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Revenant
I made a new boy tonight and I feel the need to share. Just in time for Halloween. He's not what you'd call pretty or sweet or smut worthy. He's not what you'd call alive, but he does a good job of pretending.
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ravyns_lair and klgaffney for inspiration.
May I present for you previewing pleasure -
He goes by Casper, but that doesn't mean he's friendly.
Revenant. The dead who return from the grave. “Revenant”, a term common in earlier times, still is sometimes used as a synonym for ghost. Nearly all civilizations have, at least at some time during history, held the belief in the ability of the dead to return to the world of the living. Humans and animals can be revenants. Revenants take various forms, from filmy beings (the modern concept of ghosts) to solid forms that appear to be living, until they abruptly disappear. In Irish lore, revenants include living corpses; bodies that revive in order to briefly partake of their own funerals. Vampires may also be considered revenants. – The Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits by Rosemary Ellen Gulley, Checkmark Books.
Well let’s just sort this out. ‘Nearly all civilizations have, at least at some time during history, held the belief in the ability of the dead to return to the world of the living.’ The problem with nowadays is no one believes it anymore. Otherwise there would be laws and affirmative action and all that shit for the dead, which of course, there isn’t.
Let’s look at this. ‘Revenants take various forms, from filmy beings (the modern concept of ghosts) to solid forms that appear to be living, until they abruptly disappear.’ The only problem here is the disappearing goes along with the reappearing. And then doing it all over again, sometimes it’s a bitch because I’ll leave like a beer behind or be in the middle of a sentence then…where the fuck am I? I need to make sure I keep one of those stupid touristy plastic travel maps on me. And change for the bus.
Here’s a little diddy. ‘ In Irish lore, revenants include living corpses, bodies that revive in order to briefly partake of their own funerals. ‘ Well they can add that to Chattanooga, Tennessee lore too. You should have heard the screaming; you’d think I was the devil or something.
And last but not least. ‘Vampires may also be considered revenants.’ Blood sucking is for the weak.
This is the closest I’ve come to explaining it. The bookstore owner is giving me the hairy eyeball though because I’ve been sitting in the metaphysical/spiritual section for the last hour before stumbling on Rosemary’s book. Doesn’t he know how hard it is for the dead to make a living, no way I’m paying 19.95 for this… better put it back. So that means next year I’ll be 30 for the first time. See I started counting over again after I came back. I was 28 when I crossed over so I figure I was 1 when I came back. Good way to stave off that 30th birthday for as long as possible, right?
I’m getting out of here, besides I’m dying for a smoke. Oh wait, I made a funny, me, dying for a smoke. They tend to frown on that in bookstores. I smoke like a fucking chimney now, who cares right? It’s not like it’s going to hurt me. Took a while to get the old air sacks to start working again, but I’m nothing if not stubborn and I practiced. Can you believe that? I practiced breathing so I could get back in the habit and I could smoke. What else was I going to do? I’m like on permanent retirement now. I smoke and I drink. And when I drink I like to smoke. I’ll smoke anything. On days I don’t have enough green to buy a pack I pick up butts out of the gutter or out of the ashtrays in bars until someone chases me out or take pity on me and gives me a freebie. I suppose nicotine is habit forming beyond the grave. I wonder if smokers in heaven have to stand outside the pearly gates where there are big terra cotta urns filled with sand and white gravel. Or maybe when you get to heaven you go on the mandatory nicorette patch or that nasty gum or something. I wonder if they can do that hypnotist stuff about not smoking? Who gives a fuck? Really I need to get over myself sometimes.
Much love and thanks to
ravyns_lair and klgaffney for inspiration.May I present for you previewing pleasure -
He goes by Casper, but that doesn't mean he's friendly.
Revenant. The dead who return from the grave. “Revenant”, a term common in earlier times, still is sometimes used as a synonym for ghost. Nearly all civilizations have, at least at some time during history, held the belief in the ability of the dead to return to the world of the living. Humans and animals can be revenants. Revenants take various forms, from filmy beings (the modern concept of ghosts) to solid forms that appear to be living, until they abruptly disappear. In Irish lore, revenants include living corpses; bodies that revive in order to briefly partake of their own funerals. Vampires may also be considered revenants. – The Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits by Rosemary Ellen Gulley, Checkmark Books.
Well let’s just sort this out. ‘Nearly all civilizations have, at least at some time during history, held the belief in the ability of the dead to return to the world of the living.’ The problem with nowadays is no one believes it anymore. Otherwise there would be laws and affirmative action and all that shit for the dead, which of course, there isn’t.
Let’s look at this. ‘Revenants take various forms, from filmy beings (the modern concept of ghosts) to solid forms that appear to be living, until they abruptly disappear.’ The only problem here is the disappearing goes along with the reappearing. And then doing it all over again, sometimes it’s a bitch because I’ll leave like a beer behind or be in the middle of a sentence then…where the fuck am I? I need to make sure I keep one of those stupid touristy plastic travel maps on me. And change for the bus.
Here’s a little diddy. ‘ In Irish lore, revenants include living corpses, bodies that revive in order to briefly partake of their own funerals. ‘ Well they can add that to Chattanooga, Tennessee lore too. You should have heard the screaming; you’d think I was the devil or something.
And last but not least. ‘Vampires may also be considered revenants.’ Blood sucking is for the weak.
This is the closest I’ve come to explaining it. The bookstore owner is giving me the hairy eyeball though because I’ve been sitting in the metaphysical/spiritual section for the last hour before stumbling on Rosemary’s book. Doesn’t he know how hard it is for the dead to make a living, no way I’m paying 19.95 for this… better put it back. So that means next year I’ll be 30 for the first time. See I started counting over again after I came back. I was 28 when I crossed over so I figure I was 1 when I came back. Good way to stave off that 30th birthday for as long as possible, right?
I’m getting out of here, besides I’m dying for a smoke. Oh wait, I made a funny, me, dying for a smoke. They tend to frown on that in bookstores. I smoke like a fucking chimney now, who cares right? It’s not like it’s going to hurt me. Took a while to get the old air sacks to start working again, but I’m nothing if not stubborn and I practiced. Can you believe that? I practiced breathing so I could get back in the habit and I could smoke. What else was I going to do? I’m like on permanent retirement now. I smoke and I drink. And when I drink I like to smoke. I’ll smoke anything. On days I don’t have enough green to buy a pack I pick up butts out of the gutter or out of the ashtrays in bars until someone chases me out or take pity on me and gives me a freebie. I suppose nicotine is habit forming beyond the grave. I wonder if smokers in heaven have to stand outside the pearly gates where there are big terra cotta urns filled with sand and white gravel. Or maybe when you get to heaven you go on the mandatory nicorette patch or that nasty gum or something. I wonder if they can do that hypnotist stuff about not smoking? Who gives a fuck? Really I need to get over myself sometimes.
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My boy however, is trying to find a way to make the death permanent *G*
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‘Vampires may also be considered revenants.’ Blood sucking is for the weak.
LOL!
Some great one liners in here.
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He's just sorta running rampant right now and making snide comments. I've set out a squirrel trap for him and puts some marlboro butts in it but so far he's not biting.
Gotta catch him.
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Casper: You're too late, ha! Besides this weaslebeast chick needs to tell me what she's wearing...
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Casper: you love me? what are you wearing?
me: AH! *whap*
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Casper: HEY! ixnay on the equipment-ay!
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Casper: Ha fuckin' ha, I hope you vanish while you're sitting on the john.
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Casper: I'm adoreable? what are YOU wearing?
me: AH! *whapwhap*