Talk:Daddy's Little Princess/@comment-5699173-20160112180406/@comment-5699173-20160112210532

I never had a problem with the cult's practices, and the idea is a new one to me. I'll check out Faults when I get the chance. I confess to my ignorance about blood doping. Guess I didn't take the differing blood types into account. The talk about injecting oneself with blood and getting sick wasn't meant to be a criticism, just that I thought it was supposed to give the impression that a supernatural explanation was certainly possible.

And I never meant to lump your ideas in with typical monster stereotypes. What I meant was that although they have their differences with the more well-known depictions, they still at least partially adhere to their original mythos. That's pretty much unavoidable, though, so I have no problem with it.

For instance, in "Under A Rotting Sky", Garbage is doomed to relive the events that lead up to his murder of Raven and her father, followed by his suicide, which brings a few hauntings I've read about to mind. And here, the supposed vampires still suffer when deprived of blood, whether or not they've simply been brainwashed into believing they would.

I read that article, and I admit again to being misinformed, and that I'm not as knowledgable on the subject as I wish I were. My interest in cults tends to be in the cults themselves, and not in the deprogrammers. Part of what gave me the idea that it was meant to set Lionel up as a bad guy was your comment below about A.A. being a cult itself, so I realize my failure there: my tendency to read too much into things that aren't meant to be overanalyzed, and other things, I read too little into.

The alternating perspectives was a nice touch, by the way, one that I've wanted to incorporate into some of my still-unwritten stories.

You might be right about how I relate more to Danny in "The Gym Teacher" than Laura, not just because I'm a dude, but because he reminded me a lot of myself at that age.

Perhaps knowing what I know now, I can reread this story again sometime, and reevaluate my opinion. I never intended to be harsh or blindly critical just to be an asshole. It was just a mix of misinformation and lack of knowledge on my part, and for that, you have my apologies. Though another reason behind my criticism — for what it's worth — was the fact that I feared I may have been coming off as a bit of a fanboy at times, so I thought I should balance it out. I wanted to give a fairer, perhaps more constructive review, but I see now that didn't work out so well. And now that I think about it, I already did post a fairly critical but (as far as I recall) not as picky one on "The Abalone Thief" a while ago.