Odd Spot #213: Embryos of tiger sharks fight each other while in their mother’s womb, the survivor being the baby shark that is born. I like Odd Spot #213 the best… sharks are like underwater werewolves 
mmm, fresh kill
…don’t ya just love old friends? The kinda friends who know you so well, it comes out in their gifts? I felt thoroughly spoilt when I invited two old friends over for Christmas. We celebrated “T&T” style; Turkey and ‘True Blood’. When we exchanged presents, I got ‘Underworld: Rise of the Lycans,” the book, “The Werewolf’s Guide To Life” and even the “True Blood Seas One Soundtrack.” Thanks Nic and Dada! I’m gonna have to spend 2010 in making it up to you… xoxo
I just heard one of the best frickin’ quotes ever in an ‘Angel Season 5’ episode; Spike even with a soul truly makes this series. Ever get bored of helpless females ending up attacked in dark alleyways? So is Spike for after he saves the ‘broad’ from another Vampire this conversation ensues:
Woman; “Thank you, thank you. That thing was gonna kill me!”
Spike; “Well what d’you expect? Out alone in this neighbourhood? I have half a mind to kill you myself, you halfwit!”
Woman; “What?”
Spike; “I mean honestly, what kind of retard wears heels like that in a dark alley? You take two steps and break your bloody ankle.”
Woman; “I was just trying to get home.”
Spike; “Well get a cab you moron. And on the way, if a stranger offers you candy, don’t get in the van.”
(woman walks off in a huff)
Spike; “Stupid cow.”
I’m more than ‘over’ the fuss and constant rehashing of Tiger Woods crashing his car and why. Who cares if there’s marital disharmony and if it was responsible for the accident? I can hear Declan say to Tiger regarding whose wife is scarier; “you’re wife came at you with a golf club? I should be so lucky, mine can flail me with her claws and then eat the skin.”
When ‘Twilight’ the movie came out, I went with two friends and one of them was a friend called Nicole. She’d never read the books whereas I had, but she enjoyed the film so we planned to see ‘New Moon’ together. During the film a group of teens sitting a couple rows ahead of us grew restless and began to muck up and I found myself looking at my watch. It wasn’t because of the teens playing up, but it was because I wasn’t enjoying the film, neither were the teens and neither did Nicole.
Nicole and I looked at each other in agreement and I ended up posting as my status on my Facebook page; saw ‘New Moon’ and lost two hours of my life I’ll never get back.
When Catherine Hardwicke directed ‘Twilight’ she accentuated the delightful eccentricities of the characters (and perhaps some of the actors). However with the new direction ‘New Moon’ took? The characters sulked, whined, whinged and pouted with no direction which almost made the film look as if it had no plot. I like the actor Michael Sheen when he played Lucien in the ‘Underworld’ films but his role in the Vampire ‘royalty’ the Volturi? It was like the poor guy was slumming it, he was about as royal as Brittney Spears climbing out of a car in a tiny dress with no underwear on. The red contacts the actors wore as Volturi didn’t look menacing, they looked clown-faced with the white make-up and even circus clowns looked scarier than them. Perhaps if they borrowed some carnivale masks from a Venice festival instead?
Reading the novel ‘New Moon’ by Stephenie Meyer was life turning in a way to this “lil black duck”, as it turned a life-long fandom for Vampires into cheering for Werewolves instead. I guess it’s because of this reason, I had high expectations of the film version of the book which became monumental to not just my interest, but my passion. The strength of invocation is important to a writer and I think it was either C.S. Lewis or another writer who said something along the lines, “the converted can become the strongest champions.” But seeing ‘New Moon’ the film almost made me lose faith. It just “wasn’t cricket.” I thought the film couldn’t go wrong as long as it stayed true to the book, but nope! This was where the script and the direction failed.
I tried to explain to Nicole how the book was so much better and I wondered aloud what Stephanie Meyer may have thought? As a writer especially of a relatively successful book, it must be like a slap in the face. “Sorry, we don’t think your words are good enough to convert to the screen so we’re going to use and abuse.” It’s just not how you make porridge…
A funny thing happened the other night… I googled the words, ‘Lokoti Werewolf’ to see what would happen. What are Lokoti Werewolves I hear you ask? I write in my sci-fi, supernatural, romance series of novels about time travelers called Circulators who eventually shack up with Werewolves. But in my imaginary world, there are different breeds of Werewolves such as European Werewolves, Asian Werewolves, North American Werewolves and of course, Lokoti Werewolves.
A couple of months back I had a nasty experience with plagiarism so when I googled Lokoti Werewolves; I wanted to see if any other websites besides my own would come up. As you can guess by this musing, a couple did.
In my second book ‘Circulating’, my main character Elisha Worthall nee Baker created SSIT – Supernatural Scientific Investigative Team whilst studying at Cambridge University. Upon graduating, she and her investigative partner Xavier Bell turned SSIT into a business venture. They moved from investigating haunted houses, ghost lights around stone circles, ESP into researching and finding vampires and werewolves. So I thought it might be fun to write a couple of SSIT Reports that my characters could have written and I even put their names on them when posting them on my writing websites.
Low and behold, I found a website where a couple of school kids (not sure of their ages) had done a school report on the topic of Werewolves. The first part of the report looks like it ‘borrowed’ from Wikipedia, then one paragraph says; “other than the Hollywood werewolf, there are 4 main types of werewolves that are recognized around the world,” and lists my different breeds.
I did try to write this piece of fiction in the style of non-fiction and it looks like my attempt was successful in making someone think so. However there’s just one thing that concerns me. I wrote; “Due to the predatory nature of the European Werewolf; when we filmed and scanned this Werewolf in human form, changing into Werewolf, this was done covertly by Elisha Worthall acting alone. Since European Werewolves are man-eaters, Elisha Worthall was able to use her Circulator ability to instantaneously phase out of danger, as soon as the Werewolf picked up her scent.” So if my mock scientific report was ‘borrowed from’ did they think the part about Circulators were real too?
On one website I saw somebody is a fan of Lokoti Werewolves and dispenses advice on them. Then on another, I found someone who thought my Lokoti Tribe were real and was trying to look them up. Woah, my head is spinning… it’s bizarre when you post your fiction on websites such as Writing.Com or Storywrite.com and expect only a small group of people to read them. Then like seeds, they spring up somewhere else as something entirely different. But I guess it’s funny in a Monty Python way and when you recover from the shock, it literally turns into a LoL.
“How did you go on your Math test today, Timmy?”
– “I only got 44% on fractions but I got 88% on my report on the different breeds of Werewolves.”
“Atta boy.”
~ SCENT ~
A delicious tail of a fiery love-hate relationship…at first B can’t stand the tribe’s sarcastic and most dangerous Werewolf Declan; however those feelings change to a forbidden love. Bake in Alaska as a sanctuary after World War Three, garnish with European Vampires, other breeds of Werewolves and marauding humans. Serves one.
~ SORORATE ~
Usually the story ends once the couple marries, but not in this case…Declan and B made ‘dating’ practically an extreme sport. Their home has undergone numerous repairs every time these two have a lovers tiff or even a romantic night in. If any threat supernatural or otherwise threatens to divide them? Claws do come out in a Werewolf marriage.
~ SMALL FRY ~
Declan loves his wife so much there is nothing he wouldn’t do including murder…through their many years of marriage, B had to live with the stigma of being barren until now. However Declan knows that this pregnancy would threaten her life. When the couple are a 300 year old European Werewolf and the first female Lokoti Werewolf living in the 24th Century; fireworks aspire to have their chemistry one day.
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Circulate Series by K.R. Smith, ‘Circulate’ published by Eclectica Press, Sans Souci, 2005. www.eclecticapress.cjb.net
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Today hit 40 Celsius in the western suburbs of Sydney today. A European Werewolf wouldn’t be able to cope with this heat, as they prefer the cold climates of northern Europe. It’s kinda funny in a way, when you think about it. The later books in my series primarily take place in Alaska, where it can hit minus 40 degrees Celsius. Writing about snow storms near the Arctic circle is a refreshing change when you’re sitting in no air conditioning in blistering heat. Even my laptop’s temperature raises the level of discomfort and I’m paranoid of it overheating.
Hmm, I wonder what the temperature is right now in the Alaska Range? When I came home from work today, I put on an episode of one of my all-time favourite TV Shows called ‘Northern Exposure’. I model my setting on Cicely sometimes; except the story doesn’t revolve around a fast-talking New York Doctor who finds himself in the Alaskan wilderness (when the series was really filmed in Washington State). My romance centres around a loud-growling European Werewolf, trying to fit in with a pack of Lokoti Werewolves, all for its tribe’s first female Lokoti Werewolf.
Man, just for five seconds of minus 40 degrees Celsius to blow through my home, I wouldn’t need air conditioning! My Mum lived in Canada a little while ago. When she came back to Australia, she literally left minus 30 degrees Celsius in Edmonton (her plane was delayed as they had to check the wings for ice) and arrived in 30 degrees Celsius in Sydney. Now that’s northern and southern exposure…
There are several remarkable similarities between Werewolves and Klingons. They’re both strong and robust with hearty appetites. Plus the Klingon motto; “today is a good day to die,” could apply to a Werewolf’s bloodlust. Another commonality between these distant cousins is the Klingon mantra “gagh is best served live,” then we have Werewolves feasting on fresh kill aka something that’s only just stopped kicking and screaming.
Klingons prefer an ‘honourable death’ which usually means in battle. They’d make perfect friends for a European Werewolf as this breed rarely dies of old age in their sleep. This is because of European Vampires hunting them for their physical strength and regenerative capabilities. Klingons in several Trek Series have shown to be hardy healers, so much so some alien beings harvest their DNA to artificially reproduce their immune systems. Klingons are a rowdy bunch of aliens, drinking bloodwine and singing songs of warfare with of course many a bar fight in between. The smallest disagreement amongst European Werewolves can result in tearing the other apart.
Also if a male or female European Werewolf couple up it’s usually only a fling because after 24 hours their bloodlust-fueled tempers get the better of them. But Werewolves are attracted to strong women. In the ST: VOY episode ‘Faces’ where they made B’Elanna Torres into a full Klingon, she growled seductively to her captor; “Klingon females are also known for their voracious sexual appetites.” And on that note, to borrow one of my all-time fave quotes from ST: TNG from the Klingon character Worf who is explaining Klingon mating;
“Men do not roar. Women roar. Then they hurl heavy objects. And claw at you.”
– “What does the man do?”
“He reads love poetry. He ducks a lot.”
To borrow Vulcan terminology; “it is logical to assume that the many similarities between these two species may be genetic.”
…why Werewolves would make much better love interests than a Vampire;
* They’re nicer to cuddle up to when you’re cold, instead of making you feel colder.
* When they take you out to dinner, they’re not just gonna sit there and watch you eat. In fact, feel free to eat as much as you want because after three courses, they’ll still be hungry.
* On the note of unending hunger, they’re never going to be “not in the mood.” They freely admit they’re dogs.
* If a woman dates a male Werewolf, you’ll both be able to keep each other company when it’s that time of the month. The only thing which can rival the dangerous, ferocious and downright scary bloodlust brought on by a full moon is PMS.
