Relationship comment.

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I saw a comment I believe was in the relationship thread but I can't find it to quote it, so I'll reference it here. Two points to follow.

Relationships don't make a lot of sense to me. Strictly speaking, I consider virtually all relationships to be based on mutual selfishness. Both parties in a relationship want something from the other person to some degree. Maybe they want a trophy wife or a rich provider. Maybe they want to have a family. Many just can't stand being alone and look to latch on to just about anyone to make it go away.

Very often one person is more demanding that the other in a relationship, usually the more selfish one. The selfish one wants someone who will endure bad treatment for whatever reason, perhaps a misguided notion that they are worth no better or simply fear of not having anyone, even an abuser again.

Granted many relationships are constructive when both partners also care about the other person and they can work together to make their lives better. Still, as I stated at the beginning, there is a degree of selfishness involved, but it is used beneficially rather than destructively.

Something else that confuses me about relationships is the fascination so many females have with vampires. Many women seem very attracted to them as powerful men who can do what they please when they please and other reasons I don't understand.

All I see about that is that they are Anthrophages: they eat people to survive. Strictly speaking they actually devour the very soul of their victim, the blood just being a medium of transfer. The sexual nature of the act is simply a hunting tool to make the prey docile enough not to resist.

In other words, they are something to be feared and killed not objects of affection.

Mind you, I know that vampires are a being of myth and legend, I'm referring to the literary and film presentations of them, and I suppose the posers who like to play at being such a thing.

When I was in college we had a literary magazine. I wrote for it and had a number of stories published. On the staff was a semi-goth girl who liked vampires. After reading one of her stories about a girl and a vampire (it wasn't sexual in that one mind you because it wasn't permitted), but it annoyed me all the same. So I wrote a story that was something I had pondered before:

How would these women react to another sort of undead?

I chose to write a story about a lich who still looked very human, just like vampires do. In other words, he looked mostly human, just like a vampire, wasn't as physically powerful but more than made up for that in magical ability. Most importantly, from my point of view, was that the lich didn't need to feed on the living, it simply lived on the ambient magic in its environment.

Would it surprise you to know that everyone thought it was gross, even goth girl and the others who thought vampires were cool? Their argument was that the lich was a living corpse, to which I replied that is what a vampire is as well. The debate went on, but it didn't seem to matter than the lich wouldn't one day make a snack of their lady fare or that the vampire was a living dead as well.

Very interesting argument I wish I could have recorded.

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