Vampire Rules

[lillibet]

With the huge popularity of vampires lately, I've been thinking...

[Poll #1487782]

*meaning, if the vampires in a particular bit of fiction don't conform, it nags at you, feels like cheating, maybe turns you off that world, etc.

Comments

[sethg]

I have previously mentioned my frustration with all these non-conforming vampires.

We need to define the Standard Vampire, so that we can properly denounce all these sparkly emo-pires and other crimes against literature as non-Standard. Who has the authority to set this Standard? ISO? HWA? IETF?

[deguspice.livejournal.com]

Given what I've heard about them, it should be an ISO standard.

[whitebird.livejournal.com]

Not IEEE?