#sanguivory

[chubby-aphrodite]

fun fact: calling someone a "rhypophagous troglodyte" is a funny way of saying they're a basement dweller with shit taste

[sanguinarianlesbian]

Looking at my girlfriend's neck is so painful, when it's just a photo, where I cannot touch.

[ophiocordyceps]

i'm not very well acquainted with insect biology but,

would liquivorous bug angels be a thing? I mean I'm thinking like nectar but there is a certain other fluid that is very setting topical.

if they end up with a desire to eat, yes !! i imagine that while typically angels have no desire nor often the capacity to eat, fallen angels are basically 'true' omnivores in the sense that they're capable of eating just about anything, but whether or not they make the effort to is a different story entirely. but yeah sanguivory is on the table lol

[theredcellar]

A Necessary Look At Cutting, Safety, & Wound Care

A Necessary Look At Cutting, Safety, & Wound Care

Obligatory disclaimer: we at TRC are not medical professionals. We do not encourage the act of cutting and/or blood drinking. In no way is this article an attempt at downplaying the serious nature of such an undertaking. Please be aware that blood-letting is intrinsically dangerous and carries with it some huge, fundamental risks that can negatively impact all parties involved. Hazards and…

[gallusrostromegalus]

More Secret TPOFATGIF Lore, Cryptids and Monsters Edition:

Long Post, the rest of it is Under The Cut:

Tristan isn't totally insane- the bites of a domestic dog, many types of Lycanthrope and Vampire, Selkie and Cupacabra are nearly identical without taking a cast and even then DNA Swab testing is often needed to diagnose what bit someone if they didn't get a good look at it.

While the majority of Lycanthropes* are humans with cyclic hybridism, Selkies are a rare instance of human-to-animal Zoonotic Curse transfer, where Cyclic Anthrothropy was transmitted to a population of harbor seals in the Outer Heberdies off Scotland around 1682. HOW the curse was transferred remains a mystery shrouded in some very unfortunate legends about "Seal Wives".

*Lycanthropy, of course, only refers to the most common from of Cyclic Hybridism, Canine Lunar Cyclic Hybridism or CLCH, also known as "Wolfman Disease". All known types of Cyclic Hybridism are not diseases, but variations of a blood-bourne curse that originated in Neolithic times, probably during Humanity's first attempts at controlling Magic. There are currently 486 documented types of Cyclic Hybridism, encompassing a total of 406 types of animals and 122 Cyclic schedules.

By Contrast, "Vampirism" refers to an entire group of Sanguivorious Human disorders with a wide variety of causes including, but not limited to: Viruses, Bacteria, hereditary curses, blood-bourne curses, prions, memetic fanaticism and even psychosomatic vampirism.

Vampires thus vary wildly in sensitivity to things like sunlight, running water, garlic, compulsive counting behaviors and being set on fire. Most types of Vampirism are contagious, particularly the infamous Sunnydale Syndrome which reached epidemic proportions from 1997-2001, but some are entirely idiosyncratic conditions or only hereditary.

The persistent rumor that bats carry vampirism is entirely inaccurate and the result of an early conflation of rabies with Vampiric disorders.

Chupacabra are a tragically endangered Keystone species and one of the few extant non-australian Marsupials. Their unsettling appearence and fondness for hunting livestock has made public outrach efforts difficult to say the least, but Chupacabra play a key role in preventing the spread of diseases in ungulates and the over-grazing of their native desert steppe.

Chupacabra originally evolved to hunt camelids and it's extreme speed and fearlessness when it came to hunting large prey on steep cliffs made it an important predator of wild Llama and Vicuna prior to the introduction of sheep and goats. Compared to an adult Llama, a goat is easy pickings, and it's hardly a suprise Chupacabra would start hunting this much slower, less aggressive prey, even at the risk of death by human shepherds.

Like thier closest living relatives, the Virginia Possum, the Chupacabra is relatively immune to rabies, has a total of 50 teeth and 13 nipples!

After decades of elusive behavior and difficulty in getting adequate samples, in 1996, Scientists were finally able to confirm that Mothmen have a complex, multi-generational migratory cycle, and that their primary egg-laying grounds are in the central valley of Nihofornia. Fresno Nightcrawlers are in fact, laval Mothmen. The discovery led to massive public adoration of the former omen of doom and improved conservation efforts, and now Mothmen numbers have rebounded and they occupy nearly all of their native range.

McElroy Monument near Huntington, West Virginia is home to an unusual Albino Mothman, lovingly named Indrid Cold. Misunderstanding the origins of his name and thinking Indrid to be chilly, visitors have tried gifting him sweaters in the past, which the Park Service now has to actively prevent, as Indrid has definitely eaten far too many of them.

Conservation efforts for Bigfoots, Yasha Ape and Sasquatch are also widely supported, with massive national parks devoted to thier preservation, but poaching for the illegal Big Toe Market (some people believe that the toes are a potent aphrodisiac) has seriously hindered efforts to build stable breeding troops of these species of Mega Ape.

There is an expiriemental program in Mt. Yasha National Park to assign 24/7 live-in human guards to the small troop there. So far the program has been sucessful as both sepcies protection and youth rehabilitation, as the Yasha Apes are particularly enamored of thier former-streetfighter-turned-mobile-zookeeper, Baki Hanma.

The Baja Basilisk, or "Loot Lizard" is no relative of the European Basilisk, but the confusion is understandable. More Accurately called the Behir, the Baja Basilisk is a massive reptile resembling an elongagted water monitor with up to 12 legs (they grow more as they age- one particularly ancient specimen was documented with a total of 16 legs) that is big enough to swallow a human whole. And swallow they do! The Loot Lizard earned it's nickname from its voracious appetite, indiscriminate palette and inability to chew, leading to Behir eating any vaugely animal-shaped object around them and horking up the indegestible pieces later.

Ambitious Adventurers have intermittently had sucess taming wild Behir- they make excellent mounts in enclosed spaces and any suspicious locked chest or ichor-covered idol can be tossed down the gullet of a tame Behir to be cleaned by it's powerful stomach, or digested if it happens to be a mimic, and the resalable parts regurgitated later.

Unfortunately, the popularity of Dungeon-crawling adventuring in the late middle ages, and the lack of knowledge about the Behir's long reproductive cycle (a Behir doesn't reach sexual maturity until age 60-80 at the earliest and may only produce two or three clutches of one or two eggs in it's life) lead to extensive poaching of Behir and the devastation of thier populations, and now they are only rarely found in a tiny sliver of thier previous rang, in the Baja Peninsula.

Tristan was very enamored of Behir in his youth and always wanted a pet one, much like how I wanted a Pet Tiger when I was six. His mom did make him a body-pillow size Behir Plushie and "Beans" still lives on his bed at home.

[spirgender]

some vampirigender subtypes:

↳ sangvampirigender - a subset of vampirigender specifically related to sanguine vampirism / sanguivory; a term describing the deep, spiritual connection one has to sanguine vampirism in connection to and influencing their gender.

↳ psyvampirigender - a subset of vampirigender specifically related to psychic vampirism; a term describing the deep, spiritual connection one has to psychic vampirism in connection to and influencing their gender.

↳ hyvampirigender - a subset of vampirigender specifically related to hybrid vampirism; a term describing the deep, spiritual connection one has to hybrid vampirism in connection to and influencing their gender.

[titleknown]

SO, since I posted the backlog of those Elder Scrolls Daedric Prince designs, I figured it’s time to start cranking out the rest! I figured I'd start with a notable request from that same Patron for Molag Bal!

Now, they're a nasty fucker, with a certain title that made my Patron worried about how I'd interpret it, but I figured I might as well take a page from Eberron and make that title a visual metaphor for his connection to vampires/sanguivory rather than vice-versa, which is why I basically made him an awful mosquito thing.

The barbed tip of the proboscis, aside from hurting more, is also a reference to those "anchors" he used in one of his evil schemes, and his nasty phallic-crocodilian tail is a reference to his mace! So that's fun!

[lexsang]

Sangs and psys could benefit from being cordial with one another, but I’ve found we usually don’t mix well. Often Sangs get called crazy and unstable by psys, and psys get all flustered when their metaphysical beliefs are challenged or asked for evidence. An offline Med Sang community would be cool (the red cellar is one such community, though now it’s only a discord server. As for online communities, I highly recommend the Pragmatic Sanguivory discord server for the empirically based sangs

The Red cellar is magnificent, they have a wonderful website as well, and a tumblr @theredcellar . I think it can be difficult for both sides. There is a pretty big rift in belief generally between the two groups. I think it's important to simply trust the experiences of other people, to an extent of course. I think that both sides get so at odds with eachother because they are too stuck in their rigid beliefs, both psis and sangs. Many sangs (medsangs specifically) wont take the time to consider whether a pair's experiences are legitimate, they will simply write them off as wanting to believe in something they think is fake. On the other hand, psis oftentimes don't understand why sangs live the way they do. I mean if you look at it from a psi perspective, why would a vampire torture themselves with having to find donors that will give them blood, risking blood borne pathogens, etc. Just to stay fed when "they could just take it psychically". For both sides, the other side simply doesnt make sense if you look at it the way you experience vampirism. Not everyone wants to take the time to sit down and understand someone else, but I think the community should make a habit of asking about the experiences of others that you may not understand. Things might be more understandable than you expect.

I'll have to check out that discord too :)

(Sorry for the rant haha, this is just one of those issues that I have had on my mind for a while)