Seriously, why Vampires?
(Yes I admit I probably only noticed this due to the talk earlier at Tay's. Onward!)
I got on my computer for one purpose and one only: Bedtime story, AkuRoku flavour prefered.
...in the first page alone there are three, count 'em, THREE, separate vampire fics. What the hell is up with that shit? Who went and decided that vampires were the bomb and must be ficced at every turn??
I want all those people to go take a look at the REAL vampire legends, y'know, before Hollywood glammed them up and made the vampire wrongly into some kind of sex symbol. Okay, yeah, the process originally started way back with Bram Stoker, but dammit, that was just one vampire story, one that went against all the others and instead it has become the definition of the 'popular' vampire. Note the popular being in quotes.
Why not ghouls? Ifrits? Djinni? Hell, I'll even take a chupacabra fanfic right about now. Vampires were originally little better than zombies, they were corpses in decay that drank blood and THAT WAS IT. With Dracula and everything afterwards they started mixing it up with a dash of Incubus for sex appeal and bam! HOLLYWOOD GOLDMINE.
So please for the love of originality, give me something else, I don't care what, just anything, anything in the entire world except freaking vampires.
....or foxdragons.
I just say no to foxdragons.
I got on my computer for one purpose and one only: Bedtime story, AkuRoku flavour prefered.
...in the first page alone there are three, count 'em, THREE, separate vampire fics. What the hell is up with that shit? Who went and decided that vampires were the bomb and must be ficced at every turn??
I want all those people to go take a look at the REAL vampire legends, y'know, before Hollywood glammed them up and made the vampire wrongly into some kind of sex symbol. Okay, yeah, the process originally started way back with Bram Stoker, but dammit, that was just one vampire story, one that went against all the others and instead it has become the definition of the 'popular' vampire. Note the popular being in quotes.
Why not ghouls? Ifrits? Djinni? Hell, I'll even take a chupacabra fanfic right about now. Vampires were originally little better than zombies, they were corpses in decay that drank blood and THAT WAS IT. With Dracula and everything afterwards they started mixing it up with a dash of Incubus for sex appeal and bam! HOLLYWOOD GOLDMINE.
So please for the love of originality, give me something else, I don't care what, just anything, anything in the entire world except freaking vampires.
....or foxdragons.
I just say no to foxdragons.