Jodie Ramodien

Interesting.

Yeah, and I think it's just really interesting that, like, readers and then...

movie goers have latched onto this idea that there's like something more in that relationship and that's something that they want to explore and then I think that leads us like on the pathway to where we are now where we're like vampire sexy love intro there's tension there this is the pipeline I think it's interesting what you were saying before about like

I think it's so interesting that there are certain things that, like, often just don't get revisited at all.

Like, the running water thing, like, that usually... Forgotten.

Yeah, nobody cares.

Yeah.

And then also the fact that he can change into, like, most creatures of the night.

So...

that kind of disrupts the dichotomy of Edward and Jacob because he's a wolf in this book often.

The wolves are on his side in Dracula.

To my lesbian queens.

So there is in that book, which predated Dracula, as we mentioned, this kind of theme around consent.

And like the word consent is explicitly used in that text, which I thought was really interesting because we kind of think of that as a very new concept.

where Carmilla this vampire like part of her MO is that she like almost wants her victims to consent to her feeding off their life force you see these moments between her and the protagonist Laura quite often where she's like almost like begging her to want to like be consumed by Carmilla and they're kind of like in this like psychosexual thriller situation so it like feeds into that but like

The idea of consent, I think, maybe feels a bit lost in Dracula, the novel itself, but it existed before and we've kind of renewed that conversation as the years have gone by as well.

So I think it's really interesting that it kind of just skipped a bit in the middle.

Well, that's also like the whole you have to invite them in thing as well.

It's also in Vampire Diaries.

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