tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5406319356659344188.post8432602576157592624..comments2024-02-26T08:43:47.488-08:00Comments on Domesticated: I've been tagged! 13 Halloween Questions TagThe HouseCathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07783576090040274742noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5406319356659344188.post-81375893392611088082015-10-27T04:57:57.469-07:002015-10-27T04:57:57.469-07:00My vampire soirée will only be epic if I get my ho...My vampire soirée will only be epic if I get my house ready on time! Urk! The HouseCathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07783576090040274742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5406319356659344188.post-83158909359910414062015-10-22T08:00:35.071-07:002015-10-22T08:00:35.071-07:00I love your description of the vampire as it close...I love your description of the vampire as it closely relates to my own and why I like them so much. <br /><br />Your Vampire Soriee sounds the ultimate halloween party <br /><br />And the Nightmare Before Christmas is my favorite halloween movie too. I also watch it on Christmas eve :) December Monologuehttp://decembermonologue.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5406319356659344188.post-58705104918513926202015-10-14T04:52:36.247-07:002015-10-14T04:52:36.247-07:00A tangent on 'proper' vampires; apart from...A tangent on 'proper' vampires; apart from the ridiculous crystalline sparkly skin and stuff like 'vampire baseball', he had the potential to be an excellent creepy villain; predatory because of his vampiric nature, and because he embodied a lot of the worst Edwardian attitudes to women. He's a creep in the human sense of the word as well as a literal monster. If he was human he'd be a rather scary abusive predator, him wanting to /eat/ her only makes him scarier. My main problem with Twilight was not Edward not being a proper vampire, it was him being presented as some sort of dreamboat for all the characteristics that make him terrifying. I tried to read it as Bella being an unreliable narrator that lacks self awareness, or much awareness of her social interactions and other's motives, and is actually whitewashing her own inevitable tragedy, mistaking lust for love, but something about Stephanie Meyer's style couldn't convince me that it was actually a very clever horror, and I think it was directly intended as a romance, at which it fails. I also couldn't finish reading it as I found Bella a very irritating person and disliked reading from her perspective, plus I kept wanting to correct grammatical mistakes and querying the vocabulary. <br /><br />The Vampire Soirée will only be an epic party if the new house is ready in time! <br /><br />I want to get this anatomical hand model I saw being sold secondhand, but I can't afford it :( My partner has all these medical and anatomy books, and I like staring at the pictures.<br /><br />Kuro has actually chilled out a lot since he went to live with my Dad somewhere really quite rural indeed, and is now a much friendlier cat you can actually cuddle without being terribly lacerated :P The HouseCathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07783576090040274742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5406319356659344188.post-33070592202160756102015-10-14T03:53:55.100-07:002015-10-14T03:53:55.100-07:00You perfectly describe what is so amazing about pr...You perfectly describe what is so amazing about proper vampires! <br /><br />The Vampire Soiree sounds like the perfect party!<br /><br />I also love skeletons as a memento mori! How strange and complex we are with all our muscles and bones and organs!<br /><br />Your cat is adorable!<br /><br />The main reason I do not carve pumpkins is the same as yours! I don't want to lose a finger, I kind of need them for typing!Laura Morriganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16402692693911867276noreply@blogger.com