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Stories love talking about "cursed" beings like vampires. But like. Being a vampire is awesome. You get super strength and shapeshifting and shit, and all you need to do is drink blood? Drinking blood doesn't even have to kill something! Humans eat the innards of other animals, and that's objectively worse.

Anyway, the whole bursting-into-flames thing with sunlight is a real problem, I guess, but anyway. Half the time vampires just glitter.

So I was thinking of a real curse.

Imagine not being able to sleep. Ever. Every passing day, your brain gets tired-er and tired-er and you just. Can't sleep. You move slower and slower, lose the ability to write, suddenly can't see straight.

As more days pass, it gets harder and harder to remember who you are. Everything in the past goes blurry, like your dreams are coming out into the real world and trying to strangle you. And you can't die. So you're just stuck, getting more and more insane. Look up some sleep deprivation stuff. It's crazy what it will do to someone.

And the real cherry on the sundae?

Part of the curse is that you can force people to feel how exhausted you are. If the curse gets far enough, you can instantly knock them out. Imagine it. You want nothing more than to just get one wink of sleep, to have just one dream, and your power is to force people into slumber.

I dunno about you, but to me that would suck way more than being a vampire.