• mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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    11 hours ago

    “Canonically.”

    And this was pretty funny in The X-Files, when Mulder spilled sunflower seeds. The vampire drops to the floor and starts counting, spitting at him, “You dick!

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      8 hours ago

      Hahaha, that’s awesome.

      I didn’t learn about this aspect of vampires till a couple years ago. I always wondered why the count on Sesame Street was a vampire.

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        8 hours ago

        The slightly goofy Francis Ford Coppola adaptation both includes it and solves it. Van Helsing throws a bowl of grains into the air and Dracula names the total before they hit the ground.