Vermen vs. Ninpire!

[rachelmanija]

While compiling my lists, I ran across these two books:

Unnatural (Archangel Academy)

A reader wrote, "...long, long ago, a chick from Atlantis slept with a vampire dude, thus creating a strange hybrid race of - wait for it - vampires with webbed feet and hands who can breathe underwater. No, I'm serious! Vampire mermaids (or mermen) Do we call them merpires? Vammaids? No, wait! Vermen!"

What makes this even better is that I initially misread it as, "A chick from Atlanta."

Blood Ninja

School Library Journal wrote, "The author makes a good argument for the logic of ninjas being vampires—they only come out at night, they move with stealthlike speed, and they seem to be invincible."

Comments

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

I guess "vanja" would be right out, huh?

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

Or maybe "vaninja" is better. Hmmm.

[jeremytblack.livejournal.com]

My only bisexual three way was with a really pale dude and a chick from Atlanta. What a coincidence.

[tool-of-satan.livejournal.com]

Vermen are obvious once you think about it, really. Vertebrate blood is fairly salinic, so any creature that feeds on it exclusively must be able to ingest a lot of salt, and probably requires all that salt. Living in salt water would make it a lot easier to maintain proper saline levels even if they haven't fed in a while - no doubt they absorb it from the water in some fashion.

Reports of freshwater vermen are not to be taken seriously.

[coraa.livejournal.com]

The end result of reading this post is that now I want a ninja mermaid story.

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

And I'm hoping for a vampire ninja mermaid story! XD

[londonbard.livejournal.com]

I rather liked "Vanja", too - or there's "Vinja" or "Vamja".

[qian.livejournal.com]

Ninjas were also keen on collecting and classifying rice (http://dothacker.omghax.ca/index.php?topic=579.0). Very vampiric!

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

Snrk.

[gaudior.livejournal.com]

"Stealthlike"???

[tool-of-satan.livejournal.com]

Maybe they're shaped like F-117s?