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[stillsostrange]

When I came into work today one of the guys at Interlibrary Loan was wearing an elder sign shirt. I love my job.


I have actually been doing things besides revising, I think. Maybe. I bought the new Harry Potter (how could I resist Hastings' 40% special?), but the boy grabbed it before I could. I've built up a set of issues over the course of the series, and he says that most of them have been at least addressed so far in this book, if not actually resolved to my satisfaction. So I'm ignoring everyone's spoilery comments and waiting to read it. The thing about HP that I find interesting is that the overarcing theme of the series appears to be Adults will let you down. They treat you poorly, they don't believe you, they lie, they try to decide what's best for you and fail, they die, they mean well but are ultimately impotent.

We saw Willy Wonka. It was more more watchable than I expected, but in no way raced my motor. Except for that red velvet coat. I hope Hot Topic starts to carry a version of that soon.

I sent out all my BPAL swaps except for the_numinous_1's. (Still looking for decant vials, sorry.)

Okay, so maybe I don't do much besides revise. I need to crit some novels, and really need to finish a short story.


I need a cute term for the servants of vampires. Ghoul is out, because I have Lovecraftian ghouls, and I'm slowly trying to de-White Wolf my brain. I avoid Renfield because Nancy Collins is lawsuit-happy. Human Servant is boring as all get out. I do like familiar, and I haven't seen it outside the Blade movies. Any thoughts?

Comments

[ultharkitty.livejournal.com]

My vampires have had familiars since way before Blade, it's a common enough term to be nowhere near copyright. Thrall is, although a decent term, a bit too Brian Lumley. Acolytes or something. I suppose it depends on what kind of relationship your vampires have with their servants.

[stillsostrange.livejournal.com]

I like ward, since you have the connotation of guardian and guardee, and there's the Babylonian wardu, which means slave.

But I have a lot of magical wards lying around my stories, and I'm not sure it it'd get confusing.

[ultharkitty.livejournal.com]

You should go with ward, I've not heard/read that used as a term in relation to vampires before.

If you used ward most of the time then it wouldn't get confusing, and you could throw in that it comes from wardu at some poine to make you readers go "oooh".