OMG this is the most horrible poll ever! Mostly because there isn't a giant ALL OF THE ABOVE at the bottom. There are very few variations on the theme of vampires and werewolves that I have issue with *cough*mostoftwilight*cough* Bella(1) Lagosi as Dracula is just as freaking awesome as Tom Cruise's Lestat.
Now I have the urge to pick up my half-abandoned vampire-like-Joss-Wheadon-only-not short story.
(1) Why has nobody else made the Lagosi/Swan connection?
I'm a very non-traditional person where vampires and werewolves are concerned. I do sometimes look at vampires as less undead and more a type of fae creature that requires blood for survival.
I was too tempted by "watermelons" but my real answer is probably Dracula vamps -- possibly due to watching Bram Stoker's Dracula at a young and impressionable age. But I am a total monster whore so I enjoy pretty much any non-sparkling vampires.
Werewolves I like being wolfy but other than that don't care, though again I like the classic "cursed" kind. There's something interesting to me in how our culture has taken traditional curses and made them into desirable states. Remember when being a vampire/werewolf was a *bad thing*, the kind of thing you'd kill yourself to avoid becoming? Now they're on calendars in teen girls' rooms. Just an interesting cultural shift.
Two random thoughts: (1) Have you ever seen Ginger Snaps? I want to see it quite badly -- the only movie I know of that makes the obvious phases of the moon = menstruation connection for werewolves. Teen girl PMS werewolves FTW. (2) There's some old Romany (or possibly Romanian, can't remember) folklore that when werewolves die they become vampires. I want *that* movie.
Vegetable vampires -- all kinds of pumpkins and watermelons -- are more annoying than dangerous. Pumpkins and watermelons kept longer than 10 days, or kept after Christmas, will show traces of blood on them, and will go about on their own shaking and noisily disturbing people and animals. Some vegetable vampires go about at night harming people, though not seriously.
From the Gypsies entry in Vampires, Werewolves, and Other Monsters by Rosemary Ellen Guiley
--I have longed to read about a vampire watermelon, although I did ultimately vote for your third option up there.
And, hmm, now I'm reminded of this, I shall walk much more warily past this watermelon that someone discarded at the side of the road...
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Date: 2010-09-20 10:10 pm (UTC)Now I have the urge to pick up my half-abandoned vampire-like-Joss-Wheadon-only-not short story.
(1) Why has nobody else made the Lagosi/Swan connection?
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Date: 2010-09-21 01:03 am (UTC)Werewolves I like being wolfy but other than that don't care, though again I like the classic "cursed" kind. There's something interesting to me in how our culture has taken traditional curses and made them into desirable states. Remember when being a vampire/werewolf was a *bad thing*, the kind of thing you'd kill yourself to avoid becoming? Now they're on calendars in teen girls' rooms. Just an interesting cultural shift.
Two random thoughts: (1) Have you ever seen Ginger Snaps? I want to see it quite badly -- the only movie I know of that makes the obvious phases of the moon = menstruation connection for werewolves. Teen girl PMS werewolves FTW.
(2) There's some old Romany (or possibly Romanian, can't remember) folklore that when werewolves die they become vampires. I want *that* movie.
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Date: 2010-09-21 04:13 pm (UTC)Vegetable vampires -- all kinds of pumpkins and watermelons -- are more annoying than dangerous. Pumpkins and watermelons kept longer than 10 days, or kept after Christmas, will show traces of blood on them, and will go about on their own shaking and noisily disturbing people and animals. Some vegetable vampires go about at night harming people, though not seriously.
From the Gypsies entry in Vampires, Werewolves, and Other Monsters by Rosemary Ellen Guiley
--I have longed to read about a vampire watermelon, although I did ultimately vote for your third option up there.
And, hmm, now I'm reminded of this, I shall walk much more warily past this watermelon that someone discarded at the side of the road...
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