[ SECRET POST #5344 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5344 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

05. https://i.imgur.com/2eYFXFD.png

[(Anonymous)]

i play vtm because i want to have my horrorcake and seduce it too

[hey_hey_hey]

Vampire anything is lame now.

[(Anonymous)]

Vampires are eternal

[(Anonymous)]

Hehehe! Thanks for this, anon. A+ comment.

[(Anonymous)]

look who's slave to trends, ignorant of the vast world of vampire media

[(Anonymous)]

I am with you one hundred percent of the way OP

[(Anonymous)]

OP - *fistbump*

[caecilia]

I'm into this shit too, OP

[(Anonymous)]

(Cozy Werewolf Anon)

Love your vamps the way you love vamps and don't let the "gatekeepers" get you down.

(Tangent)I feel this happens in the werewolf fandom too. Like, you've got a group who loves "Sexy" werewolves that can border on alpha/omega genre lines. Like Patricia Briggs werewolves (who are a tad too dysfunctional for me.) And then you have the group who wants the Hollywood horror out of control MONSTER w/ lots of HUMAN ANGST. (Which writing is STUPID difficult.) And they think this is "Cool." And I'm going "You can have an out of control anything. Making it an out of control wolf doesn't make it any cooler. It can be an out of control zombie, an out of control swamp monster, and out of control bear/monkey/skunk monster (depending on your location). Out of control has NO conflict. Yeesh." (But a lot of these are men, imo, who want excuses to not control their toxic behavior. Or at least if the people asking about it on r/werewolf are anything to go by.)

And so, I'm sitting here with my werewolf the apocalypse introduction to the mythos where you didn't have TIME for angst, you were too busy being natures 9ft answer to the chainsaw and fighting the wyrm and going "Just give me my wolfy found family with big guns and motorcycle gear and medieval rules. Thank you!" (Obviously, I delved into folklore for my books later and WHAT DO YOU KNOW, werewolves weren't OUT OF CONTROL monsters until after the werewolf trials in the 16th & 17th century!!!)

Sorry, prolly could be it's own secret but then everyone would know it was me. Probably.

[(Anonymous)]

An out of control wolf is ABSOLUTELY cooler than an out of control zombie, because wolves are much cooler than zombies

It's simple math

[(Anonymous)]

(CWA)

I cannot fault this logic.

Wolves are much cooler than zombies IMO. (I just don't like zombies really. I will take a mummy over zombies. And there's not much of a difference.)

[(Anonymous)]

Interesting!

I don't mind rabid, mindless, out-of-control monsters, purely as monsters. I mean, I love 28 Days Later as a movie. But if it's the POV characters who are periodically completely out of control then yeah, I don't tend to find it all that compelling. What I personally find extremely compelling is biological imperative stuff and ~weird biology~ stuff where the person isn't sure how in control they are and is scared shitless because they feel out of control regardless of whether they actually are or not. In that scenario the creature either has to be new to their condition, or there has to be a new element at play that changes how their creature instincts function.

So I guess my true favorite kind of monster fiction is one part body-horror, one part identity crisis, one part ~sexy~ biological imperatives (which double as horrifying biological imperatives because any impulse is horrifying when you're not sure you can control it), and two parts mutual pining. Also, the human character is a bamf who is way less afraid of the monster character than the monster character is of themselves. Yup, that's my shit.

[(Anonymous)]

listen if you don't find time for angst in your werewolf games that's on you

[(Anonymous)]

Nothing wrong with this, OP. I personally tend to prefer either horror, some sort of fantasy/action sort of thing that brings in vampires, or romance with a heavy emphasis on the vampires still being scary and the horror and/or mythological elements being there. But there is something for everyone out there. And with vampires there is a really wide variety.

[(Anonymous)]

That's how I prefer my vampire media too, so we can be lame together, OP!

[java]

I came here to say the same :D If liking vampires the way OP described is lame, then I don't want to be cool.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

<3 <3

[(Anonymous)]

There's a seat for everybody at the vampire table. I too enjoy the sexy sexy kiss me (not too) deadly vamp. And this art!!! Ugh! Prime shit. Sitting right there with you!

[(Anonymous)]

I'm actually super amused that the secret maker managed to find a piece of art where you can't tell if it's supposed to be an example of the "sexy romance vampire" trope or the "gothic horror vampire" trope. This art is full-on "sexy gothic horror romance vampire"! It's doing it all! Lol.

[(Anonymous)]

I think part of the reasons why vampires have had such a long run as a popular monster is because they're so versatile. They can be suave, self-possessed antiheroes, or angsty, self-loathing antiheroes, or romantic leads, or remorseless apex predators.

Thank you secret maker

[(Anonymous)]

You did an awesome job, this secret looks fantastic!

[arashinoookami]

I like both but I probably lean more toward the gothic horror side in "mainstream" works and sexy neck biting in fanfic, but I'm more than happy if the two overlap.

[(Anonymous)]

So, Saint Germaine style? Gosh, I love those novels.

[kittenmommy]

Came here to rec them, but I see you already did!