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Love Camwen's avi. smile

Trussardi's FINALLY found its tomb. xD
Where are the cats though? Did you eat them? o.o

Coffins and graves *ARE* the best thing on Gaia since Bibbles.
[I still have the cats. This avatar is really cluttered as it is without them.]




That's just anti-vampire propaganda
Okay let's look at the things that are harmful to vampires: wooden stakes, silver, garlic, sunlight, and whiny teenage girls.

Wooden stakes are deadly to everyone if rammed though the chest, so it's not just a vampire thing. Werewolves have issues with silver, and nobody has a problem with them if it isn't a full moon or the sun is up. Garlic is the enemy of daters seeking happy relationships everywhere, so obviously it's evil. Sunlight causes skin cancer in humans, so obviously it's also evil and not to be trusted. Do I really need to explain why whiny teenage girls are a bad thing? For now, I'll assume that I don't.

1. What's wrong with salt
2. What's wrong with hawthorn?
3. I like looking at crosses. There's one on the back side of this coffin.
4. I don't get what's wrong with Fridays other than Catholics eating fish, which I suppose that some vampires wouldn't like the flavor of humans that ate fish today.
5. Only Dracula had issues with running water... He was bathing optional.
6. As for holy water... see #5.
7. Would you survive if set on fire? Probably not. You can lump fire in with wooden stakes and beheadings. Nobody survives those deadly things!

And didn't they behead him first or something like that? [It's seriously been a while since I read that book.] Those holy wafers are just for show by that point so that the hunters could justify the vicious murder that they just committed.


Oh and here's why whiny teenage girls are bad... Here you are minding your own business when some teenage girl walks up to you then goes on and on and on about how hard her life is. After being lulled into a sense of complacency, WHAM she murders you with a wooden stake. Not that it's ever happened to me [obviously], but slayers masquerading as teenage girls is an ongoing concern for the undead. Heck even the non-whiny ones are scary for that same reason. gonk

Essentially, they trapped Dracula with holy wafers. Dracula had to have boxes of dirt around in his various homes around London to be able to stay at any of them. The heroes in the story found each of Dracula's houses, and put a holy wafer in each of the boxes of dirt they found so Dracula couldn't return to them. So, when he only had one box of dirt left, and he was cornered, he hopped in a box and raced back to his castle. Mina Harker saw Dracula in her mind (because she had a mental connection with him ever since he gave her the baptism of blood), so she and Dr. Van Helsing were able to catch him en route to his castle. They caught up with him in the day time when he was all still and helpless. They staked him in the heart, shoved a huge clove of garlic in his mouth, and cut off his head (just like they did to Lucy Westerna after she became a vampire). And, like Lucy Westerna, he was freed from the demon inside of him, and his soul was able to rise to heaven. Also, as far as the holy wafers are concerned, Mina Harker knew that God had abandoned her when she was badly burned by a holy wafer that was placed on her forehead. That was after the baptism of blood, btw. It's a great book, and I highly recommend it to anyone who hasn't read it yet. biggrin

Alvinette, I LOVE the saloon girl dress/black milady skirt combo! heart

Mademoiselle Alvinette -- Your avatar looks delicious minus that creepy guy.

It's the position of his feet. He looks like he's just floating there... Plus I know where his hand is. gonk