In which ratherastory is difficult and nit-picky

[ratherastory]

Everyone has their pet peeves, right? I have many.

The latest one to surface, and it's a recurring problem, but it's been twice in a couple of days now, and I'm officially peeved.

Vampires.

Vampires in pre-series stories.

Remember "Dead Man's Blood?" The boys and John are convinced vampires don't exist/are extinct right up until first season.

Even well-written stories get on my nerves, unless they're explicitly stated to be AU.

It's marring my enjoyment of those fics, which is really too bad. I need to learn to overlook it when they're well-written, I guess. But still. Gnarr.

Comments

[lobrien0914.livejournal.com]

What's even more annoying is the ones who go with Buffy mythology and employ stakes to kill the vampires, rather than machetes to behead, which is the only way to kill them according to Show.

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

I've never seen that. I am so glad for it, too.

If you go with the Dracula mythology, then a stake to the heart would immobilize them (a bit like in "Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things"), and then beheading would kill them off. Still, no canon evidence for that.

[liliaeth]

or the ones that have werewolves that actually transform into a full hairy wolfish form, rather than the human with fangs and claws that we saw with Madison.