*This is taken from my blog. Just thought I would share it because it deals with FanPop & Vampires*
*You can access my blog at link but the other ones will be lacking vampire references
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So we all have our flaws and silly things we’re into. I’ll admit that I am semi-addicted to sites such as FailBlog, Lamebook and FanPop. I think this is due to my curiosity about online culture and sometimes to the humor found on these sites.
So I will describe some of my activity on FanPop. I like FanPop quite a bit because it’s usually light-hearted and involves mashabiki talking about similar interests (it’s so sweet). Well one shabiki group I joined was the vampire shabiki club. My Marafiki know exactly why I would have done this. I once took a vampire course during undergraduate, I named my pet rabbit Nosferata and I generally like folklore and the macabre. This shabiki group has a splash of folklore, but has been taken over kwa (you guessed it) Twilight. Now people are allowed to read whatever they want. I have a friend who loves Twilight and I supported her kwa attending a Twilight convention with her, but I do not like Twilight. Having been graded over what a vampire should look like and act like, I cannot stand this current representation. This representation lacks much of the unsavory-ness that is associated with the standard vampire myth. On FanPop I read posts about young girls wanting to find someone to bite them and thus change them into a vampire.
Now, would wewe want to still be a vampire if wewe knew that they are also believed to be creatures made of nothing but skin and blood and referred to as ‘boneless’? It’s true. One of the earliest Slavic myths about Wanyonya damu described Wanyonya damu as blobs that could squeeze underneath your door (due to lack of bones) and suck your blood. I wonder how many young girls would want to be a blob of blood. Since my class focused on Slavic myths, I will give wewe another example from that region. In olden times (and in some areas today), there was an idea of ‘limited good’ which meant that there was only so much of everything to go around. Even beauty was a limited good that daughters ended up stealing from their mothers (get the idea?). So what would the ultimate monster look like to this society? Someone born with teeth au who developed buck-teeth. Yes, people born with teeth au who had large teeth were seen as over-consumers and thus were zaidi likely to become a vampire after death so they could continue consumption of limited good. So blood blob au buck-toothed, what vampire would wewe liked to be turned into little girl?
It is only recently that Wanyonya damu became sexy. wewe can thank the conservative nature of the Victorian era. In novels, one could not write about men and women doing nasty things so a human-like creature was useful to do the trick. Now a sexual innuendo would not be complete without something going in something (keeping this PG) so voila…fangs! Not only does this offer penetration, it makes the creature appear zaidi atavistic and consumed with primal desires (enough to make a Victorian lady blush & is slightly sexier than buck-teeth).
I guess the problem with myths is that they can evolve. The buck-toothed became the sexy Victorian gentleman. So I guess Wanyonya damu can continue to become glitter fairies. However, I still feel that this transformation is rather sad. I like my mythical creatures to be zaidi badass than the average human and above silly human morals. Mythical creatures are our way of expressing fears au the unknown. They should be the embodiment of those things in order to play their role. In the dark people no longer fear monsters, they fear other people (criminals, serial killers, etc.). So perhaps it makes sense that young girls want glitter vichimbakazi to come save the day…
I don’t know. All I can say is that I don’t necessarily enjoy this hivi karibuni transformation, but one cannot stop it. I just wonder how my vampire course professor is dealing with Twilight obsessed students.
Be strong Slavic studies professor…be strong.
P.S. This professor was sure to onyesha us multiple picha of bodies rotting in different conditions so hopefully that scares away some Twilighters in the first week of class :P
*You can access my blog at link but the other ones will be lacking vampire references
*Begin Blog:
So we all have our flaws and silly things we’re into. I’ll admit that I am semi-addicted to sites such as FailBlog, Lamebook and FanPop. I think this is due to my curiosity about online culture and sometimes to the humor found on these sites.
So I will describe some of my activity on FanPop. I like FanPop quite a bit because it’s usually light-hearted and involves mashabiki talking about similar interests (it’s so sweet). Well one shabiki group I joined was the vampire shabiki club. My Marafiki know exactly why I would have done this. I once took a vampire course during undergraduate, I named my pet rabbit Nosferata and I generally like folklore and the macabre. This shabiki group has a splash of folklore, but has been taken over kwa (you guessed it) Twilight. Now people are allowed to read whatever they want. I have a friend who loves Twilight and I supported her kwa attending a Twilight convention with her, but I do not like Twilight. Having been graded over what a vampire should look like and act like, I cannot stand this current representation. This representation lacks much of the unsavory-ness that is associated with the standard vampire myth. On FanPop I read posts about young girls wanting to find someone to bite them and thus change them into a vampire.
Now, would wewe want to still be a vampire if wewe knew that they are also believed to be creatures made of nothing but skin and blood and referred to as ‘boneless’? It’s true. One of the earliest Slavic myths about Wanyonya damu described Wanyonya damu as blobs that could squeeze underneath your door (due to lack of bones) and suck your blood. I wonder how many young girls would want to be a blob of blood. Since my class focused on Slavic myths, I will give wewe another example from that region. In olden times (and in some areas today), there was an idea of ‘limited good’ which meant that there was only so much of everything to go around. Even beauty was a limited good that daughters ended up stealing from their mothers (get the idea?). So what would the ultimate monster look like to this society? Someone born with teeth au who developed buck-teeth. Yes, people born with teeth au who had large teeth were seen as over-consumers and thus were zaidi likely to become a vampire after death so they could continue consumption of limited good. So blood blob au buck-toothed, what vampire would wewe liked to be turned into little girl?
It is only recently that Wanyonya damu became sexy. wewe can thank the conservative nature of the Victorian era. In novels, one could not write about men and women doing nasty things so a human-like creature was useful to do the trick. Now a sexual innuendo would not be complete without something going in something (keeping this PG) so voila…fangs! Not only does this offer penetration, it makes the creature appear zaidi atavistic and consumed with primal desires (enough to make a Victorian lady blush & is slightly sexier than buck-teeth).
I guess the problem with myths is that they can evolve. The buck-toothed became the sexy Victorian gentleman. So I guess Wanyonya damu can continue to become glitter fairies. However, I still feel that this transformation is rather sad. I like my mythical creatures to be zaidi badass than the average human and above silly human morals. Mythical creatures are our way of expressing fears au the unknown. They should be the embodiment of those things in order to play their role. In the dark people no longer fear monsters, they fear other people (criminals, serial killers, etc.). So perhaps it makes sense that young girls want glitter vichimbakazi to come save the day…
I don’t know. All I can say is that I don’t necessarily enjoy this hivi karibuni transformation, but one cannot stop it. I just wonder how my vampire course professor is dealing with Twilight obsessed students.
Be strong Slavic studies professor…be strong.
P.S. This professor was sure to onyesha us multiple picha of bodies rotting in different conditions so hopefully that scares away some Twilighters in the first week of class :P