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• Vampires Are Gay by Tot0row

  Fandoms: No Fandom, Carmilla - All Media Types, Luca (2021), Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling  

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  27 May 2026

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  • this is just a think piece
  • Essays
  • idk - Freeform
  • monsters as metaphor for queerness
  • queerness in media
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  • faggot faggot gay faggot
  • the lavender scare mention
  • hays code mention
  • sorry - Freeform
  • also the fandoms i put are bcs i mention them for examples and talk abt them
  • just so you know its not actual fanfic its like an essay think piece

  Summary

  Vampires are Gay (an essay by me)
  I think it’s interesting how monsters in media so often relate to themes of queerness. It's filled with this persistent idea that to be queer is to be “other” —to be some carnal, consuming thing of desire. It’s shown as tragic, and crude, and humiliating. The unfortunate thing is, that idea isn’t entirely wrong. To be queer is to be other (at least in the lens of social construction) And to understand the connection between monsters and queerness, it’s necessary to look to the creatures that perpetuate our films, TV shows, and novels, and ask what, exactly, they’re meant to represent.

  OR: i write a 2000 word think piece bcs on monsters as a metaphor for queerness and queerness in media because i can

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