View Poll Results: Which is your favourite supernatural being?

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  • Ghost

    6 11.54%
  • Vampire

    7 13.46%
  • Ghoul

    2 3.85%
  • Witch

    9 17.31%
  • Zombie

    1 1.92%
  • Werewolf

    5 9.62%
  • Mummy

    2 3.85%
  • Doppelganger

    4 7.69%
  • Demon

    3 5.77%
  • Fairy

    5 9.62%
  • Turkey

    8 15.38%
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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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Depression Moon View Post
    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Depression Moon View Post
    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.
    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ToriJ View Post
    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.
    That sounds so wrong.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sephiroth View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by ToriJ View Post
    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.
    That sounds so wrong.
    My work here is done.

    *leaves*

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    Quote Originally Posted by ToriJ View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Depression Moon View Post
    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.
    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.
    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.

    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.
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    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.

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    Vampire

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    For those answer "Vampire": Traditional or Twilight?
    My friend Delzethin is currently running a GoFundMe account to pay for some extended medical troubles he's had. He's had chronic issues and lifetime troubles that have really crippled his career opportunities, and he's trying to get enough funding to get back to a stable medical situation. If you like his content, please support his GoFundMe, or even just contribute to his Patreon.

    He can really use a hand with this, and any support you can offer is appreciated.

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    Witches!


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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Skyblade View Post
    For those answer "Vampire": Traditional or Twilight?
    traditional, what even

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    Bow before the mighty Javoo!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Skyblade View Post
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    Quote Originally Posted by Depression Moon View Post
    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.
    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.
    Except that there's really nothing to fear from that regard.
    Spoken like a man who's never been surrounded by hordes of zombies with limited ammunition...

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    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.

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