Tuck Everlasting

[ivyfic]

You guys remember reading Tuck Everlasting in middle school? I always found it horribly depressing that their hair didn't grow. Eternal life and no new hairdos? Appalling.

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[chuckro.livejournal.com]

And see, my response to that would be, "Eternal life and never needing to get another haircut? Okay!"

Presumably that means all of their hair, right? So if you shave a part of your body, it stays shaved for the rest of eternity? No more ingrown hairs!

(There's a specific bit in Vampire: The Masquerade discussion how, when a vampire wakes every evening, his/her body has returned the state it was in when they were turned. If you got turned clean-shaven, then you stayed clean-shaven. If you got turned with a goatee, and you wanted to be clean-shaven, you'd need to shave it off every evening when you rose.)

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

There are going to be some very hirsute vampires then.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

I think I'd rather have to recut every evening than be stuck with, say, a bad pixie cut for all eternity.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

I remember the woman had very long hair, and thinking how if she ever got tired of it and cut it, she couldn't go back--that over time she'd just end up with shorter and shorter hair, and that was really a depressing thought.

This was probably informed by me reading it only a year after THE WORST HAIR CUT OF MY LIFE that took me three years to grow back out into something workable.

I think I'd rather have to recut every evening than be stuck with, say, a bad pixie cut for all eternity.
Eternal Kate Gosselin hair! You'd have to hope you were turned when your style was something timeless and Grace Kelly-esque. Imagine being turned as a punk teenager in the eighties.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Or a black guy in the 80s with the flat top and stuff shaved in the sides. You'd just have to go bald.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Well, you effectively only have one hair style, so I can see how it would be a plus for you.

[ecmyers.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. I've never read it, but now I guess I know what it's about. I always meant to watch that movie with Alexis Bledel in it.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Yes. It is about hair. And Maniac Magee is about grody knots. :)