random thought while reading more Twilight...

[ratcreature]

So, I started reading the second part -- though I'm not that far along yet -- and I really don't get how this vampire reaction to blood is supposed to work. Apparently even a little blood, like from a paper cut, taxes their control, unless they have lots of practice like Carlisle. Okay, whatever.

But how does that work while they are in a school where half the students will bleed three to five days per month?? Granted, it's not a lot of blood, but more than from a paper cut, so they must smell that. And it's not like they growl a lot at random girls from what I gathered. Is this explained somewhere? Did I miss something? Does menstrual bloood smell icky? What? I don't get it.

Comments

[brownbetty]

I very much doubt that a vampire could drink menstrual blood.

Way to shoot down a beloved BtVS smutfic premise!

[ratcreature]

I admit to being squicked by menstrual blood in smutfic because it always reminds me of my oversharing biology teacher, who told us how much he used to like to fuck his girlfriend while she was having her period (without a condom since there was no pregnancy risk) before AIDS as he pitied us that so much stuff was now high risk behavior...

On the bright side at least he wasn't creepy about it, not like one of my high school art teachers who always stood too close, talked about whores and shoe fetishes and asked female students (at least pretty ones) what they did with their boyfriends in the shower (which also embarrassed said boyfriends who of course were also in the class). But still, I did not need to know that my biology teacher used to have a thing for menstrual blood.

[marag.livejournal.com]

Late response, but may I say...

EWWWWW!!!! Call me a bad bisexual, but that sounds gross to me. Suddenly, I find myself glad I was never really in BtVS fandom. :D

[brownbetty]

Hahaha, I was about to share with you the plot point of a BtVS fic I read, but then I realized just in time that you PROBABLY didn't want to know.

[marag.livejournal.com]

::wipes brow:: Oh thank you! Yes, I strongly suspect that I don't want to know.

It's like the person on my flist who feels compelled to post links to the worst Torchwood fic she sees, y'know, the serious Lord King Bad fic with tough guys crying? And then I feel compelled to read it. And then I cry.