winter will never come for the likes of us

So I read (this Newsweek article) this morning and was completely baffled. Am I the only person who doesn’t think vampires are particularly sexy? I know they’re very in at the moment, but man I just don’t get it. I like vampires in popular culture sure, but I’ve never fantasized about dating one. I adore BTVS , but I never had a thing for Angel or Spike. I recognized that Spike in particular was hot like burning, but I kept going back to he’s a vampire. How would that even work?

Maybe it’s because I’ve never been a night owl. I’m seriously like an old person; I rarely stay up past midnight. How can I date you if you’re only awake while I’m sleeping? Also, they drink blood. Blood. Um, no thank you. Add the lack of a heartbeat and the fact that most of them are centuries old, and you know I just don’t think we would have much in common.

I think the closest I’ve ever come to a vampire crush was back in high school when I went through an Anne Rice faze. I loved Louis, a lot. (I hated Lestat by the way, good grief was that guy insufferable, “I’m awesome, I’m a rock star, people tremble at the sight of my rock hard, snowy abs!” OMG, shut up already.) But the thing about Louis was he hated what he had become, he yearned for humanity but he couldn’t have it. That was kind of hot. Maybe I just like guys who indulge in a bit of self-loathing?

No, I’m just not that into vampires. I’ve always been more of a werewolf girl, myself. I’ll take Oz and Remus over Angel and sparkly people from Twilight any day of the week. At least you only have to deal with their issues once (or three times) a month. Buy them a sturdy cage and you’re golden. Plus, they have heightened senses and they always have a healthy dose of self-loathing. They’re just cooler. I wish the rest of the world agreed with me because there is a serious lack of werewolves in pop culture lately.

Oh, and while I haven’t watched True Blood, I have read the first book in the series. I spent most of it giggling at the absurdity of Bill and shrugging at Eric and his supposed awesomeness. The only character I genuinely liked? Sam. He’s not a werewolf, but he’s a shape shifter which is almost as good. Sookie of course, was too busy flailing over her epic love for the undead guy with a hair fetish to notice him.

I watched the fist episode of the Torchwood mini series last night. Spoilers under the cut.
 

(Please don't spoil me for anything coming up in the next four episodes, I'm watching them as they air on BBCAmerica.)