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[atalantapendrag]

Karen's old enough to consider the word "vampire" a slur.

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[sathari]

This one fascinates me, not least because I had to Google "apotropaics" and anything that teaches me new words is always awesome.

[atalantapendrag]

I stumbled onto it in this book I used to have on vampires and it's just this awesome word I love to bust out. That book actually has a lot to do with the idea that someone fitting the modern pulp culture concept of a vampire would not like being associated with the shambling creatures of folklore, the folklore I grew up reading.