My name is Cleo, and I am maybe a Dracula

[cleolinda]

This is just to say that I'm fine; I just looked up and realized how much time had passed without me posting again. I was tired from liveblogging two nights in a row, and--in a most likely related occurrence--my eyes have started burning a bit, so I've been trying to get away from my computer screen (... a little) the last couple of days and catch

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[cleolinda]

I haven't! But it keeps being mentioned--I also want to go get the other two annotations Klinger keeps mentioning.

But yeah, I get a bit tired of the conspiracy angle because sometimes it gets bogged down in perpetuating itself. When it works, it's a fun new way to consider something; when it doesn't, you're just going through ever-increasingly convoluted motions just to keep up appearances.

[cleolinda]

Yeah, I did see a mention of "makes vampirism fashionable" in passing. I'll have to look that up. I've just tried to be really careful--in working on my own vampire thing for the last 6-7 years (DEAR GOD), I've tried to read only the pre-1900 stuff--to see what someone at the time could have known, culturally speaking, about vampires. (You know, the way the concept of "sunlight kills instantly" didn't show up until Nosferatu in the '20s. Like that.) I guess on some level I'm terrified that I'm going to read modern vampire fiction* and realize it's all been done before--which it has, but it's one of those "don't look down" things. You have to close your eyes and do it anyway.

* Obviously Twilight doesn't count.**

** Although, actually, it's been really instructive to see what pisses people off about Twilight, what traditional vampire fans feel the books do "wrong," and what the books actually do effectively. Because they have to do something effectively, or they wouldn't have sold eleventy frillion copies. So I really enjoy

[ciara_belle]

...I am going to find that book right now. It sounds awesome!

[dietcokeofevil5]

He also has two sequels (of sorts) to it -- Judgment of Tears and The Bloody Red Baron. Although the first one is still probably the best. I just like how Newman mixes historical and literary figures together into one world.