{"id":270,"date":"2021-02-03T02:26:53","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T02:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonne.sonverrid.org\/sanctuary\/?p=270"},"modified":"2022-07-31T04:12:52","modified_gmt":"2022-07-31T04:12:52","slug":"possible-vampire-fictionkin-5-1-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonne.sonverrid.org\/sanctuary\/blog\/2021\/02\/03\/possible-vampire-fictionkin-5-1-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"“Possible Vampire Fictionkin” (5\/1\/2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“Possible Vampire Fictionkin” (5\/1\/2012)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I only started to think about this sometime after I began to consider if I might have a vampire \u2018kintype and my external searching about that (both in trying to find other vampire\u2019kin and in comparing\/contrasting my vampire-aspect to different versions of vampires in myth, folkore, and fiction) led me to thinking more about how my vampire-aspect (that I simply refer to as a \u201cblutpir\u201d) relates to the concept of fictionkin, and not just only otherkin in general.  Although I probably won\u2019t find much purpose in using the label of \u201cfictionkin\u201d for myself on a regular basis, I can certainly see how blutpir could probably be considered a kind of fictionkin creature (if it actually is a \u2018kintype).  And to this I am accepting of that reality.  Blutpir is blatantly not a vampire kind from myth or folklore\u2014not from any of the myriad of myths\/\u2019lores across the world that I\u2019ve come across for things labeled as \u201cvampire\u201d creatures (albeit, most of the \u2018closer\u2019 ones to blutpir would be the European ones, which were also the primary vampire myths that influenced the variety of fictional vampires).  My vampire-aspect is strongly correlated to vampires of fiction\u2014stories and such in different media that arose mainly in the early 19th century (at the least, in the English language) and took off from there to create a variety of specific interpretations on the fictional, or modern, \u2018vampire\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sure, blutpir holds some similarity to aspects of some (particularly European) vampire myths, but the correlations are too few compared to the vampires of fiction media. \u00a0However, unlike many people who do choose to call themselves fictionkin, I can\u2019t point to any particular story, movie, etc. that has vampires and say that blutpir is essentially the same as those (or correlates very strongly to specifically that story\u2019s version of vampires), canon or not. \u00a0Even still, there are bits and pieces from numerous vampire fics (from what I\u2019ve come across thus far, and that doesn\u2019t include a lot of written material\u2014popular or not) that do fit blutpir rather well, and yet none of them fit \u201cquite right\u201d. \u00a0It\u2019s sort of like how I can look at information and reconstructions of many different species of winged theropod and see numerous correlations between many of them and my erdvogel theriotype, and yet none of them that I\u2019ve come across yet fit \u201cquite right\u201d enough for me to say that they are the same species as my theriotype.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something I remain fully aware of, though, is that maybe there already has been, or may eventually be (there probably will, in all likelihood) some fiction that fits blutpir well enough\u2014to the point of \u201cresonance\u201d, per se\u2014that I could, if I chose, to comfortably accept that the given fic-media describes the same \u2018species\u2019\/creature of vampire as that of my vampire-aspect.  Granted, it\u2019s also likely that the author(s) would just refer to them as vampires anyway and not use a specific, different term (plus I already have my own term, as \u201cblutpir\u201d).  But I do see that if ever I came across such a fiction story\/medium that I could reference people to it, or to those who are already familiar with the story, in order to more \u2018easily\u2019 mention what my vampire-aspect is like (considering there are so many different versions of \u2018vampires\u2019, in fiction, myth, folklore, etc. that what a blutpir is likely isn\u2019t what initially comes to someone\u2019s mind if I said I\u2019m vampire\u2019kin).  On the other hand, although I don\u2019t have good skills in writing fiction stories and fiction world-building (if I did, I\u2019d probably write some fiction story about vampires that are essentially the same as blutpir), I am good at writing about my own therian and otherkin experiences, and therefore I\u2019ve been gradually writing out a variety of my thoughts and experiences on my vampire-aspect, of which when I have those public\/more public I can easily refer people to them to explain what I mean by \u201cvampire\u2019kin\u201d or \u201cblutpir\u201d in regards to myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another thing I\u2019ve realized is that for years and years I\u2019ve been slowly, in my mind, building and refining an interpretation of vampires that I prefer\u2014that is just the \u201cright\u201d version for me subjectively.  Which I attributed previously to it just being my long-standing interest in vampire media and me \u2018designing\u2019 a \u201cspecies\u201d of vampires that I would hypothetically put into a story of my creation, if ever I would try to write such a story.  It seems to have turned out, though, that while I may have also been doing it for those purposes, I think I was also doing it subconsciously based on what I internally felt did and did not fit into what that \u2018vampire\u2019 part of me is actually like.  It\u2019s like I\u2019ve spent years, certainly over a decade, already doing external and internal \u2018searching\u2019 on my vampire-aspect before I even acknowledged that I have it and before I considered it might be a \u2018kintype.  And really, that\u2019s a fortunate thing because I started this possible \u2018kintype introspection on blutpir back in January this year with me already having a good, strong basis of what that vampire-aspect is actually like, and thus having to primarily go through introspecting and such on whether or not blutpir is a \u2018kintype or is instead some non-otherkin part of me (such as some more \u2018symbolic\u2019 aspect, or a strong identification *with*–rather than *as*–a fictional vampire).  Nevertheless, I\u2019ve taken the opportunity to enjoy perusing through learning more about different kinds and versions of vampires\u2014even if I haven\u2019t been looking into any particular version in a lot of depth or extensively\u2014from myth and folklore across the world, to the common and less common versions and details of fictional vampires, to \u201creal vampires\u201d (as in, the energy-deficient, prana or sang feeding people), vampire fictives and fictionkin, and to some extent vampire lifestylers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To me, blutpir isn\u2019t something I believe is a real, existent-somewhere type of creature (even if there are supposed multi-universes or parallel worlds\/universes, alternate planes that it could hypothetically be on, etc.\u2014which I don\u2019t really ascribe to any of those, as I don\u2019t totally rule them out, but I\u2019m fairly apathetic in terms of my personal belief about those matters).  Blutpir is a kind of vampire that is a psychological experience, identity, and belief of mine, so although it \u201cexists\u201d in some sense, the reality of the existence of blutpirs is limited to my own mind, my own experiences, thoughts, identity, etc. (and anyone else who may happen to experience a vampire-aspect or \u2018kintype that would resonate so accurately with my own understanding of what a blutpir is).  And along with that, it is a vampire that has been a \u2018species\u2019 of intentionally fictional origin and purpose in my own mind, even though I\u2019ve never actually written, drawn, or otherwise depicted those vampires in fiction media outside of basically listing various details and information about them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So the reality to me about this vampire-aspect of mine comes down to it being, in essence, of fiction.  Therefore, if that makes it\/me a kind of fictionkin, then so be it, and I don\u2019t find it any harder to swallow that reality than the concept of therianthropy (and my own theriotypes, including a supposedly, unverified extinct animal) and the concept of non-therian otherkin.  Although fictionkin is technically a rather broad category (which can include and exclude some otherkin), it\u2019s not advisable to make blanket statements and judgments about what fictionkin are like, what they believe and identify as, and how \u2018legitimate\u2019 they may be based on only certain subsections\u2014or especially only specific individuals\u2014of the overall large fictionkin category.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Possible Vampire Fictionkin” (5\/1\/2012) I only started to think about this sometime after I began to consider if I might have a vampire \u2018kintype and my external searching about that (both in trying to find other vampire\u2019kin and in comparing\/contrasting my vampire-aspect to different versions of vampires in myth, folkore,<\/p>\n

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