31 Days of Halloween #14

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Day 14 - A question you’ve always wanted to ask about a horror trope:

Well, what I had in mind actually started out as a specifically Buffy trope, but, post-Buffy, has become pretty commonplace in a lot of films and shows. And that is, how, why, and when do the dead miraculously get martial arts training? Especially vampires. I mean, I can understand them being able to put in the 10k hours over the centuries, with the whole immortality thing, but what gets me is the freshly-resurrected ones who have instantly got it, no matter what they did in life.

So, where does it fit in- brain death, rigor mortis, first dan...?

31 Days of Halloween #15

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Day 15- Your greatest fear. To be honest, I don't know. I mean, I know I have fears - dentists, that kind of thing - but.... When it comes to what people would think of as a greatest fear - something, say, that keeps you up at night with dread, just to think about it - well, I have a slight problem in that the ones I can think of actually all pretty much already happened. Which sort of robs them of their power as fears, if you see what I mean.

So, I don't know, really. I more have greatest anger triggers or depression triggers, or stressors, than a greatest fear in that sense.