Why is this so poular?

[SaineRaine]

Why is this so popular all of a sudden?

To use something that isn't origonal but interesting enough to go against vampires.

 

[TheMatt]

Originality is dead.

So's your mom!

Wait, that was kinda mean.. Sorry dude.

 

[TheMatt]

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Originality is dead.

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I kind of wish she was just so I could overreact, all "HOW COULD YOU SAY THAT *SOB*"

haha, yah. I have a buddy who's mom passed away when he was like 13. A good 15 years ago so he's come to terms with it. He pulls that off all the time. Whenever there's a mom joke. You should see people's faces when they find out they just insulted a dead woman. Classic.

 

[Skuffyshootster]

I've seen three popular book series recently that portrayed the Greek Gods as real.

Why is this so popular all of a sudden?

Why isn't it popular? They can totally throw lightning and stuff! Totally!

 

[goatzilla8463]

The Percy Jackson books are gold.

 

[Clashero]

To use something that isn't origonal but interesting enough to go against vampires.

Vampires have the honor of being completely fucking awesome but completely unoriginal.
Kind of like Halo, if it were awesome (it is not.)
(bwahahahaha)

Originality is dead.

So's your mom!

Wait, that was kinda mean.. Sorry dude.

I kind of wish she was just so I could overreact, all "HOW COULD YOU SAY THAT *SOB*"

Internet forums have a worryingly elevated amount of users with dead mothers.

 

[TheMatt]

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Jesus fuck, 15 years?
I got over my dad dying in like six minutes.

Someone is oversensitive.

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No dude, it didn't take him 15 years to get over it. I said it happened 15 years ago so he is over it.

 

[Flap Jack452]

haha, yah. I have a buddy who's mom passed away when he was like 13. A good 15 years ago so he's come to terms with it. He pulls that off all the time. Whenever there's a mom joke. You should see people's faces when they find out they just insulted a dead woman. Classic.

Jesus fuck, 15 years?
I got over my dad dying in like six minutes.

Someone is oversensitive.

Six minutes?
You stone cold bastard

 

[Flap Jack452]

Six minutes?
You stone cold bastard

The entire day felt "off," so I knew something was wrong.
It was just a bit shocking to find out what.

Shocking like "HOLY FUCK DON'T COME UP BEHIND ME LIKE THAT JESUS CHRIST WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM ************ MAKE SOME NOISE WHEN YOU WALK"

How old were you when this happened.
My mom has the unnatural ability to walk without making noise, she scares the shit out of me all the time.

 

[Zombie_Fish]

The theory of mythology is a classic theory. There are so many stories in it it is easy to write other stories about them. So people can just take a story, re-write them and call it their own. They're also popular stories as well (Virtually everyone heard about Herculeas and the Minotaur as a child) so people can relate and get hooked on them easily. I think Max put it best:

Originality is dead.

The only problems come once the well has truly dried up in which case they will find something else to sell out, like the American revolution or whatever.

The truth is, it's popular because it sells. That's what the literature business has become now, a business.

 

[spuddyt]

Originality is dead.

Originality was never alive - everything we do is based on something else. Creativity, however, is still going reasonably strong.

 

[Yog Sothoth]

Not sure why it's popular now.... you should check out a book called Donnerjack by Roger Zelazny. Because Mesopotamian gods being real are cooler than Greek gods being real...

 

[Zombie_Fish]

I think Max put it best:

That's a first!

Scary but true.

 

[Grampy_bone]

It's not really new or recent. The Greek Gods have provided fertile grounds for imaginative fiction for hundreds of years.

People who criticize others for "lack of originality" don't really understand how influences develop and how creative works continuously build off of each other. When someone tries to be "original," you get Twilight.

 

[photog212]

Because the Greek Gods are assholes that are cooler than other religions?

Also, what books?

1. The Iliad
The rest can never be as good...or I just don't know them.

"The Aeneid" was just as good if not better.