The throwdown: Team Vampire Lumberjack or Team Werewolf Bootlegger
For centuries, vampires and werewolves have been battling it out for dominance, not to mention the hearts of women all over the globe. It all started with Shakespeare, when the heir to the werewolf Montague clan accidentally fell in love with vampiress Juliet Capulet. Then, during the American Civil War, as Atlanta was burning, Scarlett O’Hara, lips smeared with blood, declared in impassioned tones, “I will never go hungry again!” Poor Scarlet also had to choose… to choose between her oh-so-pretty fellow vampire, Ashley Wilkes, and that wild, dominant, oh-so-sexy werewolf, Rhett Butler.
And now we come to this decision again. Moira Rogers has asked us to choose between vampire and werewolf once again. But this time, we have a contest in bad-assery. Is a vampire lumnberjack or a werewolf bootlegger more awesome?
The answer, of course, is patently obvious. The vampire lumberjack wins without a contest. After all, he comes equipped with a weapon–an axe that no doubt will help to display impressive muscles when he takes off his shirt. And if he sparkles in the sun like some other vampires we could name, no one would laugh at him, because, hello, giant axe?What does the werewolf have? Some alcohol? Oh, please.
Plus, the vampire lumberjack is not without precedent in American folklore. Paul Bunyan regularly had to stop for a little type O negative as he traveled the American west, taming it with his axe. What werewolf bootleggers in literature can you name? None? That’s what I thought.
So, agree or disagree? Is a vampire lumberjack the epitome of awesome, or do the rest of you just have no taste? And what other classic literature out there would be improved with more epic vampire vs. werewolf battles?
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