Something a Little Different
Here at Everybody Needs a Little Romance, the focus is quite often, and correctly so, on romance. We all love romance. However, we write romance in a variety of genres. I write fantasy with romantic elements…and a little epic fantasy with very little romance but they still let me hang out here. Mainly because I continue to profess the need for romance.
And so it was while I was reading through my emails from a fantasy author loop, I saw this idea for a blog post and I had to steal borrow it.
As you know shifters are pretty darn sexy. I’ve read about wolf shifters (the alpha dog of shifters so to speak). There are panther shifters, lion shifters (Curran=love) eagle shifters and well, pretty much if it’s sleek and sexy, there’s a shifter story for it. So flipping that on it’s heel, I came up with:
Five Shifters you’d never want to meet. (If you say that with an echo-voice, it’s how I wrote it.)
Skunk shifter. Although the hair might be nice, um yeah, that’s taking musk to a whole ‘nother level.
Beaver shifter. I can’t help but picture Timmy Turner. Yeah, so not sexy.
Mosquito shifter. Although it has interesting possibilities as a cross between a vampire and a shifter… no Thank you. Swat!
Octopus shifter. LOL I actually think I dated one of those.
Spider shifter. Okay, sorry. I shuddered. Not sure I can even type. So not sexy and so very creepy.
So there you have it.
Now your turn. What is one shifter you wouldn’t want to meet?
Mar 12, 2013 @ 06:15:37
Sloth-shifter.
Or
Slug-shifter.
They’d be gross, and is feel like I had to take care of them because of their human sides.
Co-dependency issues:I haz them.
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Mar 12, 2013 @ 10:45:21
Slug shifter… oh the slime. Yeah, so not sexy. I physically shuddered. I don’t suppose taking care of that one would involve extra salty fries?
The sloth shifter… that’s interesting. They have some wicked claws…and now that I think about it, I might have met one or two of those in human form…
Mar 12, 2013 @ 07:35:00
Oh, I like sloths. They’re kind of cute in a weird way…but not sexy. Aren’t most shifters supposed to be sexy? So with that in mind….
Hippo-shifter – they are plump and ill-tempered and there’s nothing sexy about a hippo (unless you’re another hippo I guess)
Ant -shifter – ants freak me out in thier little mounds popping up all over the place this time of year. Ick. Makes my skin crawl.
Shark-shifter – obvious reason. TEETH
And I could go on and on, but let me say this – I’ve never read a shifter book. Things turning into other things is not my thing. I’m a concrete sort of gal
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Mar 12, 2013 @ 10:47:39
Liz, I’m still trying to get over the “I’ve never read a shifter book.” If you ever do, I suggest either Ilona Andrews or Patricia Briggs. Some of the best shifters around. ; )
And YES! A shark was actually number six on my list!
Mar 12, 2013 @ 07:39:09
Oh Shawna, I’m going to have bad dreams about that spider shifter — an image I did not need in my head.
Here’s my contribution:
Frog shifter – but husband 2 was one, so I guess they exist already.
rat shifter – husband #2 (3rd time’s a charm)
anteater shifter
porcupine shifter – dicey in bed
slug shifter – just to pay you back for the spider visual!
Mar 12, 2013 @ 13:35:21
LOL Laura, fair enough! : P LOL My husband is actually terrified of frogs. I’m not sure why… but a frog shifter… yeah not so much. ; )
Mar 12, 2013 @ 07:56:55
Took me a minute to get past the beaver shifter and the ten thousand inappropriate jokes in my head.
How about a weasel shifter? Or *shudder* the walking stick shifter?
I wonder what the skin of a rhino shifter would look like in human form? Crocodile?
Posts like this make me think too darn much.
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Mar 12, 2013 @ 08:42:36
Margaret: I was right there with you…
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Mar 12, 2013 @ 12:21:16
And I was right there with both of you!
Mar 12, 2013 @ 10:49:37
LOL I have to confess I did the same. It was Timmy Turner’s image that squashed all the inappropriate jokes. I looked for an imagine I could use…and found some that I would use on my blog, but although they were free to use, it was not for commercial use and…
So here: https://www.google.com/search?q=timmy+turner&hl=en&rlz=1C2DVCF_enUS356&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=d04_Ue7DEKSwyQGAsoCYDg&sqi=2&ved=0CEIQsAQ&biw=1600&bih=785#imgrc=eESdsmTyk6cToM%3A%3Bciub-w0kutRfIM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252F2.bp.blogspot.com%252F-eDS6njk1Xro%252FTi7J5jdoD2I%252FAAAAAAAAACQ%252FZXejddrzSqU%252Fs1600%252FTimmy.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.lospadrinosmagicosjuegos.com%252F2011%252F07%252Fimagenes-timmy-turner.html%3B300%3B346
Mar 12, 2013 @ 08:42:15
LOL, Shawna. Love this. Good thing my kids used to watch Fairly Odd Parents, or I’d have no idea who Timmy Turner is. But perfect.
Everyone already posted such great suggestions. Anything in bug form: euww. Same with snakes and lizards for me. As for the least sexy, I’m thinking the star-nosed mole. Yeah, look it up. Gross.
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Mar 12, 2013 @ 10:50:46
Oh…I’ve seen the star-nose mole and you’re absolutely right! Eww. I mean… yeah.
I don’t think it would matter how sexy he was in human form, I wouldn’t be able to get that out of my mind.
Mar 12, 2013 @ 08:43:43
I see an ENALR anthology possibility. With EVERYBODY in all-caps…
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Mar 12, 2013 @ 10:51:21
LOL We could write one just in time for Valentines day! : )
Mar 12, 2013 @ 09:54:46
No yellow jacket or wasp shifters… hmmm, can you be allergic to a shifter?
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Mar 12, 2013 @ 10:52:56
You know, Cristine, I’ve wondered that. What about those people who are allergic to dogs? Oh! Wait! I did read a shifter story in which the heroine was allergic to dogs. She wasn’t allergic to the wolf shifter because he wasn’t just a canine…but wouldn’t they have the same dander?
And this is where I stop because I’m way over thinking this. : )
Mar 12, 2013 @ 11:21:27
I think I read that one too. But, as someone who is held hostage daily by 4 siberian huskies. I can say without a doubt that shedding is their big problem not dander. And they really don’t have dander or rather it can’t get through the undercoat! While watching True Blood, as hot as Alcide Herveaux is, I couldn’t help looking under the TV during the show at new hair tumbleweed and wondering if he sheds a lot…
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Mar 12, 2013 @ 10:17:47
This is an awesome brain activity. I’m trying to think up some new shifters! I’d thought of snakes before I got to Gwen’s post so I’ll find something new. PLUS I have to say…I dated that shifter-octopus in college!
Shifter-armadillo
Shifter – wild hog
Shifter – minnow (hmm had sex with this one once! hee hee)
Shifter – tree frog
Shifter – rat (sorry. no way you can make that sexy!)
Cristine – I’m laughing at an allergy to bee “stings” and your shifter wasp/yellow jacket. Thinking about writing those sex scenes! hee hee
Mar 12, 2013 @ 10:54:34
Cynthia, Ilona Andrews does have rat shifters! They live underground. But I think only other rat shifters find them sexy. ; ) Minnow shifters… lol
I love it!
Mar 12, 2013 @ 10:37:35
I want to see a goat shifter. Because they are crafty and resourceful and the coolest of all the farm animals.
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Mar 12, 2013 @ 10:55:43
And you’d never need a weed wacker. ; )
Mar 12, 2013 @ 11:28:23
Good point! As someone who has had it up to here [pointing at top of head] with my husband’s endless, ad nauseum complaints about weed wacking… I’d probably be tempted to cheat on him with a goat shifter (just tempted).
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Mar 12, 2013 @ 12:23:34
I wouldn’t want to see a lemur-shifter. Those humongous eyes! ICK!!!
Mar 12, 2013 @ 13:36:18
LOL Pamela, I can almost picture one.
Mar 12, 2013 @ 15:41:22
You guys crack me up!
I don’t read shifter books. They’re as overdone as vampires, which I also don’t read. I just wonder, though, why everything has to be tied to sex? LOL
I would LOVE to be a spider shifter! Spiders fascinate me. They’re agile and graceful and build very strong webs, and if you had human DNA, you’d be a super-spider, with speed and extreme jumping ability. Forget fly on the wall. Imagine the conversations you could be privy to! (I write spies, remember. LOL)
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Mar 12, 2013 @ 15:58:57
You’d be spider man! Oh that gives a whole new perspective! Sorry guess I went right back to sexy. :/
Mar 12, 2013 @ 22:51:26
Oh my gosh, Shawna, you got me. You gave some great examples of shifters we wouldn’t like. How about the politician shifter. It’s late and my head cold is making me loopy. Gnight!
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Mar 13, 2013 @ 12:05:58
Feel better, Donnel~