The Antidiogenes Club

@antidiogenes

Write, write, write; whine, whine, whine. About Us: The Antidiogenes Club is a fandom-friendly, sex-positive internet writing-and-making-stuff group. AD is also adults only, and liable to contain all sorts of content that would make the Victorians clutch their pearls. Please read our full policy statement and conduct guidelines before participating. You can submit your final word counts here. Icon from LitQuotes with modifications by thisprettywren.

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shaunashipman

"of course" 🤝 "as you wish"

queeranarchism

As if pride season wasn’t already terrible,

we now have to deal with puritan gay-conservative shits who don’t want queers to wear their leather and kink outfits to pride anymore, because “that’s not about sexual orientation, it’s about sex and doesn’t belong in public”. What the fuck.

LGBT and queer struggle has always been deeply intertwined with the struggle for sexual liberation. Being visibly queer and visibly sexually deviant has always been two parts of the same same ‘fuck you I’m queer’ to homphobes. Celebrating our sex lives and celebrating our existence has always been inseperable. The leather scene is a highly visible bit of queer culture and queer history. So much of the movement was build by these communities. So many of our heroes and queer elders wear leather. You do not get to take that away.

No minor at pride is gonna be scarred because they see a gay guy in chaps dancing on a float. Get real. Everyone has seen naked buttcheeks on tv a thousand times before their 12th birthday.

Your desire to desexualize our identities has nothing to do with protecting anyone. It’s just internalized homophobia.

I love you and everything you stand for. But I'm confused. What is (are?) "Antidiogenes" and how is it (are they?) pronounced?

ANN-tie-dai-AH-jen-eeze

In Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories, Holmes’s brother Mycroft belongs to a gentlemen’s club called The Diogenes, where the cardinal rule is that all business is conducted in absolute silence; no speech allowed. I assume there is some connection to Diogenes of Sinope, noted Cynic philosopher of ancient Greece, but Diogenes has any number of spoken quips on record, so the not-speaking thing did not originate with him. He was an outcast and an iconoclast, however; that might be the connection.

In any case, Antidiogenes was named because it’s a space specifically dedicated to chatting about & supporting each other while writing.

Hope this helps, Anon! –HBBO (havingbeenbreathedout)

#faq #admin note #this response courtesy of needing a budgeting break #Anonymous

ttime42 reblogged your post and added:

This happened to me too just tonight. I used the...

There has been a down tick in participation in the chat recently, so it is possible that you are just logging in when no one else is around. I would recommend using the link that is on our blog page, however, just to make sure there is nothing fishy going on with the link you have been using. I know that IRC link on our main page works because I use it regularly.

--Urbanhymnal

#ttime42

magdaliny replied to your post “Word Totals”

I logged into chat multiple times over the weekend and didn't see any users in attendance. Has anybody else had that problem?

I haven’t heard of anyone else experiencing that issue. Check and make sure that your chat info is up-to-date; we changed servers a few months ago so you may be accidentally logging onto the old server. You can find the new server information on this post.

Otherwise, it may just be that the times you popped in where odd times for other folks. I wasn’t able to be in attendance much due to being sick, but I know several people were in there any time I did log on.

--Urbanhymnal

#magdaliny #mod post

Word Totals

While there were certainly plenty of people in the chat, we didn’t have many report in with their word totals. Still from those who reported in, it sounded like a pretty productive weekend. Our total was:

Keep up the good work and we will see you next WoD weekend!

--UrbanHymnal

Hour 48

Well done, wordly warriors of the weekend!

Make sure you post your writing total here.

-- patternofdefiance

#ding ding ding #this is your four-hourly reminder post #write or die #gif warning #rick and morty gifs

Hour 44

Last four hours starts now, Word Warriors!

So join us for the final push, and let’s slay those goals!

-- patternofwordlust

#ding ding ding #this is your four-hourly reminder post #write or die #gif warning #the final countdown gif

Hour 40

I see you there, writin’ those words. How you doin’?

Need some help containing a word situation? Hop on over to chat for some word-war-bustin’ camaraderie!

-- patternofCHAAAAARGE!

#ding ding ding #this is your four-hourly reminder post #write or die #gif warning #ghostbusters gifs

Hour 36

Of course, sometimes determination meets a stumbling block: self-doubt:

That’s why we’re here - comrades in words and wild plot speculation. Join us to help smooth out your own bumpy road to wordly success!

-- patternofwildlyfluctuatingwritingconfidence

#ding ding ding #this is your four-hourly reminder post #write or die #gif warning #full house gif #pokemon gif

Hour 32

THIS - in life and in word wars:

-- patternofdetermination

#ding ding ding #this is your four-hourly reminder post #write or die #gif warning #keep going gif

Hour 28

The struggle of the wordening continues - and it can be a real struggle, mirroring that of life in it’s ups and downs.

And that’s okay - we’re here together, and we’ll get through it all.

--patternofhope

#ding ding ding #this is your four-hourly reminder post #write or die #adventure time gifs #gif warning

Hour 24

Halfway there! Well done everyone!

Are you at that point where every decision has a million potential effects? Having trouble resolving them into a solitary goal?

Explore those paths, find the one that’s right for you and the story - and remember, you don’t have to go it alone! Join us for camaraderie and commiseration as we wrestle with our potentialities!