Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Vampires Vs Werewolves? Which do you choose?

With the crazy ‘twigay’ love that has recently run rampant over the world all of the scary villains that would normally be considered gross or scary are now lovable and romantic and sexual fantasies. Now when I was young I watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer and became infatuated with the idea of Vampires of all sorts but a vampire is a soulless creature that needs blood to survive and runs on instinct and seems to lean towards violence. A few vampires with strong spirits or interesting circumstances could for a time become good. Angel in fact was cursed with a soul and constantly lost it throughout Buffy and the Angel series where he became evil. Spike fought for his soul to prove his love to the slayer and thus a good vampire has a soul and a normal, evil vampire does not and is therefore not a romantic fantasy. A vampire, just like rape or aggressive sex can be a sexual fantasy and there is nothing wrong with the people who do enjoy that but the teeny boppers and the ‘prostitots’ need to stop dressing like they want some creature of the night to swoop down and save them from their loveless life because it isn’t a nice sparkly vampire that is going to come and save them, it’s actually going to be something craving blood and death and maybe some violence if they like your scream. 

Now for werewolves, creatures that are human by day and lose control and eat and kill things during the full moon. These creatures will also kill you, and a good example again is Buffy the Vampire Slayer with Oz being a werewolf and Willow needed to lock him up at night to keep him and others safe from his wolf side. Twilight, or what many prefer to call it ‘Twigay’ takes both of these monster, and yes that is what they are, and promotes them to teens and children as heroes and romantic partners.
A better version would be Laurell K Hamilton’s Anita Blake series where Anita fights to stay away from these monsters and the character development of Jean Claude and Richard shows these creatures for what they truly are. Richard fights his darker side and tries to be a good guy and eventually the anger from his wild side rides him. Jean Claude may be a vampire but he comes from a line of vampires that not only feed on blood but on emotion, specifically lust and love and so he isn’t as physically 
dangerous and other vampires that would only feed on blood and the death or pain of their victim. 

All in all, I enjoy vampires, tolerate werewolves and have a deep love for faeries. Laurell K Hamilton writes an amazing series for Merry Gentry starting with A Kiss Of Shadows. This has a faeries princess, two faerie courts, death, royal politics, assassinations, rape, bodyguards, a harem, a malevolent queen, delusional king and a sadistic prince. The entire series is riveting, seductive and addictive. Whether you like were wolves, panthers or snakes, Vampires, Faeries or whatever creature truly exists in the ‘twigay’ world this decade is the time to indulge. All the supernatural movies and television shows are rocketing through the box office, books are being published and comic books with these magical undertones are being pushed to the audiences view.

Enjoy the Supernatural Revolution,
The Hottest Geekette<3

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