I think it is wise to pay the piper in advance. So here is my gothic playlist (audio only) from my You Tube channel (not monetized). Note you can navigate through different songs using the playlist icon in upper right corner of the video plug to choose what you want.

Greetings. Please, call me Tree. It's the nickname I'm most comfortable with. I'm a rather tall guy at 6'8", 240lbs., hazel eyes, brown/silver hair and spend a lot of quality time communing with nature where I'm most comfortable. I'm also an American of British and French heritage. Time is an essential part of life so let's get this party going.

I tend to be a private person and keep to myself for the most part. But I have found a social network a great place to write out my thoughts clearly where in real life I'd be more taciturn in the heat of a moment relying on force of habit. Then there is that least part that actually does socialize as a pack animal (human) and this accounts for my presence. Found all things I consider it helps me orient myself in the cosmos well.

I grew up as an only child and Army brat in many places around bases stateside and in Europe. Originally, I'm from a rural area in the Appalachian Mountains in coal mining country. On my father's father's side of the family we have Hypersensitivity which usually causes people to be shy and inhibited except in those who have more favorable experiences to give confidence where it develops an inflated ego instead. My father had a measure of the latter; The oldest sibling in a large family; A decorated Vietnam vet and Government agent. Now it is on my mother's side of the family that an innate vampiric trait is active, but they are unaware of the condition which I was able to perceive because of my sensitivity. On an unconscious level they just drain the vital forces of those they develop bonds with especially in their families and sadly the youngest gets the worst of it. Because my father had a strong personality, he could withstand my mother's vampirism and actually become a sympathetic vampire. Sympathetic vampires take on the traits like a magnet magnetizes iron when it's close to the field surrounding it and apart from it loses it. Note there's lots of sympathetic vampires on this site. Not that such do things with a malicious intent as they tend to think they are doing what's best in their opinion being ignorant of the subtle forces. But it is their arrogance that causes them to be blind. Like saying ignorance of the law is no excuse the same applies here as there will be a reckoning. It has been hard for me to suffer the injustice of it but I know there is a before and after life other than what one glimpses in the present one. So called justice tends to span such a scope in my cosmology. Anyway Yes I think there's a demystifying biological reason for real vampires beyond what shapes people through their experiences like being bit by one in a blood covenant. Don't worry I'm just a crazy old man and very few actually pay attention to me so I'm hardly an authority to be believed.

So my youth was mostly a living hell with strict military discipline and having my vitality constantly drained failing to live up to the standards I was expected to live by. Besides competing in martial arts, I wasn't into sports unless you think hunting, fishing and trapping are. I don't. I think it's a big part of who we are as a species, and it was a means for our ancestors to survive. Now we need some catharsis in the society we live in in modern times to become whole with millions of years of evolution imprinted in our DNA being repressed. Thus, to my understanding we have all the spiritual dynamics that develop to those that look deeper in themselves and the cosmos for wholeness.

When I became an adult I got away from my family and became an Airbourne Ranger in the Army where I thrived...until my family showed up for a surprise visit. All my motivation just suddenly disappeared. It's ironic that my father has the audacity to smugly tell me it was the happiest he ever saw me. Damn right it was the peak of my life. My military career was a downhill disappointment after that. Why even mention it then? Why not hide the shame like most with misdirection highlighting my good points to sell myself like most do? Simply because I believe in and accept fate to hide it would compromise that. I am also an ex-con for beating a man to death among other crimes. But like a monk in a monastery, I used that time to put things together I didn't have the chance to before while draining the vital forces of other prisoners around me i bonded with. Note I've heard others going around expressing I'm bragging about being a convicted felon but I'm just honest and would rather anyone know me for who I truly am. I know nature and myself in it very well others don't seem to know and are insecure about it and are the ones that need to hide it. Been maintaining my distance and trying to incorporate my vampire to those that want it like my elemental companion, subs in the BDSM community or T-girls that want their masculinity drained. Even here to my main social network for the "so-called" real vampire community. There is this same pattern I had to deal with as a youth here as well with sympathetic vampires not knowing what they are doing but like my government's negligence concerning vets and their dependents and using them to their benefit there are certain individuals responsible and profiting from it on this site. Like a certain cenobite said in a movie their "suffering will be legendary". But there is no hell but only reincarnations of mortal beings so they will re-learn that death is a mercy to some. In this my sadism is quenched because I'll enjoy knowing the good it does for them in later incarnations. *Draconic laughter*

As far as education goes, I have a H.S. diploma and vocational degrees in Electronics, Horticulture, and Business. Besides that, I'm self-taught in many things. Chiefly in knowing myself which I think is very important.

I have studied many traditions with empirical results, but they never seemed to fit me very well. It's something about the scrutiny that was instilled in me via my strict youth and attention to detail if one were to reason by present circumstances. So relative to my unique life's experiences I found my own spirituality. I think I'm best understood as a human occultist and natural vampire (natural in wild but not cultivated by farming that can produce more fruit like in orchard) I believe in the power of belief. Though most of it seems to be false like a child believing in Santa Clause or the tooth fairy it still can be experienced if that's how your mind is trained.

In a nutshell: I don't think a vampire has a deficiency in energy that they seek in others but rather I just see it as a natural polarity that develops in how one's psyche forms. I thirst for blood at times but am nosferatu a term Father Sebastiaan uses to redefine from it's origianl meaning as one that can feed from many sources. So, I don't need blood as a sang but for a deep feed there is not much better. I find it similar to the principle of communion in Catholicism with the actual bite or blood covenant as the important act of it to draw power from each time much like a man taking a virgin in marriage-it's actually a lot like grounding a circuit in electronics. I don't need it to survive like a vampire bat but think such concepts sprang from how the ancients thought about the humors and alchemy when it comes to blood. I make it very evident that it's a spirituality rather than deceiving people with theatrics of physical things. Thus, fangs that I have are just ritual tools and displayed as such being silver and worn around my neck to pop in when the need arises and serves as my holy symbol rather than some rendition of an Ankh like many in the community. Some may think it's obviously a costume and comfortably wear fake fangs, FX contact lenses or photoshopping their photos as part of the identity creating a glamour or artistic license of it but there are those that do think such things are real. As I'm big on truth and clarity to deceive people in this way sets a bad precedent so I try to make things very clear leaving little room for misunderstandings. When it comes to being undead i.e. coming back from the dead it's just superstition to me created by mass hysteria for the most part as often seen in defining vampires in legend. Such physical miracles require a lot of power and thus lots of blood sacrifice like in certain religions that still practice blood rites that empowers them. But there is a state of mind one can acquire that is likened to coming back from the dead. Not just an abstract concept held in the mind but actually through spiritual dynamics things can gain quite an empirical dimension to experience. A dismal journey through the valley of death as sung by Theatres Des Vampires in Suicide Vampire. Certainly like in anything it has it's perks and you try to find what happiness you can but equally there is a suffering to it that one longs for the sweet embrace and mercy of true death to set you free. Most in goth and vampire circles seem interested in the cathartic experience like watching a movie or reading a story that they can put down and go back to their boring lives but actually living it is no joke and shouldn't be pursued as you actually do want another life. If they truly live the lifestyle they tend to look for others like themselves but that can be problematic as well when it comes to sharing...resources.

I had a significant experience back in 1993 with a terrifying holy occult being (strigoi divinity) that changed my life. I don't anthropomorphize and believe in objective divine beings like most but still the experiences do obviously impact our lives. I think they are mainly just subjective creations of the mind that form in the dynamic of the brain's inner workings to give form to the cosmos in the astral plane aka Maya(illusion). They may take form outside of ourselves especially in shared belief structures as much as one can astrally project outside their body and travel beyond space and time. This is where ghosts come from to my understanding. Not disembodied beings after death but just power of their physical brains when they are alive. If one is a medium and they are conscious ghosts as opposed to unconscious like in normal dream state it may be wise to ask them what date they think it is like a doctor asks when determining mental health. The astral plane is a meeting place one taps into for brains capable of abstract thought throughout eternity. In some ways I see the internet is similar.

I believe in fate. Everything is fated to be a certain way. It's only the naive or ignorant that think they are in control of their destiny and it's usually because their egos' blind them. There is only an appearance the cosmos is random in its complex nature perceived by a limited number of brain cells in the mind to conceive it at any given time. Once this is realized and exponentially so with spiritual influences that makes abstract thought a very incomplete thing, you really don't need to feel guilty or take pride in anything. If you commune with nature on my level, you'd understand. Same goes for karma which is just bullshit to me. Good and bad shit happens to everyone indiscriminately. You need the ability to create good and bad karma to get it. It's more about ones focus and most have it on the decisions they appear to make and if it's favorable relative to environment they develop egos' thinking they are doing it when it's more about sacrifices made in other lives in the turning of eternity. People see what they have their focus on. Like when you buy a new car and then you start seeing it often. I believe from my perception of nature and its cycles that our eternal spirits just go through different seasons or waxing and waning cycles like moon phases. Like if you fast something only then would you truly appreciate it while those with an abundance tend to take advantage.

For me it is just a beginning to compare something in a dualism (good/evil, positive/negative, male/female etc.) to give it definition in contrast but then you should continue the comparison. Thus, there is an honorable and dishonorable aspect to both the light and dark and a refinement that continues in each new permutation from each. In my understanding neither has dominance over the other that is another permutation and the night and day both have dominating aspects to the subjugated aspects of their opposites. Like there are strong dominant females as much as there are weak males. Besides that, I think the source of "so called" demonic activity has its root in repression. I don't consider myself Satanic though after suffering oppression under Patriarchy I find invocation rites cathartic and I prefer working with Chthonic energy, but I do know exclusive religions will put me in that category.

I associate the vampire as a nocturnal hunter usually like the vampire bat. There is honor in the night for those creatures that perceive well in it. I don't burn up in the sunlight but prefer the night because most activities I've come to enjoy are at those times and have been indoctrinated thus. For some it seems to be simply a psychosomatic response to the mythos of the vampire.

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I consider myself heterosexual as only females turn me on unless you think being attracted to some T-Girls and Trans Women to be queer then I'll accept that. I have been taught to respect a person's gender choice and sexuality. Yes, some are of a degenerative nature but that doesn't make them any less important-especially in the modern overpopulated world. Also, as an occultist I have a relationship with an elemental being that feeds many of my appetites. Having this really distinguishes my state of mind and center and has both pros and cons to it. Like I've crossed some thresholds where I was terrified by feeling too much pleasure or it can make one quite lazy when one can feed through such that permeates the cosmos in every aspect.

Besides flirting I don't engage in sexting It's just inappropriate even if your identity is confirmed as it sets a bad example to youth or sexual predators that use this site. There are more appropriate adult sites for this if you want to indulge in it. I stick to sex in the physical or metaphysical not on electronic media.

I am not looking for any relationship but of the vampiric kind. I've been in love in my past and know it is quite different than what a vampiric state of mind has like in song Vampyrica by Theatres Des Vampire. To me that's not a love relationship though it has its own intimacy and may involve sexual dynamics. Now in this regard I don't distinguish between male and female preference but only willing donors. Note that most of my feeding happens through my astral body anyways so physical presence isn't needed.

I am a DIY (Do It Yourselfer) and try to do anything I can myself. Right here and now it extends to expressing myself on the internet by my standards. Chiefly, I try to do this with good SEO and achieving a balance in multiplatform applications that to me is the true measure of any work's worth on the internet.

I like to hike in the woods and park districts-especially at night with few people around. Not too big on loud guns but sure do like my quiet crossbows, fishing tackle and survival gear as a prepper when the need arises.

I like music especially from the Metal, Rock, Witch House and Dark Ambient genres and collect albums on Bandcamp platform where you can show your appreciation for an artist by paying what you choose for their work.

In a blue moon I play video games. My all-time favorite is Skyrim. Here's my game avatar "Grog the Greedy" from my last playthrough. I prefer playing on legendary difficulty. He is a vampire lord and a necro-mage thief likes dual wielding a dagger and a war axe for melee after summoning a couple dremora lords for tanks and Ariel's bow for ranged which he uses to eclipse the sun.

I used to play tabletop RPG's too and was usually the Dungeon Master as I fit that role well and play through my NPC's letting the dice rolls make things fun. I later learned it was a way to feed off of others too after raising energy levels not unlike how all the drama on this site happens that so many complain about. Been my experience with the vampire that they create obsession which brings in all kinds of emotional turmoil. I'm not given to play head games like many when it comes to real life and things that impact it. Though I do know I may trigger others just for being me and is a good aspect of being subtle and only subjecting others to me if it's their choice.

I used to read a lot, but any media doesn't really appeal to me, and I find myself rewriting how I would have things turn out in my own imagination that fits me better. But if I had to choose a vampire favorite then it would be the Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris which was what the HBO True Blood series was based on displayed on my small bookshelf. However, I would have ended it with her getting with Eric instead of Sam ultimately reaching reign as a vampire queen herself giving her life in service to her state. With what was instilled in me there is no greater honor than laying down your life in service to others weather on the battlefield or a life of service.

It can be hard choosing an actual favorite as I find I like and dislike different things for many reasons but overall If I were to choose a favorite vampire movie it would be the comedy SUCK. Though I'm actually not into sucking but rather some tongue action after a bite or from sources I favor.

I like the campy style of the movie set with many musicians starring in it. It covers the adventures of a band as it tours the U.S. and Canada and their relationship with the vampire. In fashion of Lestat a vampire musician just seems to go well with the curse of the undead to me as they motivate and raise energy then just feed. It's a movie I can watch again and again over the years and still enjoy.

I have quite a personal way of navigating through this site. I have to be true to myself. I am in a state of change both with adding new things as well in decay.

I do tend to take my time so once I do add something new it tends to remain for a while being appreciated. This is my main profile with only Neowise2020 as a back-up. But I'm often updating it so there will be subtle changes. It took me years to get the content set up.

So one of the chief problems I've found on the internet is lack of responsibility with those that abuse the anonymity. Too many just hide behind fake profiles like a bandit wearing a mask they create; Arguably some think it's like a masquerade party but where adult things come into play this ceases to be true as site is open to youth 13 and above and using anonymity becomes like a criminal using a child as a hostage. But apart from that I do identify as a vampire and this site is like a place to express your identity and compare or compete with others as such.

My main focus on a routine basis when I come to this site is my journal. I call it my hoard. Want to know me read my journal. I may post an entry openly to public but if it has a video embedded then I'll encrypt it eventually when I post other videos if no one comments. Having too many videos posted on the same page especially toward the end of the month is a waste of energy to me as your computer has to load it all in the cache during every page view. But if it's encrypted then it will only load it at that time it's decrypted. Sometimes I come on mobile and wasting my soft data cap for the month is not economical to me. Since you have taken the time to read through my profile, I'll give you an encryption key to many of my journal entries: Video Key = Videodrome. Inspired by the movie. In order to use Upiori you will have to upload it to your device as instructed in Cancer's Member Page on it.

So many favor journals or add as friend which is an easy click of a button then don't hear from them again. I don't give a fuck about the score. I've determined as a vampire I'm not capable of having friends. So, I don't have any friends from my end-can't stop others from adding which for the most part just seems to be those that do it to gain the like in return. Now my journal favoring is in a state of flux for those that maintain a relatively constant one. Works not unlike how society and stream bonus works for those who are active. So, if you are actively on V.R. and maintain a journal within a about 48 hour period and I like it you'll get that bonus from me. I tend to leave comments on the ones I favor. I don't do tit for tat on anything. Some come and rate you a 10, add you as a friend then favor your journal all to get the like in return to increase their score. I do things only because I choose because of my own code not out of obligation to return the favor.

I personally don't block. I understand some use it as a tool to deal with harassment but in the grand scheme I think it makes you weak. Its abused more than something to help someone. One of the most important aspects to society is being able to work things out in a dialog which can't happen then. I suppose it's easy to use to the simple sadistic fucktards on this site to hurt then feed off of them or downrate a profile to a one just out of spite but really there are far better occult tools to develop as well to deliver the power if one wants to really torture souls and feed off of them. If someone wants to express themselves, I let them. I don't need to censor and control the narrative of what people see myself included. Part of being goth to me is embracing death and elements of decay to be whole. Those who are fooled by such nonsense aren't people I want to know anyhow. They are more useful tools to the vain attention whores that need to fool themselves that they are something they are not by surrounding themselves by such opinions like "yes-men". Besides some are more like pesky little gnats in what they express which are only mildly irritating even when in swarms that such need for courage. I don't need to block a person to snub them.

I have a high and brutal standard when it comes to rating and strive to rate objectively on its presentation. After my latest awakening (there are many) I decided to start rating more freely again. I have an opinion and reserve the right to express it. Though I'm just given to mainly rate those who are active as rating a bunch of dead profiles seems a waste. But my rating score and honor suffers as a result. Without a standard any score loses it definition to me and having it for the glamour to be seen by others is little to me. I feel most comfortable rating those who have subjected themselves to my authority. Beyond that if you want a rating from me, you'll have to ask. You probably won't like it unless we reach an accord, and my opinion becomes valuable to you for your improvement by my standards or you are mature to recognize public opinion varies. For the most part rating profiles has become obsolete. Most just seem to rate for one purpose-to advertise their stamp with a ten given to everyone unless they get something then give the same in return or revenge rate. That's just immature to me but that's just where they are at this time in the turning of eternity. Like fasting now I'm sure it will sublimate it better in another incarnation otherwise they wouldn't appreciate the value of life.

My messages are kept private. I don't share them with anyone which is a despicable tactic many use on this site. Taking a screenshot or a snippet usually out of context then revealing something private just really shows you are not trustworthy and whatever dirt one wants to expose pales in comparison to me. Those that do it are really just people that have some influence and are abusing it in this case to justify themselves or hurt another then feed off them as sadists while eating up the praise of the weak minded they surround themselves with or politically minded that use public opinion to make each other look good-Like certain Alliance Masters in my experience on this site. People in authority tend to be arrogant and need to save face rather than doing what's ultimately right. They'll reason it is a small thing and seek comfort in the so called circle that gives them less drama. Maintaining a glamour has significance in some circles. However, trust is one of the most valuable things to earn in life in tandem with the virtue of discretion. If there is truly something problematic with a message, then just report it to the appropriate authorities that do govern the web in their jurisdiction. Now having a debate in a journal about an issue is the proper way to expose something to the public where you can work things out in a dialog if it's possible and others can post too.

Many seem to level their base score and ratings bonus by rating the Dark Network Databases. I have to have experience with something in the database in order to rate it with an informed decision rather than as a power levelling tool. If I make an entry, then it has to be something I likewise have experience with, and the entry would come from my input rather than copy and pasting some promoter on Amazon or the product to sell it as many seem to plagiarize others work and are rewarded for it on this site.

I Just started another portfolio where I'll take sefie's in different times and places as well as post my own art on clothing I and others wear. All this misdirection others use is not how I do things. Yeah I have my flaws like everyone else but when it comes to the vampire it is the hidden realm of the occult that takes precedence over ones physical appearance to my perception. I don't think I'm some model but I do tend to clean up nice when I dawn the good clothes and I definitely have a constant occult force running through me for the discerning eye to behold.

In my spirituality and identity as a vampire the chief aspect is hunting and tapping what millions of years have hardwired into my body's DNA. As far as this site goes well that's how many one lures in referrals to it. This to me is what all the other bonuses to leveling hinge upon which makes for some seriously slow leveling. So beyond me going out personally and sharing resources here that means getting content set up on sites I network through or creating my own to draw others and not just to create good search engine optimization that's crucial for a website's traffic rather than just sponging off of what Cancer created; It also is what defines being a good sponsor in business which this site seems to be. Fresh meat and those who can perform activity seems the most important resource. But I do tend to take my time like a patient hunter while feeding through an elemental being limited only through my finite brain and have to have pure motivations or face my own critical judgement. Seems to be plenty of so-called vampire lords here that use misdirection to feed their appetites. It will be my endeavor to clearly demonstrate my lifestyle which really isn't much as its the hidden occult forces that are the important aspect that those who are privy to can detect like when sensing holy or sanctified things.

If you come here and are between the levels 20 to 100 you are going to be pulled into a society because they earn favor from active members or want to hide you away in some prison coven lest you interfere in their agenda in a social structure. That said if you are coming in new it's best to find one that suits you till you reach sire status. Just aspect of site as freedom is earned. The heart of any society is its forum, so you have to look at which ones are active in choosing wisely what fits you best. Just go to the society and click on its members and see who posts and their frequency. Lots of members with many alternate profiles so keep that in mind too. Any community will try to control their environment, so you have those that have established themselves on this site and try to control it the way that suits them, but this has really caused a lot of problems for it and the site now suffers because of it. I'm more of a loner but do join societies at times as it stands now, I'm going to attempt to create one, but it will mainly be for those I'm responsible for personally bringing to this site and thus have met IRL in my travels or via my own website. I may induct and blind others for trade to other societies they want to go to provided an agreement can be made for the right price of favor points which Cancer has dumped profuse amounts of on certain ones back when this site was more active. Otherwise it is probably best to start over with a generic name and try again as the first 20 levels are a cakewalk. There is a way to come in using stealth. Try just creating a shell and then limiting your presence and who you communicate with till reaching level 19 then posting in stream and updating to increase your chances that certain members can induct you but you still are seen by certain admins so it's not foolproof. A similar exercise is done in ninja and vampire magick to mask ones presence and not be noticed. Then you can rename yourself something cool.

Vampire Rave was my first social network and has remained my only one if I do branch out it will be to bring referrals here. I'll remain loyal until I die or am removed in accord with TOS. I do what I can to help support V.R. as I like what Cancer created and has a lot of potential to me. It is a service for many to use with interests in the vampire subculture and gothic fiction. There are many different kinds of people that use it their own way. It is quite evident after spending years off and on this site that what being a vampire means is quite different than others here, so I just want to express this in a way suitable to dynamics of the site. In my understanding it is mortality that makes something priceless with a limited life and being one of a kind. If it lasted forever and was shared by others it would lose value relatively. I just have an awakened state of consciousness for now in the waxing and waning cycles of nature. I think everyone is bound by the same eternal spirit but not all are aware of it. That is all one gains when awakened is a certainty in that regard. So, I've done the calling in the ether now like a hunter that mimicked an animal mating call I need only wait till they arrive so I can embrace them as fate intended.