#werewolf lit

[thatdogmagic]

Do you have any werewolf movie, book, or any form of media recommendations?

For movies, my go-tos are always going to be Dog Soldiers, Ginger Snaps and its sequel (remember: 1 and 2 are the only movies that exist, there was no 3), and A Company of Wolves. There's at least one semi-recent one I still need to watch that looks like it should slot in there fairly well, but overall those are going to be somewhere at the top of my list.

There's a TV show called Wolf Lake that also caught my attention, largely because I was looking through werewolf media that might share some of the elements I'm using in my own stories. With this one, I noticed there was a lot of overlap, and managed to nab it off a torrent since it, sadly, doesn't really exist anywhere else.

I wasn't wrong; there's a lot of overlap in terms of how my own EAC/its satellite functions and how the show's town functions overall, but there's enough definite differences that I didn't feel the need to change anything. It's got a very 90210 teen drama vibe to it in a lot of places when it's not being Werewolf Twin Peaks (not a bad thing, necessarily), but it's got a solid premise, and an interesting take on werewolves that I still think about quite a bit. It's a genuine shame it got cancelled; I would've liked to see where it went.

There's also a cute/sad??/maybe? IF by KittyHorrorShow called Wolfgirls in Love I remember really enjoying. It's been years though, so I don't know what CWs to offer. Click at your own risk!

Books-- I admittedly cashed out on those when it became evident that most of the field was littered with weird misogyny and, of late, the dull-ass knuckledragging Alpha Male bullshit that is hyper-prevalent throughout the paranormal romance genre. I need to read my contemporaries for sure, though, so I'm open to any ownvoices sapphic books in the comments! (ESPECIALLY if they're offered as audiobooks!!!)

EDIT: I have a shitlist I can absolutely complain about wrt TV at some point. And more than a few pointed comments about paranormal romance. But those are different posts entirely.

[nicktoddauthor]

It is officially Spooky Season!! Which means it is time for me to make another post about the queer horror novel I wrote! Do you like werewolves? Do you like short, intense reads? Are you sick and tired of the lack of queer rep in mainstream media? Give We Are the Beast in the Woods a try! Available as a paperback or e-book, and if you have Kindle Unlimited, you can read it for free!

[charliesopus]

This was a labor of love and the most complex piece I’ve ever made.

7096 stitches, 98 hours. 2-strand on 18ct.

I was just so in love with this book cover, I couldn’t not.

The book is Crush, the second installment in the Crave series by Tracy Wolff :)

[texaschainsawmascara]

The Scholastic FunFact Book of Ghosts: Demons and Spirits from the World Beyond by Christopher Maynard, 1977

[pestidunce]

Ah yes, the scariest beast, Bram Stoker

[pomegranatepetrichord]

something about remus lupin: dumbledores wolf in a muzzle

main piece and colors heavily inspired/referenced by @/picckl on twt!

[see-arcane]

Your 'Ghouls are Deaths hunting dogs' idea reminds me of the one guy who, when accused of being a werewolf, said that werewolves were the hounds of God who battled witches and demons. Anne Rice (yes, she of vampire fame) wrote at least two books with a similar premise (wolven shapeshifters that can smell evil and hunt only the wicked. The books are called 'The Wolf Gift' and 'The Wolves of Midwinter' BTW.)

Vampires VS Werewolves has always been a tasty concept. I could especially see a grudge happening in the Dracula canon, considering how happy the Count is to make slavering puppets of ordinary wolves and muscle them into danger and violence against their will. I've seen it done well in tons of monster mashing media, but it's kind of lost its flavor to me as a 'gimme' of supernatural horror.

But it'd be very fun to abuse the werewolf foe assumption based on 1) A lupine profile in the head and 2) Being seen munching on a corpse...

Only for the observer to realize that's a canine (even jackal or hyena-ish) head on those misshapen shoulders and that corpse it's ripping apart isn't a fresh kill. It's full of maggots. Or worse.

Dead, but not done being sentient.

Rest in pieces, Count de Ville. 🍽

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

Im sorry but i love sunfish for the same reasons I love sloths. Part of their defense is being so unnutritional and parasite ridden that they dont get eaten as much! Thats clever and silly and sunfish are great

That and they are the ocean frisbee

That’s one of their funniest qualities! We all know that a good tactic to survive is to be difficult to eat: spikes, spines, difficult body shape, poison, all of these are valid ways to make yourself very unappetising. But, how many animals are just unnutritional and not very good food for other animals? Very few! It’s a damn good tactic, when the sunfish are not being played with! If I recall that’s kind of what saved the modern sloths as opposed to the giant ground sloth, which you mentioned — the giant ground sloth was driven to extinction partly due to human hunting, but the modern sloths? Unnoticeable.

[nerdshirts-and-rubberducks]

Dont even question it

(I am absolutely not procrastinating reading Brothersong and running away from this series ending, not at all)

[nicktoddauthor]

Some nice reviews for We Are the Beast in the Woods!

Please consider checking it out, or leaving your own review if you have! I'd love to know what everyone thought!

[words-and-coffee]

They will be like shadows, they will be like wraiths, grey members of a congregation of nightmare; hark! his long, wavering howl … an aria of fear made audible.

Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories: The Werewolf

[tdcloud]

There isn’t much Detective Louis “Lou” P. Garou needs to get himself through a long day of investigating violent supernatural homicides: a good lunch, a cut-and-dried case, and a few breaks to chase a new high score on his mobile games. That’s all he could ever ask for. But when his latest case brings with it a curve ball of the Unseelie variety, he finds himself saddled with an independent magical consultant infamous for being difficult. He’s known for a while that fae magic—specifically Unseelie magic—may just be the bane of his entire existence.

But the magic’s owner?

Well, somehow, he manages to be worse.

The latest offering by T.D. Cloud (The Tempest Series, The Duskriven Chronicles) is here in the form of a light-hearted urban fantasy novella! If you’re a fan of werewolves, fae, and monster puns (Oh, my!) check it out on Amazon and Kindle and get yourself a copy today!

Order on Amazon here: amazon.com/dp/1659759722

[catandcrown]

Lesser Known Monsters

Some fan art i did for one of my favourite book series. The series is gay as hell, got an amazing selection of diverse characters, found family, and a ton of incredibly done monsters.

Tumblr would love it, so give it a read.

Reblogs really appreciated, as this one took an absolute age to finish rendering. See if you can find all the monsters :)

[extantformoflife]

kim dokja saw one of those self care posts that said to "take care of your inner child" and he decided to beat up a werewolf about it

[cto10121]

I think I had a breakthrough as to why the tiresome fan theory that Meyer was racist towards Jacob to the point of “destroying” her own character to elevate Team Edward is so popular. And I think it has to do with racism.

Almost from the very beginning Jacob has been framed as the socially appropriate and even conventional choice of suitor for Bella. His dad and Bella’s have been friends for years and Bella had known and played with Jacob’s sisters. When they meet again after many years Bella remarks how easy it is for her to talk to Jacob. During New Moon Charlie approves of Bella’s friendship with Jacob and is firmly Team Jacob in Eclipse. When Jacob says that he and Bella together as a couple would be as “easy as breathing” and that Bella wouldn’t have to give up anything of her human life with him, it not only rings true but is affirmed by Bella’s narrative, re: her vision of two kids running into the forest. And he’s a Native American character.

Edward, on the other hand, the inappropriate star-crossed lover—forbidden in a particularly visceral way—the one for whom it would be downright dangerous to Bella’s health to be with, the one who is most attracted to her blood, the one that haunts Bella’s dreams and fills her with aching passion, lust, and fascination, the one whom she goes the distance (literally) for to save and be with, the one who incurs Charlie’s wrath and disapproval and Renée’s concern…is the fantasy equivalent of a rich white guy.

Socially and economically, Bella is not supposed to be with Edward. Her true “social math” match as a girl from a working class white family is with Jacob.

In framing these love interests the way she has, Meyer subverts the common love triangle framing of dark/light, forbidden/conventional, even in classic romances (Linton as the conventional rich white guy and Heathcliff as the racially ambiguous forbidden lover in Wuthering Heights, the rich white Fleur-de-Lys and the poor but exotically beautiful Esmeralda in Notre Dame de Paris). In doing so Meyer elevates class as the most potent obstacle for the romance instead of race.

I’m not sure why Meyer did this—most likely her Austen influence reared its genteel bonneted head, as Brit Lit is notoriously class-obsessed. But for a series written for an American audience and is otherwise very American (the car culture especially, ho boy), this inevitably inspired backlash. Americans are notoriously very precious about race and Meyer’s blatant disregard for it in the romance definitely struck a racist (and classist) chord.

To say that a low-income Native American love interest would have been a perfectly acceptable if conventional choice for the white heroine than the rich white male love interest is something few people with racial prejudice (or who see everything through race and disregard class entirely) would accept. Meyer did not toe the race line—which means, of course, that she is racist herself, either in not making race the exclusive factor or in making the white lead as the superior and more intense love. Is she truly, though—or is that mere fan projection in being triggered by antiracist choices in the narrative?

[robinsceramics]

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werewolf!