tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466691337834051176.post3345602287699005303..comments2024-03-01T03:37:20.420-05:00Comments on I'M SOMEWHERE ELSE: On ShamblingAmanda Foresthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04200794053287551087noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466691337834051176.post-40769111159316002822011-10-05T15:35:30.668-04:002011-10-05T15:35:30.668-04:00Okay. . . again, I'm sort of skipping around a...Okay. . . again, I'm sort of skipping around all over the place, but with regard to "The Walking Dead". I really really felt stressed out watching that show.<br /><br />I guess it's full on lame, but I felt so tense watching it all the time. I'm not a huge horror fan, but zombie shows captivate me for some reason. . . this one just has too much tense and not enough relief.<br /><br />If (and this is the premise upon which this entire comment is based) you can make your peace with the concept of a creature that somehow maintains some semi-life regardless of the state of its body (I think it was the first episode where the woman was dragging the top part of her torso around by the hands, with her spinal column trailing behind her like a tail) then what I still can't quite get my delicious brains around is how a zombie somehow bites THROUGH the skull of a person to get the delicious brains OUT.<br /><br />I bobbed for apples when I was a child. . . the curvature makes getting a tooth-hold tricky at BEST. . . but trying to bite a hole in someone's skull and slurping out their brains just doesn't make sense to me.Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11538573774184028004noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466691337834051176.post-71224571887939888902010-11-22T00:22:05.095-05:002010-11-22T00:22:05.095-05:00yeah my middle name is Wood but my friend thought ...yeah my middle name is Wood but my friend thought it was a funny name so she replaced it with Forest and I thought that was a lot coolerAmanda Forest Vivianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06284158336100298682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466691337834051176.post-642289815697826352010-11-21T23:41:05.348-05:002010-11-21T23:41:05.348-05:00I had just sort of assumed without thinking that y...I had just sort of assumed without thinking that your name was Amanda Forest Vivian, but now that I think about it, I guess that doesn't sound like a real name. haha.Willhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10648718318966422293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466691337834051176.post-83217020213594464392010-11-21T23:24:46.775-05:002010-11-21T23:24:46.775-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Willhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10648718318966422293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466691337834051176.post-50077037270932441512010-11-21T12:21:39.511-05:002010-11-21T12:21:39.511-05:00that is, it's a fancy way of saying "a bu...that is, it's a fancy way of saying "a bunch of mes"Amanda Forest Vivianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06284158336100298682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466691337834051176.post-54979196588814493302010-11-21T12:20:58.546-05:002010-11-21T12:20:58.546-05:00it's just my initials, never fearit's just my initials, never fearAmanda Forest Vivianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06284158336100298682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466691337834051176.post-2453796191744119902010-11-21T03:44:39.189-05:002010-11-21T03:44:39.189-05:00What's AWV stand for? (sorry)What's AWV stand for? (sorry)Willhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10648718318966422293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466691337834051176.post-43367384242479241492010-11-18T13:59:56.572-05:002010-11-18T13:59:56.572-05:00True!True!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466691337834051176.post-61557999522594402492010-11-17T00:53:51.502-05:002010-11-17T00:53:51.502-05:00on the other hand Stephenie Meyer threw almost all...on the other hand Stephenie Meyer threw almost all of that out :)Amanda Forest Vivianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06284158336100298682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466691337834051176.post-51774482043008828452010-11-16T23:42:03.824-05:002010-11-16T23:42:03.824-05:00The weird thing is that vampires are actually pret...The weird thing is that vampires are actually pretty disabled when you think about it, in terms of having a lot of serious limitations that normal people don't have. (Can't go out in the sunlight, can't enter a dwelling uninvited, can only consume blood, can't cross running water, repelled by Christian religious symbols, ect.) Also, supposedly, if you spill seeds or grains of rice or other small objects on the ground, any vampires in the immediate vicinity will be compelled to stop and count them all. Vampires are really rule-oriented, which is interesting, because with a lot of monsters part of the scariness seems to be that they're *not* bound to laws or rules. <br /><br /> But vampires are also, at least by modern popular consensus, the sexiest and most charismatic monsters. For some reason. People are horrified at the thought of turning into zombies; people kind of *want* to become vampires. So there the analogy falls apart a little...yeah, I'm not sure where I'm headed with this train of thought. I like this post.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466691337834051176.post-74958891049305646232010-11-16T00:30:31.921-05:002010-11-16T00:30:31.921-05:00and then I was mad at whoever made the zombies act...<i>and then I was mad at whoever made the zombies act that way for thinking that only dead people would act like that.</i><br /><br />The thing is I don't find that any more offensive than writing a female character and having her wear a dress. There's a reason that a walking corpse would walk like a person with cerebral palsy and act like a person with frontal lobe injuries (which also cause all that water-boiling stuff, which is why I was crushing so hard on them last week)--their brain is damaged.<br /><br />I think the fact that you would choose to make the scary character someone who is basically a supernatural version of someone with a brain injury is worth thinking about. But I don't think that once the character exists there's anything weird about them being that way.Amanda Forest Vivianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06284158336100298682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466691337834051176.post-71554224485002680162010-11-15T22:38:36.101-05:002010-11-15T22:38:36.101-05:00Because of this post, I compulsively read the enti...Because of this post, I compulsively read the entire "Body Horror" section on TV tropes. Some of it kind of freaked me out. But a lot of it was about the fear of disability/disfigurement. "Freaks" was listed as an example of this trope, with the caption "no special effects -- the actors really look like that!" which I thought was fucked up.<br /><br />That thing about being prompted to do things by objects reminded me of Amanda Baggs' video "How to Boil Water The Easy Way," and then I was mad at myself for being reminded, and then I was mad at whoever made the zombies act that way for thinking that only dead people would act like that.<br /><br />Sometimes I can't make myself walk very fast and I have a walk that feels sort of slow and stiff, but I don't know how apparent that is if you're not me. I used to shuffle and drag my feet, but I was trained not to and now I don't. Shh! I'm secretly a zombie.Zoehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11415989880473044852noreply@blogger.com