Nocturnal Musings

Vampires have always been painted as the antagonist or the rival of someone’s story. Whether it was a villain from a film, a book, the 1700s vampire scare, or even a current term to describe someone we don't like. Throughout history and across cultures, the image of the vampire has served as a powerful metaphor for the outsider, the social adversary, or anyone who does not fit within the accepted boundaries of society. My central argument is that vampires act as symbols for t

The tension between Sanguinarian and Psychic Vampyres is a dynamic that many members of the now-primarily-online Vampyre Community (VC) are familiar with. The most volatile and argumentative period of the online VC lasted from the mid-1990s through the mid-to-late 2010s, and was primarily hosted within VC forums, Facebook communities, and other public and private message boards across the globe. The “Psy/Sang War” was an era of the online VC that was seen by its participants

One of the most memorable characteristics of the modern conception of the vampire is that of fangs. In media, fangs come in many forms from