Yup, and it's just like how they're largely incapable of writing the good guys as the good guys, and the bad guys as the bad guys. Their villains always come off as cool, and their good guys as insufferable bullies and busybodies.
Also, I'd never thought about it, but what's the 'wood' symbolism? I get why faith and purity/cleansing hurt them, and why they have issues with homes, but what is wood to them?
It's also a foil to the vampire as petrified vs the wood isn't.
Essentially its a natural symbol in opposition to the unnatural. A Living weapon against a dead adversary.
Oh plus building and civilization. Wood represents industriousness and construction in opposition to cold stagnation through houses and Fire. The Vampire is cold and lives in stone castles or caves. He's a wild predator Associated with Bats (caves again) and wolves. A vampire living in a log cabin sounds strange, but a stone house in the woods makes sense.
It's sort of a reverse of the Fae vs Iron symbol which is based around the same thing, the natural is directly opposed by the constructed or altered.
This is one of the fundamental problems with leftist "creativity" they've rejected everything good and positive and have nothing to write about.
The Vampire is a symbol of degeneracy without limit, hunger without dicipline. It's the very embodiment of unchecked just.
It's contrary symbols, wood, the church, clean water, secure homes.
Do I really have to spell it out?
Vampires aren't capable of writing good vampire fiction because they fundamentally miss the point of why the Vampires are the bad guys.
Yup, and it's just like how they're largely incapable of writing the good guys as the good guys, and the bad guys as the bad guys. Their villains always come off as cool, and their good guys as insufferable bullies and busybodies.
Also, I'd never thought about it, but what's the 'wood' symbolism? I get why faith and purity/cleansing hurt them, and why they have issues with homes, but what is wood to them?
Natural life, medicine. Continual growth.
It's also a foil to the vampire as petrified vs the wood isn't.
Essentially its a natural symbol in opposition to the unnatural. A Living weapon against a dead adversary.
Oh plus building and civilization. Wood represents industriousness and construction in opposition to cold stagnation through houses and Fire. The Vampire is cold and lives in stone castles or caves. He's a wild predator Associated with Bats (caves again) and wolves. A vampire living in a log cabin sounds strange, but a stone house in the woods makes sense.
It's sort of a reverse of the Fae vs Iron symbol which is based around the same thing, the natural is directly opposed by the constructed or altered.