The_Everlasting
Dreamer
Honestly, I wouldn't worry much about this.... Write vamps as you'd want to read them and you're golden.
Thank you I really appreciate that. Now if I could only get myself together to get the damn thing finished!
Honestly, I wouldn't worry much about this.... Write vamps as you'd want to read them and you're golden.
Have become rather sick of the over powered nature of vampires, myself. Especially when they take away their weaknesses to crucifixes and sunlight, and everything else. Dracula, the original vampire, was killed by a sword--and he was meant to be ridiculously powerful.
Honestly, I am more interested in using the topic of vampires as a metaphor, i.e. overindulgence, lust, violence... All of those delightful sins and darker desires that our consciences and inhibitions repress. The "perfection" you see in so-called "vampire literature" nowadays is just frustrating.
Personally, this is why I like my vampires not totally evil. I dunno about violence, but I like lust, and it's kind of frustrating to see it associated with evil all the time. (Though I went the direct route and wrote a series about heroic succubi instead.)
Have become rather sick of the over powered nature of vampires, myself. Especially when they take away their weaknesses to crucifixes and sunlight, and everything else. Dracula, the original vampire, was killed by a sword--and he was meant to be ridiculously powerful.
Yeah, ok, whatever. But, shouldn't she at least have written a romantic hero who wasn't emotionally abusive? What sort of message does that send to teenage girls, as sending a message is just what she sets out to do? "It's ok if my boyfriend stalks me, breaks into my house to watch me sleep, alternately loves on and then rejects me, and then dumps me and disappears, leaving me in a months' long self-destructive depression. It's romantic!" *eyeroll*
Have become rather sick of the over powered nature of vampires, myself. Especially when they take away their weaknesses to crucifixes and sunlight, and everything else. Dracula, the original vampire, was killed by a sword--and he was meant to be ridiculously powerful.
Teenage girls aren't morons. You could make the same criticisms of Buffy and any number of other works. Is the idea supposed to be that you can't write characters that readers shouldn't emulate, or just that you can't write characters readers shouldn't emulate if you're writing for teens? I don't agree with either of those statements.
Anyway, swords can kill anything, if you get a good shot in. It's the universial weakness. I'm pretty sure that's some sort of rule.
Meyers sets out to tell a morality story, but the message is skewed.
Personally, this is why I like my vampires not totally evil. I dunno about violence, but I like lust, and it's kind of frustrating to see it associated with evil all the time. (Though I went the direct route and wrote a series about heroic succubi instead.)
How is lust not evil?
I now know exactly how I'm going to go about making a really awesome vampire villain.
"Sparklings vampires aren't scary", says the internet? Challenge accepted, says I.
Instead of presenting a male protagonist who, while having predatory issues consistent with his natute, is loving and supportive, she presents what really is a fairly one-sided relationship where Bella is persuing love and affection from a reluctant and often abusive... I hesitate to call him a "partner," because at no point do they have a partner relationship, but "boyfriend" seems to be a little light and fluffy for the intensity of the relationship she wants to portray.
How is it evil?
By definition.
First definition that came online:
Not seeing the word "evil" in there. I guess if you have your own personal definition, usually having a religious connotation, then you might define it as evil. But then there's the very answer to the question you posed - not everyone agrees with your definition.
I dont take lust and simple attraction as being synonymous, much like the killing/murder dichotomy.