getting over it

i think people have always been morbidly curious about death. that said, LET'S GO WATCH THE NEW TRUE BLOOD v--v (vampire teeth, mwehehe)
 

yay!!!!
 

ring a ring a rosie! A pocketful of posies!
 

I guess its the fascination with things that are impossible in reality: magic, vampires, superpowers, zombies... whatever, its wanting what you can't ever possibly have. Which in the Twilight instance is honestly appalling for many, many feminist and basic sensibility reasons.

And vampires have been around forever, Dracula? Its just that there has been a shift lately back to the teenage vampire story -- because how awesome is the vampire for the angst?! SERIOUSLY. lol
A few years ago the popular teenage stories were Harry Potter and magic, and before it was Sweet Valley High, and Nancy Drew, and school stories, and at the moment it is urban fantasy, otherworldly characters in New York and so on.

And fascination with things that kill, why do people watch horror movies? Why do they watch CSI? Who knows why, but its hardly new, its just more mainstream than it was, or we are just noticing it more.
 

I don't think we've ever left the stage of morbid fascination since the beginning of time.

Cave paintings of the hunt. Human sacrifice.

What I want to know is why Batman just turned completely dark and vampires are going mainstream "guy/girl next door", practically staring in High School Musicial?

Seems like the dichotomy still exists...it's just reversed. Odd.
 

so zombie high school students are next?

hm... maybe i should write it and get a few bucks before someone else?

Once upon a time... after the vampires sucked the life out of everything, a third of the world became zombies... who just wanted the same rights as everyone else who killed things, I mean, lawyers get rights, why not lifeless bodies that chew peoples brains for play lunch?

...maybe not...
 

Zombies actually are an emerging factor lately, 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies' notwithstanding.

You could be onto something with this, you just have to get the teenage girls into the fold cos you can market them anything as long as it is full of sexual tension and teenage angst and hot guys.
So none of these rotting reanimated zombie corpses, (like twilights sparkling vampires) you will have to remake zombies into really hot people preserved in their prime, who just happen to be undead. They go to high school and break hearts when they are not doing their masters evil nefarious bidding. I guess it keeps them out of the way, doing something with their undead lives.

I guess the question is, can zombies learn with dead brains?
Then again, vampires can smoke when technically they don't breathe....
 

i think you should co-write with me, shell.