Do you think vampires shit themselves when they get turned?
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Upvoted for insane effort, but please tell me you touched grass in the last 12 months...
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Why would it be "practical" to do it during the conversion?
They could just go to the toilet like normal people (before or after).
I mean, I don't plan to eat anymore until tomorrow, therefore it's practical that I shit myself now?
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Damn you e done your research
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So basically like cats?
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Grass? Isn't that what you people on the outside smoke?
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written with female protagonists for a cis-hetero adult woman audience in mind
You sure?
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Perhaps this book is for you.
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The interesting thing is I could make the argument that the magic virus variant is the same as Anne Rice's.
I remember reading a fever dream of a book when I was a teenager called Vampire Virus- I feel like I recall that book addressing voiding the digestive tract as well. It's certainly addressed in some places...
It's the kind of theory that makes me want to write again.
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Yup.
I talk to other writers. We discuss this kind of thing sometimes. Even the bigger names sometimes cross into amateur spaces.
Paranormal romance, as a genre, is driven by the same markets as traditional romance. The stuff that sells is marketed to straight women because they're the ones that spend on it reliably.
Hell, good luck finding men that write paranormal romance at all, much less in traditional publishing. They exist, but it's not the norm.
Now, you get into some of the dedicated fan fiction, the blog level publishing, and the non commercial self publishing, you find more that's geared to other audiences. But those spaces exist because you aren't going to reliably sell things that don't interest straight women. You'll run into what is written with gay or bi characters in the mainstream, but it's still being written for the straight women to buy. It's a woefully underrepresented segment, but the truth is that the markets are marginal to begin with, and writing for them simply isn't going to make enough money to be something traditional publishing invests in.
Yeah, you can argue whether or not fan fiction, and non commercial self publishing is or isn't part of the overall "writing" population. But even if you include that, you're looking at a tiny fragment of any given genre. It's also a tiny fragment of readership.
I have a novella based around magical transition that's out there, under a pen name. Decent story, and I get the occasional email about it. But compare that to the volume I get from anything else, and it's barely a trickle (mind you, the total volume of everything is a trickle to begin with, we're talking maybe a dozen a month at most).
Go look up some of the bigger names in paranormal romance. There's usually going to be footage of them doing talks at cons, that kind of thing. The audiences are going to be damn near all women. The writers are almost all women. It's not a closed market, all sides of it except publishers are more than welcoming of men and non hetero fans for sure. There's all kinds of LGBTQ folks scattered through the crowds. But they are scattered.
If you aren't a writer, and one that has some degree of presence that's vettable, you aren't getting into the private groups where things get discussed about the inside aspects of trying to write. But inside them, anyone that's actively seeking readers, free or paid, is going to have their intended audience because it's just a fact that genres exist, and that they tend to have demographics. So you have to keep that in mind, or not get read.
Which brings us back to the beginning. Yes, I'm sure of what I said. It wasn't an offhand comment.
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Well, Anne Rice's vamps were not viral at all. They were inhabited by a spirit.
My symbiotic vampires were built to allow for a wide range of vampire powers. Anything from old school Dracula to Lestat, to things like the red and white court of the Dresden files. The symbiote was a way (originally) to let my players have any kind of vampire they wanted without having to find a new explanation each time.
It turned into more than that over time though.
I'm with you on remembering some other mentions if it though. Can't really pin down where, but there's that niggling little itch in memory that says I've read it.
Shit, though. Write! Doesn't have to be for anything but the fun of it.
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They do now!
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It's likely why they're so angry when they first turn. I would be angry, too, if I just shat myself for no apparent reason.
