Originally posted by: Winged Dancer
I still can't get into One Piece. Gave it a try (and a long try - 200 manga chapters should be enough) and got no reaction out of me. I simply can't. Whether it's because of the art style or the plot (which I've never found to be as deep as you all guys say) or whatever, I can't.
I mean, I'm a girl! I'm really sensitive, too! Cry with most books and things. Cried with Victorian Romance Emma, cried RIVERS with Gankutsuou, cried a lot with Basilisk, cried EVERY SINGLE EPISODE of Saikano, cried when I first read Lord of the Rings, cried with uh, Final Fantasy IX, with Little Women and Little Men too, and with that movie Finding Neverland - cried during ALL of the movie.
But the most I've gotten out of One Piece is rolling my eyes. Perhaps it's TOO macho for me! like, it only makes guys cry!
The Lord of the Rings - I absolutely love it. Read it when I was 12 (eight years ago) and loved it, re-read it two years ago and still loved it. Of course the style is old - not only was it written 50 years ago, it was written with that style in mind. It's the mother and basis of all modern epics, that much is a fact.
Guess it all comes down to one's own likings... someone in this thread said reading was overrated, I think that's just an excuse for not reading but then again I've always loved to read - ever since I was a little, little girl.
Vampires are fucking overrated.
Want the real deal on Vampires? Here it goes -
Vampires as we know them (Dracula-like, handsome sexy devils) were created in the Victorian Era as a representation of everything man wanted to be but couldn't. I mean Jesus, during the Victorian Era it was considered wrong to say "leg" in everyday conversations because of the sexual undertones!!
So instead they created the Vampire, an sexy mature man who seduces young, nubile virgins and sucks their blood - SURPRISE, that's a methaphore for popping their cherry!! In other words vampires are just frustrated grown men who want to have sex with teens.
Same goes for female vampires. Why do they only eat children blood?
Because it's a metaphore for a woman's biological fear of child-birth. Not only that, during the Victorian Era women were so repressed they tended to snap during child-birth and tried to kill their babies. Yes, the victorias were _that_ fucked up.
But thanks to Anne Rice and the morons who make the roleplaying game everyobody is like "ooooh i'm a vampyr, lol, its so cool, like, lestat and shit" and they just don't notice that being "gothic" means "being ultimately screwed up" or perhaps "wanting to kill one's mother because her spanking made you develop an anal conflict that makes you want to screw older women."
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