Caution: The Vampires You Are About To Enjoy....

... May Be Extremely Hot:

The Vampire Diaries Cosmic Love Trailer

The Vampire Diaries Season Two Trailer: Year of the Kat

Season 2 premieres Thursday night at 8 and I'm already counting the days... hours... minutes!

I guess that's why it's called "Team Damon"

I want to watch the first Vampire Diaries webclip on this post from the lovely vampire-diaries.net over and over again. Like, every minute, all day, every day. I want to watch it like a lab rat wants to hit the go button, again and again 'til it dies.

I know, disturbing, right? But the lab rat dies happy!

I'm cheating on Edward Cullen...

... with Damon Salvatore.

That's right. I'm stepping out on this:

For this:

I can't help it.

I DVR'd The Vampire Diaries but then I couldn't bring myself to watch it. I had commitment issues which can all be laid at the feet of Angst Goddess and her Wide Awake Twilight fan-fiction masterpiece/time-suck. I got hooked, read it like a starving person gobbles food, and then.... And then. She didn't post new chapters FOR. EVER. Days, weeks, months... purgatory!!! But I was in luuuuvvvvvv!

Since then I've been a little gun-shy about falling in love again. And you know how it goes with TV - you find a new series, you watch it, you fall in love, and then it gets cancelled. There's no closure - Hello, Southland, I'm talking to YOU.

Which brings us to The Vampire Diaries. I had 5 episodes piled up in the DVR queue, and last week I took the plunge and gorged on them. And I LOVE IT. Specifically, I love Damon Salvatore, played by Ian Somerhalder, aka The Hot Guy from Lost. He's the bad-boy vampire brother and he looks like he's having a blast playing a bad dude. It's fun to watch. And did I mention he's hot?

The Vampire Diaries also beats Twilight: The Epic Saga because you don't have to WAIT MONTHS for a NEW INSTALLMENT to come out, because there's a new episode EVERY WEEK. [Every Thursday night on the CW at 8 p.m./7 central, you don't even need a TV, you can watch it online here!] I highly recommend Episode 6, Lost Girls, because Ian Somerhalder dances around without a shirt. Or maybe he's wearing a shirt but it's unbuttoned. I was too distracted by his abs, which were NOT airbrushed on, to note his exact state of undress.

The Vampire Diaries beats Twilight in one other important way: Ian Somerhalder is THIRTY. Not twenty-three, or twenty-four, or, sweet Jesus, seventeen. Legality is not in question, and at thirty, there's a chance he knows how to take care of his business AND my business, which automatically qualifies him as hotter than those other infants.

No need to worry about getting arrested for this:

When you have this:

I know, I know - go to your happy place now, it's OK.

Sources - OK I'm not really good with sources, because Google Images is like crack for me. But in order of appearance from top to bottom the photos are from: Gawker, spoilersguide.com, fanpop.com, and lost.cz. And aren't the links self-explanatory?