#askavampire

- 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.

Apologies for taking a very long time to answer this, It took me quite a while to getting around to watching it.

Yes. Though how strong depends a bit on how much blood I have been able to consume. Naturally, a vampire is at their strongest when they have consumed more blood.

But yes I do have increased strength, speed, and stamina. I believe this is because being undead, our muscles never grow tired, our hearts don’t speed up, we don’t need to catch our breath. So we are not limited by our bodies telling us to stop or slow down, or that we cannot lift something.

(Mind you, I’ve never tried lifting something like a car, and I wasn’t particularly strong when I was alive.) but I have found that what I can lift is more limited by my ability to get my arms around it, than by it’s weight. But I can say that I’ve never had trouble carrying a human, regardless of weight, and I can confirm that I am strong enough to break somebody’s arm with just my hands.

The short answer is that it isn’t a toxin that turns you into a vampire. The more complex answer is that you just have to learn how to gauge how much blood you can drink from someone without killing them. In order to turn someone you essentially have to drain them of all blood, and push them past the point to death to drawing them back to undeath. So there’s no ‘accidentally’ turning someone.