Posts Tagged ‘ vampire community ’

Laycock on Vampires as an Identity Group – a review

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 [ READ MORE ]

Joseph Laycock’s “Vampires Today” – a review

So a few days before the winter solstice i finally got my copy of “Vampires Today” by Joseph Laycock [1], and read it during the winter break. You might remember that i’ve already written about the book several times before, from the original book announcement via interview links to speculations about identity and ontology. After [ READ MORE ]

“real” vampire blog

the other day i stumbled across this blog: “Musings of a High School Vampire“. it is smart, funny, acerbically witty, with extreme violence and gore hidden just below the surface (i.e. you have to supply the visuals yourself – not that difficult if you’re me). it’s an easy and amusing read, starting at the beginning [ READ MORE ]

the importance of community

i was hanging out in chat last night when a new person showed up. they were rather shy, wanting to talk with people about vampirism, not really daring to ask what was on their mind. we coaxed it out of them, with questions, jokes, links, snake feet*, opinions, guesses… in friendly chat fashion, as it [ READ MORE ]

VVC public chat

last friday the VVC (Voices of the Vampire Community) invited everybody for a public chat. it was announced quite late – i got the first invitation barely 24 hours before – but as i’m actually quite interested in what goes on there and usually don’t have anything better to do at 3am (that’s when it [ READ MORE ]

going public

just a minor update. i’ve never kept this site secret as such. since the beginning it’s been public in the sense that it was included in wordpress’ search features and could be indexed (and found by) google et al. i also very early on gave the link to a few of my closest friends whom [ READ MORE ]

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