You got exactly what I was thinking of! Only instead the vampires improved much faster than humans did. And so the technology that the vampires used to use probably looks a lot like magic. Huh. (Poor Dracula's wife ;-;) Except waaay more advanced than your average scientist in the dark ages probably. (haha I know practically nothing about specifics in history! *sigh*)

Ohhh and I am so interested in the 'demon carriage problem' now. Would you be willing to expand on that a little or is it a specific inside joke?

Sorry it took me so long to respond to this, I was writing an essay that I was excited about when I read your response and I didn't want to kick myself too far out of that headspace while I was going. (Not that there's much quality/quantity in this response anyway, but oh well.)

EDIT: And yes, your response totally makes sense and I totally agree that meta is the best part of fandom (Bar fanfiction which seems to mostly really be meta in action/practice)