Random Thoughts

[Lilaena De'Ville]

I hope I can get this Christmas Surprise to work out in time to get it in the mail! :uhoh

[Charley]

When will full beards come back into vogue?

[Mandy with an I]

I hope I get to see you :(

[Lilaena De'Ville]

IT WORKED IT WORKED

can't wait until tomorrow when i can order it BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA >D

[Dasquian Belargic]

Dress or suit? Dress or suit? @_@

[Ilias Nytrau]

Suit, FTW. ... The cat has taken up residence in my lap.

[RC-1197]

Sooo tired... but must post more!

[Tear]

Licensing fee's are such a con. 50 bucks for WHAT! laminating plastic? Better be some magical mother #@$&@ plastic. Eat it DMV!

[Mitch]

40% less fat than what?

[Morgan Evanar]

Someone stole my license plate. I was going to turn it into the DMV anyway.

[Aurelias Kazaar]

Why can't I focus at work?

[Charley]

Sometimes it is okay to have meat on a pizza, as long as it's really, really, really good. Pancetta fits the bill.

[Mandy with an I]

Oh no, Bettie Page! :(

[Dasquian Belargic]

Ahhh no I have man flu >_<

[Mandy with an I]

Pizza with pineapple and chicken, yum yum. You better get your butt on AIM tonight or I'm going to be peed-off.

[Ilias Nytrau]

Gah! Gah Gah GAH! Argh. Bleeeeeeeh. -headdesk- Numphhhngh. -sigh-

[Stern]

I do, actually.

[Dasquian Belargic]

Screw this cold and the microbes it rode in on

:x

[Ilias Nytrau]

I see you there. Lurking.

Yes, you.

You heard me. (http://www.starwarsrpg.net/forums/showthread.php?p=328262#post328262)

[Aurelias Kazaar]

Despite a certain lupine moderator of our boards thinking otherwise, Samuel Adams is frackin' awesome. :)

[Xel-Naga]

The Crown goes in your mouth not on your head.

[Dara Shadowtide]

:wave @ Ilias

Maybe just me posting is random enough. :p

[Ilias Nytrau]

Perhaps, M'dear. Perhaps. :p

[Xel-Naga]

And then she shat on a sheaturtle!

[Dasquian Belargic]

:wave @ Ilias

Maybe just me posting is random enough. :p

Don't I get a :wave too? :mneh

[Dara Shadowtide]

Don't I get a :wave too? :mneh

Nah, you get a..

*GlompTackle* :D

[Ilias Nytrau]

Perhaps you mean: :glomp

;)

[Selinica Miriya]

Housework. Bleeeh.

[Captain Untouchable]

I really should post something... but Rosie is making chips. ^^

[Selinica Miriya]

I really should post something... but Rosie is making chips. ^^

-thwaps you over the head- Post, damn it! :D

[Stern]

Or even better, get her to post.

[Dasquian Belargic]

Motherflipper it's cold outside

[Amos Iakona]

I really should post something... but Rosie is making chips. ^^

-thwaps you over the head- Post, damn it! :D

Okay, okay. I posted.

Wow - violence does get results, after all. ;)

[Loklorien s'Ilancy]

Oh barf Sam Adams :x





;)

[Neutron]

Happiness is a freshly-sharpened knife.

[Lucianus Adair]

Happiness is a freshly-sharpened knife.

Oh, do I ever agree with you. :hug

[Miranda Tarkin]

Oh my neck, shoulder, back :x

[Lilaena De'Ville]

snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow SNOW

[Ilias Nytrau]

It was big on size, suck on taste.

p.s. -> SNOW.

p.p.s -> ICE.

p.s. + p.p.s = Cracked skulls.

[Zereth Lancer]

Black ice is evil ice bred to kill cars!

[Dasquian Belargic]

It can't be Monday again already...

My boss sucks for not giving me two days off to go to Amsterdam.

[Zereth Lancer]

They don't let me work on Tuesday because I'm gay on Tuesdays...

[Lilaena De'Ville]

That is very sexist of them.

[Yog]

Airport strikes suck.

[Miranda Tarkin]

Frelling Cold!!! >_<

[Morgan Evanar]

At least it's raid night.

[Aurelias Kazaar]

I need a real sleep cycle. Like no more going to bed at 4A and waking up at 11:15.

NOT. FUN.

[Zenas Codrey]

Come on...just one more hour. Why does time crawl when I'm at work?

[Aurelias Kazaar]

Meant to say this yesterday...

Ding dong! Avery (http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/spt/hockey/stars/stories/121508dnspostarslede.2963899.html) is gone, Avery is gone, Avery is gone! Ding dong! Avery is gone, but the Dallas Stars still suck!

[Marava'shak]

Sleep is for the weak!

*yawns*

I'm not one of them!

[Zereth Lancer]

I think I shall hibernate for the rest of the winter.

[Dasquian Belargic]

AIM is dead? AIM is suck.

[Droo]

Dow's Trademark Port may replace Southern Comfort as my favourite tipple.

[Zereth Lancer]

I punch as hard as Jack Bauer, which is half as hard as Chuck Norris.

[Wei Wu Wei]

I'm going to have nightmares tonight about leaf monsters as tall as my thighs.

[Ilias Nytrau]

It's too cold outside for me. But... I have darts. Means I have to step out my front door. :\

[Loklorien s'Ilancy]

Not right now, I'm reading about sea monsters.

[Vipul Chandrashekar]

how the hell am I supposed to do all of this in five days???

[Lilaena De'Ville]

frosty the snow maaaaaan.... :dance

[Zereth Lancer]

The mushrooms want my clouds!

[Miranda Tarkin]

@_@

I ... I am so glad I have the day off from work.

[Anita Stern]

Don't do that. She'll eat your face. I'm serious.

[Liam Jinn]

Damn, I did a great job with that tree. I think I'll wear the Santa hat wherever I go.

[Mandy with an I]

Rainbow candy canes for the wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin!

[Dasquian Belargic]

Is there something.. special about this Icelandic water?

[Miranda Tarkin]

More snow >_<

Glad I went to the post office early!

[Zereth Lancer]

It is Tuesday and I shall be gay.

[Loklorien s'Ilancy]

Stupid trees :grumble

[Mandy with an I]

^ wtf happened?!?!

[Lilaena De'Ville]

WHAT HAPPENED IS THERE A TREE IN YOUR HOUSE WHAAAAT HWAT WHAT!@!@? we want to know :(

[Byl Laprovik]

damn it to hell

[Loklorien s'Ilancy]

Hey awesome! It's raining!



:mad

[Selinica Miriya]

I... haven't looked out the window since... well... not today. :rolleyes

[Emelie Shadowstar]

Supposed to snow here tomorrow.

Snow.

Here.

The world is ending, I say!

[Morgan Evanar]

At least it's cooling off at night.

I'm tired and don't want to go to work.

[Daiquiri]

Cant get to sleep. Part of me says go lay down, the other part says stay up all night. Ice on the roads...school or no school?

[Ilias Nytrau]

I've been staying up until 4am the past couple nights because aside from applying for jobs online and RPing I have NOTHING BETTER TO DO because of this GODDAMNED SNOW AND ICE.

Argh. Winter can bugger off now, please. :(

[Lilaena De'Ville]

More Snow Tonight And Tomorrow Please Please

[Daiquiri]

no School

:)

[Dasquian Belargic]

Cant get to sleep. Part of me says go lay down, the other part says stay up all night.

Story of my freakin life.

I get all the way to 5am thinking, well its so late I might as well stay awake the whole night and then BAM, 5:01am I am exhausted. And then I get hardly any sleep.

I NEVER LEARN :shakefist

[Lilaena De'Ville]

Sleeep Is Gooooood

[Dasquian Belargic]

I know.. I need to invest in some sleeping pills.

That reminds me, I need caffeine pills for my epic 19 hour shift on Friday.

[Lilaena De'Ville]

uppers and then downers... its a vicious cycle that always ends in gunfire and p.o.ed drug dealers. :p

[Dasquian Belargic]

But there are no guns here.

I suppose they will just club me to death instead, or give me a Glasgow smile.

...not particulary reassuring.

[Stern]

I am now the fastest working white man my company has seen besides the supervisor. I feel accomplished.

[Aurelias Kazaar]

Why am I addicted to email and PMs?

[Ilias Nytrau]

I don't know. WHY ARE YOU ADDICTED TO PMS?

No sane person would be. :p

[Byl Laprovik]

woo hoo indonesian cookbooks

[Ryan Pode]

Two day and a half days.

[Mandy with an I]

Yes, break my heart again. Once it's taped up again, you're going to realize I'm not putting up with your BS anymore!

[Wyl Staedtler]

You goof. :love

[Yog]

I have a cold. :(

[Mandy with an I]

^ *gives Yog root stew* :D


damnit, why do you have to be understanding when i'm trying to be tough?! :mad

[Wyl Staedtler]

Ungh can I just not run errands today? That'd be so nice.

[Byl Laprovik]

how do we collect so much trash???

[Macie Finch]

I have a cold. :(


Me too! And it's nasty ...hopefully it'll clear up before Christmas. Mainly, I've been using it as an excuse to eat whatever I like. Hope you get better soon!


It's ironic that this assignment is about frustration of a contract ...

[Rutabaga]

Amazon.com's customer service sucks.

[Wei Wu Wei]

Merry Christmas, me! 11 hour work days two days next week!

[Wyl Staedtler]

You're thirty, not dead. :lol

[Aurelias Kazaar]

I'm gonna kill this 'so-called' writer (no one here on the boards). I'm going to send his West Virginia butt into Hell and back. Then do it again.

[Miranda Tarkin]

I hope my car with be digable after the winter storm >_<

[Karl Valten]

I hope my car with be digable after the winter storm >_<

Well said, my fellow northerner!

I am sooooooo doing the Lake Michigan polar plunge.

[Wyl Staedtler]

Two more weeks, Baby, and then you're ours forever. :rollin

[Salem Ave]

Today I am working 11am until 4am the next day.

:headache

[Wyl Staedtler]

^

What what what? Jenny. That is not good for you! :(

[Dasquian Belargic]

I am supposed to work 11 til 4pm at one place, and then somehow start at another at 3pm... until the bar closes and we tidy up all the crap left behind by the thousand or so people celebrating the end of the semester.

I feel sleepy already.

[Lilaena De'Ville]

Yuk! Although, inventing time travel in order to end at 4 pm and start an hour earlier at the next place should be exciting!

[Liam Jinn]

I really sucks that the Ravens beat the Cowboys. Really, sometimes it's hard to be a Cowboys fan. At least Pode couldn't watch the game in jail. I'll be over it by the time he gets out, so he loses bragging rights too, and somehow that makes me feel better.

[Aurelias Kazaar]

Pode's in jail?

[Liam Jinn]

Yeah, I can't say why, but he'll be out in a little over a week.

Edit: Uh, it might be more than a month, nevermind.

[Dasquian Belargic]

I have never worn a strapless bra before. It feels.. strange :uhoh

[Wyl Staedtler]

Wow, why do I know the history of boysenberries?

[Miranda Tarkin]

@*(&^#&^@)

stupid fever

[Yog]

I have never worn a strapless bra before. It feels.. strange :uhoh
It must be easy to take off though? How do those things even stay on? :lol



@*(&^#&^@)

stupid fever
Tell me about it. I've had the cold for a week or so, and last few days just sucked. :x

[Dasquian Belargic]

I have never worn a strapless bra before. It feels.. strange :uhoh
It must be easy to take off though? How do those things even stay on? :lol

I don't know :uhoh that's what's worrying me!

[Stern]

6 hours of driving, one short stop, 1.5 hours to go.

[Nya Halcyon]

Sometimes I really, really hate my mother.

[Kal Olorin]

Strapless bras are... either great or horrible. You have to have a really good fit. Depends on the outfit you're wearing too!

[Miranda Tarkin]

I really wish I would go to the bathroom soon. Then I -might- start to feel better

[Aurelias Kazaar]

The one night I'm alone in the news room there's no hockey game on TV. Figures.

[Lilaena De'Ville]

There's a Col/Fla game on right now... O_o

edit: n/m its over. :cry

[Wyl Staedtler]

Excuse me, but the fact that I'm not vaccinating my child is not indicative of a lack of love or care for his well-being on my part. Watch your mouth, learn to be open-minded, and step off, lady.

[Arya Ravenwing]

AMEN to that!

[Aurelias Kazaar]

There's a Col/Fla game on right now... O_o

edit: n/m its over. :cry

Not on national TV. Also we don't get the NHL Network at the station (where Canadians game was being shown).

[Morgan Evanar]

Excuse me, but the fact that I'm not vaccinating my child is not indicative of a lack of love or care for his well-being on my part. Watch your mouth, learn to be open-minded, and step off, lady.If you're breast feeding you don't need to worry about it for a while. But you probably should a year after that, with the dead vaccines.

[Lilaena De'Ville]

I think its a parent's prerogative, not anyone else's decision. Heh, no one wants to hear the books and books I've read on the subject. ;)

[Wyl Staedtler]

I have those books and books on my shelf. ;)

[Aurelias Kazaar]

Most of my books are in boxes. I just don't have any on that particular subject. If I did...that'd be kinda strange.

[Kelly Perris]

Look! A herd of Plotosauruses!

[Miranda Tarkin]

I have to go to the doctor today :x

[Lilaena De'Ville]

Official Portland snowfall to 'now': 15 inches.

more snow expected to fall today: 5 more inches

My little snowmen? BURIED! :eek

[Kelly Perris]

The bratling is sitting on my bed shaking the really cool rattles I got from my best friend years ago. She's shaking them like crazy. And right now I don't care because it means she's amused my SOMETHING that won't break easily. and she's sitting in one spot for more than two minutes.

[Wyl Staedtler]

I just brushed my teeth and it was glooooorius!

[Liam Jinn]

I just brushed my teeth and it was glooooorius!

*starts the slow clapping*

[Emelie Shadowstar]

Whyyy does it have to rain on Wed? I'm supposed to go to Disneyland! *fistshake*

[Miranda Tarkin]

I have an appetite again! :dance

[Stern]

11 hours today, 11 more tomorrow. 22 hours. Then Christmas. And maybe an oil change.

[Aurelias Kazaar]

My back is rickety and I want a cigar.

[Dasquian Belargic]

Just one more day... one more

[Emelie Shadowstar]

Just one more day... one more

*echoes!*

I still have one last thing to buy too. ew.

[Grace Van-Derveld]

<_< more snow! Argh! :shakefist

[PRIMUS]

Wow I haven't been here in a while

[Dasquian Belargic]

Just one more day... one more

*echoes!*

I still have one last thing to buy too. ew.

I was getting more excited about finishing work than Xmas itself, but yes... also one more day to Happy Birthday Jesus (and, more importantly, Raz!)

[Emelie Shadowstar]

I was getting more excited about finishing work than Xmas itself, but yes... also one more day to Happy Birthday Jesus (and, more importantly, Raz!)

:p *was talking about work too*

Now it's only...uhh half a day! *squee*

[Miranda Tarkin]

Not my fault I couldn't hang the 2nd blood! :shakefist!!! I was stupidly busy and hung her K and Mg riders in between while admitting a heavy patient! :shakefist Her hemoglobin was 9.5 too!!! :shakefist I gave her one unit!

[Wyl Staedtler]

Oh my effing god you shaved your head?!?!?!?

[Mandy with an I]

I think I broke my brain last night >_<

[Nya Halcyon]

uurgh... too much wine, and now I have the hickups at 6 in the morning, and no idea how to prepare the goose yet....

[Pierce Tondry]

I own Blizzard! Mwahahahaha.

[Mandy with an I]

Why do I have so much to do - I'm so immensely organized and I'm still freaking out! >_<

[Anita Stern]

-giggles and sighs-

[Dasquian Belargic]

small talk small talk small talk ugggggh so boring

[Ridley Rhee]

UPS you lying bastards! :verymad

[Mandy with an I]

So stealing this hoodie. Sorry Andrew.

[Selinica Miriya]

I will kick your butt. It's probably the least painful place to be kicked, really. :lol

[Dasquian Belargic]

Download! DOWNLOAD FASTER! :whip

[Mandy with an I]

I have never wanted to list things or throw up this much in my life.

[Miranda Tarkin]

please no admissions tonight :uhoh

[Xavier Synik]

Why am I on my third laptop in 3 years...?

[Anita Stern]

^Abuse. :lol

[Emelie Shadowstar]

My guess: User error. :p

I don't want to go to work tomorrow!

[Xavier Synik]

Well for the record, the first one was stolen, the second failed..

[Wyl Staedtler]

augh why can't I sleep? :(

[Stern]

Sure hope I can get from the shop to the gas station tomorrow. It'll be a crappy start to work if I have to walk to get diesel.

[Dasquian Belargic]

go to bed jenny go to beeeeed

[Miranda Tarkin]

In the span of 20 minutes, someone at work made my life harder >:

[Nya Halcyon]

Hehehehe... new cellphone. Yay for me!

[Miranda Tarkin]

yay! I giveth blood!

[Anita Stern]

So hungry. Stop procrastinating, self! Go eat something!

[Aurelias Kazaar]

Wow 7AM flights suck.

[Lilaena De'Ville]

I want pizza :cry

[Dasquian Belargic]

I want pizza too!!

[Anita Stern]

^I third this sentiment.

[Ryan Pode]

Well that was fun.

[Wyl Staedtler]

Unnnnngh >_<

[Dasquian Belargic]

why still awake WHY

[Lilaena De'Ville]

Happy new year, an hour ago!

[Anita Stern]

Almost an hour and a half ago, now.

[Lilaena De'Ville]

It is snowing the hugest flakes I've seen all season.

It is sneak attack snow - we were not expecting more today! And yes, I'm glad I got woke up for it. :D

[Dasquian Belargic]

it is not good to be waking up at 3 in the afternoon

[Emelie Shadowstar]

I want my coffee.

I want my coffee and I want my jersey that I should have been wearing to the game last night but the UPS man sucks. :(

[Wyl Staedtler]

Mmmm smoothie. :) AHHHHH BRAIN FREEZE! >_<

[Lilaena De'Ville]

Ahhhhh I love my new WACOM tablet!

[Ilias Nytrau]

So adorable. I love my brain.

[Kelly Perris]

Remove the head, destroy the brain.

[Dasquian Belargic]

Frell this, I'ma watch HellBoy.

[Darven]

My feet are cold. Why are my feet cold?!? They have no right to be cold!!!

[Wyl Staedtler]

Stupid dinners with stupid people from stupid California. I don't want to be witty and enchanting and wear fancy clothes and drink expensive wine tonight. I want to sit on the couch in grungy spackle-encrusted sweats and watch questionable programs. :(

[Karl Valten]

Yay Beer!!

[Cat X]

Vampires that sparkle and are emo?

Yes that IS the worst book series on the planet. I want to gouge my eyes out

[Ilias Nytrau]

Vampires that sparkle and are emo?

Yes that IS the worst book series on the planet. I want to gouge my eyes out

Bah, I knew that was tripe without reading it. Other unsuspecting fools read it for me. Well, so long as you don't actually mention its name, we're cool. In some places, talking of 'it that shall not be named' or the mere mention of its name is at the very least a /kickban -able offense. Just takes the right embittered, grumpy PMSing male IRC op to do it. ;)

-laughs-

[Dasquian Belargic]

sparkling mormon vampires =D

[Ilias Nytrau]

-headdesks-

Don't you go '-neckwalls-' now, I'll shoot you and take you to the taxidermists. ;)

[Jaime Tomahawk]

Vampires that sparkle and are emo?

Yes that IS the worst book series on the planet. I want to gouge my eyes out

Bah, I knew that was tripe without reading it. Other unsuspecting fools read it for me. Well, so long as you don't actually mention its name, we're cool. In some places, talking of 'it that shall not be named' or the mere mention of its name is at the very least a /kickban -able offense. Just takes the right embittered, grumpy PMSing male IRC op to do it. ;)

-laughs-

And I was thinking Anne Rice vampires were the worst or the people that believe they are vampires or vampyres or whatever crap was the worst, No, we have truly reached the nadir of bloody awful - whatever happened to Bram Strokes' Dracula kind of Vampires? The ones that are outright evil, dont have emotions or families or whatever other garbage, are actually scary and good to read about?

Oh that's right, that would be because Anne Rice has the writing ability of an gnat and the other stupidity is words vomited up to become contemptible garbage.

I think all writers should be forced to use typewriters and actually have to think before putting a word to paper instead of smashing their head against the keyboard.

In fact, lets have a game of...

SMASH YOUR HEAD ON THE KEYBOARD!!!!

ty67uhy67uty6ty67uhi

[Dasquian Belargic]

The literature nerd in me is coming out...

Anne Rice was good, to begin with. Whilst the... romantic elements of her books might not appeal to everyone, I wouldn't say her books were poorly written to begin with. Over the years, she has gone a little bit mad and become slightly obsessed with her own creations, there is no doubt about that - but Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, Pandora and a few of her other books were good, great even. They portrayed vampires as something to fear, without a doubt, but also reminded us that vampires were once human.

The struggle between monstrosity and humanity is what I always thought was most compelling about vampire fiction, personally. If the vampires are going to be the focal characters, they have to have more to them than an animalistic need to feed. If they are just playing the part of Hammer Horror style villain, fair enough make them a one dimensional fiend, but otherwise they need a bit more to 'em.

Stephenie Meyer, in contrast to Anne Rice, is just not a very good writer. Her characters are not compelling and though she attempts to portray her vampire 'family' as flawed and struggling with their 'curse', there really is no feeling that they are cursed. There seems to be almost no negative consequences to being a Meyer-style vampire. They become, essentially, super heroes and just happen to need to drink blood now and again, which they can just get from animals anyway so they don't even need to inflict their monstrosity on humans. Borrrrring.


....aaaand I rambled.

[Mandy with an I]

Slide-whistle suckers are the greatest thing ever, and I wish I could record the sound and post it!

[Jaime Tomahawk]

The literature nerd in me is coming out...

Anne Rice was good, to begin with.

No she wasnt. She was always bad. And just went worse. I need brain bleach just recalling the pages I could cope with before flinging the books away.



The struggle between monstrosity and humanity is what I always thought was most compelling about vampire fiction, personally

And that's where Rice et all miss the point and why the original Dracula gets it right. There is no struggle. Vampires are monsters, straight out. They ARE the things we are supposed to fear. They are things of the night - they don't have motives, they don't have feelings, they are supposed to scare the everliving....... out of us humans. Because that's what they do.

A Vampire is like a cat. A cat when it is out to kill has no emotion, no pity and no form of "well is this the right thing to do...?". It is completely cold blooded about it's work. Which is why cats do disturb humans -they are cold, heartless and they don't care about anything when they kill. Unlike other animals man has domesticated, cats chose to live with us as it suited them.

To a bird, a cat is a complete monster. That is what a vampire, when it works best, is like to us.

And just like how JK Rowling's books were never about Wizards and magic, Dracula was also not about Vlad or vampires. And that's why they work so well. And why Anne Rice et all fail.

[Lilaena De'Ville]

I'm all for vampires struggling with being monsters. :)

Speaking of, ONE NEEDS TO POST :whip

[Fidavar Veir]

I prefer Vlad Dracul to the fictional Dracula, in all honesty. :rolleyes

Yeah, I need to post to WoD too. :lol

[Ecks]

Ahhh the sound of baby and husband sleeping quietly is MUSIC to mine ears.

And that is sort of hilarious to post under this alt. ;)

[Dasquian Belargic]

Hell, if you want to pick Dracula apart to the nitty gritty, it wasn't even about vampires. It's about the struggle between the past and the present, superstition vs. science and modern technology.

Also I'm kind of confused as to how you can cite Bram Stoker's Dracula as a source to prove vampires have no emotions. If vampires were concerned purely with killing, why would he bite Mina Harker repeatedly in an attempt to get revenge against Van Helsing et al? Surely he would just kill her right away? :huh

I mean hell, there are earlier examples of vampire fiction than Bram Stoker's novel, and in those vampires are rarely painted as just monsters - the key to the mythology is that they are damned. They are something that once was, in some way, human or pure and that has somehow become monstrous, against its own will. Evil for evils sake is boring to read about :\

[Jesimae Lawson]

So...does anyone else seem to have a problem with the new trendy vampires that wear corsets and leather and feel they are fallen angels who must avenge some silly purpose then go celebrate at a coven? Or....is it just me?

I loved the book Queen of the Damned, but the movie was a bit too...pop-esque? NOT ALL VAMPIRES ARE GOTHIC PEOPLE! ARRRRRG!!!!


What happened to the good ol' days...like Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt in "Interview with the Vampire"?

[Ettagar Veir]

I enjoyed Anne Rice quite a bit, though Memnoch the Devil really soured the experience for me. Interview with the Vampire was excellent, and Queen of the Damned, while not as good, was certainly readable. My main concern with Rice was that there was just so much description to slog through. She's like a modern Charles Dickens where he goes on and on about describing how dead Marley was; and she doesn't have the paid by the word excuse to run with, either (she didn't write the descriptions the same way Dickens did, but really, we all understand that Lestat is the "Brat Prince", move on, shift it!).

One of my favourite vampire movies was Dracula 2000, for the same reason that Dasq cited, Dracula was damned, and there's no better way to reinforce that than having him be Judas Iscariot!. That was a twist I will remember for a very long time.

[Dasquian Belargic]

I haven't seen Dracula 2000 but I do like the idea of tying vampires into some kind of Biblical mythology, hence my appreciation for White Wolf... the vampires originating from Caine (brother of Abel :lol)

[Emelie Shadowstar]

You know...I haven't read the *ahem* "new vampire books" and I don't think I ever will. Nor do I think I'll ever see the movie. It just doesn't appeal to me and this is someone who really liked Interview a whole hell of a lot (book = <3) and got all into the White Wolf vampire lore there for a while (no LARPing for me, I just really enjoying reading all the stuff)

I half wonder if I just have kinda grew out of the vampire fascination though. But what does it say about me when that was replaced but an undying (ha ha) love for zombies? http://i277.photobucket.com/albums/kk47/Nuime/733bc50f03ec0d6f.gif

[Dasquian Belargic]

I do love me some zombies too. Especially when they are in close vicinity to Simon Pegg :love Shaun of the Dead

We have White Wolf RPing here you know Em :D

[Crusader]

Zombies...hours of fun...I have to play some Dead Rising again soon.

[Emelie Shadowstar]

We have White Wolf RPing here you know Em :D

I knowwww.

And somewhere in the back of my head from aggeeeesss ago is that character from way back on another forum.

:lol Stop tempting me!

[Dasquian Belargic]

Well, if you ever feel the urge... :mneh

[Rossos Atrapes]

I haven't much looked up White Wolf; I checked out World of Darkness, but didn't much find myself creatively inspired by it. Looks cool, sounds cool, but tying the new mythology, while it may work for others, didn't work much for me.

Any places with good summaries of that stuff? Especially werewolves; I am a fan of good werewolf stuff (EDIT: Looking on a whitewolf wiki at the mo'). The protagonists aren't nearly as girly as half the vampire protagonists that I've seen. Excepting Blade.

Edit #2: I just payed attention to what I was reading. That stuff is World of Darkness, isn't it? Wow.

[Dasquian Belargic]

Wikipedia has some summary pages on the different World of Darkness games: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werewolf:_The_Apocalypse

Or: http://wiki.white-wolf.com/worldofdarkness/index.php?title=Old_World_of_Darkness#Werewolf:_Th e_Apocalypse

I like the little blurb there: "A game of savage horror in which the Garou, fierce creatures, half human half wolf, half flesh and half spirit, fight against the forces of spiritual corruption in hopes of saving Gaia, the Earth herself."

[Lilaena De'Ville]

I like pie.

[Lucianus Adair]

I like pie.

PIE?!?!

Share? -pout-

[Cat X]

Hell, if you want to pick Dracula apart to the nitty gritty, it wasn't even about vampires. It's about the struggle between the past and the present, superstition vs. science and modern technology.

Check my last thought out again. I know that Dracula isnt about Vampires themselves - like Harry Potter is bugger all about wizards and magic and in fact mocks such things - and that's why it works!



Also I'm kind of confused as to how you can cite Bram Stoker's Dracula as a source to prove vampires have no emotions. If vampires were concerned purely with killing, why would he bite Mina Harker repeatedly in an attempt to get revenge against Van Helsing et al? Surely he would just kill her right away? :huh

I mean hell, there are earlier examples of vampire fiction than Bram Stoker's novel, and in those vampires are rarely painted as just monsters - the key to the mythology is that they are damned. They are something that once was, in some way, human or pure and that has somehow become monstrous, against its own will. Evil for evils sake is boring to read about :\

The original vampires were not about humans damned. The ideas of vampires as damned humans came later and isnt the core of the mythos. The original is about hell spawn. And you can see from the horror of the real life Vlad the Impaler

However, vampirism is better known as rabies and THAT is what the damned idea came from. With no rational explaination of the effects of rabies (Oversexed, daylight allergic, excessive sensitity to herbs like garlic, self image issues leadign to fear of mirrors and religious symbols as the brain rots from the disease) then it seemed logical to relate blood sucking hellspawn to the disease.

But as be, little of good vampire literatre is about evil for evil's sake. It's much more than that and not really about the vampire itself.

So if you are a goth and a pretend vampire.... your a rabies sufferer and your brain is turning to a sponge! :evil

And I hate pie.

[Lilaena De'Ville]

YOU HATE PIE?! :verymad

BEGONE!

[Morgan Evanar]

It's one big circle of depression.

[Miranda Tarkin]

Hoping that a certain person's finger is ok :(

[Salem Ave]

The original vampires were not about humans damned. The ideas of vampires as damned humans came later and isnt the core of the mythos. The original is about hell spawn. And you can see from the horror of the real life Vlad the Impaler

However, vampirism is better known as rabies and THAT is what the damned idea came from. With no rational explaination of the effects of rabies (Oversexed, daylight allergic, excessive sensitity to herbs like garlic, self image issues leadign to fear of mirrors and religious symbols as the brain rots from the disease) then it seemed logical to relate blood sucking hellspawn to the disease.

But as be, little of good vampire literatre is about evil for evil's sake. It's much more than that and not really about the vampire itself.

Rabies |I yeah that is one source, thanks to people in ye olden days being ignorant about biology. To be honest though there is no 'original idea' about vampires. Stories exist about them (or some variant of the idea) in pretty much every culture and they're always different. What I'm talking about, though, is primarily the vampire in fiction, not in folkloric beliefs. I'm thinking about classic vampire literature - including Bram Stoker, and older stuff like Carmilla. I think what you have beef with is not vampire fiction but paranormal romance fiction, which is what I would classify Twilight as.

Btw, Vlad the Impaler... I prefer Elizabeth Bathory :D

[Aurelias Kazaar]

I can breathe through my nose again. Yay! We'll see how long this lasts though.

[Cat X]

YOU HATE PIE?! :verymad

BEGONE!

And I hate cookies and milk too.

Tim Tam slams / orgasms tho...... (Google it) ...... mmmmmmm.

You l seriously miss out on biscuits and confectionary.

[Stern]

Can I please stop feeling hungry 24/7? I appreciate my increasing metabolism, but come ON!

[Emelie Shadowstar]

I am having the hardest time ever getting motivated...

[Mandy with an I]

Can I please stop feeling hungry 24/7? I appreciate my increasing metabolism, but come ON!

It's because you're a werewolf *has photographic proof!* You just need to fill up on small children and you'll be fine ;)


This morning has been weird o_O

[Zenas Codrey]

I'm at work! *sneaksneak* For the first time in a long while, nobody is crowding my fileroom.

[Dasquian Belargic]

Awright, sup weekend :cool

[Ryan Pode]

Can I please stop feeling hungry 24/7? I appreciate my increasing metabolism, but come ON!

Eat foods rich in protein and fiber.

[Fidavar Veir]

Augh! How did I acquire yet another wound to my fingers? First the cat, now the.. decorations. There's nothing at all sharp that was in that tree!

[Dasquian Belargic]

Humpty Dumpty.. sat on a wall. Who pushed him? THE GOVERNMENT.

[Lilaena De'Ville]

Superstars of Dance is entertaining but the judges are all dumb.

And... when, exactly, IS a good time to talk to you about money!?

[Salem Ave]

I want to be in a America!
Okay by me in America!
Everything free in America!
I want to be in America *clapclapclap*

[Captain Monmoo]

i like transformers!

[Wyl Staedtler]

oh god bed knee ow hair freaking lamp where's a nyquil oh crap antibiotics damn storm stupid computer shut up go to sleep brain UGH.

[Rutabaga]

I wish I could figure out what that weird noise that woke me up last night was.

[Dasquian Belargic]

uggggh why did I throw it away why why why

[Jesimae Lawson]

Why can't I marry Kiefer Sutherland, or better yet...JACK BAUER!

24 starts tonight, yipee!!

[Ryan Pode]

Third times the charm.

[Dasquian Belargic]

From the bottle. Yup.

[Stern]

Run run run run. as fast as you can. You can't beat me, I'm Dr. Eggman.

[Loklorien s'Ilancy]

Sunday night is such a downer :(

[Ilias Nytrau]

So, snacktime comes this afternoon...

Me: Would you like a snack?
Kid: Snack!
Me: You say that like it's going to give you some sort of evil power.
Kid: POWER!!

O_o... I'm doomed.

[Nathanial K'cansce]

Snack(s) do give one power. ^_^

[Emelie Shadowstar]

Mondayyy...I curse thee! >:

[Darven]

There's a mouse in this room ... I can't sleep anymore now, and my cellphone battery is dying and the charger on the other side of the room, far away from my warm and un-mouse-infested bed

[Ilias Nytrau]

Why is it that phone calls to former employers drain me of so much energy and make me shaky? |I

[Banner Laverick]

I like big butts and I can not lie *dances*

[Reinhart Thul]

Now, where did I put those scones..

[Lyanie Quez]

Should I... or shouldn't I?

[Sigmund Landers]

Doooooooooooooooooo Eeeeeeeeeeeeeet!

[Lyanie Quez]

Done and done. :D

[Dallas Walker]

Hooray!

As long as it wasn't something germy and disgusting, I approve :)