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What is an AmA?
AmA’s or “Ask Me Anything” began on the old internet, originally AOL chatrooms, later followed by Slashdot. They are crowdsourced interviews where the interviewee first makes a post describing who they are and what they do. Commenters then leave questions and can vote on other questions according to which they would like to see answered.
The interviewee can then go through and reply to the questions they find interesting, and easily see those questions the internet is dying to have the answer too. Questions will be a mixture of radical, serious and lighthearted resulting in the kind of interview you won’t get elsewhere.
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Anyone can do an Ask Me Anything. The topic of the AmA must meet the rules below, and in some cases you must provide proof of the claims you are making. Ask Me Anything topics fall into two categories:
Something that plays a central role in your life. The prime example of this is a person's job; posts about someone's occupation are almost always allowed. A person's topic should be something that they know thoroughly and is important to them; this gives them more to discuss and a more thorough background in the field.
A truly interesting and unique event. An example would be "I organised a protest against x." It's an activity that doesn't play a central role in someone's life but is so uncommon that many users would not have experiences of their own to relate to it.
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Mutual-Aid and Crowd Funding - AmA submitters that include any aid or funding campaign must be eligible for an AmA without the campaign for it to be allowed. Additionally, the focus of the AmA must not be the campaign -- those posts would be more appropriate in the mutual-aid community. Posts about suicide.
Other Restrictions:
Giveaways are not permitted on AmA. Contests and giveaways already running on a third party site prior to the AmA are acceptable
Proof
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Umm acktchually vampires don't require human blood to survive as such. It's more of an addiction, where if they go too long without blood, they go into a frenzy and get killed by concerned citizens.
There are so many versions of the vampire lore, going back centuries, that what you say only applies to some of them and what I said only applies to some of them. Sometimes even sunlight doesn't harm them and just makes them sparkle because the writer is that obsessed with husbando power fantasies.
vampires as blood sucking thinking beings more or less is an invention of 18th century English gothic literature. Most of the elements you would recognise as being a vampire were made up wholecloth by Polidori. Like how orcs aren't from folklore and Tolkein made them up
the folk stories they are based on are more similar to zombie myths or ghouls than what we would recognise as vampires and seem to have been morality plays about the importance of properly burying dead family rather than leaving old corpses in your house. Although the detail that a vampires first victim is always the one they loved the most in the folklore is a pretty good dramatic touch
If you really want to dig that far back, vampires were supposed to be ugly. Bloated, discolored, grotesque like the corpses that were accused of being vampires hiding in their coffins.
Turning vampires into a Mary Sue power fantasy of beauty was a later contrivance, and a very annoying and tiresome one.
oh I agree. Like I pointed out elsewhere in the first stories vampires were seductive but by causing terror until their victim gives in. More like a cop using sleep deprivation to get a confession than a charming lover.
a pretty good exploration of the themes of dracula