Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Fang Favorite - Erica Cerra

Courtney isn't the name one usually associates with a vampiress. Something like Marishka, or Verona...now there's two names you would never question should the subject of vampires arise in casual conversation. You went to school with Courtney. She's nice and has pretty hair and lots of friends.

Except this Courtney has fangs, too. Relative-unknown actress Erica Cerra played a vampire sorority sister in a Halloween episode of the TV series Superman. Now, I can almost hear what you're going to say - there's nothing quite so predictably cheesy than vampire sorority sisters. The sisters usually end up looking like slightly weathered strippers in an unchallenging acting gig between trips to the pole. Tacky lingerie that almost certainly came from the Frederick's of Hollywood mail order catalog does not necessarily make sexy. But Superman is a big-budget show with real actors and writers. Who else could entwine Superman, Halloween and hot sorority vampire chicks into one cohesive story?

It's a funny quirk about many vampire shows that the chicks with fangs who are acting extras often turn out to be hotter than the stars themselves. This is not as true with Kristin Kreuk, whom is one of the shows' stars and an amazingly beautiful women (even without being turned into a vampiress, but that's the subject for another post) but I really took a liking to Erica/Courtney.

I'm partial to the preppy look. Maybe it was the pastel-colored clothing and sensible flats that did it for me. Or perhaps when she wore that flowery bikini and bit the pizza delivery boy, or restrained Kirstin while the sorority president vampirized her, or even that last passing flash of fangs in that everyday girl-next-door skirt. I love it when the girl-next-door releases her inner-vampire.

In another quirk about Hollywood, some actresses have the great fortune to don the fangs several times in their careers while others never do (I'm still waiting for Nicole Kidman or Anne Hathaway to play a bride of Dracula.) Erica has played a vampire three times in her short career. She was a vampire wannabe in the first Blade movie, a lesbian vampire in the Showtime series The L-Word, and lastly in Smallville.


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Erica Cerra (left) checks out the pizza delivery boy.


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The girls lure pizza boy into a jacuzzi where Erica took the first bite.


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Erica holds Kristin as she gets vampirized.


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Nice money shot. But frankly, the chick on the left would do nothing for me not for her lovely canines.


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One of the last shots of the girls. If you look closely, you can see a few scant pixels of Erica's fangs.

Sunday, December 16, 2007

Mutations and Adaptations

Women with blonde hair, according to a study I recently read about, are the result of a genetic mutation. The theory says near the end of the last ice age their light-colored hair successfully attracted the attention of the scarce supply of male mates who were dying at a rapid rate in woolly mammoth hunting accidents, and the like. When the supply of men ran low, the competition heated up and the blonde was created.

It got me to thinking about the random nature of genetic mutations and evolutionary adaptations. Just as easily as the blonde was created, why not (and you may already see where I'm going here...) women with other, "better" mutations?


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Pretty actress Amanda Peet as a highly adapted predator: feline eyes to see better at night; bat-like ears for improved hearing; and not only 2, but 4 fangs for improved hunting.


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Supermodel Christy Turlington demonstrates an improved nutritional delivery system, sure to be an evolutionary advantage.


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Elle MacPherson as a supermodel raptor. Flight and grasping claws are obviously a great combination for hunting prey. Her horns (though possibly otherwise useful) give her a great demonic quality, too.


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A blonde with fangs must have the most fun.

Monday, December 10, 2007

Amateurs

Whatever beneficent force compels an attractive, everyday woman to wear fangs is a welcome mystery to me. Here are a few of my favorite pics accumulated from around the 'net that show "nice" girls with some lovely additions to their smile.


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Halloween parties are understandably a time when girls want to show their tits teeth.


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Her curly hair and blue eyes are disarming, and a striking contrast to her fangs.


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I believe this woman was posting her pics on a dating service, most were her topless draped in a boa. Not exactly the behavior of a debutante, but she has the face of one.


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One of my all-time favorites, yet I don't remember where I came across it. I do remember her profile stated she was in a decent college studying pre-med. *sigh*


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This is a pretty actress. I would love to see more about why she's wearing these.

Thursday, December 6, 2007

Pretty Ugly

I wrote the following story (link below) around 1998, or so, when I realized Buffy the Vampire Slayer, like so many other vampire-related TV and movies, was going to be a major disappointment. Here we had a perfect set-up: an attractive troupe of southern California high schoolers fighting vampires. This could have been great. Hot blonde California vampire chicks at the beach wearing bikinis, right? Baywatch with fangs? Not quite. The vampires were all ugly. Really, what were they thinking?

I never really followed the show closely because of that. It was a well-written show and from what little I know, occasionally featured very good-to-great comedy, drama, and even some singing. But I could never get past the ugly vampire-thing. So I wrote this story as a salve to my stinging disappointment and through the use of that old tried-and-true plot device known as the MacGuffin I made the three female leads into pretty vampires.

Speaking of whom, 10 years later who would have thought that at 37 Charisma Carpenter is getting a bit long in the tooth, so to say? And Sarah Michelle needs to be careful if her genes condemn her to the looks of her mom in 20 years. Meanwhile, Alyson Hannigan who had about zero sex appeal back then is looking really cute at 28. But my story gives them fangs, tails, horns and cloven hooves, so they'll always look beautiful. They even wear makeup when they're vamped-out.

Since I re-read the story after almost 10 years, I felt it held up well enough to re-post it. I think the pacing of the dialogue captures the original and although I hesitate to call it fan fiction (having never been a fan, and I wouldn't want to admit to being so nerdy) it probably qualifies as such.

Please be forewarned this story is rated R for adult language, depictions of sex and violence.

Read the story here:
Buffy the Pretty Vampire


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This image of Charisma Carpenter was used to make her even better and is the model for the transformations in my story.


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Buffy was cute, but an ugly vampiress.


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Alyson Hannigan was also an ugly vampiress and what lousy fangs she had! She looks pretty cute these days,though.