I want a castle I'm getting a castle.
“I had a castle, then I got ruined in the S&L collapse in the 80s. I did eat a few of those bankers, though.”
- Pretty much what we do in the shadows
yhea, because being immortal makes you immune to global financial crisis.
you vamphobic twat.

Vampires are anti-nobility allegories! Dracula is a vampire because he is a count.

At a generalisation, vampire fiction is left-wing (bloodsucking elites preying on humanity), zombie fiction is right-wing (“the peasants are revolting!”)
- that is not zombie fiction. what zombie fiction is depicting it like that?
  the george romero stuff were about consumerism and brainless shoppers mindlessly spending on crap. the dead rising series (spoilers here) literally has the bad guy be a corporation and the us government and military are complacent in it (the corporation even has an actual cure for zombies but that doesnt make them money like their once a day doses)
  also zombies are basically what humans are to animals. seemingly never getting tired and always slowly catching up to you
- Vampire fiction being leftwing tracks, but zombie fiction being rightwing doesn't seem as clear-cut. There's definitely a "finally I get to be a real man doing survival-stuff and justifiably kill humanoid beings with personal weapons" aspect to it that feels rightwing, but there's also all the anti-consumerist and anti-corporation themes that are common to zombie fiction.
- you forget the queer side of vampire left wing stories. which focus on horny lesbians rather than class issues.
- That's one reading. Another reading is that vampires are bloodsucking foreigners using their exotic charms to tempt and corrupt innocent women into sinful acts. And if a foreign noble is a vampire, then it's justified for ~~America~~ the heroes to depose them. Plus, they found a novel way to weaponise Christianity.
- I feel like I've seen a few zombie movies that are critiques of consumerism and unthinking conformist politics, which are not typically conservative themes.
  But it's not my preferred genre so I haven't seen many.
- I have never ever heard of anyone interpreting zombie fiction as right wing. Like, just look at Night of the Living Dead. Actually, is any zombie movie even marginally right-wing? Zombieland?
- What does that make Frankenstein?
I’m pretty sure it was something like “Dracula doesn’t have a castle because he’s a vampire. He has a castle because he’s a Count.”
If this is annoying and pedantic, I apologize. For whatever reason, the original post isn’t displaying for me.
Vampires are classically allegories about scary foreigners spreading diseases and sexual immorality. See Stoker’s Dracula and Le Fanu’s Carmilla for the Ur-examples. There is, however, a really good modern reading of Dracula as healthy queer polyamory vs toxic polygamy. And Carmella is the inspiration for many of the canonical works of lesbian literature.
- Eh. It's true that Dracula was a scary foreigner, but he was also nobility, and most subsequent vampire works definitely lean into the nobility aspect instead of the foreigner aspect. Debaucherous nobility is a common theme in works that deal with non-monstrous aristocrats, too.

And just because they're a count, don't assume they have a castle.

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This is something The Elder Scrolls got right. Vampires could be anyone. The Mayor of a city, the homeless guy in the cave outside of town. You won't know until they find you wandering around at night.

Most fiction that has a society of vampires portrays it this way. It wouldn't make sense for every single one of them to be a count who lives in their own castle.

Vampires still out there working 9-5 to pay for their room in their shared flat