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bigislandrachel

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I just ordered Only Lovers and What We Do on Netflix so I can do a double-feature. Which one should I watch first?

Both sets of of vampires could probably benefit from find amusement in this book:

I saw OLLA first, and then months later, WWDitS. I think that was an acceptable order, because OLLA is aesthetically more serious, but still has humor and sweetness to it. WWDitS is very touching at times, and largely more humorous. The documentary style of the latter also gives it an earnest kind of charm *u* 

They both deal with the usual vampiric existential concerns and they both have different takes on vampire physiology/mythology (in at least one major way OLLA vampires are fragile in a way that WWDitS vampires are not), and the rules of vampiring in general. I don’t think either really usurps the other in these categories.

In a way, (and aside from their different rules), I think the vampires from both could exist in the same universe, so it doesn’t really matter which order you see their stories in, as they could be existing simultaneously ;]

What’s been the hardest thing to adjust to as a vampire?

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the-gentleman-chronicler:

First and foremost, the hunger has been the hardest adjustment I’ve had to make as a vampire.  What few vices I indulged in my mortality were never so prevalent – not to the point where I felt so commanded to answer the desire for them.  I could control them.  Yet the hunger is in control of me more than I am of it.  I’m not used to being slave to something inside myself.  That experience is new for me.

Another adjustment is certainly the sense of time.  When I was alive I measured the passage of days, months, years with regular habit.  Even if it was just noting the date upon a newspaper.  I observed time, I respected it, and felt very keen about the necessity to keep track.  Now, it occasionally surprises me when I hear a date.  The nights tend to blend together.  I feel outside of time in a way I’d never done when alive.  It doesn’t feel so oppressive or so precious to me anymore.

There are many other aspects of adjustment I’ve had to make since my turning yet these two are by far the most major developments that I consider worth mentioning.