Okay, so the thing I found most intriguing was the modern age vampires and their clubs what they do, ect. I researched several people, starting with Katherine Ramsland. I found this article about her.
http://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/01/style/a-night-out-with-katherine-ramsland-every-day-can-be-halloween.html?scp=1&sq=Katherine%20Ramsland&st=cse
It was good read. I also searched Susan Walsh and Father Sebastian, but I wasn’t finding much that was interesting and I was disappointed. Finally when they mentioned the Black Veil code of conduct type thing for vampires I googled it along with Michelle (can’t remember her last name) and Father Sebastian. I found an amazing site. It is SO cool. I’m going to blog about this as opposed to a certain person mentioned in the video. This site has answered like all the questions I had about vampires and more. A lot of the people who post there seem to just WANT to be vampires, not really are. Like one girl who posted about how she was a psi-vampire and she had two friends who were psi-vampires and one who was a sangui vampire. But a lot of the information on the site seems legit. They welcome people interested in learning about vampires, vampyres who are vampire lifestylers and attend the clubs while not actually being addicted to blood, sangui vampires, and psi-vampires who feed off psychic energy of others. And, of course, potential donors. A note, these psi-vampires would like to clarify, apparently, that they are not psychic vampires. The difference is a psi-vampire is a vampire who feeds off emotional energy or some other form of energy, while a psychic vampire is a vampire who has clairvoyance tendencies. The vampires who post do not believe that they are immortal; they do not profess to have special powers. They simply know that they craze blood. They are aware that other diseases have these symptoms but they have slowly eliminated all these possibilities and finally come to this conclusion- they can only be a vampire. They believe they are born this way. You cannot be “turned” by being bitten. The main theory that they seem to support is that blood may be addictive, or addictive to certain people. The psi-vampires profess to get a sort of “high” from feeding off the excess life force of others. They don’t think that their body naturally produces enough of this psychic/emotional energy. I loved the explanation in the video that the most dangerous type of psychic vampires are the ones who don’t even realize that they are. The people who provoke you and get your emotions going and you walk away feeling emotionally drained. I enjoyed reading the site, and I don’t really care if some of it is a work of fiction, the basic idea seems to be real and there is a culture out there that is addicted to blood and energy and feel that they need it. And if there is I don’t have a problem with it. If you get permission from someone to drink their blood then that’s your business. It might be little weird or even creepy, but it’s just a different life style from mine. Maybe I find this easier to accept because I’m use to having to accept the people who consume the flesh of animals with out the permission of the animal. Or maybe I’m just weird. Here’s the website, I suggest you check it out.
http://www.sanguinarius.org/
Friday, March 20, 2009
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Vampire Secrets
This video was amazing. I really learned a lot. Probably the most interesting part to me was about the modern day vampires, but I’ll get back to that. I liked the explanation they used for why vampires have become pop icons and are being used as advertising gimmicks. To diminish their power over us. However I feel that, if this statement is correct, in trying to diminish their power, if they were real, we would be increasing their power over us. The reason I say this is because as we make vampires into cartoons and romantic figures we don’t believe in them, or what we do believe in has lost its potency. “Remember there are such things.” The vampires power is that we refuse to believe in them. Or if you want to get into the modern day vampires their problem is we DO believe in the vampires in books in movies.
I know that the vampire legends did not originate in Transylvania, but I was interested, though hardly surprised, to find that they originated in China and India. This is because I know many other legends and myths have originated in these two places, the most prominent of these probably being the myth of dragons from China. The connection of Christianity and Jesus to vampirism was surprising. It’s interesting that most people don’t seem to make that connection. Or if they do I’ve never heard about it before.
The whole bit about Elizabeth Bathory was very… I’m not sure what to say about it. I’m just incredulous I’ve never heard mention of this before. I’d think it would be more well known. At first I was amazed and startled at the simplicity of governments that would issue lists of symptoms for vampirism. Then I realized it isn’t so surprising, or shouldn’t be. In a time where people truly believed in vampires and countless unexplainable, even now, cases were being reported, it really makes sense that a list of “symptoms” would be issued to keep the malady from spreading.
The whole Vampire Masquerade RPG sounds fun. I googled it but didn’t spend much time on it and didn’t find anything. “It’s twister for vampires”. As for RPGs causing the problems with Rod Feral, BS. It’s obvious he was mentally unstable before the events and the press just wanted to use this to sell more papers and in doing so furthered the negative images for RPG players and modern day vampires. RPGs don’t cause people to have trouble distinguishing between the game and the reality, though I can see an RPG becoming the reality an already unstable person uses to further their violent impulses.
I know that the vampire legends did not originate in Transylvania, but I was interested, though hardly surprised, to find that they originated in China and India. This is because I know many other legends and myths have originated in these two places, the most prominent of these probably being the myth of dragons from China. The connection of Christianity and Jesus to vampirism was surprising. It’s interesting that most people don’t seem to make that connection. Or if they do I’ve never heard about it before.
The whole bit about Elizabeth Bathory was very… I’m not sure what to say about it. I’m just incredulous I’ve never heard mention of this before. I’d think it would be more well known. At first I was amazed and startled at the simplicity of governments that would issue lists of symptoms for vampirism. Then I realized it isn’t so surprising, or shouldn’t be. In a time where people truly believed in vampires and countless unexplainable, even now, cases were being reported, it really makes sense that a list of “symptoms” would be issued to keep the malady from spreading.
The whole Vampire Masquerade RPG sounds fun. I googled it but didn’t spend much time on it and didn’t find anything. “It’s twister for vampires”. As for RPGs causing the problems with Rod Feral, BS. It’s obvious he was mentally unstable before the events and the press just wanted to use this to sell more papers and in doing so furthered the negative images for RPG players and modern day vampires. RPGs don’t cause people to have trouble distinguishing between the game and the reality, though I can see an RPG becoming the reality an already unstable person uses to further their violent impulses.
Saturday, March 14, 2009
The Vampyre: A tale
I honestly did not enjoy this one very much. I read it, but I didn't understand it thouroghly so I looked up the summary of it on wikipedia. I find the plot intresting, but did not like the writing style of the author as it was lond winded and served only to confuse me.
So Lord Ruthven is not overly social, and seems free of vice. He is pale and his siloutte is handsome and he has cold grey eyes. He is also inteligent. All of which are traits of a vampire, at least by my definition. It seems that he gives money to beggers, but also sucks their blood. Aubrey seperates from Ruthven and finds someone who knows of vampyres and speaks of them often in a manner that implies Ruthven is a vampire to Aubrey. While walking in the forest during a thunderstorm Aubrey becomes lost. he is attacked by a being with superhuman strength, who I took to be Ruthven. Super human strength is another characterisitc of vampyres I have found to be common. It seems by the discritption of Aubrey's character after he was attacked he too has become a vampyre. Ruthven is killed and Aubrey agrees to tell no one of his death for 366 days and Ruthvens body vanishes. It seems that Ruthven killed the countess' family during this time. Aubrey reaches his home town and sees Ruthven and is reminded by a ominous voice of his oath not to speak of Ruthven's death. Ruthven has used the year in which Aubrey could not speak of his death to have his sister fall in love wth him and become betrothed to her. When Aubrey protests he is thought to be failing in mental health. Aubrey is finally able to speak of Ruthven's death and dies shortly after. His guardians attempt to save his sister but it is to late by the itme they find her she has been sucked of blood.
So Lord Ruthven is not overly social, and seems free of vice. He is pale and his siloutte is handsome and he has cold grey eyes. He is also inteligent. All of which are traits of a vampire, at least by my definition. It seems that he gives money to beggers, but also sucks their blood. Aubrey seperates from Ruthven and finds someone who knows of vampyres and speaks of them often in a manner that implies Ruthven is a vampire to Aubrey. While walking in the forest during a thunderstorm Aubrey becomes lost. he is attacked by a being with superhuman strength, who I took to be Ruthven. Super human strength is another characterisitc of vampyres I have found to be common. It seems by the discritption of Aubrey's character after he was attacked he too has become a vampyre. Ruthven is killed and Aubrey agrees to tell no one of his death for 366 days and Ruthvens body vanishes. It seems that Ruthven killed the countess' family during this time. Aubrey reaches his home town and sees Ruthven and is reminded by a ominous voice of his oath not to speak of Ruthven's death. Ruthven has used the year in which Aubrey could not speak of his death to have his sister fall in love wth him and become betrothed to her. When Aubrey protests he is thought to be failing in mental health. Aubrey is finally able to speak of Ruthven's death and dies shortly after. His guardians attempt to save his sister but it is to late by the itme they find her she has been sucked of blood.
Friday, March 6, 2009
Vampire Knight
I've been trying to avoid starting to read Mangas as I spend entirely too much time reading them as it is. However I am very happy because I have an obsession with both vampires and manga. "The night class is an elite group of students. And they are all completely gorgeous" Isn't that practicaly a direct quote from Bella in Twilight refering to the Cullens? Oh and I loved how the flower withered in his hand. One thing about Manga. When new characters get introduced I'm always confused for a while because they'll be introduced as, for example, Kuname Kuran. And then I just remembered he was Kuname so when he got called Kuran at first I wasn't sure if he was the same person. I'm really bad at remembering japanese names apparently. Oh and the honorifics like Sempai and Sama and chan confuse me too because there are too many for me to remember. And random little things like kya confuse me too.
Anyways...The tattoo Zero on his neck and Yuuki has it on her arm on the white band. It also is on the top of the side column on the left hand side of the pages, and it was really bugging me. Now I guess it's the bloody rose. But I still want to know what it said in the coumn beneath it. Yeah I know, some of them are translated, but I want them all to be. I might have to check out the real mangas from the library. The day time teachers must think the chairman's crazy making the two that sleep all through classes prefects. Zero mentions the point that vampires only look like humans so they can more eficiently hunt us. This is also brought up in Twilight. And Bella's blood is also unusually sweet like Yuuki's. Was this written before or after twilight? Oh I din't think humans could smell blood, so I was wondering why Zero could I see now. And just how stupid are these girls? I mean Aidou asked one of them her blood type! Okay how many times do they need to use the square box things to say that there are two seperate classes at cross academy and the elite night class is made up off vampires? We get it already!
So I'm thinking the bloody rose is their culture equivelent to a cross? Ish, becuase it's suppsoed to kill them in the gun thing and Yuuki has one on a necklace as well. But it didn't seem to stop her from bein bitten. So are vampires besides the ones bitten by a pureblood. They're either a human who was bitten, or descendant from a human who was bitten, I take it. So wondering, would anyone 'donate' blood to kaname or Zero? Also the chairman is crazy. I mean who lies to a vampire? And he also seems to go out of his way at times to make little digs at Zero.
So if Zero is a vampire shouldn't he submit to Yuuki's will and let her kill Rido? Or is Yuuki simply unwilling to force anything on Zero after everything else? Or I suppose it's also possible that since he is a hunter and has drinken blood from two of the Kuran family as well as Shizuka through Kaname he is beyond Yuuki's control. When Rido says that Zero's entire life was violated and controlled by vampires it just kinda clicked... I don't know I just feel really bad for Zero. I like him a lot more then Kaname. But I wish he would smile, though all things considered I guess that's a lot to ask. Aw poor Aidou got fallen on from like ten stories up. So I think I understood the story behind Rido. He's Yuuki and Kaname's uncle, right? And was he in love with Juuri too? This is a really great Manga and I loved it. The only downside was that only in chapter 35 or so did I figure out wich night class student was which. And I still don't know if it was Kain or Aidou who used to live with Kaname. I'll have to go back and read it again at some point for better understanding. I really don't like Kaname much right now. He just seems to be more violent than Zero and he doesn't really have a reason. Kaname is power hungry and is more worried about himself than about Yuuki. For example he wanted to return her to being a vampire, even thogh she might have been happier as a human. And.. I don't know I just like Zero a lot more. How about every one else?
Okay one other thing, I think I have most of the characters' names figured out I think, but there's a a few whose first or last I don't know, and some who's names I cna't remember at all. Also I'm not sure if I paired some of the first and last names together properly. If someone does know kindly tell me? xD
Akatsuki Aidou
Hanabusa kain
Kuran Kaname
Kuran Rido
Kuran Yuuki
Kiryu Zero
Kiryu Ichiru
Shiki
Ruka
Then there's the vampire in night dorm with pigtails who was fighting with Rido when he was possesing shiki.
Zero's trainer?
Asato Ichijou
Asato Takuma
Yuuki's best friend?
Kaien Cross
Anyways...The tattoo Zero on his neck and Yuuki has it on her arm on the white band. It also is on the top of the side column on the left hand side of the pages, and it was really bugging me. Now I guess it's the bloody rose. But I still want to know what it said in the coumn beneath it. Yeah I know, some of them are translated, but I want them all to be. I might have to check out the real mangas from the library. The day time teachers must think the chairman's crazy making the two that sleep all through classes prefects. Zero mentions the point that vampires only look like humans so they can more eficiently hunt us. This is also brought up in Twilight. And Bella's blood is also unusually sweet like Yuuki's. Was this written before or after twilight? Oh I din't think humans could smell blood, so I was wondering why Zero could I see now. And just how stupid are these girls? I mean Aidou asked one of them her blood type! Okay how many times do they need to use the square box things to say that there are two seperate classes at cross academy and the elite night class is made up off vampires? We get it already!
So I'm thinking the bloody rose is their culture equivelent to a cross? Ish, becuase it's suppsoed to kill them in the gun thing and Yuuki has one on a necklace as well. But it didn't seem to stop her from bein bitten. So are vampires besides the ones bitten by a pureblood. They're either a human who was bitten, or descendant from a human who was bitten, I take it. So wondering, would anyone 'donate' blood to kaname or Zero? Also the chairman is crazy. I mean who lies to a vampire? And he also seems to go out of his way at times to make little digs at Zero.
So if Zero is a vampire shouldn't he submit to Yuuki's will and let her kill Rido? Or is Yuuki simply unwilling to force anything on Zero after everything else? Or I suppose it's also possible that since he is a hunter and has drinken blood from two of the Kuran family as well as Shizuka through Kaname he is beyond Yuuki's control. When Rido says that Zero's entire life was violated and controlled by vampires it just kinda clicked... I don't know I just feel really bad for Zero. I like him a lot more then Kaname. But I wish he would smile, though all things considered I guess that's a lot to ask. Aw poor Aidou got fallen on from like ten stories up. So I think I understood the story behind Rido. He's Yuuki and Kaname's uncle, right? And was he in love with Juuri too? This is a really great Manga and I loved it. The only downside was that only in chapter 35 or so did I figure out wich night class student was which. And I still don't know if it was Kain or Aidou who used to live with Kaname. I'll have to go back and read it again at some point for better understanding. I really don't like Kaname much right now. He just seems to be more violent than Zero and he doesn't really have a reason. Kaname is power hungry and is more worried about himself than about Yuuki. For example he wanted to return her to being a vampire, even thogh she might have been happier as a human. And.. I don't know I just like Zero a lot more. How about every one else?
Okay one other thing, I think I have most of the characters' names figured out I think, but there's a a few whose first or last I don't know, and some who's names I cna't remember at all. Also I'm not sure if I paired some of the first and last names together properly. If someone does know kindly tell me? xD
Akatsuki Aidou
Hanabusa kain
Kuran Kaname
Kuran Rido
Kuran Yuuki
Kiryu Zero
Kiryu Ichiru
Shiki
Ruka
Then there's the vampire in night dorm with pigtails who was fighting with Rido when he was possesing shiki.
Zero's trainer?
Asato Ichijou
Asato Takuma
Yuuki's best friend?
Kaien Cross
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