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Anarbaculardrop
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31 Oct 2012, 7:14 pm

naturalplastic wrote:
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Bradleigh wrote:
Anarbaculardrop wrote:
I think your talking about the Fair Folk which I mentioned.

My vampires are mostly based of that mosquitos are what I think of instead of bats when it comes to vampires, seeing how I find that using bats to represent vamps is overused.

Also, for some inane, disturbing reason, I think were-beings are part of a certain group of internet people. I am sure you know what I am talking about.
Vampires exclusivly turning into bats is fairly recent in lore also as they were attributed at being able to turn into a large range of nocturnal animals (owls, cats, wolves), or in some stories a large manner of animals (lizards, insects, etc).


What I said still makes more sense then the bat-thing.


I think that thats an interesting riff on the vampire image- making them mosquitos. After all -mosquitos really are blood suckers.

Though when they morph into human form- they would have to look more like space aliens then like palid-but-handsome hollywood leading men- what with all of that blood sucking tubage on their faces.

I guess the bat trope does go back to the original central european vampire folklore- but not EXCLUSIVE use of bats. Vampires, apparently, could morph into other animals as well in the original legends.

Vampire folklore predated Columbus discovering the Americas. Shortly after columbus europeans encountered a real bat species in northern south america that lived by sucking the blood of bigger mammals but using fangs. The existence of real "vampire bats" reinforced the association of bats with vampires in the Western mind.

Then Bram Stoker and Hollywood further latched on to bats.

So yes-you could argue that bats are overemphasized when compared to the original medeaval folklore.

But whether they are or not- you can make em mosquitos.

Works for me.


I just threw the whole "turn into animal" thing away. I'm just saying they have more of a mosquito motifs and use proboscises instead of having a bat motif and using fangs. I just find proboscises more likely.


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31 Oct 2012, 7:29 pm

This might sound silly, but only female mosquitos suck blood, males eat plants.


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01 Nov 2012, 8:25 am

Bradleigh wrote:
This might sound silly, but only female mosquitos suck blood, males eat plants.


The males suck juice or sap out of plants ( kind of the equivalent of vampires to plants)using similiar body eqipment used by the females. They dont CHEW on plants like humans, cows or caterpillars. So the vampire imagery still applies to the males somewhat.



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25 Nov 2012, 12:52 pm

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I love vampires which is precisely why I hate Twilight. They are NOT vampires.

1) No fangs.
2) Daylight turns them SPARKLY. Ew.
3) The main vampires don't suck human blood. In fact there's barely a drop of blood in the entire freaking book. WTF is the point of a vampire book without blood?
4) They aren't gothic. They dress in trendy/preppy clothes. WTF is the point of preppy vampires?
5) The vampires have a goddamn cross in their house.
6) Each vampire is given a different "power" when they're made. So basically, they're prettyboy superheroes.

I could go on and on. I understand that each vampire universe creates its own rules, but to throw everything that makes vampires, er, VAMPIRES out the window crosses the line.


Actually, the original Dracula movie with Bela Lugosi waaaaaaayy back then was one of the best vampire movies without a single drop of blood. But then again, that's a movie, not a book. ...And there was a bit of blood in Twilight...
Just saying. I hate Twilight, but I just thought I'd point that out.