Bite Me!
Okay, this should be a wee bit more serious...
I have always had this fascination about vampires. I don’t quite know why, but I’m really drawn to them. I was thinking about writing a piece on them, but what am I supposed to write about? The whole vampire scope is far too wide and there aren’t many reliable sources about them. This is because they are supposed to be “supernatural” and therefore have no hard facts to support this topic, scientifically. So “facts” about vampires are usually handed down from generations to generations since the beginning of time from grandparents to children just to get them peeing in their pants at night because they have been “naughty” or “disobedient”.
People from different countries and cultures might have their own definition of what makes a vampire. For instance, a Chinese vampire is usually the one you see in dynasty dramas. They are those pale faced human looking “thing” wearing court clothes with the Chinese hat and a feather stuck in it, hopping around landing on both legs with their hands held out parallel to the ground in front of them. They suck blood, like what almost everyone expects vampires to do but they are relatively easy to stop. Just stick a talisman on their forehead and they would stop like an Energizer Bunny with zero amount of energy left. But let us not be fooled. Like how Chinese humans have traded in Chinese traditional costumes for Western get ups like trench coats ala the Matrix and jeans, our Chinese vampires have also evolved and westernized. Now they look like western vampires. They wear trench coats ala the Matrix and jeans.
Now, just how do Western vampires look like? Well... I'm not quite sure. I used to think they were all porcelain skinned, all beautiful and mesmerizing like in Queen of The Damned or Interview With The Vampire, until I saw Nosferatu. I had to really rething alot about how much I liked vampires after i watched Nosferatu.
Vampires, nice. This could be a great topic. So I shouldn't blabber on too much here and go do some research about them. Hopefully, I'll get to do my thesis on them... YAY! I could write about all the different species of vampires from all the different cultures. Cool....
I have always had this fascination about vampires. I don’t quite know why, but I’m really drawn to them. I was thinking about writing a piece on them, but what am I supposed to write about? The whole vampire scope is far too wide and there aren’t many reliable sources about them. This is because they are supposed to be “supernatural” and therefore have no hard facts to support this topic, scientifically. So “facts” about vampires are usually handed down from generations to generations since the beginning of time from grandparents to children just to get them peeing in their pants at night because they have been “naughty” or “disobedient”.
People from different countries and cultures might have their own definition of what makes a vampire. For instance, a Chinese vampire is usually the one you see in dynasty dramas. They are those pale faced human looking “thing” wearing court clothes with the Chinese hat and a feather stuck in it, hopping around landing on both legs with their hands held out parallel to the ground in front of them. They suck blood, like what almost everyone expects vampires to do but they are relatively easy to stop. Just stick a talisman on their forehead and they would stop like an Energizer Bunny with zero amount of energy left. But let us not be fooled. Like how Chinese humans have traded in Chinese traditional costumes for Western get ups like trench coats ala the Matrix and jeans, our Chinese vampires have also evolved and westernized. Now they look like western vampires. They wear trench coats ala the Matrix and jeans.
Now, just how do Western vampires look like? Well... I'm not quite sure. I used to think they were all porcelain skinned, all beautiful and mesmerizing like in Queen of The Damned or Interview With The Vampire, until I saw Nosferatu. I had to really rething alot about how much I liked vampires after i watched Nosferatu.
Vampires, nice. This could be a great topic. So I shouldn't blabber on too much here and go do some research about them. Hopefully, I'll get to do my thesis on them... YAY! I could write about all the different species of vampires from all the different cultures. Cool....
posted by DanielleDajerk at 11:00:00 pm
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[MR WONG'S FEEDBACK]
Species of vampires, eh? Interesting, although I'm not sure there ARE such classifications of the fanged ones. Unless you are thinking about non-blood sucking vampires. I did a cursory search on Google and came across something called "psychic vampirism", defined as "draining and/or absorbing energy or vitality from people, often, although not always against their will or at least without their knowledge" ("What is psychic vampirism?", 2000, par. 1). Perhaps you could explore this or other forms of vampirism besides the ones involving long teeth, transformation into bats, lack of reflections in mirrors, etc. (Come to think of it: How DID these aspects of blood-sucking vampires come to light? Are the myth or grounded in some kind of truth? May be worth checking out too.)
You could possibly look into Goth sub-culture and its link to vampires.
REFERENCE
What is psychic vampirism? (2004). The Practice of Psycho-Magickal Vampirism. Retrieved December 19, 2004, from http://www.btinternet.com/ ~lilith.kaos/psivamp.html.
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