Side By Side 2014-08-21
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Side By Side 2014-08-21
Artists? Werewolves?
I suspected that vampires would find a place in the legal profession, but I thought that they might be attornies or IRS auditors. Who knew!?
Hey There Lil Red Riding Hood
I suspected that vampires would find a place in the legal profession, but I thought that they might be attornies or IRS auditors. Who knew!?
Hey There Lil Red Riding Hood
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I get the feeling that Jet's covey aren't exactly typical, compared to what we've seen so far.
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Considering that, apparently, vampires in the Wapsiverse are people who died alone and unknown, i can see them in law enforcement, as protectors of the small, helpless, disregarded or ignored.
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That does explain a few movies
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Can you imagine a werewolf "poetry retreat"?
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Aed wrote:Artists? Werewolves?
The fact that the movies were dogs, doesn't necessarily mean that the screenwriters wereoldmanmickey wrote:That does explain a few movies
Actually, werewolves-as-artists does make economic sense. Werewolves have an advantage there. Normal human artists pay through the nose for those nice fine-hair paintbrushes... werewolves shed enough to be able to make their own.
Hey, our species produced Bulwer-Lytton. I doubt that even an entire pack of werewolves could possibly generate as much bad imagery as he managed all by himself.My2Cents wrote:Can you imagine a werewolf "poetry retreat"?
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... and all this time I thought that monkeys were the writers.
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Now wait just a cotton pickin' minute. Phix, who has been around quite a while, considered Vampires and Werewolves to be scum. Low-life beings to be exterminated on sight. Then there was that whole thing with Justin and his former werewolf sadist GF. How would Phix not know about all the good works of those groups? The story was that it took two vampires (who she nearly killed) to show her the good side of the blood suckers, yet Guidance indicates they have been doing those good things for a long time. Seems like Phix would have known that and quit considering them vermin long before Pratt and McBride came on the scene. Don't get me wrong, I like this direction concerning the two groups. A welcome departure from the "waring clans" crap that has been so popular in movies and TV of late, but I smell a significant reboot where those characters are concerned. Either that or Jet's demons know not of what they speak.
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LycanthropyDave wrote:Actually, werewolves-as-artists does make economic sense. Werewolves have an advantage there. Normal human artists pay through the nose for those nice fine-hair paintbrushes... werewolves shed enough to be able to make their own.
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On the other hand the forces of law and order and the Bohemian community do have a long tradition of animosity.
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Phix's attitudes were set a long time ago.KnightDelight wrote:Now wait just a cotton pickin' minute. Phix, who has been around quite a while, considered Vampires and Werewolves to be scum. Low-life beings to be exterminated on sight.
And the attitudes of the apex predator to those lower on the food chain may be taken with a grain of salt.
Particularly if those apex predators are dilettantes who arrogate the power of "justice" to themselves and deal it without due process or proper consideration/investigation and vampires are the lowly cops who work within the rules and actually investigate before they make a move.
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I don't think Phix uses salt. She eats her prey as is.AnotherFairportfan wrote:And the attitudes of the apex predator to those lower on the food chain may be taken with a grain of salt.
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Hey! As third-generation native-born Bohemian/American, i resemble ... errr ... resent that remark!Timotheus wrote:On the other hand the forces of law and order and the Bohemian community do have a long tradition of animosity.
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Phix is a protector of humans, so the feeling for any human predator is natural. And compared to demons it is like swatting mosquitoes for her. Her feelings were also developed in the distant past, before she was attached to the library, and she probably hasn’t experienced the changes (reading about them doesn’t count!).KnightDelight wrote:Now wait just a cotton pickin' minute. Phix, who has been around quite a while, considered Vampires and Werewolves to be scum. Low-life beings to be exterminated on sight. Then there was that whole thing with Justin and his former werewolf sadist GF. How would Phix not know about all the good works of those groups? The story was that it took two vampires (who she nearly killed) to show her the good side of the blood suckers, yet Guidance indicates they have been doing those good things for a long time. Seems like Phix would have known that and quit considering them vermin long before Pratt and McBride came on the scene. Don't get me wrong, I like this direction concerning the two groups. A welcome departure from the "waring clans" crap that has been so popular in movies and TV of late, but I smell a significant reboot where those characters are concerned. Either that or Jet's demons know not of what they speak.
There is also a time element at play, how long have paranormals had formal training to pass for human? Probably not much more than a century. Probably also started in the USA, because we still had a lot of sparsely populated areas for them to hide in when the idea of universal schooling took root. Passing for human gives paranormals alternative lifestyle to explore. Vampires going into law enforcement makes sense based on their feeding requirements. The were population would have gone for more reclusive lifestyles (and many artists and writers are recluses), but most predatory ones originally were probably ranchers and trappers, and more omnivorous ones (like werebears) as farmers (it would be interesting to know more about the bear girl’s grandparents).
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Teen Wolf, for instance.oldmanmickey wrote:That does explain a few movies
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Werewolves as artists WOULD explain some of James Brown's lyrics.
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The relevant comic eludes me, but I recall Officer Justin mentioning a werewolf he once dated. Not sure if her occupation came up, though.
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Turns out M. Knight Shyamalan is a werewolf. What a twist!
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I'd also go for the time element, but for a different reason... up until the CM got destroyed by our gang, Phix has been essentially locked up in solitary confinement for the last 80K+ years in the Library, yes she had time off to try and find Nudge (and get it on with Shelly's G'Pa) but for the most part she ignored everything else because she REALLY wanted to get Nudge... SOOOO... she probably missed the fact that Vamps have reformed from their alleged former ways. as for the Were population, why would she know about that just from being in the Library? did any of those poets sign there works with "Oh, Hey, I'm a Werewolf!!"... no, therefore she wouldn't know that they were a Were at all just because of her being the Librarian. as for Justin's EX... if i remember correctly, Hitler was supposed to have been a Vegetarian, and treated his wife very well... that didn't stop him from causing the Holocaust though... so your argument is invalid, just because she was a Were, doesn't mean she couldn't be um, a bit kinky in the bedroom as an Artist. and of course both of those Demons used the key words "MOST" and "TEND" that means that it is not "ALL" of them... and like Justin and Shelly said, he was hanging with the fringe crowd, by definition, they are the oddball outliers of the group statistics.My2Cents wrote:There is also a time element at play, how long have paranormals had formal training to pass for human? Probably not much more than a century. Probably also started in the USA, because we still had a lot of sparsely populated areas for them to hide in when the idea of universal schooling took root. Passing for human gives paranormals alternative lifestyle to explore. Vampires going into law enforcement makes sense based on their feeding requirements. The were population would have gone for more reclusive lifestyles (and many artists and writers are recluses), but most predatory ones originally were probably ranchers and trappers, and more omnivorous ones (like werebears) as farmers (it would be interesting to know more about the bear girl’s grandparents).KnightDelight wrote:Now wait just a cotton pickin' minute. Phix, who has been around quite a while, considered Vampires and Werewolves to be scum. Low-life beings to be exterminated on sight. Then there was that whole thing with Justin and his former werewolf sadist GF. How would Phix not know about all the good works of those groups? The story was that it took two vampires (who she nearly killed) to show her the good side of the blood suckers, yet Guidance indicates they have been doing those good things for a long time. Seems like Phix would have known that and quit considering them vermin long before Pratt and McBride came on the scene. Don't get me wrong, I like this direction concerning the two groups. A welcome departure from the "waring clans" crap that has been so popular in movies and TV of late, but I smell a significant reboot where those characters are concerned. Either that or Jet's demons know not of what they speak.
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