werebeasts

[ex_pippin880]

Werewolves and other werebeasts and transforming animals and humans -- what are your thoughts? Where does your suspension of disbelief start wavering? Do you prefer magical or genetic transformations?

Does a large mass difference bother you? Do you stay awake at night wondering how a woman with a menstrual cycle could safely and regularly become an animal with an oestrus cycle? Do placental mammals turning into birds or marsupials make you go "err" at the story? Do you get annoyed when the animal forms have human intelligence/morals, or even abilities like telepathy?

...Is this something you've never thought about because you're not weird like me?

What are your favourite stories with werebeasts?

Comments

[smeddley]

I'm pretty good at suspending disbelief if something is well (entertainingly) written. But it has to be a conscious decision, because if I do start to wonder and think there's no going back and it'd ruin a lot of stories for me. :(

Honestly? The the only 'werebeast' story I can think of that's stuck with me is one about a post-it-note werewolf. Seriously.

Oh, I take that back, there's one other, I listened to the audiobook of some horrid story and the reader kept pronouncing it 'weir-wolf', which drove me insane. But I've blocked that one out because the story sucked.