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[strange_aeons]

My roommate likes vampire novels. I don't, particularly, but a few minutes ago I found myself at the kitchen table, eating, with nothing to read but the backs of the stack of such novels she'd left there. So I read them, and that's how I discovered this:

Fred Saberhagen has written tales of DRACULA for over a decade, and has been chosen to write the novelization of the new blockbuster motion picture, BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA.

I'm going to give that a strong 'what the fuck?'.

Comments

[kiya]

It's like Gene Roddenberry's FITB, only gothier and with more explicit blood.

[roimata.livejournal.com]

I still haven't forgiven him for Earth: Final Faggishness, though.

[oneironaut.livejournal.com]

I haven't forgiven my roommate for making me tape that shit. Oh, god. So bad. Not even the homoerotic bits (as there inevitably were, I mean, look at the title) made it worth it.

[brooksmoses]

Heh. I like the new userpic. *grin*

- Brooks, who recognizes the derivation

[oneironaut.livejournal.com]

I'm quite proud of it. I was worried that people who don't recognize the derivation might think it's some kind of political symbol, but I find it so aesthetically pleasing that I've resolved to not let it trouble me overmuch.

Originally the background image (I said I was going to revamp the color scheme, and, to my own surprise, I did. Though I suspect portions of it will be illegible in Netscape 4.x) was going to involve crop circles, but that turned out consistently hideous and I abandoned the notion, though reluctantly.

[(Anonymous)]

Sorry to sound stupid, but what is its derivation? I was thinking it looked like some sort of mixture of male and female symbols, and then a friend pointed out that it also looks like an ouroboros. It's really cool, in any case.

[oneironaut.livejournal.com]

You got it in one. (http://www.improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume8/v8i2/third-sex.html) I'm glad someone noticed the ouroboros quality it has; that wasn't completely deliberate, but I noticed it too, and liked it, and am gratified to know that if it's all in my head, at least my head intersects with someone else's.

(Apologies for the delayed reply. I haven't been active the last couple of weeks.)

[(Anonymous)]

Well it is really cool. The background is also really awesome.

I can't actually remember how I happened upon your LJ; I generally don't read LJs unless one of my friends who has one tells me to read theirs, at which I grudgingly reply. :)