what, no cat picture yet this month?

[piranha]

can't have that. also, i was lazy today. but i am impressed by the quality of some of the homoerotic smut out there, it's rather better than i expected (now, i had very, very low expectations).

only thing? too damn many vampires. what is it with people's obsession with vamps?

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[tablesaw]

That is an awesome cat picture.

[aleksandrajabla.livejournal.com]

gorgeous thing i love cats ^_^
and second it's Ann Rice she is responsibile for it all

[livinglaurel.livejournal.com]

What a gorgeous calico! We have one too. Lovely pic, with the flowers (?).

AHAHAH WAIT TIL THE -MOVIE- COMES OUT IN I THINK AUGUST IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE 4TH BOOK. AHAHAHHAA.

THE MOVIE

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

i shudder at the thought!

at least the vamps in the fiction i read don't SPARKLE.

Re: THE MOVIE

[livinglaurel.livejournal.com]

I was rereading Dracula just last night and you know what? NOBODY SPARKLES

DRACULA IS BADASS

OH HEY EDWARD FLIES
AS WELL AS SPARKLES
IN THE MOVIE

Re: THE MOVIE

[daev.livejournal.com]

I first saw that actress (her name is Kristen Stewart) give a spectacular performance in a film called Speak, where she had almost no lines but conveyed paragraphs and pages of meaning through her body language. I thought "when she gets a good adult role she's going to go supernova." But she seems to have an attraction for silly characters in dumb movies instead, inevitably playing the lovelorn adjunct to poorly-acted sparkly hero boys. I think no amount of thespian superpowers could make Twilight anything besides cinematic ipecac.

Re: THE MOVIE

[livinglaurel.livejournal.com]

omg Speak! Haven't seen the movie, but it's a fantastic book!

Yeah, Stewart has a pretty amazing ability for her age, but....omg. Maybe as she matures her taste will get better....

[sabotabby]

Cats > vampires.

[blur01.livejournal.com]

I honestly do not have an answer for you on the vamp thing. The idea
of immortality does have a certain allure but mostly because of the number of things I could learn to do and be good at if I had "all the time in the world." But about as quickly as I create a list I begin thinking about
the boredom that would have to come along with being so long lived. Friends coming and going, lovers falling away. Ugh.

immortality

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

yeah, the immortalty i grok, and also the danger aspect -- but that doesn't explain all the sex and blood stuff that suffuses this type of fiction.

i dunno about boredom. i am pretty much never bored in this life, and the longer i live the more i realize how very little i know of all there is to know in the universe. i can imagine going for a very, very long time before i'd get even remotely bored. also, i don't believe in any gods, but they generally seem to be viewed as immortal -- do people worry that the christian god is bored? or is it different for gods?

the aspect of immortality that might get to me is the loss of everyone i come to care about. the loss in my life has been cumulative, and each new one becomes a little harder to deal with.

Re: immortality

[zxhrue.livejournal.com]

"the aspect of immortality that might get to me is the loss of everyone i come to care about. the loss in my life has been cumulative, and each new one becomes a little harder to deal with."

that's right. the loss of the shared history, the relationship markers, and the ability to share them (as one of grandmothers used to call it 'polishing the memories'). I do a lot of other things with my active friends, but I still derive some enjoyment from playing remember when with acquaintances and friends from another time. I could see living forever (not easily bored, and oh so much shiny to look at and think about), but I think that it would do a number on my already often marginal social skills, and I enjoy people (for the most part, in limited exposures). each death is like (cliche alert) cutting off another piece of flesh.

Re: immortality

[aquaeri.livejournal.com]

I think the sex and blood is general wangst. Vampires overall are either siblings of Mary Sue, or a specific subtype.

There was a very noticeable trend in my roleplaying community in the early nineties, where all the people who'd been roleplaying elves switched to roleplaying vampires. It's definitely Id Vortex stuff.

[janetmk.livejournal.com]

Terrific cat photo! Thanks for posting it.

[porcinea.livejournal.com]

Fabulous!!

[porcinea.livejournal.com]

The hidden one eye perfection of the pose gets me.