#actualrealvampire

- You must explicitly invite your vampire friends to your Halloween parties for them to be able to come in.

- Do not try to convince your vampire friends to turn you

- Jokingly not inviting them in, or pretending to threaten them with stakes is not very nice. We may be undead, but we’re not unfeeling.

- Only offer your blood if you mean it. Halloween is a big feeding time, so please do offer up an arm or a neck, but only if you’re really willing,

Recently, I called the Electricity and Internet people to bring better wifi into the castle. It is much faster now.

The last born kittens from 2024 have grown into young cats. The sanctuary currently has 58 in total. Possibly 59 but I can’t be certain if one of them is one cat or two nearly identical cats.

There was no rat problem this winter, naturally.

The Yule party was quite an event this year, a few guests tasted more like cranberry vodka than human blood.

Yes. It is an excruciating and traumatic process for the body. You will feel like you are dying the whole time, it will feel cold, and sharp and achy. Your canine teeth fall out, and fangs grow in over the course of 2 or 3 days, and it hurts the whole time, like teething but worse. I can only describe the feeling of being turned like you can literally feel the life being forcibly pulled like threads on needles from every part of your body at once. You will have no blood. And no sense of life or death, only hunger. And once you have fed, after your fangs have grown in, the pain will slowly subside.

I generally prefer not to think about my own turning, as it was against my will. But It has been a long time. I still remember however, the horror of the process. Waking up underground and feeling like you’re suffocating only to realize your chest is still and breathing brings no relief. And I remember the realization that only after I drank his blood, that I felt a sense of calm. And energy returning to me.