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.

Here is a snippet of a ridiculous story, read more here.

UNALASKA, AK (KUCB) - It’s summertime, so Unalaska’s vampires are likely off vacationing in the southern hemisphere. But what’s become of those who were accused of acting like the undead last winter?

Well, one successfully proved his humanity just last week. Andrew Philemonof Jr. was found not guilty of assault and vampirism by an Unalaska jury on Thursday.

Ripped directly from Mr. Mefestta’s Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/drakemefestta

To the members, supporters, and observers of the Vampire Community
July 31, 2010

Throughout the decades the vampire community has been comprised of members from all paths, faiths, and walks of life. As a community and as individuals we have all felt, at one time or another, the burden of our own personal tribulations, being what we are and existing within a social structure that is growing but still infantile in its understandings has made for a difficult way of life for many within our society. I feel that there is a part within our community that still can be considered far more unacknowledged in their way of life and whom I feel deserves necessary validation and recognition for what they do in support for our community, our donors.

Within the general society donors are often looked at as simply food, portrayed often as something to be fed upon and nothing more, given an almost consistent stigma of helpless prey to the mighty hunter and to this I raise my objection. I believe most would agree that though we the vampires may be negatively perceived by many, there are still others who would equally find positive traits, things to admire and find fantasia or mystique in therefore the icon of the vampire still has a formidable substantiation to it . The donor’s life however I consider the perception to not only be misconstrued in society but also not as empathized within the community due to the fact that almost all that would feed from a donor had never been in the donors place and truly experience what they sacrifice for our preservation and all so willingly as well.

By this I would wish to declare that on October the 1st, I will be holding personally as a secular holiday, as a day of thanks to the donors that have given so much for our preservation. I feel that they are just as much of a part of our community as any other and hold an irreplaceable role as the ones who make it possible for us to exist and maintain our sense well being and that is something to give deepest honor to. I hope you will all join me by giving thanks to your donors however you see fit and celebrating their sacrifices to us. This secular holiday I offer for our community I hope will fortify the bond further of our society and whatever role we all have within it.

I welcome your thoughts and insights to this desire of mine and anticipate you will support me in this endeavor.

Regards,-Drake Mefestta

Directly quoted from VVC Email:

June 2010 Global Vampire Community Discussion
Hosted By Voices of the Vampire Community (VVC)

Global Vampire Community Discussion on Sunday, June 27, 2010 @ 7:00 PM Eastern US/ET
(11:00 PM GMT).  If you need assistance with time conversions refer to: http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc
The discussion will be held in the IRC channel #vampirevoices on
Dalnet.

Topic: What kind of things do you get from the vampire community that assist you in understanding and functioning with
your personal vampirism?  What are some things the vampire community
could do that we’re not currently doing, or that we could do better, to
help our fellow vampire or donor?

If you have the ability to install or use an IRC client (a program used to connect to an IRC
server) to access the discussion, please do so. If you don’t have an irc
client already installed on your machine, two popular clients are mIRC (http://www.mirc.com/)
and xchat (http://www.xchat.org/
or http://www.silverex.org/news/).

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.

For anyone who has an IRC Client, use irc.dal.net or another dalnet server (http://www.dal.net/servers/)
and join #vampirevoices

Please help spread the word to all those you know in the vampire community. The channel (#vampirevoices) is
always open so feel free to drop by anytime you wish. We hope to see
everyone there!

- Voices of the Vampire Community (VVC)
http://www.veritasvosliberabit.com/vvc.html

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.

The VVC has announced the date of the next Global Vampire Community Discussion and is currently seeking suggestions for discussion topics.  Suggestions may be sent through the Vampire Community Feedback form located at:

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

June 2010 Global Vampire Community Discussion
Hosted By Voices of the Vampire Community (VVC)

Global Vampire Community Discussion on Sunday, June 27, 2010 @ 7:00 PM Eastern US/ET (11:00 PM GMT).  If you need assistance with time conversions refer to:http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc The discussion will be held in the IRC channel #vampirevoices on Dalnet.

Topic(s): Please Make Suggestions Using The Feedback Form

If you have the ability to install or use an IRC client (a program used to connect to an IRC server) to access the discussion, please do so. If you don’t have an irc client already installed on your machine, two popular clients are mIRC (http://www.mirc.com/) and xchat (http://www.xchat.org/ or http://www.silverex.org/news/).

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.

For anyone who has an IRC Client, use irc.dal.net or another dalnet server (http://www.dal.net/servers/) and join #vampirevoices

Please help spread the word to all those you know in the vampire community. The channel (#vampirevoices) is always open so feel free to drop by anytime you wish. We hope to see everyone there!

Global Vampire Community Discussion Transcripts:

July 10, 2009 - http://www.veritasvosliberabit.com/images/VVCGlobalVampireCommunityDiscussion07.10.09.pdf
August 2, 2009 - http://www.veritasvosliberabit.com/images/VVCGlobalVampireCommunityDiscussion08.02.09.pdf
September 20, 2009 - http://www.veritasvosliberabit.com/images/VVCGlobalVampireCommunityDiscussion09.20.09.pdf
November 29, 2009 (To Be Posted This Month)

- Voices of the Vampire Community (VVC)
http://www.veritasvosliberabit.com/vvc.html

Directly Copied from the Atlanta Vampire Alliance website announcement.

The Vampire Beach Burn is an annual event held in the summer months in Southern California. Originally created as a summer meet-up event for local vampires it has now evolved and we would like to extend the invitation to other members of the Dark Community to participate.

This year the Burn will take place on Saturday June 26, 2010 at Bolsa Chica State Beach located on Pacific Coast Highway and Warner Ave.

Our burn this year will coincide with the full moon and  be less then a week after the  Summer Solstice.

The Beach Burn starts at 9 am and will run until the beach closes at 10 p.m. The event is FREE, but there is a $15 parking fee.

More info at the official Vampire Beach Burn site.