#real vampire

thats really cool, i have a few kintypes myself! nice to meet someone in a similar boat to me (im also going into college in about a month!). i saw your other ask so i wont talk about donors here, but what i will talk about is:

blood alternatives (and animal blood)!

for alternatives, id look for things high in iron, especially red meat. but red meat can be pretty expensive sometimes. many green vegetables also have good iron content (like peas, spinach, broccoli, etc). also note that pairing with vitamin c helps with iron intake!

which leads me to: taste alternatives! orange juice is one that i use a lot. so is dark chocolate. and black cherry kool-aid is one that my partner uses!

and of course, theres animal blood. pigs blood is honestly fairly cheap to get. you can usually find it in asian grocery stores, butcher shops, or online! (i recommend looking in person, i have no clue what the shipping cost would be.)

BUT PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE NOTE. if you are going to drink pigs blood or use it to cook. you ABSOLUTELY MUST boil it. the boiling kills any bacteria that could be VERY harmful. if youre cooking with it, its fine to just cook with it because the cooking kills bacteria, like how boiling does. also! fun fact: you can use blood as a substitute for eggs in some things! look up how to do that if you so desire!

it really depends. theyre used interchangeably, but! some people use vampire to mean the fictional creature and vampyre to mean the real ones. i dont do this because. idk i just dont really see a point, i suppose. everybody does it differently.