I Vaporize My Pre-Algebra Teacher

[redbrunja]

 I watched the finale of True Blood, if anyone is interested in chatting about that.

I also finished The Lightning Thief today, which I greatly enjoyed. I reminded me a lot of early Harry Potter (in a good way) and I enjoyed it enough to put a hold on the next volume. (I hope it gets darker as Percy gets older, like HP did.) I loved all the mythology, Percy was a great pov character (and I liked how his dyslexia was described), Annabeth was awesome, Grover was annoying, they treated Percy's mother like a character in her own right, and not just as The Mom. My one major complaint was that I could really tell it was written for 12-year-olds. (Grover, in particular, was a character would only exist and would only behave as he did in a children's book. By that I mean I found it ridiculously that he would have been given the task he was.) Also, I totally want Annabeth to get Cybernus as a pet at some point. That would be awesome.

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[fairest1.livejournal.com]

The thing is, vampires are ultimately just people who live a very long time. Some of them are nicer and will stick to feeding from the consenting with a bottle of True Blood now and then to tide them over; others are psychopaths as much as humans are. That's what Flannigan needs to make clear to the public -- along with the fact that the nicer vamps won't let the psychopaths speak for all of them.

But in the long run, the psychopaths have a higher survival rate. The sneaky ones, at least. The more ruthless you are, the better odds you have of eating each night. The careless psychopaths will tick off enough people that at least one of 'em will be smart enough to take them out.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Some of them are nicer and will stick to feeding from the consenting with a bottle of True Blood now and then to tide them over; others are psychopaths as much as humans are. That's what Flannigan needs to make clear to the public -- along with the fact that the nicer vamps won't let the psychopaths speak for all of them.

Agreed. And in the snippet we saw, I think Flannigan is doing a really good job of pushing that angle - especially choosing to frame it as terrorism, which places it in a debate with a lot of precedent in american current affairs.

But in the long run, the psychopaths have a higher survival rate. The sneaky ones, at least. The more ruthless you are, the better odds you have of eating each night.

Very true.