Back in the day it was easy to stumble across a weird community and follow a link trail to different forums and websites. Now you have to go by memory to find the good stuff
In order to garner respect from the scientific community as a group worth
doing clinical tests upon; we must prove ourselves to be credible and of
sound mind.
I guess I have to give her credit for just having one delusional but trying to hold onto sanity in general. It's better than letting your vampire delusion turn you into a person who believes in any kind of hocus pocus.
Now I'll have to pay attention when Vampire: the: Masquerade: Bloodlines: 2 comes out to see if they address this civil war in the vampire community.
None of them think that they're immortal aside from roleplaying 12-year-olds and potentially some schizos on the fringes of the subculture. Some if not most believe that they stay youthful for longer which, if you see pictures of the old-timers, is pretty delusional, and a lot of them believe that being a vampire is simply defined by having a shortage of prana/chi/the blood of the innocents/psychic energy and need to drain it from other people.
How they deal is an interesting question; I'll look into it. I know that many of the bigger attention whores in the irl scene get a ton of plastic surgery, which suggests that they have a hard time COPEing, but I'm not sure about everyone else.
Some of them claim to be allergic to silver, but others claim that crystal and silver jewlery helps protect them from psychic attacks or w/e. Nobody seems to believe that they'll be melted by holy water (aside from the 12-year-olds and schizos I presume), but they joke about it
Yeah, they're about as active offline as furries, even though the community is much smaller. The ones that do meet offline are mostly lifestylers who belong to their local alt club scene as much as they do the 'irl vampire' subculture tho.
On one hand, I am getting more and more interested to see if I can find any subculture gatherings in my area; on the other hand, I am very scared at witnessing it first hand.
pretty sure it's already recognized as a medical condition. I don't know exactly what flavor of mental illness it falls under but i'm sure it's been classified by someone, somewhere.
The vampire community is actually about 50/50 or 60/40 m/f, probably even more unbalanced offline. Most online metaphysical subcultures were roughly 50/50 or male majority until they hit tumblr (which the vampire community suprisingly managed to escape because it has a robust irl component)
The groups that didn't form irl prior to the www started on usenet, which was largely male-dominated. Up until most www communication was consolidated on social media, they were primarily made up of old-school New Agers and the types of misfit teens who are now channeled into /pol/. The groups that formed irl (mostly under the New Age umbrella) could be either overwhelmingly female-dominated, strongly (or occasionally overwhelmingly) male-dominted, or split depending on the group (e.g. 'lightworkers' vs. 'occultists' vs. members of new religious movements). The demographics of the early furry fandom tracked strongly with the early otherkin movement, for example, but its make-up more or less remained intact until very recently (years after the otherkin community became tumblrized).
The vampire community is kind of unique in this case because it has strong ties to the alt clubbing and BDSM scenes, which have a ton of edgy wannabe dommes.
Always got the impression that many people who participate in these fringe subcultures are desperately looking for a differentiator or justification for a misplaced sense of superiority, so tend to shit on newcomers for either making them feel less special, or because shitting on people is how they got there in the first place
Always got the impression that many people who participate in these fringe subcultures are desperately looking for a differentiator or justification for a misplaced sense of superiority, so tend to shit on newcomers for either making them feel less special, or because shitting on people is how they got there in the first place
This is definitely true. Newcomers threaten the exclusivity of the group and also threaten to change it by failing to conform to the norms of the group, so they either become alienated poseurs who eventually conform or leave or change the group so dramatically that the old-timers become alienated and form a subgroup or leave for a new exclusive group.
Much like troll communities, really...
They're a fringe subculture too, though they've mostly died out unfortunately
Where you during the Great Sanguinarian v. Psi Wars of the 1990s 🧐
Unlike the “sanguinarian v. psi” wars of
the 1990s, which was about ownership of the term “vampire,”
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At this point, if they want the wars to start up again, FINE.
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I've been around the online communities since the late 1990s. Community unity is a myth. People talk about the Psi / Sang wars like they actually ended at some point, but if there has been a peace, its certainly been an uneasy one.
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This is not a case of the wars starting up AGAIN. I was here during the early community and in fact, the wars never really ended.
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5 bipbopboomed 2020-05-14
How do you find these things? My mind is blown whenever the most obscure arguments or subreddits are found lol.
3 snallygaster 2020-05-14
Back in the day it was easy to stumble across a weird community and follow a link trail to different forums and websites. Now you have to go by memory to find the good stuff
2 bipbopboomed 2020-05-14
Damn, you're doing god's work
1 -Kite-Man- 2020-05-14
crawling the web, we called it
1 snallygaster 2020-05-14
Those were the days...😞
3 jewdanksdad 2020-05-14
😂😂😂
2 Metatron58 2020-05-14
yeah that ship has sailed way off the edge of the map by now.
3 CommissarCletus 2020-05-14
What’s the difference between the three?
1 snallygaster 2020-05-14
3 Redactor0 2020-05-14
I guess I have to give her credit for just having one delusional but trying to hold onto sanity in general. It's better than letting your vampire delusion turn you into a person who believes in any kind of hocus pocus.
Now I'll have to pay attention when Vampire: the: Masquerade: Bloodlines: 2 comes out to see if they address this civil war in the vampire community.
1 -Kite-Man- 2020-05-14
Ron Howard: It didn't.
2 mechakingghidorah 2020-05-14
So how do they deal with the fact that they are visibly aging?
3 snallygaster 2020-05-14
None of them think that they're immortal aside from roleplaying 12-year-olds and potentially some schizos on the fringes of the subculture. Some if not most believe that they stay youthful for longer which, if you see pictures of the old-timers, is pretty delusional, and a lot of them believe that being a vampire is simply defined by having a shortage of prana/chi/the blood of the innocents/psychic energy and need to drain it from other people.
How they deal is an interesting question; I'll look into it. I know that many of the bigger attention whores in the irl scene get a ton of plastic surgery, which suggests that they have a hard time COPEing, but I'm not sure about everyone else.
2 mechakingghidorah 2020-05-14
How do they react to things like silver jewelry/untesils? Holy water?
2 snallygaster 2020-05-14
Some of them claim to be allergic to silver, but others claim that crystal and silver jewlery helps protect them from psychic attacks or w/e. Nobody seems to believe that they'll be melted by holy water (aside from the 12-year-olds and schizos I presume), but they joke about it
3 Redactor0 2020-05-14
So that's why my psi-strikes haven't been working lately. I guess I'd better get some new crystals and adjust my frequencies to compensate.
1 Pepperglue 2020-05-14
New Age crazies ruining it for everybody. Why am I not surprised?
Do they actually meet offline? That sounds very courageous of them to expose their aging body to the masses.
2 snallygaster 2020-05-14
Yeah, they're about as active offline as furries, even though the community is much smaller. The ones that do meet offline are mostly lifestylers who belong to their local alt club scene as much as they do the 'irl vampire' subculture tho.
1 Pepperglue 2020-05-14
Wow.
On one hand, I am getting more and more interested to see if I can find any subculture gatherings in my area; on the other hand, I am very scared at witnessing it first hand.
1 snallygaster 2020-05-14
You can probably find at least one if you're in a major metro area. I get the impression that most gatherings are done via meetup or FB now.
1 Pepperglue 2020-05-14
Oh well. I hate mingling in the metro area.
1 SnapshillBot 2020-05-14
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1 snallygaster 2020-05-14
Here's another discussion where people get angrier but the forum design is shitty so I linked the other one instead
4 goldfish_memories 2020-05-14
Lol this is one of the most mayo things I've read
3 Redactor0 2020-05-14
A vampire who is afraid of drinking blood. Just when I thought I'd seen it all... 🤦♂️
2 Metatron58 2020-05-14
pretty sure it's already recognized as a medical condition. I don't know exactly what flavor of mental illness it falls under but i'm sure it's been classified by someone, somewhere.
3 GM739 2020-05-14
Yeah it’s called r-slur.
1 CeetheAndSope 2020-05-14
Wait wait wait, you're telling me that one episode of South Park where the Vampire Kids argue about whether they're "psy", "sanguinarian", or "hybrid" vampires is a real thing!?!
By Allah, wh*te "people" are a disease and they will know the taste of my shoe.
3 WeWuzKANG5 2020-05-14
White women, I've been saying it forever, they are the harbingers of destruction.
4 snallygaster 2020-05-14
The vampire community is actually about 50/50 or 60/40 m/f, probably even more unbalanced offline. Most online metaphysical subcultures were roughly 50/50 or male majority until they hit tumblr (which the vampire community suprisingly managed to escape because it has a robust irl component)
3 WeWuzKANG5 2020-05-14
That's baffling. Males are capable of pitiful things in the quest for conquest though so that would be my excuse for the 50 percent.
2 snallygaster 2020-05-14
The groups that didn't form irl prior to the www started on usenet, which was largely male-dominated. Up until most www communication was consolidated on social media, they were primarily made up of old-school New Agers and the types of misfit teens who are now channeled into /pol/. The groups that formed irl (mostly under the New Age umbrella) could be either overwhelmingly female-dominated, strongly (or occasionally overwhelmingly) male-dominted, or split depending on the group (e.g. 'lightworkers' vs. 'occultists' vs. members of new religious movements). The demographics of the early furry fandom tracked strongly with the early otherkin movement, for example, but its make-up more or less remained intact until very recently (years after the otherkin community became tumblrized).
The vampire community is kind of unique in this case because it has strong ties to the alt clubbing and BDSM scenes, which have a ton of edgy wannabe dommes.
2 HodorTheDoorHolder_ 2020-05-14
What do your friends think of the tv version of What We Do In The Shadows?
3 snallygaster 2020-05-14
yeah, it's a real thing. that episode was at the peak of the subculture's popularity due to twilight (lol), but it's been around for quite a while.
2 DannyLee90 2020-05-14
Twilight must have turned an already niche community into mega hipsters, damn.
2 snallygaster 2020-05-14
Oh man, they were *pissed* when Twilight opened a floodgate of kids trying to join their community.
1 d538GNCUIXPz4doFxgLx 2020-05-14
Always got the impression that many people who participate in these fringe subcultures are desperately looking for a differentiator or justification for a misplaced sense of superiority, so tend to shit on newcomers for either making them feel less special, or because shitting on people is how they got there in the first place
Much like troll communities, really...
1 snallygaster 2020-05-14
This is definitely true. Newcomers threaten the exclusivity of the group and also threaten to change it by failing to conform to the norms of the group, so they either become alienated poseurs who eventually conform or leave or change the group so dramatically that the old-timers become alienated and form a subgroup or leave for a new exclusive group.
They're a fringe subculture too, though they've mostly died out unfortunately
1 acidoverbasic 2020-05-14
Where you during the Great Sanguinarian v. Psi Wars of the 1990s 🧐
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Damn they really take this shit seriously
2 snallygaster 2020-05-14
👏respect👏signal👏boost👏and👏donate👏to👏all👏vampires👏all👏vampires👏are👏valid👏
1 -Kite-Man- 2020-05-14
Dracula.
And/or fictional.
Those are the only two answers.