vampire trivia: the reason mirrors and film - black and white film traditionally - don't interact is because silver, the old basis of both mirrors and silver-nitrate film, is a pure metal, semi-holy, and refuses to interact with the evil of vampirism.
@moira I've seen a literature professor (the one who did my annotated Dracula copy) argued that the silver connection was made well after the fact, historically it was thought mirrors showed the soul, and since Vampires didn't have one, they didn't appear. #Monsterdon
@diazona Exactly! That's been exploited by some writers in the past. Most modern mirrors aren't silver and no modern films are, so if you're playing with this people can - and do - exploit all that for writing mythos goodness.
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