Zombies, Vampires and Fairys oh my!

[starfish]

   So whats your favorite fantasy, horror, scifi creature type and why? What mythos do you follow for it? 
  Like if it was Vampires, do your vampires sparkle? Or do they follow more like White Wolf? Zombies, do they follow World war Z with a goblin horde mentality or slow rotting starving brain eating? 

[BlackCanary]

Vampires-definitely more of a Buffy, no sunlight, super strength, wood stake to the heart type of thing. No sparkles!

I really don't have much of an opinion on zombies.

[starfish]

Right now, I am really enjoying werewolfs, but only in the way Patricia Briggs writes them. Also (dont boo me) the way they are shown in Twilight. I don't like the minldness beast kills everyone type.
I use to be a huge Zombie lover, but I also was banned from watching Zombie movies with my BFF when my dh heard us planning on taking over a cruise ship, and which friends we could eat before we starved to death.

[panicked]

I love vampires, but not that sparkly crap. I like my vampers pale, cold, witty, and mostly heartless. With good abs. Like True Blood.

I love zombies. I tend to like the slow, stupid ones (a la TWD) over the 28 Days Later rabid-type.

[starfish]

Nov 19, 2013 20:14:21 GMT -5 panicked said:

I love vampires, but not that sparkly crap. I like my vampers pale, cold, witty, and mostly heartless. With good abs. Like True Blood.

I love zombies. I tend to like the slow, stupid ones (a la TWD) over the 28 Days Later rabid-type.

   Have you seen Aaah Zombies (also called Wasted Away? )  OMG I kept making my friends watch it with me. It is told from the point of view of Zombies. 

[panicked]

Nov 19, 2013 20:18:17 GMT -5 starfish said:

Nov 19, 2013 20:14:21 GMT -5 panicked said:

I love vampires, but not that sparkly crap. I like my vampers pale, cold, witty, and mostly heartless. With good abs. Like True Blood.

I love zombies. I tend to like the slow, stupid ones (a la TWD) over the 28 Days Later rabid-type.

   Have you seen Aaah Zombies (also called Wasted Away? )  OMG I kept making my friends watch it with me. It is told from the point of view of Zombies. 

I haven't! That sounds really cool! Is it on Netflix?

[starfish]

Nov 19, 2013 20:24:48 GMT -5 panicked said:

Nov 19, 2013 20:18:17 GMT -5 starfish said:

   Have you seen Aaah Zombies (also called Wasted Away? )  OMG I kept making my friends watch it with me. It is told from the point of view of Zombies. 

I haven't! That sounds really cool! Is it on Netflix?

  That is were I found it. It was listed as Aaah Zombies, its so funny. Like Shawn of the dead funny. 

[panicked]

Nov 19, 2013 20:27:54 GMT -5 starfish said:

Nov 19, 2013 20:24:48 GMT -5 panicked said:

I haven't! That sounds really cool! Is it on Netflix?

  That is were I found it. It was listed as Aaah Zombies, its so funny. Like Shawn of the dead funny. 

I will check it out this weekend. Thanks!

[Pippin]

I've always loved vampires like creepy evil burn in the sunlight vampires. I do appreciate the vamp craze that Twilight helped start even if I don't really care for those books. I enjoy zombies too but they are the only things that actually give me nightmares. I'm not really sure why but I find the slow unstoppable horde zombies the scariest.

[panicked]

Nov 19, 2013 21:22:43 GMT -5 Pippin said:

I've always loved vampires like creepy evil burn in the sunlight vampires. I do appreciate the vamp craze that Twilight helped start even if I don't really care for those books. I enjoy zombies too but they are the only things that actually give me nightmares. I'm not really sure why but I find the slow unstoppable horde zombies the scariest.

I read The Zombie Survival Guide when it first came out. To this day, I still mentally assess a place for survival. We live in a one story home right now and my first thought was "This is a death trap if zombies attack!"

[starfish]

Nov 19, 2013 21:25:43 GMT -5 panicked said:

Nov 19, 2013 21:22:43 GMT -5 Pippin said:

I've always loved vampires like creepy evil burn in the sunlight vampires. I do appreciate the vamp craze that Twilight helped start even if I don't really care for those books. I enjoy zombies too but they are the only things that actually give me nightmares. I'm not really sure why but I find the slow unstoppable horde zombies the scariest.

I read The Zombie Survival Guide when it first came out. To this day, I still mentally assess a place for survival. We live in a one story home right now and my first thought was "This is a death trap if zombies attack!"

  I am so glad I am not the only one who does this. One of the reason we live on the 3rd floor. I also took up archery cause I think it would be easier to reuse arrows then run out of bullets. And i might of figured out how to knock the second set of stairs out..... Yeah I am that bad.

[CheshireGrin]

I have always been a vampire fan. But don't even talk to me about Twilight; everything about it annoys me. I admit to being quite the Anne Rice fan back in the day, but I think I grew out of that, LOL. Still love the vampires though. I wouldn't say tht I subscribe to any particular mythos at this point; I enjoy the idea that there can be different interpretations. But no fucking sparkles, okay?

My husband is zombie-obsessed. He's a huge fan of the Romero-style zombie (Night of the Living Dead is one of his all-time favorite movies) but he basically likes anything that has to do with zombies.

I admit that I don't really "get" zombies.

[starfish]

I also love that I used mythos and you all knew what i was talking about. I said that to my family and get blank looks.

[Pippin]

Nov 19, 2013 22:01:46 GMT -5 starfish said:

Nov 19, 2013 21:25:43 GMT -5 panicked said:

I read The Zombie Survival Guide when it first came out. To this day, I still mentally assess a place for survival. We live in a one story home right now and my first thought was "This is a death trap if zombies attack!"

  I am so glad I am not the only one who does this. One of the reason we live on the 3rd floor. I also took up archery cause I think it would be easier to reuse arrows then run out of bullets. And i might of figured out how to knock the second set of stairs out..... Yeah I am that bad.

Oh I totally assess almost every place I go for how well I could baracade against zombies. It's pretty much become a default mind wandering activity for me.

[darkling_glory]

Nov 19, 2013 20:10:59 GMT -5 BlackCanary said:

Vampires-definitely more of a Buffy, no sunlight, super strength, wood stake to the heart type of thing. No sparkles!

I really don't have much of an opinion on zombies.

This is pretty much me. Buffy-type vampires all the way.

I also really like elves, Tolkien-style.

[panicked]

Nov 19, 2013 22:01:46 GMT -5 starfish said:

Nov 19, 2013 21:25:43 GMT -5 panicked said:

I read The Zombie Survival Guide when it first came out. To this day, I still mentally assess a place for survival. We live in a one story home right now and my first thought was "This is a death trap if zombies attack!"

  I am so glad I am not the only one who does this. One of the reason we live on the 3rd floor. I also took up archery cause I think it would be easier to reuse arrows then run out of bullets. And i might of figured out how to knock the second set of stairs out..... Yeah I am that bad.

YES!

[secretlyevil]

Real vampires do not sparkle thank you very much.

I like Anne Rice's vampires.

I dig BDB vampires too...

[BlackCanary]

I also enjoy Cthulhu. 

Even Abby's a fan!

[gibbinator]

I originally liked the Christopher Pyke vampires: super strong, could go out in sunlight, didn't need to kill when feeding. I think I now prefer th Anne Rice and Buffy style vampires that follow the traditional myths more closely. Definitely no sparkles!

When I think elves I think Wolfriders and Elfquest. The original story lines and art were amazing.

Zombies, I don't get. I'm not a fan.

Werewolves were always one of my favorites too. They've got to be wolf-like though (I was very happy with the Underworld werewolves) rather than ape-like.

[Myrrhine]

I like aliens (like aliens among us stories, not so much hard scifi) as well as mutants and post-apocalyptic type stories ( I guess that's not really a creature per se).

Fairies are probably my least favorite.

[Nonny]

Vampires don't sparkle, and someone should shank Stephanie Meyer for her vampire interpretation (and her terrible writing). My preferred vampires are the ones who get stronger with age, and my favorite vampire series is Forever Knight, which sadly is no longer streamable on Netflix. I generally subscribe to the mythos of vampires being unable to have sex, with the drinking of blood being an orgasmic/sensual act, but Alexander Skarsgard and his naked glory has totally changed my mind on that.

I prefer my werewolves to not be in battle with, or subservient to, vampires. My favorite werewolf book series is actually by Alice Borchardt (Ann Rice's sister), and there are two types of werewolves in her books. One character is a woman who turns into a wolf and the other is a wolf who turns into a man. It's my favorite take on the werewolf genre.

Zombies I can go either way, but generally I prefer the type who are as fast/slow as they would have been in real life. Walking Dead is good for me in that regard.