Steam coming out of orifices18:42 Jul 08 2011
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I am sick of the words wannabe, poser, and drama. This seems to be all anyone talks about. Two of the words are just made-up slang and the other wasn't used until more recently. What is wrong with people they are so worried about what someone else thinks?
If you open your mouth and insert foot (I do often) then expect the backlash. People of certain ages have a tendency to be very opinionated about things they know nothing about or think they do. Then there are those who are always blunderbuss. I have found one here in particular but won't name any names.
Let's get something straight. The vampire community, real one, not just people who stumble onto this site and say they are vampires and "look at me I drink blood" people but those who really are what they say because of numerous things besides the stereotypical blood drinking are tired of people trying to decide for them what is real and what is not. (Sorry for the run on sentence) It amazes me there are so many nay-sayers on this site when it is dedicated to goths and the vampire community. There is more to vampires than revenants, which are purely superstition and fictional vampires. I will not go off here about sparkly skin because that is fiction and does not bother me like the ring around the eye thing which makes me laugh.
Not all that call themselves vampirics are young people who have always had the internet. People banded together in areas if at all in the past. Most did not drink blood and many were not goths because one has nothing to do with the other. That was after my time and for me it is connected to a musical movement initially and then turned into more but still it is like the way kids separate into types starting in middle school. I saw it when my kids were in school at that level. My daughter was into heavy metal so everyone called these folks Hessians. Why, I don't know nor did I care, no. It was High School stuff. In my opinion those who are involved with bdsm are fetishers and not vampirics...sorry but how I see it. These types are lifestylers and some dress up and others do not. Although I do have to say there are some who are all of these things. Some just like blood play period.
Many like the aesthetic of the fictional vampire such as Dracula. Why? I have no idea. Some I think is because many, especially males have a penchant for proclaiming how dark they are. It really gets old. Then they get into all the Vlad the Impaler stuff and he wasn't a vampire nor the inspiration for Stoker's book. It is not copyrighted in the US and never has been and that is why people can sort of take liberties with the story like Coppola. The character, Dracula was actually Hungarian and not Romanian. The other guy was not mentioned in that book. Stoker just as one Brit stated, pinched the name because he liked it and thought it meant "devil, " nothing more, nothing less. So I am sick of hearing about him period. He has nothing to do with vampires whatsoever. He was a warlord and very brutal like many during his time. He carries the name of a fictional character and nothing more or vice versa, however you want to put it.
I have written it before, but why do people have to write on their profiles that people who claim to be vampires are mental. How the hell do you know? Do you know everyone in the community? Many you would walk past on the street and never know, same goes for Otherkin for that matter. Not everyone wears black all the time or dresses and wears fangs. Some like that personification...let them be. Fangs to me are entirely fictional. I find it amusing and always have but it gave jobs to some people quite frankly. Did vampires take energy, yes and long before any established community. Did they drink blood, probably because they were tribal too. Many cultures had blood drinking ceremonies for a variety of reasons. Are those who claim to drink blood vampires? Well until proven otherwise if they say they are then yes. Are those that say they take energy from various sources outside of blood, vampires? If they say so, yes. Perhaps they actually draw from the whole body when they take energy and they don't need to digest anything physical. Physical things are at a lower frequency and I have always thought it has something to do with that and why some crave blood and perhaps their cultural group. I believe at one time they were together in one place but they spread out and had different beliefs and practices over time.
They weren't multi orgasmic males, not even De Vere states that but there were rituals that they performed that supposedly go way back but only a few that are not included in the mainstream community have anything to do with that. Some confuse sexual rites, ancestor rituals, and cannibalism with vampirism. They are not the same thing. Some just have a plain fetish for things, but you can be a vampiric and have fetishes. I think the attraction to some things that are more commonplace now stems more from the Goth community than the vampire. Unfortunately they have mixed together somewhat. People are using the word vampire but there were many names and it has been used rather loosely over the years. I am meaning over a thousand years.
Take Ed Gein, the main person used for the Hannibal character. They called him the Brooklyn vampire but he wasn't one. He was cannibalistic. He had lived in areas where they ate human flesh and had developed a taste for it. He stated this himself. Many ideas have correlations to other things. When werewolf hunts were in full bloom in Europe the signs were cannibalism which included drinking the blood yet, some are labeled vampires who were serial murderers because of eating flesh and drinking the blood. Makes no sense to me other than people use the word rather loosely because of the interest in vampires in this day and age.
It is sort of an oxymoron to write vampires don't exist, etc etc etc on this site. I laugh at people who do. Why should anyone have to justify the belief or go into detail about their habits, how the community is set up and the list goes on. I think it is appropriate to talk about people who have no manners because it is rampant here.
If I offend anyone here I apologize but people with no rhyme or reason for what they say should think before they say it. If you don't know something then you don't know. It is like life after death, no one knows. This all deals with belief systems and most border on religion. Therefore there should be some respect given. BUT almost every type of religion one can think of is found in the community. A lot of Pagans but Christians as well. Of course Wicca since its popularity is bigger in the US than anywhere else. The community that most think of with Michelle Belanger (psi vampire) and the Stregoi Vii etc is American. There are differences in other countries and one House in South Africa which is rather new, is speaking up but they have sort of followed some of the more modern American ideas unfortunately. Personally being older I take them and some others with a grain of salt. Every influx of new people start the old debates over again. I get sick of the same old same old and tune out.
Note about ring around the eye: The iris contains pigment granules. Density of granules is a determinant of eye color. Some people have especially dense concentrations of granules towards the periphery of the iris. This causes the dark iris "ring."
I have known numerous people with this and they were not vampirics, lol.
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