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| 3 | "The Dangers of Literature" is a short story written by Elizabeth "Tropers/{{Dante668}}" Einspanier, as a TakeThat against modern vampire romance novels. |
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| 5 | Tina Williams is a teenaged girl who prefers to go by Lachrymosa, and has a morbid interest in death and vampires. In fact, she dreams of having her very own vampire boyfriend, just like the ones in the paranormal romance novels she likes to read. |
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| 7 | Unfortunately, she's about to discover that real vampires don't follow the rules laid out in her favorite novels... |
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| 9 | "The Dangers of Literature" can be found at ''Dark Fire Fiction'', [[http://darkfire.t15.org/fiction_Einspanier1212.html here]]. |
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| 11 | !!"The Dangers of Literature" contains the following tropes: |
| 12 | * BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Lachrymosa wishes to meet an actual vampire and does. Unfortunately for her, it turns out her "knowledge" of vampires hasn't prepared her for the much nastier real thing. |
| 13 | * BoyMeetsGhoul: Lachrymosa tries to set up a gender-inverted version of this romance. |
| 14 | %%* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette |
| 15 | %%* ElegantGothicLolita: Lachrymosa dresses this way... |
| 16 | * {{Goth}}: Lachrymosa has an unhealthy fascination with death and vampires. |
| 17 | %%* HemoErotic: Lachrymosa believe a vampire's bite will be like this. |
| 18 | * MeaningfulName: "Lachrymosa" presumably comes from the word "lachrymose" which means "sad" or "tearful", an appropriate name for a girl who loves angst. |
| 19 | * OurVampiresAreDifferent: Lachrymosa thinks they're handsome angsty souls with an addictive bite. [[spoiler: Turns out they're little more than predatory blood-drinking corpses. Who can use the internet.]] |
| 20 | * ParentalAbandonment: The reason why Lachrymosa seeks a vampire boyfriend. Her father died shortly before the story and she doesn't get along with her mother. |
| 21 | %%* RomanticVampireBoy: Lachrymosa's idea of vampires. |
| 22 | * ShoutOut: A lot of vampire novelists are mentioned as contributing to Lachrymosa's vampire fantasies. |
| 23 | * TakeThat: To vampire romance in general. The actual vampire Lachrymosa meets at the end of the story laughs at how stupid all the vampire lore she recites for him is. |
| 24 | * TooDumbToLive: Even if the person Lachrymosa was meeting hadn't been a vampire, meeting a stranger from the internet secretly in the middle of the night could easily go horribly wrong...and it does. |
| 25 | * VampireVannabe: Lachrymosa dreams that someday her vampire boyfriend will turn her into a vampire. |
| 26 | %%* WrongGenreSavvy: Sorry, Lachrymosa... this isn't ''that'' kind of vampire story. |
| 27 | %%* YourVampiresSuck: An extended one is given by the vampire Lachrymosa meets. |
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