#the silver bullet

[artist-issues]

it’s the bane of my Halloween that there are so few good werewolf stories that aren’t just shock-and-awe, “let’s show you how many variations on sex and variations on the dismemberment of the human body there are!”

I just keep watching The Wolf Man & reading The Were-Wolf, and sometimes throwing a little Marvel’s Werewolf By Night in there.

Where’s the good stuff? Where’s the “man’s desire to be more than what he is leads him to a dark, twisted, out-of-control place?” Where’s the “pure sacrifice can slay the beast?” Where’s the “a seemingly good man struggles with the monster within?”

Why do I have to keep seeing weird twisted furry fantasies; or SURPRISE, the werewolf is a RELIGIOUS LEADER AGAIN; or look, we spent our whole budget so you can see this naked guy’s bones rearrange themselves; or look, he likes being a werewolf, it’s like a sadistic superpower for him; or look, what a unique twist—the werewolf can be the gooood guyyy as a tired old allegory for how “othered” vaguely “different” members of society can be; or look, “look, you don’t like any of those, we’ll just show you comically large werewolf talons stabbing through the face of a screaming human—in glorious red 3D! That’s what you wanted, right?”

No. No, it’s not.

And don’t suggest cartoon episodes about werewolves to me. Because those always hit the same trope; “the werewolf isn’t the real side of the person with werewolfism—they can be cured by being reminded of who they truly are through love!”

I mean that trope gets close. But it’s not werewolf fiction. Werewolf myth is supposed to be about a man who really is a monster—he wants what he’s not allowed to be—and then, as an object-lesson of that man-trying-to-meddle characteristic, the man gets to be “what he’s not allowed to be”—instead of a human, he loses all reason, all free will, all desire for good things, and instead can desire only blood. Then he has to slowly realize that. Then he has to either try, unsuccessfully, to protect others from himself—OR he has to be killed by purity. At it’s best, it’s the sacrifice of someone or something pure—but most iconically, that’s just “something silver.”

WHY DOES IT SEEM LIKE NOBODY WANTS TO WRITE GOOD WEREWOLF STORIES ANYMORE?

We lost the point. We lost the point. The monster stories are supposed to say 1) there is such a thing as purely evil things, so beware & 2) the purely evil things can be triumphed over, but not through the effort or acceptance of the purely evil things, themselves.

That’s the point! Why do you think we have all those myths and legends across cultures? It’s not to say, “try werewolfism, it’s fun.” It’s not to say, “drink blood!” It’s to say “beware, there are monsters out there, and here’s what to do about it.”

[weirdlookindog]

Endless Torment - Gredown, Australia, 1982.

Cover art by Vicenç Badalona Ballestar

[stumpyshocky]

Finally got my hands on a physical copy of "The Silver Bullet." I am so happy. Ive fallen off of my folklore studies, but this has renewed me.

Hopefully ill be posting some snippets soon, and hopefully i can get back into my Texas Folklore studies.

[thomasiangriffith31862]

[egophiliac]

bring your son to work day

[gorgynei]

literally so obsessed with werewolf bts where the guy in the suit is just hanging out. my favorite images ever

[goryhorroor]

horror sub-genres: werewolf

[meloooooonade]

SILVER BULLEEEEEEET !!!! THE best sbr character of all time!!!

I also drew the others hehe

[feluart]

I just need him to be happy thank you

[revivemyreverie]

Referenced from LOVE BULLET by inee

One more halloween would have been nice.

[viarcentor]

Baby silver bullet! My little Queen!

[classichorrorblog]

10 Werewolf Movies To Consider For October/Halloween

[unlimitedbutchworks]

i don’t understand why so many anarchists act like recycling or degrowth or general concern over sustainability is inherently opposed to marxist leninism or communism writ large. i mean i know it’s because everyone wants to act like their own beliefs are uniquely good and best but cmon. communist states do not mandate capitalist modes of overproduction and waste for profit, factories don’t just do that and depend on shitty supply chains on their own

[yellodisney]

[tiii13]

The three bullets~

[clawed-sapphic]

The idea of werewolves having a “weakness” to silver really is a fun thing to play with, especially with low enough quality silver where it just burns the skin. A werewolf who has a scar from her favorite necklace, whose hand has a mark from all the silver rings she has to shake hands with, stuck in a silver chastity cage while her mistress hold the key, the possibilities really are endless!