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harpsi_fizz

Alarmist Party: Monster Edition

Jan 25, 2013 16:26

This Party Post is for complaining, griping, and worrying about the mass extinction of monsters. Yes, if challenged, I have three "silver linings" to this phenomenon. Yes, I am fully ready to hear it if "No, Harp, see, Isaac Marion wrote a comedy/actually does it right/wrote something good so give it a chance/be lol-trollin" and even abandon my ( Read more... )

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PS: barsukthom January 26 2013, 01:59:48 UTC

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Re: PS: barsukthom January 26 2013, 02:00:09 UTC

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Re: PS: harpsi_fizz January 26 2013, 04:16:46 UTC

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Re: PS: barsukthom January 26 2013, 20:03:36 UTC

You are TEH DEBBIL an up to NO GOODE!

PS: Don't you see? Don't you SEE? R/Herm works EXACTLY because they have ONE thing in COMMON!
They both want to bang Harry. And they know the Wizarding world wouldn't allow it.
But before Graduation, Herm stocked up on piles of Harry's hair and nail clippings.
'Cause TWO can Polyjuice better than One.

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The folklorist pops in to offer a commiserating ramble. sugar_for_sugar January 26 2013, 13:46:03 UTC

Right, actually, my response got so long I decided to make a post rather than kill your page with a mazillion-part comment. :P

Link: http://sugar-for-sugar.livejournal.com/263203.html

Re: The folklorist pops in to offer a commiserating ramble. harpsi_fizz January 28 2013, 01:28:26 UTC

An Entry-Reply? :) i don't think I've gotten one of those before. I'm going to go see it now; thank you!

lokifan February 1 2013, 01:16:47 UTC

I am so pleased someone else has noticed the whole supernatural male/human female aspect of the vamp etc phenomenon; it's obvious to me but I've literally never seen anyone else mention it.

rikibeth March 28 2013, 04:02:43 UTC

And vampire women seem only to exist as evil deadly seductresses, out to kill or enslave human men. And sometimes women. Look at The Hunger. Look at Carmilla. There's a huge tradition of the lesbian vampire. It doesn't really get a romantic-relationship dynamic, not in the same way as male vampire/human female.

But the vampire mythos as based in English literature (as opposed to its Slavic antecedents, who were more like ghouls) is ALL ABOUT death-as-stand-in-for-sexuality corrupting and destroying innocent maidens. Back beyond Dracula to Dr. Polidori and The Vampyre. So really I guess we have to blame Lord Byron and his sex life ( ... )

harpsi_fizz March 28 2013, 22:24:14 UTC

So, vampires going from monster to romantic MIGHT be a baby step of progress
If it is, it's a baby step forward and a pogo stick leap backwards, 'cause in the process, they're removing everything about them that makes them vampires (the weaknesses, and even the fangs in some cases). That's just super unfair. Humans need a way to fight back and protect themselves, or else the whole thing falls apart. By Smeyer's logic, there's no reason evil vampires haven't taken over the world. If nothing can really stop them, and if there's no downside, then you'd think there would be a lot more of them. There's no reason to conceal their identity.

I really shouldn't think about Smeyer because at a certain point, I stop wanting to have reasonable talks with her and start just vowing that if I meet her, I'm going to punch her in the uterus.

rikibeth March 28 2013, 22:32:49 UTC

Ah, you're thinking of the horror-genre implications while I was thinking of the romance-genre implications -- yours is more "what if these monsters were real" and mine is "what societal fears are these monsters externalizing", am I reading you correctly?

Have you read stoney321's analysis of how the sparklepires and the entire plot of Twilight reflect a thoroughly Mormon worldview? SMeyer might not have done it consciously or deliberately, but it permeates the work nonetheless. Stoney was raised Mormon. She knows whereof she speaks.

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