Vampire couture

I'm still being all obsessed with True Blood, so it's not surprising that I noticed the jewelry some of the characters are wearing, I guess:

This is from Season 1, the first time we see the vampire bar Fangtasia. In the book, it's explained that these vampire bars are wildly successful because they cater to tourists and "fangbangers" (basically, vampire groupies) and so to make it work, the local vampires have to spend a certain amount of time a week sitting around in the bar looking all broody and vampire-ish, playing on human expectations of how vampires look and act. So it makes a good bit of sense that this necklace and earring set, while cute, looks like it's something that came from Macy's or somewhere. (Hot Topic, maybe.) Actually I swear I've seen it before.

(In the same scenes, the human heroine Sookie wears a red-and-white sundress and a really cute pair of tiny red dangly earrings. So she's color-coordinated but sort of anti-goth.)

(Picture from a screencap.)

True Blood

I've gotten really hooked on the HBO vampire series "True Blood" - to the point that I've also been reading the novels (most of which are in the box set which will be pictured at right if I can get all this to work right - just in case here is the link: Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set ). I like these books so much that I read all eight of them already. But I'm still in the middle of watching the series, and while googling fan sites, I discovered that there is also a "True Blood" branded line of jewelry. The jewelry itself didn't so much blow me away, I was more interested in the fact that it existed at all. I imagine that there is more of this kind of thing around, but the only other movie/tv tie-in jewelry that I could think of right off was the Lord of the Rings line, which was mostly copies of pieces actually featured in the movies - Arwen's pendant, for example, and the One Ring itself. (People apparently use the One Ring as a wedding ring, sometimes, which I think is really weird, considering that the ring is supposed to be evil. But y'know, you can't tell fans anything.)

(And I know, it's a little weird of me to mock fans when I was just burbling about my own fannish tendencies above. I'm a huge Tolkien geek, too, but I still wouldn't use "the ring" for my wedding ring. I try to keep my  fannishness to a fairly reasonable level. Plus, I don't even wear rings, normally - I don't even wear my own wedding ring, actually. I've been told that's kind of weird, too, but that's another subject.)

Anyway, here's one of the True Blood pieces:

It's pretty, but I wouldn't pay nearly $900 for it. (I guess that is a real ruby, though.)