'The Message'
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."
That doesn't sound like much fun ... no insult to guppies intended. I did see a cartoon recently and it shows a full moon in the background and a pack of wolves surrounding a baby which is saying something along the lines of "yes, I was bitten by a baby".
Then there's Chuck Tingle ....
What's the difference between a were-seal and a selkie?
Selkies manifest a seal skin that must be kept somewhere safe when they're in human form. Folklore says that a human can keep a selkie against their will if they steal the skin and refuse to give it back.
So I'd assume that were-seals just transform with the lunar cycle? "It's a full moon, Imma gonna go swim and eat fish"?
Unless you are romantically entangled with a were-orca that seems like a completely valid lifestyle.
And if you are, it's an intriguing base for a plot
I once, many years ago, read a book about a man who was one manifestation of a Polynesian shark deity ... he'd romance a woman and then either drown or eat her (possibly both). There was NOT a happy ending to that.
If you are bitten by a selkie, do you transform into a creature whose sealskin can only be stolen when the moon is full?
Make it so
If you are bitten by a selkie, do you transform into a creature whose sealskin can only be stolen when the moon is full?
I think that's the plot of the next Chuck Tingle book...
"Pounded in the Butt by the Manifestation of Literary Theory Concerning Intersection of Disparate Fairy-tale Tropes"
"Pounded in the Butt by the Manifestation of Literary Theory Concerning Intersection of Disparate Fairy-tale Tropes"
I would preorder that so fast.