And didn't Theodore Sturgeon once do a story that addressed the issue? my memory is vague on this ... as on many other issues.
Spike: Or maybe Captain Forehead was feeling a little less special. Didn't like me crashing his exclusive club, another vampire with a soul in the world. Angel: You're not in the world, Casper.
'Just Rewards (2)'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Toddson - Dec 10, 2009 5:19:33 am PST #10579 of 28370
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
-t - Dec 10, 2009 5:31:57 am PST #10580 of 28370
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Vampire stories always seem to overlook the whole menstruation thing.
It was a big thing in a later Anne Rice. The Body Thief or the one after that, I think.
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 10, 2009 5:42:04 am PST #10581 of 28370
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Questions we're probably not supposed to ask about Twilight -- if Jasper can't control himself if Bella gets a papercut while he's standing a few feet away, how on earth does he go through a world full of adult women and a high school full of teenage girls? Or, y'know, all the people who get papercuts all the time, or cut themselves shaving, or any of the zillion other reasons someone might be bleeding a little.
I'm assuming the magic underwear factors in somehow.
Steph L. - Dec 10, 2009 5:55:00 am PST #10582 of 28370
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Vampire stories always seem to overlook the whole menstruation thing.
I read a Buffy fic once that really, really didn't.
Uh, that was probably mine, if it was set between S5 and S6.
Amy - Dec 10, 2009 5:59:35 am PST #10583 of 28370
Because books.
Uh, that was probably mine, if it was set between S5 and S6.
No, someone named Naughtibitz, if I remember correctly. Not from here.
erikaj - Dec 10, 2009 6:48:45 am PST #10584 of 28370
Always Anti-fascist!
I liked that one, I think, but I was probably on my period when I read it.
P.M. Marc - Dec 10, 2009 9:49:02 am PST #10585 of 28370
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
No, someone named Naughtibitz, if I remember correctly. Not from here.
She used to post at the old WX site, back in the day.
Atropa - Dec 10, 2009 10:00:57 am PST #10586 of 28370
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Questions we're probably not supposed to ask about Twilight -- if Jasper can't control himself if Bella gets a papercut while he's standing a few feet away, how on earth does he go through a world full of adult women and a high school full of teenage girls?
SMeyer has stated that it's not issue because that is "dead" blood. So, not attractive to the "vampires" in her mythos. (My issues with these books, you know them.)
Or, y'know, all the people who get papercuts all the time, or cut themselves shaving, or any of the zillion other reasons someone might be bleeding a little.
Because all of those people don't have the OMG magically-delicious freesia-scented blood that Bella has! Or ... something. I don't know, and thinking about it too much fills me with weary rage and sends me to re-reading Anno Dracula and Those Who Hunt The Night over and over.
Strix - Dec 10, 2009 10:06:14 am PST #10587 of 28370
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
It's dead blood? Oh, yeah, I forgot -- it has the power to turn ham rancid, and apparently makes your spear go limp.
Atropa - Dec 10, 2009 10:08:24 am PST #10588 of 28370
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
It's dead blood? Oh, yeah, I forgot -- it has the power to turn ham rancid, and apparently makes your spear go limp.
There's actually a quote from SMeyer about it over on the big Twilight fan site, but I'm not going over there to find it.