sorcyress: Drawing of me as a pirate, standing in front of the Boston Citgo sign (Default)
Katarina Whimsy ([personal profile] sorcyress) wrote2009-01-08 06:15 pm

X Years Ago Today

Four years ago today, it was again 2005. And I was having one of the very few dreams I've had that I thought were worthy of being a story somehow.

At the end of the dream, just before I was woken up, the basic storyline was that I was the 16-17 year old daughter in a family of three. I had a younger brother who was about...8ish? maybe younger. And an older "brother" who was about 20 and a vampire. He was going downstairs one night and I saw that he had turned translucent (apparently vampires turn translucent when their indoors and hit by moonlight) and I was trying to remember what you said to vampires in the moonlight to make them dissapear.

I did, but by this point he was out of the moonlight. He was effectivly trapped though since the stairs were completely moonlit and I was just waiting for him to step out of the dark.


Unfortunately, the vampire story market was saturated long before the Twilight mania of the last year, making me slightly reluctant to work on this one. It was meant to be set in Colonial times, though, and I very like the idea of a vampire who is unmasked by the moon. Despite the length of time since I had the dream, I still remember a lot of details --I cast herb magiks to defend my younger brother from my older, things like lines of salt across doorways and the interiors of rooms, for instance. I don't think I was specifically magikal in the dream, just aware of a lot of the old wives tales that actually worked.

I wish I could better recall the phrase I needed to say to banish him --I think it boiled down to "Vampire go home" and would certainly only work when he was revealed by the light of the full moon.

~Sor
MOOP!

(Apropos of nothing, this was the first XYAT that I had significant trouble picking which entry to do. The runner up was probably me asking what the best musical I'd never seen was. Four years later, and I've seen four of the five musicals mentioned. I think my new list is topped by Title of Show and Evil Dead.)

[identity profile] harena.livejournal.com 2009-01-08 11:34 pm (UTC)(link)
i swearforgod we saw a vampire in Costco today.. she was even wearing a Vincent Price as a vampire biting the neck of the Statue of Liberty tshirt!

. o O (and for the record, i spotted her out as a vampire before i even noticed what tshirt she was wearing!)

[identity profile] kdsorceress.livejournal.com 2009-02-10 06:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Duuuude!

Are you sure it was Vincent Price, and not Dubya? A couple of my friends have an icon of him biting Lady Liberty.

~Sor

Dubya

[identity profile] woozle.livejournal.com 2009-02-10 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
It was totally Dubya, which is why I chuckled and made sure H saw it, but perhaps I forgot to explain what was funny. (Vincent Price didn't take away anyone's civil liberties or wreck the Constitution, as far as I know, but I've been wrong before.)

Re: Dubya

[identity profile] harena.livejournal.com 2009-02-10 11:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Yar, i totally misparsed it because my brain was addled & full of Dr. Pepper >.>

Re: Dubya

[identity profile] kdsorceress.livejournal.com 2009-02-11 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
Dr. Pepper will do that. *shakes head sadly*

~Sor

Re: Dubya

[identity profile] harena.livejournal.com 2009-02-12 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
Sad but true. *nods tragically*

[identity profile] thorog.livejournal.com 2009-01-08 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)
The word is obviously "expelliaramus".

[identity profile] dodger77.livejournal.com 2009-01-09 05:20 am (UTC)(link)
Wouldn't that just shatter their fangs though?

[identity profile] kdsorceress.livejournal.com 2009-02-10 06:06 pm (UTC)(link)
*giggles!* Oh, duh. How could I have forgotten?

~Sor

[identity profile] madbodger.livejournal.com 2009-01-09 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
You too? (http://www.vitriol.com/ftp/pdf/sewingclub.pdf)

[identity profile] kdsorceress.livejournal.com 2009-02-10 06:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Cute story!

I am worried about becoming a vampire if I learn how to sew now. *sad*

~Sor