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I'd also like to iterate how people have complained how vampires have been treated recently in media, but hardly anyone has commented on how zombies have almost no proper representation of their origins. They were not mindless flesh eaters that could spread their predicament onto others. In Haitian tales they were basically just slaves made from reanimated corpses.
That's nothing compared to what has happened to the fae folk over the years. Look at them in any traditional story. Heck, Tinkerbell HERSELF tried to kill Wendy. Man, I want some more traditional faerie tales. It feels like the Dresden Files are the story keeping their legacy alive.Quote:
Originally Posted by Depression Moon
Sorry to say, but that change doesn't bother me one bit. I think I prefer the mindless flesh eaters who spread their predicament, honestly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Depression Moon
That sounds so wrong.Quote:
Originally Posted by ToriJ
My work here is done.Quote:
Originally Posted by SephirothThat sounds so wrong.Quote:
Originally Posted by ToriJ
*leaves*
Except that there's really nothing to fear from that regard. Heck, it's basically a slightly worse version of rabies. Bites are not an efficient transmission vector. The fact that it makes the target slower and less intelligent is just a further nail in its coffin.Quote:
Originally Posted by ToriJSorry to say, but that change doesn't bother me one bit. I think I prefer the mindless flesh eaters who spread their predicament, honestly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Depression Moon
Zombies need magical animation in order to survive any of the countless ways exposure could kill them, not to mention the various ways humans would kill them. Zombies need an efficient way of spreading rather than running at the target and hoping to get a bite in. Zombies also need magical augmentation to give them the strength to make them threatening, as otherwise lack of proper diet and exercise makes them wither away to nothing.
Zombies are just kind of pathetic.
It depends on the medium, really. (lol medium)
For "real life": I absolutely love ghost stories and haunted houses and all that jazz. As a kid, I didn't give a trout about Santa Claus or supernatural deities; I desperately wanted ghosts to exist just because they were so damn cool and mysterious. Despite being a clear skeptic at a young age, whenever I went to a "haunted house" or the like in my middle-teens, I still internally hoped something crazy would happen.
For movies/TV: probably vampires.
Vampire
For those answer "Vampire": Traditional or Twilight?
Witches! :)
Eldritch Horror
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No, I don't just mean Cthulhu, because he is seriously the least of humanity's problems in Lovecraft Lore. The best type of monster is the type that can drive you completely insane just by actually looking upon it.
traditional, what evenQuote:
Originally Posted by Skyblade
Spoken like a man who's never been surrounded by hordes of zombies with limited ammunition...Quote:
Originally Posted by SkybladeExcept that there's really nothing to fear from that regard.Quote:
Originally Posted by ToriJSorry to say, but that change doesn't bother me one bit. I think I prefer the mindless flesh eaters who spread their predicament, honestly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Depression Moon
Vampire probably holds a place in my heart thanks to Anne Rice's terrible fiction. But I'm so glad DP mentioned sphynxes, I love them as well.