probably a human. probably.

A vaccine for cat-allergy sufferers is on the way

‪8yo: “I’ve seen this before.”‬

‪Me:‬

‪8yo: “You know how sometimes you go to sleep and you see things in your dreams and then later on you see them for real? Like that.”‬

Bit  is a new vampire movie about an all-female nest of undead who will bleed out boys and never resurrect them. The movie has a transgender female lead, Nicole Maines (known from Supergirl). 

The man who has made the movie, Brad Michael Elmore, is cisgender and straight, but he has clearly done his outmost to present the trans and queer characters in a realistic light (if the word “realistic” can be used to describe a transgender vampire).

Vulture has an article on the new movie, and the following quote is worth millions:

“Laurel is trying to decide whether or not she wants to join this nest of vampires, but she knows the hard rule against boys and is suddenly unsure if she’ll be welcome as a trans girl. But Duke very dryly welcomes her without condition.”

So now you know that TERFs are worse than vampires! 

Nicole Maines is the one in the middle in the sofa below.

Read the whole Vulture article on Bit here.

Why is it that every werewolf book is this weird testosterone fueled alpha male/female romance thing? 

Like guys. Werewolves are family groups. They are basically big ol’ dog families. Your werewolf family wouldn’t be made up of alpha males fighting each other for dominance and subjugating females. 

While the notion of the “alpha wolf” is indeed misguided, being based on observations of wolves in captivity, the dominance thing does happen. And it’s not just the adult males; adult females do it too - but it’s only a thing when wolves who aren’t related by blood end up sharing a habitat.

So consider: by some happenstance, two unrelated werewolf families end up living across the street from one another. Of course they’re not going to start brawling in the streets - they’re civilised people, after all - but that urge to show the other pack who’s boss comes out in other ways, resulting in the two clans getting, like, weirdly competitive about everything.

“Spiked silver chains on the night of the blood moon?”

“The spring bake sale, Helen. Turn it down a notch.”

“Fine. But when they taste my lemon squares you’re going to wish we’d gone with the silver chains, Jessi.”

Meanwhile, across the room.

“You know what I like doin’ Rob?”

“What’s that Bill?”

“Peeing out of doors.”

“Me too, Bill. But I thought you just married into the whole werewolf thing.”

“Oh, hi Helen. Putting up the Christmas decorations, I see?”

“Yep, this light show’ll make this our best Christmas display yet.”

“Oh great! You know the Johnsons have got lifesize singing reindeer as part of their display.”