The dragons of my world

Like most fantasy writers, I was, and, to a certain extent, still am, enamored by dragons. I also think that there are one too many commas in the last sentence. Anyways.

Dragons are such amazing creatures with a rich collection of mythology and history associated with them. There is such a variety of different types of dragons from so many different cultures that its almost impossible to believe that they aren't real (search Wikipedia, my recent adventure wasted 3 hours of my life and made me save like forty Wikipedia pages which I guarantee I won't read anytime soon..)

Of course, with such a huge variety of different archetypes of dragons, there are bound to be some that I like and I dislike, and that's what I wanna talk about today ^o^

The Studious Girl

Almost everyone that goes (or went) to school would know the studious girl. Though nobody really knows for sure how they exactly came into existence. Most studious girls are an enigma to their school friends as the only things most people seem to know about them is that they're really smart, score really well, are very responsible, hardworking, and... studies in their free time? Gee, I don't know.. I was too busy asking her the answers for our homework.. ^^;

Studious girls are also the victims of the clark-kent-superman syndrome, where if they remove their glasses (and/or studious demeanor),  they stand out supremely and attract lots of attention. It's only natural that these girls then get tons of guys lining up after them, not to mention that there are many (sick) guys who like studious (and obedient) looking girls to begin with :D;

Unfortunately, most guys get blown away by the extreme coldness of a studious girl (in the relationship department, most studious girls are shyly friendly and nice people overall ^^). The natural reaction to this is to conclude that "ah.. she's been buried in books all her life, she doesn't really know how to handle relationships.. and so she's also a little blunt.. It's okay! I'll try harder next time!!"

Hold your horses, boy. While that's often the case, there's a lot more to it. Studious girls are not stupid.. lol duh I mean, they're not living under a rock. They're more than capable of understanding about relationships and very often, they actually realize it if boys are 'going after' them. The real reason why studious girls are extremely cold towards relationships (usually), is because they don't even need it.

Most studies[1] indicate that studious girls are generally very mature and think a lot about their studies and their career, leaving little, if no time for frivolous dating and relationships. Of course, if the right opportunity[2] comes up, they'd be more than able to recognize it and there are many cases of studious girls with successful relationships. I'd also like to add that studious girls are not all stuffy and boring, no, they do know how to have fun like you and me, it's just that know when to have fun and when to.. do other (more important) stuff :P

In a relationship, studious girls are very mature and often think ahead in terms of the health and sustainability of their relationship. In some cases, she might have a very definite and clear idea of what a relationship should be, and will do her best to reinforce / live up to it. It's not an easy task to argue with a studious girl as her maturity helps her back up all her arguments sufficiently and logically. In the same vein, it takes logic and maturity to get your points across to her ^^

Basically, studious girls are pretty open and friendly girls to begin with ^^ the biggest mistake one could make is to assume that they're (social) recluses or live under a rock. It's important to get to know them more instead of asking for the answers for homework.The biggest barrier to getting to know (and understanding) studious girls is the assumption that they only thing you have in common in studies or homework (and who likes to talk about that?). They are not supplementary books, they have interests like you and me~ (though some might be geekier than others :P) don't judge a book by it's cover ;P

[1] Siew, K. (2021) People I haven't met and what they didn't tell me. Journal of Totally Made Up Stuff  9(3), 14-36

[2] That is, if she meets a mature and suitable guy. Emphasis on 'mature'

A guide to the feeding habits of a (modern) vampire

This post could never be made without the help of the powerful and incredibly smart yh. If our conversation did not occur a few weeks ago, this post would never be made m(_  _)m

Vampires are all the rage these days. But they are criminally understood. Pop-culture references to the once fearsome vampire have turned them into pansys and the race that was once horrific and feared is now jeered and hated undeservingly T_T

awesome card alter by serrot_29 of MTG Salvation Forums. You rock, serrot_29 *_*\m/

One trademark of the noble vampire is it's vicious canine teeth, thought to be used to pierce the throat of its victims and extracts their blood dry within a method of seconds.

..just reading the sentence above out loud shows how rediculous that line of thinking is, especially with regards towards the high, classy image of a noble vampire.

Imagine the slurping sounds! What kind of lips would be required for such a task? Logic suggests big, suction-cup-like lips to prevent spillage of blood when feeding, similar to those found on Catostomus commersonii, or more commonly known as the White Sucker (really, I swear, you can't make this shit up. Click the link).

So, puncturing the neck with two holes, then loud slurping sounds from these two holes, large lips. Messy, sloppy. Nope, I don't think that's what vampires do, nope. Not to mention I've never seen a vampire with lusciously thick lips...

Wait, two holes?! Does that mean the vampire latches onto its victim's throat with only the top or bottom jaw? What happened to the other two canine teeth? This doesn't make sense! +__+

All this is proof enough that the popular vampire bite on the neck might actually be romanticised by novelists and scriptwriters by taking advantage of the fact that biting the neck is.. kinda kinky? :3

So then, lets speculate on how vampires actually feed~

Ironicity

I would like to thank Yukina for providing the inspiration for this blogpost, I could've done it without you, but you were in the right place in the right time ;D *winks*

...*shivers* >_> anyways,

In this age of internet and facebook, people are connecting on countless levels that were unthinkable a mere hundred years ago~ Oh how far have we come *_*

That, however, is completely unrelated to what I wanna talk about today~

Today, I want to talk about trends. People have this aversion towards being like other people, everyone wants to be unique. If you stand out in a crowd, you're special, and will more likely to be noticed, which is a good thing, unless you're in Japan, where you'll get hammered like a nail..

This desire of being unique and original has been around forever, back when the first caveman thought it would be better if he used the skin of the mammoth he had for dinner to cover up his be-hind (and in-front) rather than get itches from the leaves like all other cavemen. Needless to say, the ladies were all over him. We're his decedents. Sup bro?

Even till this day, you see many aspiring cavemen and cavegirls trying to look as unique as possible, trying to do things that nobody has done before, shunning what's normal, or cliche, or mainstream, or corny. Did you know that there exist people that start to dislike something they like just because too many people started liking it too?! I know right?? Preposterous!

What I've realized, however, is that there are so many people (on the vast culmiverse[1] of the internet) that try their best to be original, to be unique, that the notion of being 'original' and 'unique has actually become the norm!

There are more 'unique' and 'original' people now than people who fit into 'stereotypes' or are 'corny' @_@! Isn't that ironic, don't you think? It's like raiinn~~~ On your wed--

..*cough* sorry. So yeah, don't worry if you think you're stereotypical or are just plain normal or corny. You're actually the trendy ones! ^o^b


[1] Culmniverse - a term meaning "Cumulative universe", a group of universes grouped together to form a great Culmniverse. Ex. "The internet is a culmniverse consisting of facebook, twitter, blogspot, youtube, wikipedia, google, and 4chan". See also, multiverse.