Just Alternate Stuff

https://www.etsy.com/listing/518978827/kirin-qilin-youkai-monster-asian

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTZXfIDHhP2uBgf7UuT9qqjM48vrMGRjD

This is a playlist of currently 48 videos in the Eurogamer series “Chiodini’s Kitchen”, which focuses on “video game recipes made real”. They’ve covered quite a variety of games so far, and take requests! We hope game fictionkin find these useful~

Here’s the most recent video:

We’ve finally added everything new to the updates page. It looks like there’s enough to separate things into categories, which we’ll do at some point here.

Hey, like we’ve said to the last two anon self-care kit asks, for the Shape of Water anon, yours is going to take a bit, so here’s a little something to hold you over:

https://www.homesciencetools.com/article/how-to-make-a-homemade-lava-lamp-science-project/

It’s instructions on how to make a ‘lava lamp’ at home. The supplies are cheap and the process is easy, and you don’t need any heat or electricity for it.

Though if we might add to it - we’d suggest using mineral oil instead of vegetable, as it’s colorless. You could also simply do the oil/colored water mixture in a closed bottle of some kind and skip adding the tablets, and just shake it up/turn it over when you want to watch it. If you put it in a little thing (empty spray bottle, maybe?), it can go on your desk and be a good toy for fidgeting.

This video has quite a bit of good advice and common sense for interacting with the media whether you’re furry or otherwise.

If you’d like a more interactive way to express your identity (this can be especially useful for plural folks, as not everyone in the group might get the time to be out and about and interact with the world around them), you might try your hand(s) at a roleplaying game of some sort. There are plenty of PC games, console games, and even handheld and mobile games that allow you to customize a character and do what you want in a fantasy world. And then there are tabletop and pen-and-paper games such as Dungeons and Dragons and Pathfinder (which can each be played in singleplayer, and can be played with headmates, if you’d rather not play with someone you aren’t out to).

The immediate thing we think of is this, which we put in the werewolf self-care kit post:

https://www.amazon.com/CHEW-STIXX-Multi-Textured-durable/dp/B001R82OMG/ref=sr_1_1_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1517366176&sr=8-1&keywords=adult+chew+toy

http://www.sanguinarius.org/

If you’re having a twoof that you just can’t shake, we have a few simple recipes that you might want to try. We saw these around various vampire/sanguine communities years ago.

-Take a cup of water, insert a tablespoon of salt, boil. When it’s just cool enough to drink, throw it back quickly. We recall that whoever posted about that said it would be such a strong distraction you would forget about twoofing for a good while. (Just please be careful not to burn yourself). We did try this on a smaller scale, and it worked wonders for us.

-A popular recipe we’ve seen around is to take a can of V8 tomato/veggie juice, mix in a cube of beef bouillon (use salt instead if you’re vegan), and 1/4 cup of high-pulp orange juice. We haven’t tried this one, but have seen many people praise it.

-The one we probably love the most is mixing 1 cup of high-pulp orange juice with 1/2 cup of pomegranate juice, 2 tablespoons of canned tomato sauce, and about a teaspoon of salt. Then we warm it up in the microwave for a couple dozen seconds until it’s just warm. That really does the trick for us.

-Occasionally, we’ll use an additional trick. We’ll take whatever blood substitute we’re using at the time and thicken it a bit on the stove with cornstarch. Then, once it’s cooled off to body temperature, we’ll pour a little of it on our arm and lick it off. We find the taste of skin vaguely similar to the taste of blood, and it helps us when we’re having a rough twoof (if you try this, resist biting yourself, please). We’re also not a situation to ask to use another person’s arm as a plate, hahah.

Obviously cooking with animal blood ought to be helpful, but a lot of people have no access to that, no way to store it, or aren’t able to prepare it safely, so we thought these tips might be more helpful. And as a note, animal blood does not taste like human blood; just be aware of that.

But we hope these help! We’ll post more sometime~

Yes, the vampire community generally welcomes all kinds, vampiric and non (they are very welcoming of therians and otherkin, for example), and would likely be interested to hear about your experiences, being similar. (We know we would be.) And we were ashamed of our nature for… many years (still are, at times). We know where you’re coming from. Know you’re not alone there. We would definitely suggest you join this community, if any:

http://www.vcmb.org/

Be aware it is a very private community, so please respect their rules and have patience when joining. :)

We’re glad we could help! ^^ If you’d like, here’s a more formal definition of the term:

“Twoofing: An alternate, less blatant, and less cheesy-sounding, term created as an alternative for the phrase “vamping out”. See “vamping out”.”

“Vamping out: Experiencing an acute flare-up of the thirst. This also involves a change in the person’s manner, breathing, pulse rate, thought patterns, etc., as their body gears up to go out and attempt to satisfy the thirst. This is a real thing, not a fantasy thing, and I won’t let anyone else who does not really have this as a real occurrence claim it; to do so makes a mockery of those of us who really do have to deal with it! (If they don’t have it and they claim it, then I wish it on them; let them have it!).”

(Taken from The Dictionary of Sanguinese - you can find every definition listed in that book here: http://www.atlantavampirealliance.com/educational/lexiconterminology.html)

Fun fact, ‘twoofing’ came about because it’s how someone who is wearing fangs pronounces the word ‘toothing’ (prosthetic fangs give a little lisp).