![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shakatanyLast night I watched "House" for the first time. I was astonished. I've seen Hugh Laurie play twits like Bertie Wooster and various characters in the "Blackadder" series but as House he's so different and his American accent is terrific. He really is a surprisingly (to me) good actor.
For Entertainment Weekly's interesting analysis of the new map from "Lost" go here.
a clowder of cats
an unkindness of ravens
a convocation of eagles
a seethe of vampires??
I'm in the middle of Moon Called by Patricia Briggs (and so far it's excellent) when I came across this phrase for a group of vampires. As far as I know (I googled) it's original with her. In fics I've read, vampires groups are called families or clans and I can't recall any other collective name for them. Are there any others out there?
I was also thinking about their blood consumption. How often do they feed and how much blood must they consume? The average human contains about 6 quarts of blood. Over 2 quarts can lost before it's fatal (presuming it's soon replaced) yet in many depictions of vampire feedings in movies and TV, they seem to take just a few sips before discarding their victim who we presume to be dead. How much blood can they drink in such a short time? In "The Initiative" BtVS ep 4.7, we learn that vampires are room temperature so we may assume they are somewhat like cold-blooded creatures which, since they don't have to maintain an internal body temperature, feed less frequently then warm-blooded mammals. This makes sense because if there are 38,500 people in Sunnydale, surely a death a day (and this is just one vampire) would make a sizeable dent in the population, eventually coming to the attention of the mundanes no matter how stupid they appear to be. It makes far more sense for vampires to keep consorts, pets and/or bloodcows and to set up vampire brothels like those seen in "Into the Woods" BtVS ep 5.10 if they exist anywhere else besides oblivious Sunnydale. Of course there is the vampire equivalent of being on a vegetarian diet when they consume cow, pig or otter blood but that does not seem to appeal to the majority of vampires.
For Entertainment Weekly's interesting analysis of the new map from "Lost" go here.
a clowder of cats
an unkindness of ravens
a convocation of eagles
a seethe of vampires??
I'm in the middle of Moon Called by Patricia Briggs (and so far it's excellent) when I came across this phrase for a group of vampires. As far as I know (I googled) it's original with her. In fics I've read, vampires groups are called families or clans and I can't recall any other collective name for them. Are there any others out there?
I was also thinking about their blood consumption. How often do they feed and how much blood must they consume? The average human contains about 6 quarts of blood. Over 2 quarts can lost before it's fatal (presuming it's soon replaced) yet in many depictions of vampire feedings in movies and TV, they seem to take just a few sips before discarding their victim who we presume to be dead. How much blood can they drink in such a short time? In "The Initiative" BtVS ep 4.7, we learn that vampires are room temperature so we may assume they are somewhat like cold-blooded creatures which, since they don't have to maintain an internal body temperature, feed less frequently then warm-blooded mammals. This makes sense because if there are 38,500 people in Sunnydale, surely a death a day (and this is just one vampire) would make a sizeable dent in the population, eventually coming to the attention of the mundanes no matter how stupid they appear to be. It makes far more sense for vampires to keep consorts, pets and/or bloodcows and to set up vampire brothels like those seen in "Into the Woods" BtVS ep 5.10 if they exist anywhere else besides oblivious Sunnydale. Of course there is the vampire equivalent of being on a vegetarian diet when they consume cow, pig or otter blood but that does not seem to appeal to the majority of vampires.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2006-04-02 01:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-03 01:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-04 01:09 am (UTC)I admire your dilligence though!!!
clan of vampires sounds about right, I agree with stretfordditto.
kiss
no subject
Date: 2006-04-04 12:51 pm (UTC)just adding to the silliness