My great-grandmother got married at 14, which is unreal to me.
On my way to work, I was listening to a podcast about vampires, as one does, and I have to say: the older I get, the more ridiculous I think it is that these vampire dudes would want to go out with high school girls. It's so gross! And honestly, from middle age, 30-year-olds still look young and beautiful to me and at least they have some sense and life experience!!
1. I completely agree.
In fact, I have no desire to watch any vampire-related series. I keep seeing people here talking about What We Do in the Shadows, and while I should enjoy it in theory, I can't get past my "Nah, vampires suck" reaction to watching yet another bloodsucker series. I blame this feeling on my having recapped The Vampire Diaries, which made me pay way more attention to The Vampire Diaries than it was ever meant to bear.
2. There is a theory that addicts (who are not in recovery) stop maturing at the age they start using, so I've extended the vampirism = addiction metaphor to 300 year old vampires who become enamored of schoolgirls. So, for example, with Buffy and Angel, at the time (and in the era) in which Angel was sired, it would not have been unusual for Liam and Buffy to get together.
Maybe "hmm, their blood smells fresh and vital" overrides "when are they going to stop talking about Pokémon?" for vampires?
I did like that in What We Do in the Shadows Viago referred to his romance with a 96-year old as May/December with her being the younger half of the couple.
Laszlo and Nadja are like the polar opposite of that whole idea, though, right?
I mean, it's really meant to be, like, a draw for the putative teenage girl audience to have power over the good looking and dangerous supernatural being, but it's just such a widespread pattern that is disturbing on its own merits. Any particular couple, fine, they can have their reasons, but there are SO MANY
Laszlo and Nadja are like the polar opposite of that whole idea, though, right?
Laszlo and Nadja are #goals.
If only I had the ability to shout "BAT" and disappear from situations I don't want to be in.
I would abuse that so much
I can only imagine how wearying recapping TVD must have gotten, Cindy. Being burnt out on vampires as a result totally makes sense
Though really, I'd think that WWDitS would be sort of a vampire palate cleanser, it's in so many ways the polar opposite of those teenager+vampire stories.
Well, shoot, it turns out that my in-laws did get vaccinated, but are against getting a booster.
On the brighter side, the pie my employer sent me is supposed to arrive today.
If only I had the ability to shout "BAT" and disappear from situations I don't want to be in.
That would be one of the better superpowers. I mean, super-strength and super-speed and all sound great, but then people would always be expecting you to do things. With the bat-and-go power it would be...
Dana, thank goodness you are here, we have a situa--
"BAT"
Ok, Dana has done everything she can do, it's up to the rest of us now.
