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KISS THE DEAD, CHAPTER SIX
Dec. 16th, 2013 02:41 pm- Miss Blatz is really tenacious when it comes to chocolate! The other night I let her nibble on a chocolate bell and she wouldn't let me tug it back and tonight I let her nom a bit on my spoonful of chocolate rice pudding and SHE WOULDN'T LET GO OF THE SPOON HER TINY FINGERS ARE SO INTENSE
-I watched The Hunger last night. I'd heard it was bad so I was only watching it to see David Bowie as a vampire, but I really liked it! It does stuff with vamps I've never seen in any other work, and it's 1980s and has David Bowie and lesbians, I recommend it.
- I was on the road this weekend with family so I didn't get to particpate much in discussion, but when I was catching up I saw some AWESOME ideas from guardian_song regarding why AB wereanimals act like homicidal maniacs instead of animals AND why AB vampires aren't ruling the world over humans, and I thought I'd re-post them in case anyone missed 'em because wow these are great:
"My only guess is that the vampires fuckeded them over too hard by forcing them into slavery in their service and selected the strains of therianthropy to be super-violent... basically so that they'd make better entertainment in vampire arenas. The ever-so-'wild' therians are domesticated species, not whatever the natural variants were...That would also be "why the therians are so ruled by their 'beasts'. A therianthropy strain with less emphasis on the 'beast' might produce therians that had more of a chance of resisting a vampire's call. A therianthropy strain that causes the therian to be utterly ruled by their beasts makes those therians utterly ruled by the vampires who utterly rule those beasts....that explains why the strains all have 'Alphas' to whom the whole pack submits, no matter how alien that is to any particular real-life animal. Richard and Bibiana are case studies in how vampires can yank an entire group around by their leaders. That feature might have been engineered in. "
"Isn't the current theory on Neanderthals that we had better social skills and thus could overwhelm them by working in large groups? Not that it's relevant, but if I was to smack that onto the AB-verse... Humans can work in groups, whereas vampires in this 'verse seem to be solely managed by abusive hierarchies, place no value on the lives of subordinates, and have minimal concern for anyone but themselves. Plus, they're disabled hard during daylight hours, whereas humans can work both during nighttime and daytime. And humans appear to be able to weaponize belief... which potentially includes belief in hunting parties... If this was a better-managed 'verse, the human advantage would be moving in solid groups and playing divide-and-conquer against the dumb-sociopath vampires. That might be part of why the mindfuck became a mandatory trait for vampires - with humans forewarned that anything a vampire said was solely to save its own ass, the only vampires that survived were the ones that could wipe the humans' minds of inconvenient realities."
I always figured myself that maybe AB vamps actually are just secretly ruling the world, but I really like this theory better since it explains why most of them are such useless hedonistic idiots that can't even plan months in advance, let alone years, and yet are still ruling over therians. Also, if this is the case, that means that Mr.Oliver almost certainly remembers all of that/was there for the beginning. Maybe he even had something to do with it. Yet another reason he's the coolest! It was also suggested by subtle_shades that "maybe the Earthmover and the rotting vampire head regularly culled the vampire ranks to keep them from the dangers of overpopulation" which is a headcanon I share.
( KISS THE DEAD, CHAPTER SIX )
-I watched The Hunger last night. I'd heard it was bad so I was only watching it to see David Bowie as a vampire, but I really liked it! It does stuff with vamps I've never seen in any other work, and it's 1980s and has David Bowie and lesbians, I recommend it.
- I was on the road this weekend with family so I didn't get to particpate much in discussion, but when I was catching up I saw some AWESOME ideas from guardian_song regarding why AB wereanimals act like homicidal maniacs instead of animals AND why AB vampires aren't ruling the world over humans, and I thought I'd re-post them in case anyone missed 'em because wow these are great:
"My only guess is that the vampires fuckeded them over too hard by forcing them into slavery in their service and selected the strains of therianthropy to be super-violent... basically so that they'd make better entertainment in vampire arenas. The ever-so-'wild' therians are domesticated species, not whatever the natural variants were...That would also be "why the therians are so ruled by their 'beasts'. A therianthropy strain with less emphasis on the 'beast' might produce therians that had more of a chance of resisting a vampire's call. A therianthropy strain that causes the therian to be utterly ruled by their beasts makes those therians utterly ruled by the vampires who utterly rule those beasts....that explains why the strains all have 'Alphas' to whom the whole pack submits, no matter how alien that is to any particular real-life animal. Richard and Bibiana are case studies in how vampires can yank an entire group around by their leaders. That feature might have been engineered in. "
"Isn't the current theory on Neanderthals that we had better social skills and thus could overwhelm them by working in large groups? Not that it's relevant, but if I was to smack that onto the AB-verse... Humans can work in groups, whereas vampires in this 'verse seem to be solely managed by abusive hierarchies, place no value on the lives of subordinates, and have minimal concern for anyone but themselves. Plus, they're disabled hard during daylight hours, whereas humans can work both during nighttime and daytime. And humans appear to be able to weaponize belief... which potentially includes belief in hunting parties... If this was a better-managed 'verse, the human advantage would be moving in solid groups and playing divide-and-conquer against the dumb-sociopath vampires. That might be part of why the mindfuck became a mandatory trait for vampires - with humans forewarned that anything a vampire said was solely to save its own ass, the only vampires that survived were the ones that could wipe the humans' minds of inconvenient realities."
I always figured myself that maybe AB vamps actually are just secretly ruling the world, but I really like this theory better since it explains why most of them are such useless hedonistic idiots that can't even plan months in advance, let alone years, and yet are still ruling over therians. Also, if this is the case, that means that Mr.Oliver almost certainly remembers all of that/was there for the beginning. Maybe he even had something to do with it. Yet another reason he's the coolest! It was also suggested by subtle_shades that "maybe the Earthmover and the rotting vampire head regularly culled the vampire ranks to keep them from the dangers of overpopulation" which is a headcanon I share.
( KISS THE DEAD, CHAPTER SIX )
