Dear podcast listener, Welcome to Break On Through!  If you'd like to support our work, please consider donating to our pod so we can keep going! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dearvamps  Brigid's mic had some issues on this one, it's not your earphones. Sorry for the intermittent clicking!  Sincerely, Gaby & Brigid This episode contains conversations that touch on predatory/grooming behavior, suicide, disordered eating, restraining orders, and sexual assault.  We want safety for you.  If...

Dear podcast listener, Welcome to 1912!  If you'd like to support our work, please consider donating to our pod so we can keep going! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dearvamps  For more about Janelle: https://janellegray.wixsite.com/janelle , https://janellegray.wixsite.com/allagrayarea and https://www.echoesofthestruggle.com/  Sincerely, Janelle & Brigid This episode contains conversations that touch on grooming, disordered eating, restraining orders, and sexual assault.  We want safety for...

Dear podcast listener, Welcome to All My Children!  If you'd like to support our work, please consider donating to our pod so we can keep going! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dearvamps  For more about Janelle: https://janellegray.wixsite.com/janelle , https://janellegray.wixsite.com/allagrayarea and https://www.echoesofthestruggle.com/  Citations for this episode:  Hudson, Dale M. Vampires, Race, and Transnational Hollywoods. Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press Ltd, 2018. Hughey, Matthew...

Dear podcast listener, Welcome to Dangerous Liaisons!  If you'd like to support our work, please consider donating to our pod so we can keep going! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dearvamps  To order Black Witches and Queer Ghosts: Race, Gender, & Sexual Orientation in Teen Supernatural Serials go to https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781666926750/Black-Witches-and-Queer-Ghosts-Race-Gender-and-Sexual-Orientation-in-Teen-Supernatural-Serials   For more about...

Dear podcast listener, Welcome to Bringing Out the Dead!  If you'd like to support our work, please consider donating to our pod so we can keep going! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dearvamps  Sincerely, Christina & Brigid This episode contains conversations that touch on parental abandonment of a child, violence, and sexism. We want safety for you.  If you need help please consider the resources below and take care.  Suicide prevention...

Dear podcast listener, Welcome to The Ties That Bind!  If you'd like to support our work, please consider donating to our pod so we can keep going! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dearvamps  To order Black Witches and Queer Ghosts: Race, Gender, & Sexual Orientation in Teen Supernatural Serials go to https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781666926750/Black-Witches-and-Queer-Ghosts-Race-Gender-and-Sexual-Orientation-in-Teen-Supernatural-Serials   For more about Deanna:  www.deannakoretsky.com Anyiwo, U....

Dear podcast listener, Welcome to Our Town!  If you'd like to support our work, please consider donating to our pod so we can keep going! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dearvamps  Sincerely, Roslyn & Brigid This episode contains conversations about existential depression and suicidality. We want safety for you.  If you need help please consider the resources below and take care.  Suicide prevention resources: https://www.cdc.gov/suicide/resources/index.html  Info on...

Dear podcast listener, Welcome to The New Deal!  If you'd like to support our work, please consider donating to our pod so we can keep going! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dearvamps  Sincerely, Gaby & Brigid This episode contains conversations about beheading. We want safety for you.  If you need help please consider the resources below and take care.  Suicide prevention resources: https://www.cdc.gov/suicide/resources/index.html  Info on...

Dear podcast listener, Welcome to Homecoming!  If you'd like to support our work, please consider donating to our pod so we can keep going! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dearvamps  Sincerely, Bryan & Brigid This episode contains conversations that touch on a man escourting an unconscious woman out of a party, and abusive family dynamics.  We want safety for you.  If you need help please consider the resources below and take care.  Suicide prevention...

Dear podcast listener, Welcome to Ordinary People!  If you'd like to support our work, please consider donating to our pod so we can keep going! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dearvamps  To pre-order Black Witches and Queer Ghosts: Race, Gender, & Sexual Orientation in Teen Supernatural Serials go to https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781666926750/Black-Witches-and-Queer-Ghosts-Race-Gender-and-Sexual-Orientation-in-Teen-Supernatural-Serials    Koretsky, Deanna. 2023. "Mystic Falls in Covington, GA:...

Dear podcast listener, Welcome to Ghost World!  If you'd like to support our work, please consider donating to our pod so we can keep going! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dearvamps  Sincerely, Christina & Brigid This episode contains conversations that touch on grief and torture.  We want safety for you.  If you need help please consider the resources below and take care.  Suicide prevention resources: https://www.cdc.gov/suicide/resources/index.html  Info on...

Dear podcast listener, Welcome to Carmilla!  If you'd like to support our work, please consider donating to our pod so we can keep going! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dearvamps  To pre-order Black Witches and Queer Ghosts: Race, Gender, & Sexual Orientation in Teen Supernatural Serials go to https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781666926750/Black-Witches-and-Queer-Ghosts-Race-Gender-and-Sexual-Orientation-in-Teen-Supernatural-Serials    Le Fanu, J. S. (2022). Carmilla. Mumbai, GENERAL PRESS.   "Who...

Dear podcast listener, Welcome to Smells Like Teen Spirit!  If you'd like to support our work, please consider donating to our pod so we can keep going! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dearvamps  Sincerely, Anusha & Brigid This episode contains conversations around sexual assault, suicide, and grief.  We want safety for you.  If you need help please consider the resources below and take care.  Suicide prevention resources: https://www.cdc.gov/suicide/resources/index.html  Info on...

Dear podcast listener, Welcome to The Reckoning! If you'd like to support our work, please consider donating to our pod so we can keep going! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dearvamps  Sincerely, Christina & Brigid We want safety for you.  If you need help please consider the resources below and take care.    Suicide prevention resources: https://www.cdc.gov/suicide/resources/index.html  Info on...

Dear Podcast Listener, Welcome to Disturbing Behavior. If you'd like to support our work, please consider donating to our pod so we can keep going! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dearvamps  Sincerely, Kathleen & Brigid We want safety for you.  If you need help please consider the resources below and take care.  Statistics on queer conversion therapy in the United...

Dear Podcast Listener, Welcome to The End of the Affair. If you'd like to support our work, please consider donating to our pod so we can keep going! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dearvamps  Sincerely, Gaby & Brigid We want safety for you.  If you need help please consider the resources below and take care.  Statistics on queer conversion therapy in the United...

Dear Podcast Listener, Welcome to The Hybrid. If you'd like to support our work, please consider donating to our pod so we can keep going! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dearvamps  Sincerely, Mary Beth & Brigid We want safety for you.  If you need help please consider the resources below and take care.  Info on...

Dear Podcast Listener, Welcome to The Birthday. If you'd like to support our work, please consider donating to our pod so we can keep going! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dearvamps  Sincerely, Nikki & Brigid Sensitive themes include: underage drug use/drinking, torture/violence We want safety for you.  If you need help please consider the resources below and take care.  Info on...

Dear listeners, Happy Holidaaaaays! Please consider donating to our pod so we can keep going! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dearvamps  Sincerely, DVD Cast -Credits- Editing by Brigid Artwork by Nikki - Follow the pod -  @dearvampdiaries on Twitter and Instagram  Email us at [email protected]

P.P.P.P.S. In memorium: we rank the memorability of the deaths of Season Two's characters. Obviously there are spoilers. Dearly beloved, you've been warned. Please support us by donating if you'd like, to: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dearvamps  Write to us: [email protected]  Find us on Socials @dearvampdiaries All the ooey gooey love, DVD Cast Editing by Brigid Music recorded & played by Patrick Hornig, written by Frédéric Chopin.

P.P.P.S. Let us regale you (and sometimes serenade you) with the songs of Season Two. All credit to the artists in this playlist (and on the Vampire Diaries CD that Brigid plays in her car all the live long day):  https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0burjlyfu9le6EEnA5N84b?si=076cee1ed6b44a57  Please support us by donating if you'd like, to: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dearvamps  Write to us: [email protected]  Find us on Socials @dearvampdiaries All the ooey gooey love, DVD...

Dear podcast listeners, We're baaaaaaaaaack, but not in a creepy Poltergeist way. More in a Katherine Peirce being badass way. We have changes to the show: we are going bi-weekly for our release schedule, and we will be getting back to wrapping Season 2 in December, starting Season 3 rewatch in January!  We made the top 10 list of Vampire Diaries podcasts from Feedspot (check it out): https://podcasts.feedspot.com/the_vampire_dairies_podcasts/  Please support us continuing by donating if...

In solidarity with SAGAFTRA and WGA, this podcast is on strike until AMPTP comes to its senses.  Sincerely, DVD Cast

P.P.S. We ranked the town events of Mystic Falls from Season 2.  Sincerely,  Bryan & Brigid -Follow us- @dearvampdiaries on Twitter and Instagram  or email us at [email protected] Editing by Brigid Artwork by Nikki