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[apocalypsos]

In which I am whiny and worrisome. So basically, business as usual.

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The God book (whatever the hell I'm calling it today) is coming along ... okay, I guess. I need to be in a snarkier mode, which I just haven't been all weekend, and I have a feeling this is going to be one of those stories I write that ends up Sponsored by Smirnoff Ice (TM). You know, just as soon as I can afford Smirnoff Ice again.

I think it doesn't help that I keep debating myself on the tone. On one hand, I don't want to be a complete bitch about the whole thing, and be respectful of those who treat their faith and others with respect, and so on and so forth. And at the same time ... I kinda have to be a bitch, and WANT to be a bitch, because there's just some things that deserve bitchiness, like abstinence-only education and prosperity gospel and laws saying you don't have to feed your wife if she won't fuck you.

You know what I think I need for this? A six-pack, a viewing of Dogma, and a day alone with my battered needs-to-be-replaced copy of Lamb.

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Heroine Addiction is on hold right now.

The Grand Prize Winner edit would probably be going a lot better if, you know, I'd actually open the file.

I keep meaning to open the Books of Boggs and give myself a refresher and I keep finding more important things to do like watch Practical Magic for the nine millionth time or go shopping for candy fish and pumpkin seeds.

Also, is there a book where the vampires have succeeded in turning practically every human and now the few who are left are a protected endangered species? 'Cause I feel like that should be a book already, and if it isn't I may need to add that to my massive unfinished pile of ideas. *sigh*

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Whoever is the owner of the car alarm that's been going off for the past ten minutes -- although I'll bet it's at the car dealership -- needs to get up and go turn it off before I go do it at the end of a golf club.

Comments

[laurelin-kit.livejournal.com]

You gotta start making your own Smirnoffs with like, Sprite and vodka, dude. Way more economical.

[catystorm.livejournal.com]

Also, is there a book where the vampires have succeeded in turning practically every human and now the few who are left are a protected endangered species?

That is, actually. Or at least is a movie, although I can't recall the title of it. I saw a trailer for it a month or so ago.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I really have to run down to the dollar store and pick up some more faux!Sprite. I've got more than enough cherry vodka to last me a while, for real.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

See, I thought I knew that plot from somewhere. Eh, it's nothing I feel really enthusiastic about watching/reading or writing, truth be told, the idea's just very ... clingy.

[stele3.insanejournal.com (from livejournal.com)]

Also, is there a book where the vampires have succeeded in turning practically every human and now the few who are left are a protected endangered species? 'Cause I feel like that should be a book already, and if it isn't I may need to add that to my massive unfinished pile of ideas. *sigh*

Not that I know of, but I'd actually also had that idea (though in graphic-novel form). It'd be set in LA and be called Lost Angeles and would be a cross between True Blood, I Am Legend, and Munich. At the outset of the story someone bombs a test lab where a bunch of vampire scientists had been close to finding an alternate food source for human blood, given that sustainable feeding started too little, too late. It's a huge to-do, with lots of diplomats between the two levels of society flailing their limbs; the vampire government decide that they're not going to wait for justice. A bunch of agents in the vampire equivalent of the CIA are sent out to find those responsible and rendition their asses. Of course it's a violation of 100 different treaties and the agents will be disavowed, blah blah blah.

Anyway, that's what was going on in my version. I didn't have all of the plot sketched out but yeah. What were you thinking for yours, if you don't mind me asking?

[black-rider.livejournal.com]

Oh come on, just be a bitch already. It's more fun that way anyway. :D

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

vampires have succeeded in turning practically every human
There's the upcoming movie Daybreakers that has Willem Dafoe armed with a crossbow. There's also a similar webcomic where humans are endangered but it has vampires fighting zombies to protect their food source - I could hunt that down if you'd like.

[wrenlet.livejournal.com]

Daybreakers, maybe, which is on my "see even if it's crap" list :D

[azurelunatic]

I see you already read elorie, so I don't have to point you her way. But http://elorie.livejournal.com/1300260.html is one of the things she's written; she has learned the difficult way that you don't attack slime mold in your tiles with sugar, you attack it with fucking Clorox.

[norabombay.livejournal.com]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbwC_vAZKPA

I saw this at VVC and thought of you.

It makes happy.

[a-hollow-year.livejournal.com]

Also, is there a book where the vampires have succeeded in turning practically every human and now the few who are left are a protected endangered species?

Vamped by David Sosnowski. It's not bad.

[fyrdrakken]

Anno Dracula, by I wanna say Kim Newman. There may be another couple of books by a different writer that did something similar, lurking somewhere in my boxes of books I haven't read for years. (Yep, Wikipedia tells me, Anno Dracula and The Bloody Red Baron, by Kim Newman, about what happened when Dracula came to London and Van Helsing & Co. failed to stop him. ETA: I don't recall that vampires outnumbered humans, but it had become a vampire-dominated society.)

I'm really sure there's another book along those lines that I'm not remembering the title of. (Oh, and the original I Am Legend, which I've never read, or even seen the Will Smith movie version of.)