Consider vampires...

[charliesmum]

We got our lovely fast computer back, and it only cost $80 for a new hard drive. So yay and stuff.

Charlie had a great 2nd day with the new minder - she took him to the pool, where he got to play with his best friend. I'm so pleased Charlie is finally having a real summer holiday.

The boyfriend played with Charlie in the pool, and is a lovely young man. Gonna be a teacher.

Anyway, I had a vampire dream last night, probably because I just read a Lauren K. Hamilton book about vampires, but it also occured to me that I dream of vampires when I'm feeling particularly overwhelmed. I think vampires symbolise to me the act of letting go, of having someone else be in control, in charge, and then I don't have to make any decisions. I was wondering if that was part of why they have such a lasting appeal to writers and movie makers and people who like to wear black alot.

It's really odd. Zombies aren't sexy at all. Werewolves, well, Lupin maybe, but over all they are either savage monsters or tragic figures. Ghosts are either scary or vengeful, or both, but never particularly sexy, but Vampires get all the girls. (or boys if you're Anne Rice)I think it does all come back to control, or losing control, which frankly is what sex is about in some ways.

What do you think?

Comments

[cactus-wren.livejournal.com]

The series is really good up til number seven or eight. Then they start to go downhill a bit (IMO), too much focus on sex, not enough focus on the thing that originally drew me to the series - supernatural/mystery stuff. Book three, 'Circus of the Damned', is one of my favorites. As are six and seven (The Killing Dance & Burnt Offerings). My copies are a bit battered, but if you want to read after book three and don't want to buy them, I can let you borrow my copies.

Ooh, and Rafael - the king of the wererats - ends up sounding like very, very sexy goodness after you read more about him in the other books.