Here is a quasi-educational rant about vampires

I have decided to type something "educational". Sometimes.

By educational, I mean some random facts about something that I find amusing that will almost certainly degenerate into another fun fun Internet rant.


A lot of people are part of team Mr. Edward sparkle pants, the magically-angsty teen dream hunk vampire that has invaded the world of pre-teen (scary!) up to middle aged (scarier!) women. But this is not a real vampire, you silly sillies.

Real vampires have serious B.O. and are really more like zombies. The trouble started with Bram Stoker, who created a character who was really too alluring (though still creepy) to be a real vampire. After this, I think someone just took traditional succubus/incubus mythology (these are female/male demons that seduced  people and feed on sexual energy) and vampires and stuck them in a blender.
 
This generated a slew of vampire novels and books that were high on sexual energy and horror. My favorite vampires are the Buffy ones. They are so lame! Buffy just shoves a pencil through their chests and they explode! And who can not love the bad ass Lost Boys vampires? Or the disturbing role of Kristen Dunst in The Interview with a Vampire?

Then, along came Ms. Stephanie Meyer. And she took that blender of fairly awesomeness and she had to add sparkles. And angst. And immortal teenager hood. Seriously, who wants to be a teenager forever? Immortal acne anyone?

So, there is a tiny bit of info about vampires.

I just read over the post again and there is not really much info about vampires there...

Oh well. This is my blog and I have my own fun.

ModernHelen