I like vampire lit for much the same reason I like science fiction: both change the premises of our life experience and, thus, challenge our usual cultural and psychological assumptions. Vampire lit, in particular, lends itself to upending commonplaces about gender and family structure. It's often been noted that vampire reproduction is ( Read more... )

Title:: "Espoir et Désespoir"
Fandom: Blood+ (anime)
Characters: Hagi, Solomon
Rating/Warnings: PG-13 for themes
Summary: A slightly AU filler fic: what if two chevaliers struck up a correspondence while their queens slept?
A/N: I've grappled with the title. My poor French tells me it ought to have articles, but I prefer the phonetic effect ( Read more... )

Blood+ Anime Review and Meta
with remarks on evolution and biology

Somehow in the midst of my current X-Men obsession, I managed to finish Blood+, a 50-episode anime, recced by
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