Eight Days of Happiness: Original Fiction on the Internets

[thefourthvine]

The One with Magic Horseradish. Beat That, Harry Potter. Why Is This Night Different?, by Janni Lee Simner.

This one might only make people who have celebrated Passover happy, but as it so happens, I am one of those people! And we are talking about things that make me happy, so

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[exceptinsects]

I love that Wikihistory story so much I actually gave them 5 bucks when I first read it.

[thefourthvine]

That is true, true love. *admires you*

[droolfangrrl]

Interesting spam you got there...

[thefourthvine]

*violent eyeroll*

I have no idea why I'm getting so much of it, but the CAPTCHA isn't working anymore. I think I'm just going to have to bag anonymous comments, much as I hate to.

[paper_tzipporah]

No, there is no good Passover wine. Passover wine is inherently bad. This is why my (mostly-secular) family always had really really good wine at Passover, and also sometimes food that was not remotely kosher (is that oversized cous-cous? that can't be kosher for Passover! we're ashkenazi, not sephardic!), and also why I can never remember year to year which foods I'm allowed to eat.

However, if you get stuck at a seder with actual Passover wine (OH GOD MANISCHEWITZ IS SO GROSS), try doing a couple shots of something like tequila before the sun goes does down. By the time the whole super-long reading portion starts, you'll be drunk enough not to care AND drunk enough that the wine might actually taste okay.

[thefourthvine]

But whyyyyyy is Passover wine so bad? Is it a punishment? If so, what did we do as a people that was THAT wrong?

(My family tends to go the "token Passover wine" route, where we have, yes, a bottle of the bad stuff, but also bottles of the good stuff, and you take your sip of gag-inducing wine and then get a glass of something to take the pain away. Unless you prefer the Passover wine. Sometimes small children actually like it.)

[droolfangrrl]

http://www.sunsingerwines.com/blog.html... )

[droolfangrrl]

this claims to know about at least one good wine

http://www.israeli-wine.org/2009/03/31/passover-kosher-wine/

[strangerian]

the other side of vampires, where they are not sexy, not deliciously homoerotic, not pretty pretty princesses with body glitter, but rather, you know, crazed undead killing machines

Just here to name-check Poppy Z. Brite, for the crazed undead killing machines who are *also*, somehow (and only for meanings of "somehow" involving blood kinks) deliciously homoerotic amid their grunge. Of course, I didn't like them myself. Nope. Of course not. I only still own the book for... um, research purposes.

I might also argue that the literary history of vampires, Polidori and Stoker forward, is a process of making them less brutish and undead and more fit for polite company, which cultimates in the sunshine-glitter and super-boyfriend aspects. What next? Is there a way to make them *more* socially acceptable, yet curiously Special? I fear to speculate.

[thefourthvine]

Poppy Z Brite, you say? Hmmmm. I will remember this for the next time I feel like reading about pointy teeth!

What next? Is there a way to make them *more* socially acceptable, yet curiously Special?

Have them teach kindergarten? Oh, wait, maybe that's the way to go: vampire kidfic? Or Bridget Jones' Diary type chicklit, except Mark Darcy is a vampire? I don't know. It's tough to beat sparkles.

[strangerian]

Oh, dear. Cute vampire pets! My Little Vampire Pony. Vampire Charlotte's Web. Come Home, Vampire Lassie.

I'll bet you could find vampire-theme LOLcats as it is, if only by repurposing Basement Cat a tiny bit.

[cccccontroversy]

Late to the party, but I have to jump in:

I LIKE MANISCHEWITZ. I THINK IT'S TASTY.

There, I said it! And I won't unsay it!!