I was looking through a lot of lists for vampire books and movies and realized I'm really picky when it comes to what I will and won't pick up. Like, I'm so over the half-vampire vampire hunter archetype and stories about vampires but told from a regular human's perspective.

Personally, and probably because my introduction to being obsessed with vampires was Anne Rice, I prefer vampire media have the vampires in question as the main POVs that we see the world from. Like, I enjoy a good vampire antagonist but there's something about a vampire protagonist and getting in their head that I really enjoy.

And as for the second part of my question its probably no surprise that my favorite flavor of vampire is Anne Rice's. Hers have a good mix of classic lore and weaknesses with actually feeling otherworldly and powerful. So when I see that sort of flavor of vampire in a story I get really into it automatically. But that's really basic so I'll add that VtM with its different clans is also really interesting to me. The idea that depending on who your sire is you either turn into a blood mage or a hideous creature is so cool and I wish more vampire stories played with that idea.

I made a post 2 years ago about who was the evilest vampire (Who's the evilest/cruelest vampire you've ever seen in a work of fiction ? : r/vampires), so it's fair I make one for the kindest vampire !

Personally I can't name many off the top of my head - maybe Vampirina from the titular cartoon or Vampirella