When asked if I’d choose Team Vampire Lumberjack or Team Werewolf Bootlegger, I immediately chose Team Werewolf Bootlegger. I mean, come on, there’s really no contest. A sexy bootlegger with a dark and dangerous secret – man by day, wolf by night (ok, so the man/wolf thing isn’t only during the day or night, but it sounds cooler that way, so work with me here!) or a pale, reflection-less, emo creature who can only rise in the night, sucks blood and has an aversion to garlic (that last is important because I’m Italian..we live for garlic)?
Even the official definitions of each word make a Werewolf Bootlegger sound sexier…
boot·leg
<a href=”http://dictionary.reference.com/audio.html/lunaWAV/B05/B0504200″ target=”_blank”><img src=”http://sp.dictionary.com/dictstatic/g/d/speaker.gif” border=”0″ alt=”bootlegger pronunciation” /></a> /ˈbutˌlɛg/
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– verb4.to deal in (liquor or other goods) unlawfully.were·wolf
<a href=”http://dictionary.reference.com/audio.html/lunaWAV/W01/W0103800″ target=”_blank”><img src=”http://sp.dictionary.com/dictstatic/g/d/speaker.gif” border=”0″ alt=”werewolf pronunciation” /></a> /ˈwɛərˌwʊlf, ˈwɪər-, ˈwɜr-/
lf, weer–, wur–]
–noun,plural-wolves <a href=”http://dictionary.reference.com/audio.html/lunaWAV/W01/W0103900″ target=”_blank”><img src=”http://sp.dictionary.com/dictstatic/g/d/speaker.gif” border=”0″ alt=”werewolf pronunciation” /></a> /-ˌwʊlvz/(in folklore and superstition) a human being who has changed into a wolf, or is capable of assuming the form of a wolf, while retaining human intelligence.lum·ber·jack
<a href=”http://dictionary.reference.com/audio.html/lunaWAV/L04/L0422400″ target=”_blank”><img src=”http://sp.dictionary.com/dictstatic/g/d/speaker.gif” border=”0″ alt=”lumberjack pronunciation” /></a> /ˈlʌm
–noun
1.
a person who works at lumbering; logger.
vam·pire
<a href=”http://dictionary.reference.com/audio.html/lunaWAV/V00/V0022500″ target=”_blank”><img src=”http://sp.dictionary.com/dictstatic/g/d/speaker.gif” border=”0″ alt=”vampire pronunciation” /></a> /ˈvæm
–noun
1.a preternatural being, commonly believed to be a reanimated corpse, that is said to suck the blood of sleeping persons at night.2.(in Eastern European folklore) a corpse, animated by an undeparted soul or demon, that periodically leaves the grave and disturbs the living, until it is exhumed and impaled or burned.
Selling liquor illegally might not sound too sexy today, but if it was happening during the depression era and he’s – sort of – reformed now, the idea takes on a whole other level of yum, right? Add in the “wolf” and “human-intelligence” parts and..rawr. Especially when I start thinking about him in suspenders and a wide-brimmed hat. If he also happened to be kind, considerate, sensitive and willing to allow a woman to make her own choices, then fully support them, well then…I’m a fool for him.
Especially when you compare that to a reanimated corpse who sucks the blood of the unwitting sleepers of the world and there’s no contest. Especially if all said blood-sucker does in his free time is cut down trees. That’s not hot, man. Not hot at all.
But what if the Vampire Lumberjack in question isn’t pale and afraid of daylight, reflection-less, emo or allergic to garlic? What if he’s strong, sexy and likes pasta as much as I do? What if he doesn’t just cut down trees, but then uses the wood to build the most amazing handmade furniture?
How do I choose then?
I’ll tell you how..I don’t. Instead I chose to be on Team Vampwere Bootjack. Er..maybe Team Werevamp Lumberlegger. Team Jackwolf Lumberboot?
(…)
I’m sensing a problem here. But I bet you get the idea.
That’s right, I’m refusing to choose. I’m just going to sit right here in the middle, sandwiched between that sexy Vampire Lumberjack and the delicious Werewolf Bootlegger and boy is it good in the middle.
What about you? Care to choose?
To find out more about each, check out Sanctuary Unbound (Samhain, June, 2010) and A Safe Harbor (Samhain, July, 2010)
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Your logic is beautiful. I’m Italian too, so if a vamp’s got an aversion to garlic…. it’s just not happening. Seriously not, especially when almost everything I eat has a smidget of garlic in it. I’d end up being a vamp killer if he tried to suck my blood.
And I’m so not cool with a vamp trying to suck my blood. I love me some warm, strong, sexy alpha werewolves and the booze that comes along with said sexy wolf.
*swoon*
All good points, yes, but I’m going to have to ignore them all! There are just to many great vampires ingrained on my memory to make me switch sides now! Sorry!
Team Vampire Lumberjack!
LOL. I love the way you think.
Team Team Vampwere Bootjack for teh win!
Gheez if I wasn’t already firmly a Team Werewolf person that reanimated corpse bit would have made me jump ship for sure.
I’m with emmad. If you vampire lovers didn’t catch that, the definition mentioned them as corpse X2!!! Necrophilia anyone? Gag me. Ugh. Go Team Werewolf Bootlegger!
CORPSE. ‘Nough said.
Go Team Werewolf Bootlegger!
Cade
ArcadiaWearsPrada@yahoo.com
Braintasia Blog
Ohhh, I didn’t no this was an option! I so would have chose this!
I have to go with Team Vampire Lumberjack…although, it would be fun to just stay sandwiched between the two. 😉
Hmm…I like your way of thinking! but I have to say that I’m TEAM WEREWOLF BOOTLEGGER!!! 😉
Nothig beats a handsome, muscular man in a well fitted suit!
“Team Jackwolf Lumberboot”
Ahahaha. That just may be the best team of all!
Until it’s made an official category, however, I’m afraid I’m going to have to stick with Team Werewolf Bootlegger.
Sandwich!Sandwich!Sandwich! I’m not very choosy. I’ve read some great vampire novels and some great werewolf ones. SO why do I have to choose between them? Thinking if the corpse thing definitely puts me off, but then again I’m in it for the story and romance and I don’t try to psychoanalyze what I’m reading. Usually everything else is just details and icing on the cake. So it’s sandwich for me! 🙂
I’m going with Team Vampire Lumberjack! tWarner419@aol.com
GO TEAM VAMPIRE LUMBERJACK!!!
Sexy, brawny, broody, earthy, strong, plaid wearing hunks of deliciousness.
I like your reasoning there. You did analyze the two very well. But I’m sorry… I got to go TEAM VAMPIRE LUMBERJACK!! Plaid makes a sexy man even sexier!
I’m a werewolf Bootlegger fan all the way!!
I’m so Team Vampire Lumberjack. As much as I like their weres, vampires will always be my number one.
Stephanie G
Paranormal Haven
I’ve always favored vamps, nothing against weres, but if I had to choose…Team Vampire Lumberjack for me!
Team Vampire Lumberjack – there’s nothing better!
Totally agree with your reasoning abt vamps. I knw its a hard pick but Team Vampire Lumberjack would be my choice.
You cheated! I didn’t know I could pick both! *pouts* lol 😀 Great post, love your reasoning.
I choe werewolves, because I simply love how passionate and possessive they are, and an alpha male simply melts my heart! And the way they growl.. grr.. *shivers*
i absolutely vote for Team Lumberjack Vampire. He’s sexy, hunky, dangerous, mysterious and demanding. Yum!
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Although I am not a huge shifter fan…I have to go Team Werewolf Bootlegger! Mostly because boot legging runs deep in my family tree (we had our own still in the Tennessee mountains at one time). 🙂
I have to say I’m on Team Vampire Lumberjack because they’re still sexy in plaid and a drunk, bumbling werewolf doesn’t seem too appealing.
oh, why can’t i have one of each :)?! i would have to put names in a hat, that is the only way i could choose.
I like vamps some but I prefer werewolfs. I love my dogs so I think I can love a wolf also.
Well I like garlic too even though I’m not Italian so clearly I should be a Team Werewolf Bootlegger. However, I’m not sure about the whole having sex with a wolfe thing (and don’t talk to me about the shedding!)so clearly I should be on Team Vampire Lumberjack. But then again, there’s the whole undead thing, so clearly – er, is there another option? 😀
…I do like a lumberjack though….
I don’t know. When you make such a strong argument like that, how can I choose. I love the thought of a strong, muscle-y lumberjack…but the wolfy part…heavy sigh….
I want my cake and I want to eat it too, I am woman and enforcing my right to not have to choose. lol
I am sitting right down on your lap, missy. Somehow, surrounded by all that macho manness is just enough to make my heart do a flippy-flop of happiness and make me drool too. oh yeah…A big beefy sandwich.
dragonlady12 at yahoo.com
Team vampirelumberjack for me!!!
Oh that is a tuffy I couldn’t pick. What about half were half vamp lumberjacker buy day bootlegger by night ??
Pam S
pams00@aol.com
I’m going with Team Werewolf Bootlegger, no question. I’ve been in love with Werewolves ever since American Werewolf in London with David Naughten – (that’s how old I am!) 😀 I never really got into the whole hypnosis thing with vampires and vamps are just so sexually sensual that it gives me the creeps. And now all you ever see anymore is vamps – can you say overkill? So, Team Werewolf Bootlegger 100%!
Go Team Werewolf!
I tip my hat to you, m’dear! I went with team werewolf ’cause the purpose was to pick sides, but both characters are equally awesome in Moira Rogers’ world. 🙂
http://elisajankowski.blogspot.com/2010/06/werewolf-bootlegger-vs-vampire.html
I’m joining the Team Lumberjack Vampire!
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1st – ROFL “Team Jackwolf Lumberboot”
2nd – Amazing idea!! Bootlegger/Lumberjack Sandwich with a slice of Natasha A in the middle!
3rd – Even though that is awesome, I still gotta do Team Lumberjack!!
I liked how you combined the teams, very good
Good point about the garlic.
But still going to go with Team Vampire Lumberjack
I’m on Team Vampire Lumberjack but i can see how hard it is to pick i was having troble two. cind of love them both but didcided to go whit my first love of vampire.i’m willing to go a three some.
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Hehe, usually I’d be on both sides but well I heard about Vampire Lumberjack first… and well, it painted a very vivid picture in my head more than a bootlegger. Lumberjacks just equal sexy to me. Plus well, there is a song that I always liked by the band Jackyl that cemented it for me
I happen to agree with the whole “I don’t want to choose”. I am all for the 1/2 vamp 1/2 wolf…or even a menage a’ tois..providing that I’m the meat in the sandwich..lol.
I have to admit though each species has good and bad attitudes/habits.. as long as I get the top every once in a while..I can be happy..lol
I’m on team werewolf!
I’m team Vampire Lumberjack. No half and half for this gal. *smacks arm* Uh, I think you might want to throw off a couple of flee bombs in here, your pets seem to have carried home their own little blood suckers… and not the fun sexy kind either. 😉
Team Werewolf Bootlegger, for sure! Because “reanimated corpse who sucks the blood of the unwitting sleepers of the world” is exactly how I see vampires, and I just don’t find that sexy. It means I lose out on a lot of hot romance, I’m told, but there it is. My imagination is limited in that way.
Team Vampire Lumberjack is for me!
Sue B
Team Werewolf Bootlegger for me!
Warm, furry shifter with access to party essentials vs Cold sparkly vamp with serial killer weapon. No contest.
Team werewolf. Need to see a guy in the daylight.
Team Werewolf all the way. Need a man to keep me warm at night. since I had to choose this is my chice lol
Werewolf vs Vampire. Hmmm. Arguments can be made for both sides. Both are strong, fast, nearly immortal. Werewolves can keep you warm. Vampires cool. Both have sharp teeth, mmmm.
I say to heck with sides and just get a bigger bed.
For the sake of sides, I have to go Team Vampire Lumberjack. Nothing says sexy like a man jacking some lumber. (Ohhh the images.)
I can’t wait to add both to my collection!
The devotion from the vampire contingent is astounding and scary.
Give me warmth, alpha and sexy any day of the week.
Love your logic, and I will definitely be reading both these stories, but ultimately I am a shifter girl, so it’s Team Werewolf for me.
Ooo.. in the middle… *shakes head* no, I’m still team werewolf!
I come from a long line of lumberjacks. I’ll take the family biz and some pesky soul issues over the uncontrolled furry and controlled substances.
Go Team Vampire Lumberjack!
Beside that garlic thing is a total myth. 🙂
I come from a long line of lumberjacks. I’ll take the family biz and some pesky soul issues over the uncontrolled furry and controlled substances.
Go Team Vampire Lumberjack!
I’m definitely a vamp fan.
YES!!! I agree I want both too, yeah, the start of a new revolution, I’d love to be in the middle, a new team. I’m with you team Werevamp wolfjack, haow does that sound? email me offline to let me know you like that.
I had just started to post the following on some of the blogs starting with Blackravens.
I can be a trouble maker, I want both, shame on me huh,blame it on some really good posts numbering the wolf advantage of being able to be out at all times of the day and the fact that he’s warm and really alive and can share a real meal of food. Although the wolfie can take care of me 24/7 and the vamp can only manage about half, maybe they won’t mind sharing.
Hope everyone doesn’t want to stake me out but I really want both.
Zina
I added to the post.
A new team, a civil war, a revolution!!!
Team Werevamp Wolfjack
YES!!! I agree I want both too, yeah, the start of a new revolution, I’d love to be in the middle between these two sexy men, a new team. I’m with you, team Werevamp wolfjack, or Werevamp Lumberwolf or Werevamp Jackwolf how does that sound? I like the first or second one best.
I had just started to post the following on some of the blogs starting with Blackravens.
I can be a trouble maker, I want both, shame on me huh,blame it on some really good posts numbering the wolf advantage of being able to be out at all times of the day and the fact that he’s warm and really alive and can share a real meal of food. Although the wolfie can take care of me 24/7 and the vamp can only manage about half,he’s still strong, mustled and sexy as hell, maybe they won’t mind sharing, I wouldn’t mind it. After all why can’t I have my cake and eat it too.
Hope everyone doesn’t want to stake me out but I really want both.
Zina
Viva le revolution, for those that to switch to both, come join us, make your voice heard. This is a war after all!!
I am leaning towards Team Werewolf Bootlegger. There is something slightly sexy about howling.
I’m likin’ you menage idea… but I’m leaning toward Team Undead Hardwood all the way!
I’m not sure I could get into such a funky amalgamation like a werevamp lumberlegger. But I could get into a werewolf bootlegger. nothing like a shapeshifter doing something illegal to give a gal those warm fuzzy feelings inside.
LOL – i’m with you! Team Jackwolf Lumberboot
I guess I will have to say Team Vampire Lumberjack since there isn’t a Team Shapeshifter Gangster!! Lol
I would so take both of them if they let me.. muahahaha. But alas, I will choose the vampire if I must
You are right it is difficult to pick, but I’m still Team Werewolf Bootlegger. I’d go with a sexy, warm blooded werewolf over a cold, emo vampire anytime.
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Team Werewolf!! Didn’t even have to pause to think about it! Werewolves are just so sexy… Vampires, while still sexy, drink blood which is just gross!
I understand your conflict. I was conflicted too, because the vampire lumberjack sounds so sexy. However, I must be loyal to the shifters, that I love. Team Werewolf!
I gotta choose the werewolf bootlegger. A vampire that cuts down trees for a living…not my idea of hot. lol
It definitely has to be team Vampire Lumberjack.This looks like some reading I could sink my teeth into.
I would take both but we’re not allowed and all female vampires are sexy so… that’s what I choose.