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[gb]

I'm unimpressed by people who, whenever there's a pic or a story or other media of a 'traditional' vampire, feel the need to interject 'these are REAL vampires' and 'real vampires don't sparkle' or some shit

Every time!

Unpopular opinion: Glittering skin is a kind of weird, unusual concept for a supernatural creature, and could have been an interesting shtick if the story it was from hadn't achieved Twilight's particular popular-to-creepy ratio.

I dunno, it's just, it's not like people who draw high-fantasy dwarves feel the need to yell REAL DWARVES DON'T LIVE IN THE FOREST AND PLAY THE ACCORDION all the dang time.

Now I'm wondering if there's a seething mass of haters I can't see due to language barriers that is furious about Romance of The Three Kingdoms heroes being turned into cute girls with humongous breasts all the time and flood discussion forums with 'HELL YEAH AND THE REAL LU BU ISN'T A LOLI' oh I dunno I'm gonna go pack

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[dessieoctavia]

Yeah! If you've been following my journal you know I'm working on a vampire novel of my own. I can't tell you how many times I've been admonished, "Don't make them sparkle!" Do people really think I'm likely to do that? To copy a unique idea that everyone would know was stolen from one specific person, and one that is widely ridiculed? I've gotten sick of hearing people complain about the sparkling, even more than I'm tired of the sparkling!

[gb]

I agree 100%

Even if it's just a reference to the popular joke that is Twilight, I imagine being told that over and over feels quite patronising, huh? :\

I won't read the books (I considered it, but doubt I'd get anything out of the experience) and I'm perturbed by the things I've heard about them, but I'll be relieved when people find something else to tediously hate on.

I hope your own novel is going well!

[dessieoctavia]

I agree, I've gotten tired of hearing about it. I haven't read the books either. I did finally watch the movies so I'd know what people were talking about. I found they were much more enjoyable when I watched them as love stories instead of as vampire stories.

Thanks re my novel. I'm struggling with the beginning, but I think once I get that squared away things'll go better. ^-^