And yet I'm here

[serafina20]

I'm tired, I'm headachey, and I sadly have nothing to write about. :( I hate moments like this. I'm writing COTW, but nothing in my life merits discussion. Not even Smallville.

Quick! Someone strike up a conversation or start a meme or something. Tell me what to do!

Actually, I do have one question. Where in werewolf history has it been stated that if you have sex with a werewolf you become a werewolf? Becuase I'd never heard that one before, and although my knowlege is confined to Laurell K. Hamilton, BtVS, and various movies, I'd thought I'd might have heard it before. Because before I start yelling at the author who said it ("You can't take something you made up for your books and say it's universal!") I want to check to see if I was out of the loop.

Comments

[lastscorpion.livejournal.com]

I never heard of that before. Whose books have it that way?

[serafina20.livejournal.com]

Whose books have it that way?

I have no idea, but the author who said it is Chelsea Quinn Yarboro. I've never read anything by her, but for some reason, I have flashes of vitriolic hatred when I hear her name. I'm not quite sure why, but that statement didn't make it go away at all.

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

If I may intrude, I've never heard that.It's not true. Only the bite of a werewolf makes you werewolf.You could have all the sex you wanted with one, and never wake up all hairy.Except for the shedding.

[serafina20.livejournal.com]

Except for the shedding.

*snerk* Yeah, i've never heard it either. I just wanted to check with others. Thanks!

[pepperjackcandy.livejournal.com]

:shakes head to clear it:

I thought you said that BTVS is where you heard that having sex with a werewolf makes you a werewolf. I reread that sentence carefully. 8-)

Anyway, I've never heard that, either, but I think it makes a sort of weird sense. If being bitten by a werewolf transmits lycanthropy, then it could conceivably be treated like HIV in a story -- any exchange of bodily fluids could have the same effect.

[serafina20.livejournal.com]

Anyway, I've never heard that, either, but I think it makes a sort of weird sense. If being bitten by a werewolf transmits lycanthropy, then it could conceivably be treated like HIV in a story -- any exchange of bodily fluids could have the same effect.

I think it makes sense, too, but it's soemthing that would be the "canon" for a book, not all werewolves in history. The way this person said it, it was as if it were established fact.

[angeline-dark.livejournal.com]

You mean with a werewolf in transformed form,right?

Because,if you mean the human form too Willow would have had a little problem,since season three.

I always thought that a werewolf had to bite you to get you infected, but since werewolfs are just fantasy creatures I think every author should handle that the way he/she wants.

[nilchance.livejournal.com]

That's a new one on me, too. That certainly could have turned up in the French 'werewolf' trials in the 1700s ("she slept with the accused, and now she's cursed too!"), but I've never seen anything to that effect when I was doing research into them. Thus making 'universal' an iffy term.

[serafina20.livejournal.com]

That certainly could have turned up in the French 'werewolf' trials in the 1700s ("she slept with the accused, and now she's cursed too!"), but I've never seen anything to that effect when I was doing research into them. Thus making 'universal' an iffy term.

I really think it's probably something she uses in her novles (although having never read them, I woudln't know) and just wanted to throw it out there. But, since I'd never heard it before, it really jarred me.

The author was Chelsea Quinn Yarboro (I think that's how you spell her last name) if you were wondering.

[witchway.livejournal.com]

that if you have sex with a werewolf you become a werewolf?

yeah, what was up with that? I think she pulled that out of her butt.

We watched that too. It was interesting, but I wished they would let the experts talk more and show less movie footage.

Although it was very cool how they linked Frankenstein up with the old Jewish golom myth.

Need something to do? I did a 3 question meme on my thefirethorn journal.