Truly, Madly, Deadly_ The Unofficial True Blood Companion - Becca Wilcott [35]
Poser: One who claims to be a vampire, but is not.
Pranic energy: Blood and sexual energy.
Primus: Vampire who founds a coven. Almost always an Elder.
Psychic energy: Emotional and elemental (of the earth) energy. The life-force of all living things.
Psychic attack: An uninvited attack perpetrated by a psi-vampire, intended to drain one’s energy.
Psychic vampire: One who feeds from psychic energy (life energy) rather than blood. (Sometimes also known as psi-vampires.)
Real vampire: One who has a significant need/thirst for blood or psychic energy.
Renegade/Rogue: Vampire or donor who becomes hostile toward the community.
RPGer/Roleplayer: One who engages in roleplaying games. May be a lifestyler or have no involvement with the community.
Sanguinarian: One with a physical need and craving for blood to sustain physical and spiritual well-being.
Sanguine: Blood-drinking vampire. Also includes psi-vampires who also drink blood.
Seeker: One who seeks out vampire and vampire knowledge in an effort to become one.
Sexual vampirism: Lesser known vampirism in which one feeds from sexual energy.
Sire: Fictional term for one who turns another into a vampire.
Slayer: One who boasts about killing vampires.
Thirst: Intense need or desire to drink blood.
Turned: Fictional term for “making” a vampire.
Vamping out: Intense physical and behavioral reaction to not having fed.
Vampire: Fictional vampires, folkloric, or modern “real” vampires.
Vampire bait: Poser who desperately wants to be noticed by vampires. Typically naive and ill-informed. Also known as a Wannabe.
Vampiric community: Those who openly identify as “vampire.”
Vampire magick: Used by pagan vampires.
Vampyre: Humans who identify with fictional vampires. May dress like vampires, sleep in coffins, and belong to a coven. Also known as “social vampires” or “lifestylers.”
White swan: One who disapproves of vampires. Often members of Goth or fetish scene despite their distaste for the community.
Alix Fox, an editor at Bizarre magazine (the world’s #1 alternative magazine), helped celebrate the uk launch of True Blood at Central London club Ruby Lo where guests were invited to partake of a “True Bloody Mary” cocktail with pasteurized pigs’ blood. She’s since become what she jokingly calls an “undead talking head,” the person people call upon to comment on the pervasive pop culture appeal of vampires. Recognizing the humor and escapism of the vampire genre, she good-naturedly offered a recipe for her ideal vampiric cocktail, a “sinful, stubbly, not-so-smoothie that would contain a whole bottle of Ryan Reynolds, neat (i.e. naked) over ice, with a chaser of Kiefer Sutherland’s platinum Lost Boys mullet, the juiciest segments of my favorite newfangled erotic books, and a sprinkling of Japanese vamp-themed anime. And I’d ban Stephenie Meyer’s prick-teasing, purity-ring-wearing, Mormon wet-wipe wusses from being within a 10-mile radius of the bar.” Now that’s a cocktail!
As part of her role at Bizarre, Fox has also attended hardcore bdsm (bondage, discipline, sadism, masochism) events where she’s seen bloodplay in action. bdsm is consensual roleplay that incorporates elements of pain and power in order to achieve sexual release. Bloodplay, or blood fetishism, is the controversial and largely underground practice of using blood to achieve arousal. While it has been known to appear in the vampire subculture, most blood fetishists do not consider themselves to be vampires.
And unless you’ve been actively turning away from the naughty bits, you know that True Blood has more than a few references to bdsm, all explored from the safe distance of our comfy couches. Welsh psychoanalyst Ernest Jones theorizes that when sexuality becomes repressed, it’s replaced by “regressed” behaviors, something he calls “oral sadism,” or feasting off another