I actually arranged a presentation on vampirism at my college, but the thing is I need actual statements from actual vampires other than yours truly So if theres anything you want the world to know through my presentation kindly stick it in your replies and the type of vampire you are. Also could I have your views and any websites on prejudice towards us, and any thoughts on our origin.

This is a small step for me but I beleive it is a big leap for vampires in our modern college and university societies

I had a feeling you were behind that one, when i saw the notices on the notice board today , but seriously though its creating quite a buzz in my class like most of them want to actually here about it. So if theres anything i can help with just give a holler

Camille/Lady C/Come To Me. Eclectic Hybrid Vampire.

Quote for the world??

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P.S. Just in case you're serious, I am thinking about the question seriously.
When do you need the info by?

Lady C.

the presentation is in 2 weeks and though i love the quote i doubt theyd take kindly to it

I know what you mean, but what's said for us, is only for us.
We do not talk about fight club outside of this place, you know that.




What kind of statements do you want, and on what kinds of subjects? Just give me a jumping off point and you'll be sorry you asked me for input.

Anything and everything express your thoughts feelings and keep all violent rampage to a minimum

Aww, well I could say 'hello', and 'goodbye' and maybe tell the joke about the blind Vampire in the dark, but that would be about it then.

I give say anything about vampires origin, feeding patterns what we like dislike anything, just no threats please ? This is really important to me.

How's this? Would this do?

Most people when they are asked to consider the possibility of 'real' Vampires do one of two things.
They either get a mental image of someone who changes their facial features into a twisted grotesque of humanity, grows fangs and roams the night biting innocent people on the neck and draining their blood until they either die or they become Vampires themselves. Or they say, "There's no such thing. If there was don't you think we'd have heard about them before now?"
Well the truth is that there is such a thing, but they don't look like you imagine. Mostly they look just like you, and most of them have never bitten anyone anywhere and drained them of their blood. They don't 'Vamp Out' and grow fangs when they get angry, and they don't go through the kind of change that gives them furrowed brows and deepset wrinkles even Oil of Olay couldn't help them with!
Reality for them is much more scary than you could ever paint them.
First of all they get to find out in their teens that everything they have grown up believing about themselves and their relationships is based on facts that are no longer true.
They are not the person they always thought they were, and they never have been.
Just after that, they begin to get wrenching pains in their stomachs, headaches and fevers, and for some of them sun sensitivity and trouble sleeping. They feel constantly tired, drained and feverish, but no amount of sleep makes them more energetic, no medicine they take cures it either, and no amount of food stops them from craving 'something' they just can't identify.
This is the thirst, likened by many Vampires to an addicts craving for their drug of choice, and it can only be quenched one way. They have to feed.
This is the point where many of you are nodding and saying "I knew this was coming. This is where they 'Vamp out' and we all lose a few pints!" But nothing could be further from the truth.
For most Vampires this is the time when they begin to take energy without meaning to, from anywhere and everywhere. They lose energy balance and mental focus as they absorb the energy, and often the emotions, from sick people, depressed people, drunk people, happy people, and sad people. They feel elated one minute and down in the deepest dumps the next. Their friends begin to find their mood swings annoying or worrying, and advise them either to snap out of it, or to see a doctor. If help isn't found soon friends often drift away to find someone who isn't so unpredictable, and who isn't quite so much work to be around.
For the ones who crave blood, this is where they begin to eat meat by the pound, and the rarer the better. This is where they half cook hamburgers and eat steak as raw as they can get it.
The ones who recognise themselves for what they are (these are few, but their numbers are growing,) begin looking for forums online, trying to make connections to anyone else who might be able to identify with the way they're feeling, and help them find an end to this misery. The others fall through the cracks and are lost in the big wide world. Some remain lost for years, before finally coming to a kind of epiphany, when their world and their entire existence make sense for the very first time. Scary, unbelievable sense, but finally, sense of a kind.
Some sadly, are never found. They live their lives as social misfits, making very few friends, feeling always like outsiders looking in on a world that they can never truly be part of.
Now this may sound far fetched to some of you, but I promise you somewhere right now someone you know is feeling lost and scared. They have families who love them, and a job, perhaps even a home and children, and yet they feel alone and would give anything for a hug, however brief, to make their world come right again.
No matter how well you feel you fit in, no-one is immune.
Now imagine how you would feel if that someone you knew, perhaps someone you cared about felt like that and when you asked them what was wrong, they said..." I don't know where to start, I love you so much, but I'm scared. I'm so scared. I think I might be a Vampire."
Remembering that this is a person you know, and a person that you love. Remembering please, that the next words out of your mouth could rip the heart out of this person. What would YOU say?

Lady C.
Eclectic Hybrid Vampire.

Wow Camille. That was very good I thought. It might just help to put things into perspective for some of those people who have the choice of ripping hearts out or helping.

~Farshief

Thanks Lady C that was beautiful and really important. thank you again. If anyone else wants to post a view just put it in the same format.

Ser, is it true that your actually doing a psychological report on otherkin? Youre creating a huge buzz in the college with these things, first the presentation, but if theres any info you need on the fallen give me a holler And are you really going to the college ethics board about it?
You were seriously angry about that little incident the other day, but if it raises kin awareness just tell me where to sign up for petitions

I am doing the report but the presentation is first and I do have to go to the ethics board with it, the idiots claim that the act of transfering blood may become to erotic or impressionable for some of the kids at college but im still doing it! regardless beacuse i know they cant say that im wrong because they cant prove they are right , so from now on they are from my presentations, can you beleive they actually wanted to see a vampire feeding in person, i was going to tell them to go themselves, but then i realized that that would give them a bad impression of us, so im writing the report as a back up version, im doing this the right way

That's good to hear Serenity. If you do it the right way then you reduce their chances of making any objections they may have stick, and perhaps preventing you from doing what you set out to do.

Lady C, I loved your piece. I can relate to so much of that, both for myself and for my daughter who is struggling with her own awakening at the moment.
It breaks my heart to watch her and know that although she can talk to me and I will be there for her no matter what, I can't actually help her with the awakening process.
She is lucky because she knows people she can talk to about this who won't think she's crazy, she has me and her brother, and thankfully she is also a member of some internet otherkin sites aimed at teens. Even so it hurts to see her confusion and her pain as she realises why she has always felt different, and places this alongside the fact that many of the other children she has been to school with have always treated her differently.
I was so worried when I saw it beginning in her. She reminded me so much of myself and I didn't want to influence her in any way. I didn't want to liken her awakening to mine and so make my truth hers at all, so I tried to be supportive and present, but not pushy or over-helpful.
Of course now I'm afraid that I could have done more, and that I let her down.
For all those who think it would be wonderful to have parents who understood you and what you were going through, you're probably right, it probably would be, but it would bring with it a whole new set of problems for both of you. She is confused, and full of questions that I have to skirt around the answers to, I don't want to accidentally make her believe something that is not true. This makes her frustrated, especially with me and what she percieves sometimes as my negative attitude toward helping her discover herself, and my obstruction to her finding her true inner self. She expresses her frustration by shouting, usually at me.
I must admit that the freedom of expression she is discovering has it's good side aswell as bad. (Not that I'd ever tell her that!)
She has taken the bullying from school mates and bottled up her emotions for years, and now we scream like Baen Sidhes when we have a disagreement. She is angry at me because I won't answer all her questions, and I am angry because she doesn't see that this is the section of road I must travel in silence. My silence is the price I pay in order to walk with her along this section of her journey and be there for her.
Sometimes having a parent, or even two, who understands, can be worse for Kin than having human parents. You can be angry because they don't understand, but forgive them because there is no way they could.
Neither my daughter nor I have that out clause, and I have the feeling that we both sometimes wish we did.

I have just read this back and realised that I am not sure how this could be useful to you Serenity, and yet I really don't have the heart to delete it.
I hope someone who reads it finds some of it of some use.

Moon.

Its okay it really is all thoughts are welcome regardless