Hello All Vamps, Donors, and Curious Readers,

Due to college, various other projects, and certain life changes in the recent past and near future, my work on Real Vampire News will be significantly decreased. As I can, I will be posting various topics of interest, but this site should not be considered a “One-Stop Shop” for the time being. Hopefully there will continue to be guest submissions posted, which ought to be pretty groovy.

If you are interested in becoming a writer/news-finder-and-poster/etc for Real Vampire News, please feel free to send an e-mail to webmaster@RealVampireNews.com

If you find that your vampire readings requirements are not being met, I suggest you check out one of the following sites:

• Atlanta Vampire Alliance
• Sanguinarius’s brilliantly informative site (Mostly Sang Topics)
• Darkness Embraced
• SphynxCatVP’s amazing site for inquisitive vamps (Mostly Sang Topics)
• Black Swan Haven (Donor site)
• Of course there are many more, but those tend to be my “go-to” picks

I hope you will pardon this lapse in responsibility on my site.

Sincerely,

-John Reason

Just a few days ago the Atlanta Vampire Alliance had it’s fifth anniversary. Most people in the vampire community look at the Atlanta Vampire Alliance (AVA) as the de facto group for scientific research of the vampire experience. The AVA has put in a lot of time and money into it’s various endeavors between running a myriad of sites online, sponsoring offline meetups, and perhaps most importantly producing and interpreting the VEWRS and AVEWRS surveys.

I would  like to proffer my sincerest thanks for what the AVA has brought to the proverbial table in the vampire community. Keep up the good work.

The Voices of the Vampire Community has released the poll results from last week regarding the proposition for a Donor/Vampire Appreciation Day by Drake Mefestta. This poll does not designate action on the part of the VVC, but it does portray an idea of how the online vampire community feels about Mr. Mefestta’s plan.

Check out more on the Atlanta Vampire Alliance post.

The Voices of the Vampire Community (VVC) has released a new poll in regards to the idea of a Donor/Vampire Appreciation Day. The information gained from this poll may play a part in brightening someone’s day in the future – it may even be your day that gets brightened. I ask you to follow the link after the quited block of text, and click the bubble on the poll that best fits your opinion.

Do you support the creation of an international “Real Vampi(y)re Donor Appreciation Day” & an international “Real Vampi(y)re Appreciation Day”?

Please take a moment to vote in this poll and distribute to all those you know in the vampire and donor community.

http://www.veritasvosliberabit.com/appreciationdaypoll.html

Thank you!

Steve Wohlberg, occult researcher and bestselling author, has come out against Twilight in his new book The Trouble with Twilight: Why Today’s Vampire Craze is Hazardous to Your Health. In the book he states, “Twilight has positive features, but it is laced with occultism, contains mixed moral messages, and is now fueling the dangerous practice of sipping real blood among teens and adults.”

While many in the community have noticed an increased interest in Real Vampirism over the last few years due to the vampire craze becoming more active, the Twilight Saga is not the only contributing factor. Many vampire movies, books, and television shows have come to light in the last few years which cater to all types of people. I think it would be detrimental to the vampire community to automatically assume that the Twilight Saga is the reason for many of the fractures noticed between groups of vampires.

I leave you with one more quote from AvoidTwilight.com:

“In fiction, the vampire denotes power, sexuality, romance, and immortality; but in reality those who experiment with occultism, witchcraft, and drinking blood can easily slip through an alluring doorway into darkness, immorality,  and despair. Buyer, beware!” – Steve Wohlberg

A Magazine article from way back in 1999 was recently hosted by the Atlanta Vampire Alliance, courtesy of Sarasvati. The article focuses mainly on sanguinarian vampires from the last millennium, but also mentions psychic vampirism. Several vampires that are still integral in the community today are quoted in the article such as Sanguinarius and Sarasvati. FATE writer Larry Mastbaum offers a very down-to-earth representation of what self-identified “Real Vampires” are, and how they represent themselves. This is a very interesting look back to the past when Real Vampirism was gaining media attention for the first time.

Zoom over to the Atlanta Vampire Alliance forum to read the article.

Donor and blogger “Mizz Dizz” has posted a review of the upcoming scholastic article by Joseph Laycock.  Here is a brief excerpt, after which you can follow the link to her blog to read more.

Joseph Laycock has been at it again, this time with an academic article: Real Vampires as an Identity Group [1]. My regular readers will know that i’m a bit of a fangirl of Laycock’s [2], so i was quite excited when the article was announced, and already planning an eventual review here. Getting some direct encouragement from a prominent member of the VC (vampire community) decided the case and moved it up on my priority list.

Click here to read more.

SphynxCatVP, a noted vampire author, has released a new article detailing Circadian Rhythms, and the adverse affects they may have on vampire’s lives.

If you would like to learn more, click here.

The Voices of the Vampire Community (VVC) is hosting a Global Vampire Community Discussion on June 27, and they are currently looking to vampires all over the world to suggest possible topics. If you have any ideas, you can submit them to the VVC by clicking this link and filling out the information under the subheading “Vampire Community Feedback.”

The chat will be held on IRC (Internet Relay Chat) in the #vampirevoices channel on Dalnet. If you do not have an IRC client, you can download one mIRC or XChat. One added note from the Atlanta Vampire Alliance site:

If you do not have the ability to access IRC another way, you can access the discussion by going to http://tiny.cc/vampirevoices and entering your desired Username, then clicking “Connect”. Please be aware that Dalnet limits the number of people who can connect via the browser-based chat, so if you have another option for connecting, we strongly encourage you to not use the browser-based system.

Sanguine vampire Drake Mefestta recently did an interview for the June issue of Inclination Magazine. An interesting and expressive piece, his interview explains Drake’s journey with vampirism from the beginning to present. Mefestta covers a variety of complicated questions ranging from his philosophy on writing music to how he views vampires as normal people with an affliction-as opposed to the oft covered vampires of literature.

You can read the full story by going to Inclination Magazine’s website.

To learn more about Drake Mefestta, click here.