A big THANK YOU to the Twilight Fans.
Because I owe you guys a lot......I"ve been reading about vampires for a long...VERY LONG time. (Longer than I care to admit tyvm) and I just kept it quiet, due to lots of teasing, ribbing and "OMG U'D MRRY A VAMPAIR, LOLOLOL" in high school. ( wouldn't marry one. I'd fuck one in a heart beat, but marry?...No.) So I'm used to being the underground vampire fan, only talking about it with kindred spirits (not many that admitted it themselves) and begged my sisters to let me watch "Fright Night", "Dracula" or "The Lost Boys" again on Saturday nights. Even into adulthood, unabashedly reading my Anne Rice novels, scouring bookstores for vampy covers, rejoicing at my first bookstore that carried a "vampire" section, and special ordering from the library "Varney" and "Carmilla". The secondhand bookstore was my second home (I'd be 1,000$ in debt if I'd had ebay back then, lol) and I practiced the "graveyard look" from grade ten and onward.
My friends accepted it as an amusing quirk.
My parents hoped desperately I'd grow out of it (Especially the fangoria magazines)
"Bram Stoker's Dracula" and "Interview with the Vampire" briefly brought us into the spotlight, and people became more tolerant of our fangs. And black clothes. In a few years, we had our own underground culture...GOTHS. It was a good time.
Then we all "grew up" or so they thought...I got sick, I recovered. I concentrated on other things, I got married, I became a mother. Love of the fang never left me completely.
Then BOOM. TWILIGHT. I first saw it in 2005, and just put it down, thinking it was another one of those teenage wet dream books I'd have shat myself over 18 years ago. And I was right...But for some reason??
OTHER PEOPLE LIKED IT!! NORMAL PEOPLE!! NORMAL WOMEN!!!
They started FIGHTING me when I pooh-pooh'ed their vampires!!! SERIOUSLY! (Protip...Fighting with me about vampires is as fruitless as fighting with me about Alice Cooper.)
And for some reason...I started to think...Well, hey, I've kinda been there. Maybe I should hate so much.....
Then the intention to remake "Fright Night" came out, and I flipped my shit. And aligned myself with the Twilight people, saying "I'LL SIT THROUGH ALL MOVIES BEFORE SEEING THAT PIECE OF SHIT REMAKE!!"
And you know what? I did! And you know what? I had a great time!! And found the courage to re-embrace the inner fang-banger. All these Twilight Moms? Probably love the books because it made them feel like sixteen and in love for the first time again...Same reason I love "The Lost Boys" to this day....So I re-embraced Fright Night, Lost Boys, Dracula, all things vampire and BOOM AGAIN!!! We now have True Blood, Twilight saga (BREAKING DAWN OMG!! C-SECTION BY VAMPIRE!!) Let me In, Daybreakers....It's a great day for the sexy undead....I've met Chris Sarandon, I'm on my way to meeting my first Lost Boy (ALEX WINTER OMG!!!) and having the time of my life....Thanks to Nikki, Nuttymadam (I'm on her youtube) and all of you, thank you!! From a very grateful vampire fan!