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Are Werewolves Becoming More Sexy and less Scary?
Where could we be without the romantic genre? It's a genre where we sit back and relax and connect to the characters and their romantic experiences with their partners and such. Historically it has been widely read by women and some by men. It's the summer's favorite genre for what we have heard. However recently, we have seen the romantic genre explode in the werewolf genre, a genre in which explores the terror of the beast? The murderer of man.
The werewolf is a creature sought to be feared by men. Historically in some villages in Europe and as well of course America, there were people who would go hunt for the legendary werewolf due to fear and/or admiration of this murderous beast. They were widely feared since the beginning of European Imperialism. So why have recently this feared beast faded into the romantic genre?
Many will date back to 2008 when the movie Twilight came out. In the film, we see a teenaged, shirtless Taylor Lautner transform into a giant wolf wowing girls and shaming men everywhere. Has the movie alone destroyed on what made werewolves so feared?
Werewolves today are depicted as sexy, sexually satisfying, 6-pack young men who like to abuse, assault, and own their female counterparts. Not all of them, but most werewolf men tend to be abusive. If you have read most stories written on WattPad you understand where this is coming from.
The Alpha is seen to be the guy who gets all the women but yet winds up being an abusive asshole? And this is sexy? Okay then that means Beauty and the Beast could be the blame for romanticising this type of transformation. Instead of being feared and/or tortured, these beasts are free-thinking, everyday Americans who drink beer, hang out shirtless or not, with a "pack" secluded in an isolated forest in the west coast but yet never gotten the attention by the United States Federal Government or if they knew, why have they not crack down on them? One wonders this.
When one think of romance, we think of those that have the perfect chemistry between man and woman....or man and man/woman and woman but whatever. Now it's man and beast. Yes, prepare folks for the historic wedding between a woman and her abusive pet.
Now I'm not gonna say, OHHH THIS IS HORRIBLE AND blah blah blah, now albeit, it is kinda...strange. But in my book, The God of Alpha, a werewolf can fly and can shoot energy blasts DragonBall Z style! So if Romance can adopt the Werewolf why not other genres?
We can do so much to the werewolf it's remarkable, there is no holds bar. So if you have an idea and you want to write that a werewolfThe God of Alpha can be President of France, or that Marcus Garvey is a werewolf hunter who joins forces with a vampire, or something, it's all good. Imagination has no limits.
The werewolf is a creature sought to be feared by men. Historically in some villages in Europe and as well of course America, there were people who would go hunt for the legendary werewolf due to fear and/or admiration of this murderous beast. They were widely feared since the beginning of European Imperialism. So why have recently this feared beast faded into the romantic genre?
Many will date back to 2008 when the movie Twilight came out. In the film, we see a teenaged, shirtless Taylor Lautner transform into a giant wolf wowing girls and shaming men everywhere. Has the movie alone destroyed on what made werewolves so feared?
Werewolves today are depicted as sexy, sexually satisfying, 6-pack young men who like to abuse, assault, and own their female counterparts. Not all of them, but most werewolf men tend to be abusive. If you have read most stories written on WattPad you understand where this is coming from.
The Alpha is seen to be the guy who gets all the women but yet winds up being an abusive asshole? And this is sexy? Okay then that means Beauty and the Beast could be the blame for romanticising this type of transformation. Instead of being feared and/or tortured, these beasts are free-thinking, everyday Americans who drink beer, hang out shirtless or not, with a "pack" secluded in an isolated forest in the west coast but yet never gotten the attention by the United States Federal Government or if they knew, why have they not crack down on them? One wonders this.
When one think of romance, we think of those that have the perfect chemistry between man and woman....or man and man/woman and woman but whatever. Now it's man and beast. Yes, prepare folks for the historic wedding between a woman and her abusive pet.
Now I'm not gonna say, OHHH THIS IS HORRIBLE AND blah blah blah, now albeit, it is kinda...strange. But in my book, The God of Alpha, a werewolf can fly and can shoot energy blasts DragonBall Z style! So if Romance can adopt the Werewolf why not other genres?
We can do so much to the werewolf it's remarkable, there is no holds bar. So if you have an idea and you want to write that a werewolfThe God of Alpha can be President of France, or that Marcus Garvey is a werewolf hunter who joins forces with a vampire, or something, it's all good. Imagination has no limits.
Are the Alpha Males in Werewolf Fiction Jerks?
Whenever I go ahead and check out a new werewolf book most of the time I see an alpha male of the pack becoming a major, psychopathic douche. Yeah because all romantic men are a bunch of obsessive, psychopathic morons who had mommy problems right? WRONG! So...so wrong!
Not all the alpha men in werewolf books are jerks though, there are those werewolf alphas in literature that are suitable for picking a reasonable mate. But nope, the majority of the stories on here and on wattpad...mainly wattpad have guys who like to abuse female characters. Why? Because abuse is fun!
I think each of the stories like to play Stockholm Syndrome, but most of the stories in the genre like to romanticize it. That is what I don't understand. Yeah there are those stories where the woman actually fights back, but those are rare.
In some stories, the alpha of the pack rejects his mate only for her to go away, become super hot, and all of a sudden he gets horny.
Just...just no.
Because you know? Romance!
It's a recurring, and a disturbing theme plaguing around the werewolf landscape and its getting kind of scary and becoming a little cliche.
The point is that we need more diversity in our characters. Instead of having an abusive, 6-pack alpha, have the alpha be a woman, or a fat guy who plays World of Warcraft, or a politician...or something. Anything to diversify our genre.
What do you think about this. Leave your comments down below and I will see you next time.
Not all the alpha men in werewolf books are jerks though, there are those werewolf alphas in literature that are suitable for picking a reasonable mate. But nope, the majority of the stories on here and on wattpad...mainly wattpad have guys who like to abuse female characters. Why? Because abuse is fun!
I think each of the stories like to play Stockholm Syndrome, but most of the stories in the genre like to romanticize it. That is what I don't understand. Yeah there are those stories where the woman actually fights back, but those are rare.
In some stories, the alpha of the pack rejects his mate only for her to go away, become super hot, and all of a sudden he gets horny.
Just...just no.
Because you know? Romance!
It's a recurring, and a disturbing theme plaguing around the werewolf landscape and its getting kind of scary and becoming a little cliche.
The point is that we need more diversity in our characters. Instead of having an abusive, 6-pack alpha, have the alpha be a woman, or a fat guy who plays World of Warcraft, or a politician...or something. Anything to diversify our genre.
What do you think about this. Leave your comments down below and I will see you next time.
The God of Alpha - Werewolf Novel
What if everything we think we know, and how we came to know it, about supernatural beings, is an elaborate farce? What makes a man a monster, and a monster a man?Michael Gilliganson is a young boy living in 1920's Georgia. His small town harbors a 2,000 year old secret that will threaten not only Michael, but those he loves most. When he meets Zoey Bridges, her secrets, and the town's, change Michael's life. Are werewolves really supernatural agents of light, tortured during their tenure on Earth? Is Michael's new friend his ally, or his greatest enemy? When Zoey uses the Badge of Alpha, a powerful device created by the Gods, Michael's life takes a dramatic turn.
Origins of The God of Alpha
When I was in third grade my teacher assineged the class to write a short story. I was excited because I always wanted to write a book. Problem was, I didn't have characters nor did I know how. So my teacher told me to use our imagination, so I looked around and I saw a string on my head and saw a mop from across the room so with that I took the name String and Mop and added the "Y" in the end because why not.
My first story Stringy and Mopy were about these two characters in Africa dreaming for a better life so Stringy built this airplane out of garbage and they flew all the way to Oklahoma City (I was 9 years old). So For years I stuck with that idea until 2008 when my suster came to help. She told me that I should reboot and I did. She wanted to know how they met so she and I temaed up to create an origin story, "Stringy and Mopy: The Adventure Begins". The story was about Mopy being bullied, getting saved by a special girl, and teaming up to stop Lightning Head from taking over the world. At first they were super spies back in 2008. They traveled alot, I was more into Geography back then. Yeah I was a Geography nerd. Stringy and Mopy were more like carbon cutouts than they were characters....until 2011.
A friend of mine sat down with me and told me of a show called Ben 10. A show about a kid with an alien watch who can transform into 10 sets of aliens. So he and I watched the show together and he asked me do I have superheroes of my own. I said no, but he mentioned Stringy and Mopy. I told them that they were super spies, but then insisted of me having them have superpowers. I was against it at first because I wasn't into superheroes. It wasn't until I watched Ben 10: Alien Force, Justice League, and Teen Titans. So we sat down and we thought of ways to give Stringy and Mopy super powers.
We couldn't use a watch because that will rip off Ben 10.
We couldn't use a ring because that's been done already.
We couldn't use enhancers because, that's been done already.
And we couldn't use diamonds because, that was used already.
So I was stuck. I wanted to have my characters stand out so for awhile I was pretty stuck. Until my friend Tyler told me about badges. Turning badges into weapons.
It seemed interesting but I didn't know how to pull it off. I mean I wasn't sure if Magical Badges existed in mass media. If they were then they were pretty rare. So he and I designed the badge together. It was a circular object with a yellow ring around it with a vertical, yellow rectangle on the center.
We got the design, but the badge was missing a few things.
Powers.
Powers varied, but I had an idea on having the badge letting Stringy ad Mopy to fly, having enhanced strength, speed, endurance, and senses. Not only that but I had to change their names from Stringy and Mopy to Samantha and Michael. Stringy and Mopy were to be their superhero aliases for now on.
For the past 4 years in my high school career, I have read plenty of classical novels, one was The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. And both of which gave me plenty of ideas for a Stringy and Mopy origin story - Mainly Invisible Man.
For four years I have studied literature even on breaks by marathoning these two books. Not only that but I have came across classical plays such as King Lear, and Hamlet. For our final exam I personally chose Othello and studied its tragedy within the pages.
During my time in high school, I finally wrote Stirngy and Mopy: The Adventure Begins. And boy let me tell ya, it was horrible.
Stringy's story was all over the place. She was more bitchier than ever before and Mopy was Batman 2.0. He was brooding more than the caped crusader. And that's not good lol. The badges were overused and overpowered. There were no limits. I did not go over what makes the Badges powerful at all. Plus they were the Deux Ex Machina of the story and again, not good.
The original story starts off with, "When an ancient evil kidnaps the only family he had, Mopy Gilliganson goes to another dimenion to join forces with a zany superhero to rescue his mom from the clutches of Lightning Head."
That was the premise. I kid you not.
Last year I started writing Stringy and Mopy again...this time without Stringy. The God of Alpha was mainly Mopy's origin story and instead of having him to save his mom from an ancient evil, I had him set in the 1920s. The book is not as innocent as the previous incarnations, this book is a lot darker, grittier, and brutal. It addressed a lot on racism and sexism in that era. Stringy was never mentioned nor was introduced in the first book.
I planned on writing Samantha's origin story in the second book and then they would come together in the third and so on.
So if you're interested in checking out The God of Alpha, you can click on the link below and until then, I'll see you guys next time.
Thank you. :)
The God of Alpha
http://www.amazon.com/God-Alpha-Sky-T...
My first story Stringy and Mopy were about these two characters in Africa dreaming for a better life so Stringy built this airplane out of garbage and they flew all the way to Oklahoma City (I was 9 years old). So For years I stuck with that idea until 2008 when my suster came to help. She told me that I should reboot and I did. She wanted to know how they met so she and I temaed up to create an origin story, "Stringy and Mopy: The Adventure Begins". The story was about Mopy being bullied, getting saved by a special girl, and teaming up to stop Lightning Head from taking over the world. At first they were super spies back in 2008. They traveled alot, I was more into Geography back then. Yeah I was a Geography nerd. Stringy and Mopy were more like carbon cutouts than they were characters....until 2011.
A friend of mine sat down with me and told me of a show called Ben 10. A show about a kid with an alien watch who can transform into 10 sets of aliens. So he and I watched the show together and he asked me do I have superheroes of my own. I said no, but he mentioned Stringy and Mopy. I told them that they were super spies, but then insisted of me having them have superpowers. I was against it at first because I wasn't into superheroes. It wasn't until I watched Ben 10: Alien Force, Justice League, and Teen Titans. So we sat down and we thought of ways to give Stringy and Mopy super powers.
We couldn't use a watch because that will rip off Ben 10.
We couldn't use a ring because that's been done already.
We couldn't use enhancers because, that's been done already.
And we couldn't use diamonds because, that was used already.
So I was stuck. I wanted to have my characters stand out so for awhile I was pretty stuck. Until my friend Tyler told me about badges. Turning badges into weapons.
It seemed interesting but I didn't know how to pull it off. I mean I wasn't sure if Magical Badges existed in mass media. If they were then they were pretty rare. So he and I designed the badge together. It was a circular object with a yellow ring around it with a vertical, yellow rectangle on the center.
We got the design, but the badge was missing a few things.
Powers.
Powers varied, but I had an idea on having the badge letting Stringy ad Mopy to fly, having enhanced strength, speed, endurance, and senses. Not only that but I had to change their names from Stringy and Mopy to Samantha and Michael. Stringy and Mopy were to be their superhero aliases for now on.
For the past 4 years in my high school career, I have read plenty of classical novels, one was The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. And both of which gave me plenty of ideas for a Stringy and Mopy origin story - Mainly Invisible Man.
For four years I have studied literature even on breaks by marathoning these two books. Not only that but I have came across classical plays such as King Lear, and Hamlet. For our final exam I personally chose Othello and studied its tragedy within the pages.
During my time in high school, I finally wrote Stirngy and Mopy: The Adventure Begins. And boy let me tell ya, it was horrible.
Stringy's story was all over the place. She was more bitchier than ever before and Mopy was Batman 2.0. He was brooding more than the caped crusader. And that's not good lol. The badges were overused and overpowered. There were no limits. I did not go over what makes the Badges powerful at all. Plus they were the Deux Ex Machina of the story and again, not good.
The original story starts off with, "When an ancient evil kidnaps the only family he had, Mopy Gilliganson goes to another dimenion to join forces with a zany superhero to rescue his mom from the clutches of Lightning Head."
That was the premise. I kid you not.
Last year I started writing Stringy and Mopy again...this time without Stringy. The God of Alpha was mainly Mopy's origin story and instead of having him to save his mom from an ancient evil, I had him set in the 1920s. The book is not as innocent as the previous incarnations, this book is a lot darker, grittier, and brutal. It addressed a lot on racism and sexism in that era. Stringy was never mentioned nor was introduced in the first book.
I planned on writing Samantha's origin story in the second book and then they would come together in the third and so on.
So if you're interested in checking out The God of Alpha, you can click on the link below and until then, I'll see you guys next time.
Thank you. :)
The God of Alpha
http://www.amazon.com/God-Alpha-Sky-T...
What Is So Special About "The God of Alpha"?
The God of Alpha is my first book in my Sky-Titans book series. It's an origin story based on one of my original characters I created when I was very young, "Stringy and Mopy". Mopy's story was not outlined nor was it explored, so I was searching for ideas.
The story centers around the origins of Michael Gilliganson, a naive young boy living in a small Georgia town in the late 1920s befriends a young girl who can transform into a werecat using a superpowerful badge called The Badge of Alpha. This story is inspired by most of the werewolf stories I would be reading and twisting it.
Instead of a moon, the badge has the power to transform the user into a therianthrope. And I wanted to have my werewolves be more...divine. So i made them to fly. Yes a flying werewolf lol. And yes its a thing haha.
In the book I wanted to make the antagonist to be a little interesting. Something strange and daring...but risky. Michael's best friend Ricky, is the son of a Klansman, Vince. A vicious, disgusting man from the town. Not spoiling anything away, its an amazing book you must check out.
The story centers around the origins of Michael Gilliganson, a naive young boy living in a small Georgia town in the late 1920s befriends a young girl who can transform into a werecat using a superpowerful badge called The Badge of Alpha. This story is inspired by most of the werewolf stories I would be reading and twisting it.
Instead of a moon, the badge has the power to transform the user into a therianthrope. And I wanted to have my werewolves be more...divine. So i made them to fly. Yes a flying werewolf lol. And yes its a thing haha.
In the book I wanted to make the antagonist to be a little interesting. Something strange and daring...but risky. Michael's best friend Ricky, is the son of a Klansman, Vince. A vicious, disgusting man from the town. Not spoiling anything away, its an amazing book you must check out.
