#just vamping

[vampiritea]

if you see this please reblog and put in the tags something that made you happy today. a small delight, something that made you smile, or something you're grateful for. doesn't have to be big.

[vampiritea]

OKAY SO:

I don't know where it came from. My sis (@werewolfsmile) and I were playing with our dogs inside when suddenly there was what appeared to be a giant moth flying around the room. I thought moth because it was completely silent, but the next second I thought it must be a bird because of its size.

But it wasn't a moth or a bird. It was a bat!

Its wings made absolutely no sound as it flew. It looked almost ethereal, half translucent as it flew around the room. (I think at this point I was staring wide-eyed and open-mouthed, just in absolute awe of how close I was to my favourite animal.)

werewolfsmile took the dogs outside so they wouldn't hurt it, and the tiny creature soon landed on the back of a curtain to catch its breath.

As a bat enthusiast, I got up as close to it as I could, standing on the arm of the couch, and I could see its tiny head through the eyelet of the curtain. It had two adorable ears poking out from its head and it kept twitching and looking around. I could also see one of its tiny feet holding onto the top of the curtain. 🦇

(I also may have started crying from joy at this point, but that's irrelevant.)

After a brief google search on what to do, we got a container (as a last resort) and dimmed the lights in the room. The bat started to fly again and I went over and opened a door to outside.

It took a little while (the bat settled on the curtain again for a rest at one point) but eventually the critter found the open door and swept out into freedom!

Truly one of the highlights of my life. I love bats so much.

After that I did some research to try and figure out what kind of bat it was, but I never got a super good look at it because whenever it was still it was hiding behind the curtain. The best I could guess was that it was a lesser long-eared bat.

So yes. I've seen a bat irl. 🥰🦇

have you ever seen a bat irl? (not on tv,online etc.)

[naturecalls111]

me n my vamp bf

[deadeery]

VAMPIFIES YOUR PIRATES 🩸🩸🧛‍♂️💥

[felixcatton]

VAMPIRE APPRECIATION WEEK → Favourite Vampire: Claudia de Pointe du Lac

I am done enduring.

[bara-izu]

Star kiss, coloured edition! + Silly bonus

[shopwitchvamp]

I mean this gently but I have to say somethin' here- I've been getting so much "make your skirts cheaper" "I love this but why are they soooo expensive" etc lately and like look, I know a lot of this is because times are hard.. (otherwise why would I be hearing this more & more this year when prices haven't changed compared to last year) but I just wanna say that one of the only ways I could lower prices (if I was ruthless and didn't care) would be to cut sizing options. Like idk how to word what I'm trying to say, but just know when you shout stuff like this at other brands & they decide they need to find a way to cut costs to lower prices, being size inclusive is gonna be one of the first things to go. I have no plans to do this myself, but for example, a D Size Skater costs me almost twice as much (talking about only the direct from the manu cost, there are other factors too such as that they weigh more so that adds more shipping costs as well) as an A Size Skater. Say I cut D Size altogether.. and many companies would have by now while also not even lowering the price.. I could increase my profit margins significantly right away. Now lets say I cut both C and D and become a shop that only offers the standard range of SM-XL. Wow! Suddenly profits are up so much!! Or maybe going not full corporate greed, I could handle lowering skater prices by like $10 (random number not based on real math idk what things would actually work out to because I'm not gonna do it). But now no one over a size XL can order from me. I fear none of what I'm trying to get across is getting across but I just mean to say, in order to offer what I offer, the prices need to be what they are. They aren't set arbitrarily high & lowering them would mean needing to make choices that I will not make (becoming less size inclusive or making my business unsustainable in the sense that it would not survive long).

[a-jasminator]

A shamelessly self-indulgent vampire AU (where Charles is somehow still the brawn...)

#LetEdwinPayneBitePeople2k24

My Art | My Fics

[ohitslen]

*Vampirizes your Vashwood*

keep reading for more :)

If there needs to be much closer close-up please let me know!

[sualne]

posting some op art i hadn't posted, there's a Lot more.

[wombywoo]

ID 🪪

[vampiritea]

“you can’t taste a memory without tainting it with who you have become”

ugh oof gjdj gshhf fkfjgnfn

quote from Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson

[somvras2]

What if you wanted to be a normal gaucho but some spaniard cursed you to live forever because you looked tasty in a picture they painted of you nah I would kms....anyways that happened to my buddy Antonio

inspo

[howlsmovinglibrary]

Rereading Sunshine by Robin McKinley (one of my favourite vampire books). All I remember from reading it 10 years ago is the amount of page-time dedicated to baking cinnamon rolls. But I've realised, this time round, that the baking of cinnamon rolls is the symptom of a much larger theme in characterisation - Rae's ride-or-die commitment to the 'I'm just some guy' bit.

Every single chapter, another thing is revealed about Rae that puts her closer to being a special snowflake Chosen One: her name is Raven Blase but her nickname is Sunshine, she has sunlight powers, she's not just an innocent bystander but the daughter of a powerful warlock, she can help a vampire walk in sunlight, she's performing powerful magic. And every single time Rae just turns round and says to the reader, "but that's not important :) I'm just some guy :) I really like baking :) ignore that gothic heroine coding :) it's time to get up at 4am to make bread :)"

Her commitment to being Just Some Guy is genuinely carrying the novel. Every single day she becomes more of a Chosen One, but there's cinnamon rolls to make. Fucking D&D-ass characterisation. High art.

[lemonduckisnowawake]

You know, it's a tragedy that there are no (or very little) Vampire x Christian stories out there, not for angst or theology or forbidden seductiveness or whatnot but for the sheer comedy of it all. I mean, the Christian would technically be immune to all of the vampire's shenanigans, like for example...

Vampire: Fool, I am the most powerful vampire in the West. Nothing but the force of an entire holy temple could even deign to scratch me Christian: Idiot, I AM a holy temple. 1 Corinthians 6:19, fear me and the Spirit inside that can burn you to ashes

[mewos-laptop]

"Guyysss... therians don't ACTUALLY think we're animals haha..." SHUT THE FUCK UP SHUT THE FUCK UP SHUT THE FUCK UP

At this point I prefer the company of those who are straight up physically nonhuman and are PROUD AND OPEN ABOUT THAT FACT, instead of YOU fuckers who tip-toe around your identity to make OTHER PEOPLE more comfortable.

GET MAD. BE ANIMALISTIC. WEAR A COLLAR. BARK AT PEOPLE WHO PISS YOU OFF. WEAR GEAR. DON'T WEAR GEAR. FIND YOUR FELLOW CREATURES. LEARN ABOUT THE START OF OUR COMMUNITY.

BE UNAPOLOGETICALLY SCARY AND INTIMIDATING TO NORMIES.