Because it's not Halloween, I thought I'd do a post that's Halloween related just for giggles.
Are You Flirting with the Dark; Or, Are You A Closet Rebel?
Vampires.
We all know what they are on the surface.
But come a little closer and let’s delve a little deeper. Step behind the dark veil and embrace the thoughts in the back of your mind. You know, the ones which some people rarely indulge.
Vampires are a safe plaything, if you will. They allow just about anyone to take a walk on the dark side or flirt with it, even if only for an hour or two via a book, tv series, or movie.
What do vampires represent? Coming out into the darkness. Pure, hot lust. Need.
Who doesn't have needs?
When I look at a vampires, I don't see something creepy-scary- must-go-stabbity-with-a-big-sharp-piece-of-wood creature in a Buffy kind of way. I see pure, primal need and I think on some level, that sort of thing appeals to people, otherwise the stories, the books, the tv shows and movies wouldn't continue. (Supernatural, True Blood, Underworld, Steve Barton’s Graf Von Krolock from Dance of the Vampires, anyone?)
In a way, it is darkness versus light. Most people want to believe they are safe in the light, be it figurative or literal. They want to believe they can watch such things as vampires in a movie or read about them in a story and then when it's over, it's over. They can put it away or walk away from it and that makes them safe, back in the light, so to speak. But I think that level of participation by either reading or watching lets them connect with the things a vampire represents—the darkness, the lust, the need. (And it doesn’t even have to be October 31st for that to happen.)
It's something they can't or won't further acknowledge within themselves, so they loosely connect through the media which they’ve chosen and then they can safely walk away from it, having had a very safe flirt with the dark.
And then I think for some, that lingers, making them a closet rebel because deep inside, even just a little, they sometimes wish to either be that vampire or be the one to sate that need.
Are You Flirting with the Dark; Or, Are You A Closet Rebel?
Vampires.
We all know what they are on the surface.
But come a little closer and let’s delve a little deeper. Step behind the dark veil and embrace the thoughts in the back of your mind. You know, the ones which some people rarely indulge.
Vampires are a safe plaything, if you will. They allow just about anyone to take a walk on the dark side or flirt with it, even if only for an hour or two via a book, tv series, or movie.
What do vampires represent? Coming out into the darkness. Pure, hot lust. Need.
Who doesn't have needs?
When I look at a vampires, I don't see something creepy-scary- must-go-stabbity-with-a-big-sharp-piece-of-wood creature in a Buffy kind of way. I see pure, primal need and I think on some level, that sort of thing appeals to people, otherwise the stories, the books, the tv shows and movies wouldn't continue. (Supernatural, True Blood, Underworld, Steve Barton’s Graf Von Krolock from Dance of the Vampires, anyone?)
In a way, it is darkness versus light. Most people want to believe they are safe in the light, be it figurative or literal. They want to believe they can watch such things as vampires in a movie or read about them in a story and then when it's over, it's over. They can put it away or walk away from it and that makes them safe, back in the light, so to speak. But I think that level of participation by either reading or watching lets them connect with the things a vampire represents—the darkness, the lust, the need. (And it doesn’t even have to be October 31st for that to happen.)
It's something they can't or won't further acknowledge within themselves, so they loosely connect through the media which they’ve chosen and then they can safely walk away from it, having had a very safe flirt with the dark.
And then I think for some, that lingers, making them a closet rebel because deep inside, even just a little, they sometimes wish to either be that vampire or be the one to sate that need.
