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About Damien Daville
Greetings..
I am a 50 year old primarily empathic vampire now living in Norfolk, Virginia in the States. I also like elemental sources, and am a sanguine vampire with the right donor. I first learned of my vampirism as a teen in high school around 1970, and have developed its needs and abilities ever since. I have worked in some way helping others understand real vampirism for about thirty years. I came to the internet about 1995 and worked online in the few vamp forums around. I founded the Darkfear Network in early 1997, and then the Vampire Church in 1998. I also founded Web Alliance. In 2001, I founded the Texas Vampire Association, to better bring real vampires together in the state of Texas. Then in 2003, I founded the MidAtlantic Vampire Association to do the same thing in Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and in Delaware. I spend most of my time now, working in the offline vampire community and in the public, helping other people to understand real vampirism. The Vampire Church is active both online and offline.
Damien Daville
Damien is the founder and elder of the Vampire Church
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Greetings,
Well, it is my belief that the film industry and the literature world have not done well when it comes to books and films about vampires and vampirism. I haven't had much of an interest in what they do with the subject because of the large amount of effort that goes into romanticizing the subject and fictionalizing it which has created so much misconception to so many about it. I suppose that having the vampire condition and having lived with its problems has made me rather unsympathetic with the comical nature of what has been written and produced about vampirism. There is too much effort going into ridiculing it and making fun of it.
So I really have no favorites, but I can understand people enjoying a good fictional film especially of the horror genre including those made about fictional vampires. I realize some think certain films about vampires are better than others. I have seen some of the vampire films made over many years and despite the entertainment value people see in them, they just remind me about the ridicule and fun made about the subject of vampirism. I know I would have never chose this condition for my life, and having it has enabled me to understand what a burden it has been and the extra problems it has brought. I know most who are younger in their 20s and 30s may not think anything about dealing with their vampirism, but many of us know it is a difficult thing to deal with.
Damien Daville
Founder of the Vampire Church
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