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[ SECRET POST #720 ]

⌈ Secret Post #720 ⌋

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101.

[Morning Musume]

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102.

[Anastasia]

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103.

[Johnathan Larson]

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104.

[Hana Yori Dango / Twilight]

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[Johnny Yong Bosch, Vic whatever]

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[X-Men Origins, Gambit]

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[Life]

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[AFK FOREVER]

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[Linebarrels of Iron/Kurogane no Linebarrels]

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[Hellsing]

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[Gurren Lagann]

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[Britannia High]

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[The Christmas Toy]

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[MST3K, Joel Hodgson]

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131.

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[Persona 4]

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134.

[Naruto]

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135.

[Ansem Retort]

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[Transformers G1]

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[Persona 4]

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[TWilight]

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[Lost]

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[Misha Collins]

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[Ranma 1/2]

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[Torchwood]

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157. [removed]

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[The Divine Comedy / Devil May Cry]

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[Supernatural]

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[Supernatural]

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[6Teen; Jude]

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[Phantom of the Opera]

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[Lipstick Jungle]

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Notes:

Early 'cause Christmas stuff to do!

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148. Haha. It's because they're not. They're only tangentally related to the original vampire myth (corpses which drink blood, sleep in the ground during the day, etc). Hell, they don't even need human blood to survive and they can apparently live off of animal blood (which takes away from the whole "horror and folklore" thing), plus they don't have any of the traditional weaknesses (sunlight, crosses, garlic, counting sand/rice/what have you). They're not vampires. They're a new Mary Sue race for her "heroine" to fawn over and fall in love with.

Vampires don't sparkle. They just don't (they do burst into flames).

Edited for Number Fail.

Edited 2008-12-25 21:37 (UTC)

This

that's like saying ok well in my book I have a bunch of fluffy feathery cute birds that my character talks to and rides on, ok? but they're dragons because I say they're dragons, they breathe fire!!!

they're also pink

I mean, they're not lizard-like and they don't have scales and maybe they're even flightless, but they breathe fire guys! That makes them dragons!

ILU. Have my internet babies.

d'awww I want one.
it reminds me of tess.

I AM NOT A PINK FIREBREATHING CHICKEN

You totally are. :|

I DONT EVEN KNOW WHO YOU ARE

BUT ON THE OFFCHANCE WE EVER GET TO KNOW EACH OTHER

YOU WILL SEE THAT I AM NOT A PINK FIREBREATHING CHICKEN

Re: 148

dragoon1940.livejournal.com - 2008-12-25 22:44 (UTC) - Expand

fine i fixed it for you

BUT I CAN DEAL WITH THE FIREBREATHING

sob I want one. /petpetpetpet

ACTUALLY I am a firebreathing chicken valeth-wise...

but ITS SO MUCH CUTER IF ITS YOU D'AWWW. /puts on oven mitts. *3*

It's a fire-breathing CHOCOBO!

Weaknesses? I don't remember any in this book. Care to remind me? XP

Well, I guess they're stupid enough to destroy the eco-system (see below).

LOL, I just read below and it's so true. xD

I just... don't understand how they have no weaknesses. At least with every other vampire myth, you could stake them or put them in the sun, but with Twilight they're these all-powerful beings and it only takes other vampires to kill them. Oooooh, I wish I was a vampire.

Edit: That is a lie, I don't REALLY. =P

Not only that, they only drink the blood of predator animals, claiming that they're "helping the ecosystem."

...when, in fact, that would totally and completely destroy the ecosystem by removing the natural predators.

Oh, Twilight... How silly you are.

BAHAHAHAHAHAH REALLY. OH SMEYER. TAKE A BIO CLASS BEFORE YOU TRY TO WRITE BIO. I KNOW ABOUT KEYSTONE SPECIES AND I JUST FINISHED MY FIRST SEMESTER AT COLLEGE FAIIL SO MUCH FAIL.

wait, really? REALLY? IT ACTUALLY SAYS THAT???? oh man. every little thing i read about those damn books makes me so glad i never wasted my time on them. (though ill admit that now im almost thinking about it, just for the lulz.)

Actually... the danger was that they didn't drink blood but consumed/slaved SOULS from their victims with blood as conduct (as an ancient belief that dated to Ancient Greece) or through people's breath (in Chinese folklore). There's even a debate over this in Dracula with Renfield claiming aghast he needed no souls.

They can also sustain themselves on animal blood. Read on Dracula, he fed on rats too aside of the crew aboard the Demeter.

Most modern vampires completely idiotic to me. Because they lack the soul-sucking danger. Ohhhh they suck human blood sexily. Scary! Just a step above Twilight and their "Vegetarians" vampires.

The sleeping over the day depends on the region as well. They are nocturnal hunters, with exceptions (Russian vampires are actually daytime hunters), sunlight seldom ever traditionally affected them. If you read the four big classics (The Vampyre, Carmilla, Varney, Dracula) there wasn't any "bursting into flames". Dracula waltzes in the daylight and all. ~~Varney committing suicide by throwing himself into a volcano is the most anticlimatic ending ever. HE'S the original emo vamp, bet none of the youngsters can TOP that CURSED melodrama.~~

Hollywood vamp is just a step above Twivamp doesn't make them better. What makes Twilight fail isn't the "vampires" but the fail, uninspired and dull characterization, "plot" etc.

The vampire image is NEVER the same. Not all vampires suck blood, not all vampires are affected by sun, etc. That's a mistake brought by Hollywood and infuriates me. I can see the OP's point. I still hate Twilight because is badly written.

You're much more well-versed in Vampire folklore than I am. Most of what I've read comes from the Eastern European tradition of blood-sucking corpses who sleep in graves, etc.

Cool stuff to know, though.

Thanks. There's a lot of vampire differences (nobody ever writes about vampires made via cat jumping on their caskets or how werewolves/wolfmen upon their deaths become vampires), so while I understand this Twivamp hatred myself, I also understand the image of the vampire has been watering down little by little from the Victorian times that present the vampires as ALWAYS a seductive and dangerous foreigner (except for Varney who was English and ugly, he was the first emovamp looking for his lost humanity and nobody has top him in WANGST IMO) to the Hollywood's vampires (that remove a lot of danger and add weaknesses, specially the sunlight, they never got), to modern times (Anne Rice?) and now the Twilight vampires. I'm not really surprised.

Vampires began more or less in their oldest myths as female evil personifications (connected more to snakes and cats than bats and wolves) just like the wolfmen were male. Then the figure was given a more masculine-dominant allure (ironically). TL;DR: The OP has a point. If we go by "real" vampires, let's forget all we know for centuries and bring back the lamia, the empusas or lemures. It has changed so much even in the Victorian tales the original vampires are unrecognizable (Carmilla came closer to her companions).

This is not to defend the Twilight vamps, but they are hardly the first sparkling (bishounen sparkles!) with zero "Hollywood" traits. It's like Meyer wanted to do a bad shoujo vampire manga in prose. Which loses the visual eye candy appeal. XD

She should have been reading Hellsing instead. Kouta Hirano's a flawed storyteller and his character can be too powerful, but he was able to portray soul-sucking vampires sympathetic and tragic without wangst.

It's interesting stuff, really. I do remember reading a few older stories with soul-sucking or vitality-stealing female vampires.

And yes, I'm a fan of Hellsing, despite some of the flaws.

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sir-hellsing.livejournal.com - 2008-12-26 02:09 (UTC) - Expand

I think I love you.

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