Who else is making the trip to Endless Night in New Orleans this year? First time attending and trying to plan an outfit that can survive Louisiana humidity without wilting by midnight - any veterans have fabric advice?

If you haven't read American Vampire (Scott Snyder, Stephen King's original arc) you're missing one of the best vampire reinventions in the medium - a distinctly American vampire strain with its own rules. Also cautiously hyped for whatever direction the new Blade project ends up taking, it's been a long road to get a script that sticks.

Blood of the Dawnwalker footage has me completely feral - a studio full of ex-Witcher devs making a vampire RPG about a half-vampire torn between day and night factions is exactly the kind of thing I didn't know I needed. Anyone else already planning their character build?

Werewolf by Night is still the best thing Marvel has put out in years and it's a 50-minute black and white special most people slept on. Gael Garcia Bernal deserved a full trilogy off the back of that alone.

Seeing a lot of new members ask about the blood-drinking side of this community (sanguinarians, for anyone unfamiliar with the term) - just a reminder this is a real practice for some people here, and if you're curious the important thing is always a willing donor, proper screening and hygiene. Happy to answer respectful questions, this isn't a costume for everyone in this court.

Put together a playlist for the drive up to Whitby - Type O Negative, Bauhaus, HIM, Rasputina, the whole gothic canon. If your vampire aesthetic doesn't come with a soundtrack are you even doing this right? Drop your essentials below.

Finally got my custom fangs done by a proper fangsmith instead of the drugstore plastic ones - if anyone in the UK wants a recommendation for someone who does a precision dental mould fitting rather than a one-size clip-in, message me. Genuinely feels like part of my mouth now, worth every penny.

Ranking Dracula adaptations after a very long night: Coppola's 1992 film for the romance and the sets, the Robert Eggers Nosferatu remake for sheer atmosphere, and then everything else fighting for third place. Change my mind.

Underworld marathon tonight - Selene in that catsuit set the template for a whole generation of vampire media, Blade included. Say what you want about the sequels, the first film's werewolf-vampire war lore still holds up.

Finished the latest season of Interview with the Vampire and I need to talk to someone about the Louis and Lestat of it all. That courtroom framing device is doing so much work - anyone else think Armand's chapters next season are going to break the fandom in half?