Vampires, blogs, contests and how to stop the horror community from eating its own arm off.

Posted by Ms Harker | Filed under Horror Genres

Greetings and Salutations.

Recently Musings Across A Continuum was given a couple of peer nods from other horror bloggers in the forms of the ‘Kreativ Blogger’ and ‘Fantastically Frightening’ awards.

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Thanks to Chuck Norris Ate My Baby who wrote these kind words:

“Ms Harker does it all from news, book and movie reviews to just plain old banter. She has a fun- quirky and very insightful way about every subject she tackles and it is always a great joy to stop by this blog, which might be the best looking one around just for the record.”

Also many thanks to The Vault of Horror and Day Of The Woman for these delightful comments:

“Musings Across A Continuum is not only a beautiful loking blog, but its also your one-stop destination for all things vampiric, specializing in pro True Blood and anti Twilight rhetoric.Plus Ms Harker comes from the land down under so the accent alone is worth it.” (b_sol, The Vault of Horror)

“No one knows vampires like Ms Harker, no one loves the boys of True Blood like Ms Harker and non one has a cooler accent than Ms Harker, I LOVE this woman and if you don’t know her you aught to.” (BJ-C, Day Of The Woman)

So the usual routine is to now go and award these little beauties to horror blogs which I favour. Many of my favourites which include the three mentioned above have already received these awards numerous times. Now call me a lazy cow, but I think there is a more pressing issue at hand. That is the recent controversy surrounding Bloody Disgusting’s move to recognize smaller horror blogs in cyber space has peaked my interest and annoyance.

In response to Total Films contest for horror blogs, which ranted was really recognizing large news sites such as Bloody Disgusting, Shock Til You Drop and Dread Central, not blogs as such. Mr Disgusting is seeking to recognize small blogs written by individuals. Asking for people to nominate themselves or others, the blogs will then be listed on the Bloody Disgutsing site for voting. Now in typical fashion of late (we all remember the Ms Horror Blogosphere debacle), some in the horror community have bitched and moaned about perceived lack of independence of said competition and accusations of ulterior motives have flown thick and fast.

I would like to say to all of those involved in attempting to highlight something I love doing (horror blogging), for highlighting a genre I love, thank you. To those getting your knickers in a twist, may I say, if your favourite genre doesn’t get some press, isn’t brought to the attention of those with the cash in some way, we won’t see more horror made and you’ll be left to chew your own arm off, which seems to be what happens when an activity like this comes along anyway, people descend into zombie hordes of criticism.

Celebrate what we love, when we get the opportunity! To illustrate my point below is a fangtastic new poster from Daybreakers.

Ms Harker

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5 Responses to “Vampires, blogs, contests and how to stop the horror community from eating its own arm off.”

  1. Bloofer Lady Says:
    January 17th, 2010 at 10:19 am

    I think that complaining about something that you think is wrong is important though, because if nobody says anything then the staus quo of what doesn’t work in the horror community won’t ever change. The whole awards fiasco has brought a lot of subjects to light that would have otherwise never seen the light of day.

  2. Ms Harker Says:
    January 17th, 2010 at 10:28 am

    Of course Bloofer Lady, it is important to highlight things that don’t sit well. However maybe it would be useful not to call them awards and people won’t get up tight about it? Then we could just enjoy seeing all the wonderful work out there, she says raising a blood red daisy :)

  3. Bloofer Lady Says:
    January 17th, 2010 at 11:08 am

    I’m not the one who came up with the term ‘awards’ for the whole thing thank goodness, because I think the term itself fosters unhealthy competition between some people. It is one thing to get noticed but to have to campaign to get yourself noticed against other people is kind of starnge in my opinion. It’s kind of like the Oscars. Movie studios will totally campaign for their movies like made crazy while the smaller independents just go by their merits alone.

  4. Ms Harker Says:
    January 22nd, 2010 at 9:30 am

    ” Well, I reckon MUSINGS is rather a tawdry weblog. It’s like a blunt machete being wielded in a bad slasher movie. It doesn’t cut it.

    For a start, it’s too thoughtful and witty. I go online to vege out, not to think. And you do regular updates. Obviously, you don’t have a life, so there’s that. As for the subject matter, let’s leave that to highly qualified government-appointed psychologists.

    Pick up your game, MsHarker. One just hopes that you’re not funding this venutre with an arts grant from the Australia Council.”

    -Toxie-

    The above comment got lost so I have reposted it.

    Toxie, Musings is tawdry? Aren’t you the sweet talker!
    Ms Harker

  5. B-Sol Says:
    January 22nd, 2010 at 9:57 am

    Dammit Harker, didn’t I tell you about being too thoughtful and witty? Thank you Toxie, I’ve been trying to tell her to write down to the dim-witted internet audience, but the woman just won’t listen…

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