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 Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 8:40 pm
al Sircar Hey, just imagine if Dracula were a Twilight vampire. Mankind would be SCREWED! Not entirely relevent to the topic, but for some reason that line made me ROFL. XD *respects your opinion of vampires*
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Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 9:46 am
Well... that's just racist. neutral What if there were some decent vampires out there? What if you fell in love with a girl/guy (whatever your preference, hon) and found that they were a vampire? Would you still hate them?
Its not healthy to make such generalizations. D:
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Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 7:32 pm
I personaly love vampires, and if Dracula helped you come to realise your great dislike for them, I'm throwing that book out the window.
You can go ahead and dislike them all you want, we can't stop you, and I'm fine with it as long as you don't freak out on people for liking vampires. Not like they're real anyways (sadly).
Just out of curiosity, though, is a fictional creature you do love like people love vampires?
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Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 10:44 am
Well, first of all, no, I respect people who like vampires. I used to love vampires, and Edward, but then I...well, I guess I didn't.
lildarkangel3001: no, I don't really like Edward, I guess. I don't hate him. The conversation would certainly be interesting though. I don't think it would matter if he were a vampire or not. I think his personality just doesn't suit me. My stubborness just wouldn't work with his personality.
Reba_mce: Yeah, it happens. Killing and dying, I mean. I don't think I would exactly go after Edward and his family, simply because there are worse vampire problems than the group of them.
lildarkangel3001 again: Thank you.
Lilytail: Ditto.
julliel: Interesting questions. To me being racist. Yeah, probably. With vampires I mean, I like to think I'm pretty open-minded in the real world. Well, that's just it. Decent vampires. To me, that almost seems an oxymoron, don't you think? Still...intriguing. If this person I fell in love with was a vampire? Well. Hm. I need to think about that one.
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I think that I would be disappointed, but I really don't know the answer to that one. For me, I see vampires similar to the way Jacob does, I suppose. They really aren't natural. I don't know. Such a situation seems unreal to me anyway, as I've never really fallen in love before. I mean, other than the occasional crush. Adding vampire onto that just makes it more unreal to me. I think it's one of those things where you don't know what you would do until you actually have to make a choice like that.
shima-san- I BEG OF YOU, DO NOT THROW OUT DRACULA!!!!!! It is really the most amazing book. Trust me, if it wasn't Dracula, the Twilight Series would have made me realise eventually, as I'm a bit of a Jacob fan. sweatdrop Actually, I owe a lot to the Twilight Series, as if it hadn't been for that I would have never used my time to read Dracula, as I've never really been into the whole vampire thing to begin with.
Well, yes. I love the fictional poeple that are people. Not creatures really. There's this awesome contract killer I had this huge crush on. I know, I know, I'm a hypocrite, right? Yeah, yeah. Well, to each her/his own, I say. Well, in my defense, contract killers can have good qualities too, just like vampires.
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Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 4:34 pm
@ al: Meh. I'm a hypocrite too, but so is everyone else. Where's the fun without pointing fingers at someone? xd
And it's good to see a Jacob fan. As an anti-Twilight person (no, I don't want to discuss this with anyone unless in the Anti-Twilight thread), I find Jacob to be the most developed character in the story. And Bella's just... I wouldn't say stupid because that implies she has a mind to begin with.
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Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 9:19 pm
al Sircar I can't figure it out. I'm not a particular Edward-hater, or anything. I was just sitting at home, staring at the ceiling, and I said to myself: I hate vampires. I really do. It was the oddest thing. And you what? It's true!!! I hate vampires with a true passion. If I were in any vampire book, I would want to be some vampire hunter. Not just the Twilight series, although it is included, not as a werewolf, or anything like that in particular. I would just want to be the one doing the vampire in. I can't figure it out, but that is how I feel. Anyone else feel that way? actually time 2 time yea
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Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 6:42 pm
Ashima-san I personaly love vampires, and if Dracula helped you come to realise your great dislike for them, I'm throwing that book out the window. You can go ahead and dislike them all you want, we can't stop you, and I'm fine with it as long as you don't freak out on people for liking vampires. Not like they're real anyways (sadly). Just out of curiosity, though, is a fictional creature you do love like people love vampires?
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Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 9:42 pm
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Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 6:07 pm
I consider any "characters in a story" to be "real people" in a sense. It's your interpretation of the image created by the author. When you read, you can take written descriptions and ideas and in your mind while you read the book, the characters take on a "life". You can relate to them, so they seem more plausible. This, of course, is only really possible with a good writer, but I never limit the people in a book with such labels as being simply "characters". Obviously they don't exist in the real world, but in their own world of a book, they do. I also wouldn't lump a "species" from different books into one. I've read a number of different vampire books, including Vampire High, Dracula (yes, the Stoker version), the Twilight series and others (including this one about a vampire's girlfriend that I can't remember the name of xp ), and I would not say that the vampires from any of the books are remotely similar to the others. For instance, the vampires from Vampire High have retractable fangs, the vampires from Dracula grow fangs after they become vampires, and - if I remember correctly- the vampires from the Twilight series don't have any. Some author's interpretations of vampires show them to be extremely beautiful, hideously ugly, or just like a regular person. In some versions, they are "created", and in others, they are born that way. It all depends on how you look at it.
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