Trick or Bleed: Decorative Sharps Intensive

🗓 Saturday, October 31, 2026 | 🕑 2 PM EDT | 8 PM SAST 📍 Online via Reign of Blood ⏱ 2 PM to 7 PM EDT | 8 PM to 1 AM SAST

✦ About This Event ✦

The babysitter is dead. The basement smells like iron. The final girl is covered in blood and still asking for one more needle.

Trick or Bleed is a Halloween decorative sharps intensive running across five hours. Three classes, one night, one theme. Come dressed like you survived the movie. Leave marked like you didn't.

✦ The Programme ✦

Risk Profiles and Cleaning for Sharps Decorations with @xSolaris

Adding decorations to your sharps can make them pretty, dramatic, weird, delicate, sparkly, floral, or completely ridiculous in the best way. This class looks at the practical side of using them. We'll talk about the risk profiles of common decorations like flowers, feathers, ribbon, beads, chains, charms, and more, plus what can be cleaned, disinfected, sterilized, reused, or better treated as single-use. The goal is to help you make better sense of the materials you want to use.

Going Batty: Creating Unique Shapes in Artistic Piercing with @NeedlePlayground

Needles lend themselves well to creating uniform and geometric shapes based on their strict sizing, but working needles at different angles to create more unique or irregular shapes is a different challenge entirely. This class walks participants through the execution of a large bat design to celebrate the spooky season, with tips and considerations for packing several needles into small areas to convey corners, curves, and more. The stencil will be provided to participants to enjoy.

Wings in Flight: Stencil Work with @paradax_

Some designs want to stay flat. This one doesn't.

This class is built around a wing stencil, and the work of bringing it to life on skin. Not just placing needles, but creating tension, using ribbon to pull the design into three dimensions, letting the piece breathe and move with the body underneath it. This is decorative sharps as sculpture.

Paradax will walk through the full process: reading the stencil, mapping it to the body, setting up for clean execution, and the specific technique of threading ribbon through placed needles to create lift, tension, and visual drama. The result is something that exists between piercing and art installation, precise and alive at the same time.

Whether you are new to stencil work or looking to push your decorative practice further, this class gives you the language and the method to take your designs off the page and into the air.

✦ Halloween Stencil Competition 🎃 ✦

Think you can create the spookiest spider or most wicked bat? We are running a Halloween stencil competition alongside this event.

🕷️ The Spooky Spider, designed by @The_Stencil_Lab 🦇 The Wicked Bat, designed by @NeedlePlayground

• Download the stencils via the link below • Get stabby 📌🪡 • Upload your work to FetLife • Tag @the_stencil_lab, @Reignofblood, and @NeedlePlayground • Follow all three accounts so we don't miss your entry! • Use hashtags #SpookySpider and #WickedBat

You can enter as many times as you'd like!

🗓 Competition open: September 10, 2026 🗓 Competition closes: October 31, 2026 🏆 Winners announced: November 15, 2026

Prizes

Spookiest Spider wins: 🩸 A $50 AUD voucher to spend at The Stencil Lab 🧛 Three months of Vampire Academy Patreon access

Most Wicked Bat wins: 🩸 A $50 AUD voucher to spend at Needle Playground 🧛 Three months of Vampire Academy Patreon access

🔗 Stencil download & full competition details: https://www.patreon.com/ReignofBlood/posts/trick-or-bleed-169145144?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

✦ Exclusive Discounts 🎃 ✦

Use code TRICKORBLEED for 15% off at both: 🛒 The Stencil Lab: https://thestencillabstore.etsy.com 🛒 Needle Playground: https://NeedlePlayground.com

New to the Vampire Academy? Use code TRICKORBLEED for a 50% discount on your first month. 🧛 https://www.patreon.com/ReignofBlood

✦ About the Educators ✦

Ember Solaris (they/she) is a Sadistic D-type leaning switch and social scientist who infuses her passion for research into every class she presents. A professional information sponge and infodumper, Ember's classes combine depth, passion, ferocity, and ethical complexity. A disabled, queer, genderqueer nerd, they live in the gray spaces and hope to meet you there.

📍 FetLife: @xSolaris

Dear Caroline is the owner of Needle Playground and a kink enthusiast with a particular taste for sharps and other forms of edge play. She was introduced to kink in 2007 and made it her lifestyle in 2017. She is a sensualist who lives on all sides of the slash and is drawn to a variety of kinks, her favorites being sharps and blood play, impact play, and bondage. She is passionate about learning as much as she can about kink and sharing her own knowledge with her community.

🌐 NeedlePlayground.com 📍 FetLife: @NeedlePlayground 📸 Instagram: @NeedlePlayground 🎃 Use code TRICKORBLEED for 15% off at NeedlePlayground.com

@paradax_ is a needle play enthusiast specialising in decorative needles and stencil work. Her love for needle play began in 2017, with the past few years being instrumental in her focus on precise sharps play. Together with her partner, she began The Stencil Lab at the end of 2024, with the intent of sharing unique designs and sparking excitement amongst the needle play community. Paradax has experience teaching sharps in local spaces and in online forums, centered by her desire to inspire confidence in the wider sharps community.

🛒 https://thestencillabstore.etsy.com 📍 FetLife: @the_stencil_lab 🎃 Use code TRICKORBLEED for 15% off at The Stencil Lab

✦ Tickets & Access ✦

🎟 Individual Ticket: TBA 🧛 Vampire Academy Members: this event is included in your membership 💌 Scholarships: Applications open, please complete the form below

✦ How to Access Your Class ✦

🔗 Zoom link will be available in the virtual event hub and emailed to you via Humanitix one hour before the class starts. Please check your spam folder if you do not receive it.

✦ Support Us on Patreon ✦

Join the Vampire Academy on Patreon for class recordings, sharps labs, and community support. https://www.patreon.com/ReignofBlood

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