Dr. Luma — "Your light in the darkness"
17 June, 2025

Hello, faithful readers. I apologize for the unusually inflammatory headline today, but such tactics are necessary if I wish to make sure today's post is actually read by as many people as possible. I hope, as well, that this opening paragraph is not so long as to be intimidating, but is still long enough to generate a sense of investment and compel further reading.

Now then. If it wasn’t obvious, I have an announcement to make.

In my last post, I recounted some details of my latest in a series of vampire interviews. Particularly, that this vampire asked if I wanted to be turned. I have heard much from all of you since then, and, as promised, it has had little impact on my ultimate decision.

I have decided to let her turn me.

As I said before, I have not made this decision lightly. I understand the risks, and have accounted for them as best as possible. But in the face of the brick wall haunting my research, haunting all of us, the only solution is bold action such as this. Those who doubt this are failing to grasp the scope of the problem before us.

We live today in an endless stalemate. Vampires are rare and uncoordinated, but ludicrously powerful individually; humans, meanwhile, are numerous and only grow more capable of omnicidal violence by the decade. No one wants to risk destabilizing a relatively peaceful status quo, and so the modern world universally chooses to simply exclude vampires from society, considering them “dead”. They need not answer to the law, nor are they protected by it. They are killed indiscriminately, they enslave humans just as indiscriminately, and the framing of predator and prey ensconces us all.

More than anything, I hope to become living proof that we don’t have to live this way. That there is some small way in which the human–vampire relationship can become a neutral or even positive one. I have taken great pains to ensure I am not killed or enthralled—pains which I will obviously not be sharing here unless absolutely necessary—and I approach this problem with a century’s worth of resolve.

And I do mean a century. Newer readers would be forgiven for unawareness of this… let’s say, ‘quirk’, of my biology—I don’t exactly bring it up all the time—but something about the circumstances of my former enthrallment left me aging at a significantly slower rate than usual. You’d assume this is due to some trace amount of vampiric miasma left lingering in my bloodstream, if you weren’t party to the results of my own blood tests. Another puzzle which I strike out now to perhaps one day solve.

The point is, I have experience feeling at odds with humanity, or at least with modern humanity, and I have decades upon decades of resilience built upon suppressing my most self-destructive and/or nostalgic impulses when in the presence of those who would exploit them. I have been doing so to the best of my ability since my most likely birth date in 1897¹, and I see no reason why I should stop doing so now, in the present.

We will see if this is all talk or not when I’m back. I would ask that you all refrain from trying to prevent it happening, if I needed to, but I don't. If any of you honestly believed I would schedule this post for a time at which it is still possible to stop me, then you underestimate me. As you read this, my fate has already been sealed.

And don't bother trying to kill me now, all you hunters out there— I am quite serious in my dedication to this cause, and if I find that I am unavoidably becoming a problem, I am resolved to carry out the deed myself. Spare me and my soon-to-be-begetter the effort of handling an intrusion directly, not to mention yourselves. Just this once, please drop it.

I know it sounds harsh. I truly do. But to allow myself a moment of vulnerability… this is my final writing as a human. This is the end of an era for myself much more than it is for any of you. After so many years spent reckoning with the consequences of belonging to another, I only ask that these last moments, brief as they may be, belong only to me.

1. Yes, I was born in the year of that book’s release, and I happen to be Transylvanian in descent, and you will not be the first to bring it up. Don’t bring it up.

Comments

Dr. Linda Ashford
One last trick before the end, eh? You always were quite the prepared one, I… I hope you are somewhere safe. And that you are safe. That's all I can say.

📝Dr. Luma
No need to worry. I am fully aware that my pleas here will do little to stem hostile reactions. I've taken precautions.

Dr. Linda Ashford
Best of luck, then.

Plinkman Jr.
Wait, are you saying that you were born in 1897, the very same year as the release of Brahm Stoker's Dracula? That's a bit ironic, isn't it?

📝Dr. Luma
This is the one and only one of these I will allow.

Plinkman Jr.
One of what?

NessNinten
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DEUS_VULT_420
ANOTHER SOUL… ANOHTER SOUL FALLEN… I pray of thee. BUT I WILL BE READY. For the crusdae…

seeker_of_knowledge
Always the melodrama with this blog. We get it, you were a thrall, and now you're old or whatever. Stop making up excuses already.

Octopussy46
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CrinchoJinjo
I can already imagine the influx of SEX FREAKS who are bound to be swarming the comments on your posts from now on. Like, can people EVER be normal about a beautiful and hot woman taking control of her own life? And the people around her? Like, just let women be MESSY, right? I'm pretty sure you said something like that once. I think about it a lot. You know, like, intellectually.

ThisThrallObeys
I know, right? It's SO HOT when my Mistress just… just has her way with me, you know?

CrinchoJinjo
Yeah, uh, this ain't it, chief.

SmallManForYou
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ifyoureadthisyouaregay
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DrHaroldGiesbert
Please call the Dean's office once you're able. Nothing bad, just trying to get in touch.

BloodyMary
She doesn't need you rushing it along, okay!? Give it a minute!

DrHaroldGiesbert
Fair enough. Just wanted to reassure.

yoyoma213
Hey Dr. Luma, have you ever thought about how you sort of share a birthday with Dracula and also speak in the same accent??? I bet you've never heard THAT before! /s