It occurs that there has been a shortage of Pregnant PMM pictures.

I've had a weird anti-photo thing. Totally unexpected. I wouldn't even let my mother take my picture the other day. I think next week, I'll have Paul take a couple of belly shots.

Right now, the only pictures that exist of me seem to be the ones where I'm huddled under a million blankets.

My recurring nightmares that I have had since highschool always involve me having to decide whether or not to betray people I am hiding from the Nazi's to save myself. And then they are about me being in a concentration camp.

The recurring nightmare I had when I was little was being stuck on a Life-size version of the game chutes and ladders, and everything that was not on the chute or ladder was populated by horrible monsters, so I REALLY did not want to fall off the chute.

I think next week, I'll have Paul take a couple of belly shots.

That's a good idea. Years later, I was amazed at how BIG I got.

The only times I remember dreams are when they're nightmares bad enough to wake me up. Don't know what that says about me ....

So what books/movies/etc. would y'all recommend as archetypal werewolf stories?

A lot of pop cultural lore comes from the Universal movie from the 40s The Wolfman with Lon Chaney, Jr. The best werewolf movie is An American Werewolf in London followed by Ginger Snaps and then The Howling.

They each have slightly different mythologies. Gypsy curse, Silver bullets, wolfsbane, transmission by attack, full moon, reverting to human form after death blah blah blah.

Hey Toddson, how's your hair color?

There's a book out there called Bitten, it's in a series and my advice is to stay AWAY from this. The premise is interesting -- not many female werewolves, a chick werewolf living alone in the world without pack or family. There's a different subspecies of werewolf. But the worldbuilding isn't that great so the story starts to fall apart.

I finally - after three haircuts - got all the pink cut out! (It never did wash out or wear off.) Thanks for asking!

So what books/movies/etc. would y'all recommend as archetypal werewolf stories?

Avoid Teen Wolf.

So. I figure I need to learn the usual werewolf myth so I can figure out how to play with it for purposes of my embryonic plot. So what books/movies/etc. would y'all recommend as archetypal werewolf stories?

I've been told, as others have said above, that what is normally considered the classic werewolf myth was invented for the Lon Cheney movie.

Does not mean there are not versions that preceded it. I read a 19th century story about a family that could change back and forth between wolf and human form. They were actually undead; reading a christian burial service over their graves gave them peace, and put a stop to them.

I suspect that varies as much from the "classic" folklore as the Lon Cheney movie. I think Most pre-Cheney legends are about voluntary shape-shifters, mostly magicians or witches, who can take the form of animals. I think there is a Welsh tale about a man who shoots an arrow at a Rabbit, injures one leg, and the local wisewoman turns up with the same injury the next day.