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INTRODUCTION
2008 is #Sanguinarius's 10 Year Anniversary! Come celebrate
it with us in #Sanguinarius!
#Sanguinarius,
founded by (guess who?) Sanguinarius in 1998, and playing on a dal.net
server near you, is an IRC channel on DALnet, for -- what else?
-- real vampires and anyone interested in real vampires and vampirism
to congregate in to chat, ask questions, or discuss various matters
relevant to vampires, vampirism, and the vampiric community. It's
one of the few vampire channels which is not role-play oriented. It's
basically the general support and chat channel for the vampiric community.
Although there is likely to be someone in the channel at any given time,
your best bet of meeting up with others is going to be in the afternoon,
evening or night time, with the evenings being the peak time (USA time).
Check the Vampiric
Community Calendar for dates and times of scheduled discussions
and meetings, or just pop into the channels at odd times to see who
might be there.
We want you
and your input! Whether you are a blood drinker, psychic / energy
vampire, lifestyler, gothic, or just curious, I encourage you to drop
by and join in on one of the conversations. Sometimes funny, sometimes
serious, they're most always interesting -- actually, they are as interesting
as you make them... ;-)
 Vampb0t
is back! And so is vampbot's
Page, which has channel statistics, useful bot commands, and more.
We're still in the process of resurrecting vampb0t from the dead, so
stay tuned -- there will be more there later on.
CHANNEL GOALS
I am not
here for a popularity contest. I am here to help vampires.
#Sanguinarius
exists for vampire support and discussion, not as a public relations
channel for outsiders to see how fluffy and cute and harmless vampires
are supposed to be. I have seen and heard of the Ops discouraging or
attempting to squelch vampire-relevant topics (and sometimes they discourage
the topic in PMs) which they seem to think are unacceptable. These issues
are valid, and of real concern to those who are real vampires. I do
not expect anyone, ANYONE, who isn't a vampire to understand these things.
They may intellectually understand what is being said, but unless they
walk in our shoes, they cannot.
While I have
absolutely nothing against Otherkin, the channel #Sanguinarius is for
VAMPIRES. NOT Otherkin. It's focus WILL be vampires, vampire support,
vampire topics, and vampire socialization.
Topics which
will make non-vampires, psyvamps and others cringe, WILL be allowed
to be discussed. This includes controversial topics such as the Beast,
or feeding methods, for instance. Trying to shove it under the rug will
not get rid of it, will not make it any less real of an issue. Shoving
it under the rug WILL make it an issue that is not dealt with. And problems
that are not dealt with do not come to any sort of positive resolution.
The whole point of my channel is so that these issues CAN be talked
about. Just being able to talk about something like that with others
WHO UNDERSTAND, or go through the same problems, temptations, etc.,
helps heaps towards getting it, or keeping it, under control. But if
one cannot talk about such decidedly "unsavory" issues, topics
and dealings, then they keep it inside, having nobody they can share
it with. Eventually, it will come out in unacceptable ways, since they
never were allowed to discuss it in the supposed support channel, and
find constructive ways of controlling and dealing with it.
In the old
days, a stranger could come into the channel and would open up to the
channel, in the channel, and recieve support and help from those in
the channel. Now sometimes, when someone comes in, IF they share anything
at all, it is often ONLY in a cautious private message to someone; they
feel that they cannot discuss their issues IN THE CHANNEL. That is not
right. The environment that exists in the channel needs to be good and
conducive to support. THIS IS CHANGING BACK TO THE WAY IT USED TO BE.
This is not to say that people cannot have fun and joke and squirrel
around in there. Hell, that is half of what made the channel so great
in the past. Vampires felt they could be open and be themselves and
have fun and talk about what was on their minds and still be welcomed
and accepted. It's a place for vampires to be vampires.
And that
is the way it is going to be again. I know not everyone is going to
be happy about this, and I might even end up losing the friendships
of a few people who have been longtime regulars. But I'm pursuing something
greater and more important than my own popularity.
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