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.
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
Tags: Horror
Voting for Ms Horror Blogosphere 2009 has begun!
Posted by Ms Harker | Filed under Horror Genres
Greetings and Salutations.
Voting for the Ms Horror Blogosphere 2009 has begun over at The Vault of Horror. So make your way across to the vault and vote for your favourite macabre mistress of horror Ms Harker, whilst also checking out the other delightfully deviant damsels. Click on the competitions logo below and start voting!
Ms Harker.
Tags: Horror
Ms Horror Blogosphere 2009!
Posted by Ms Harker | Filed under Horror Genres
Greetings and Salutations.
Quick entry today with shades of shameless self promotion! B_Sol over at The Vault of Horror is running a friendly competition to find cyberspaces favourite female horror blogger. My entry went up today you can see it here. Whilst your there check out all the other fangtastic horror chicks, their blogs and see what the fairer sex of horror has to offer! Voting begins Tuesday so get online and support your favourite horror chick!
Ms Harker
Tags: Horror
