2020 Friending Meme

[st_aurafina]

This helped me a lot in early 2017 when Trump had just been elected, and I am hoping we can get the same feeling going again, after the UK election was such a shock.

Connections are important when it feels like the world is getting darker. Fandom is a huge and strong network of people. We don't always get along, but we're stronger together.

Make new friends, reconnect with those who have drifted, enlarge your circle, and know you are not alone.

To play, cut and paste this text into a comment, fill out the details and tell us about yourself. Then go find new people to add.

<strong>DW username</strong>: <strong>Preferred pronouns:</strong> <strong>Other platforms (tumblr, twitter, etc)</strong>: <strong>Active/primary interests or fandoms</strong>: (keep this fairly short, so people will read it!) <strong>If you've seen me around, it's probably because</strong>: (how might people have seen you online / in fandom?) <strong>I post about</strong>: (fandom, real life, or a combination) <strong>I post/check my feed</strong>: (daily, weekly, twice a year, etc) <strong>I want to find people that post about</strong>: (specific fandoms, fandom in general, books, RL, SJ, etc) <strong>I am most interested in interacting with people on:</strong> (DW, Twitter, Tumblr, etc) <strong>My blog is</strong>: (public, selectively public, friends-only) <strong>Anything else you need to know about me:</strong> (A good place to talk about your fandom shipping preferences, characters, type of fic/art/etc you like. Or link to your intro post. Or put a cute photo of your cat.)

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Play nice.

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<a href="https://st-aurafina.dreamwidth.org/287751.html"><img src="https://i.imgur.com/ooqK0gK.png" alt="Let's Stick Together: a friending meme for a new year. Image is two giraffes, one leaning almost at right angles to put their head on their friend's neck."></a>

ETA on Sat morning AEST: This text box was functionally busted a few hours ago, so if you grabbed the code then, you might have an image with no link. It's fixed now, with all new alt text for screen readers. If your promo link is just an image, please replace the code with what's in the box now. Thanks for all the posts, btw! Giraffes popping up everywhere.

Comments

[starshipfox]

I'd like to get to know you! I like books, crafts, and would love to hear about history and Judaism.

[starshipfox]

We share a few different fandoms, and I definitely feel you on the insomnia!

[starshipfox]

I'm autistic, disabled and queer. I'm very interested in kink and kinky fic so it sounds like we might have some things in common?

[zhelana]

Sounds good, I'll go ahead and add you :)

[flowersforgraves]

awesome! added you :D

[starshipfox]

DW username: foxshipstar or starshipfox
Preferred pronouns: she/her [I am a cis lesbian and a trans ally]
Other platforms (tumblr, twitter, etc): I'm active on twitter and goodreads, but I don't want to share those publicly.
Active/primary interests or fandoms: Leverage, Star Trek DS9, all other Star Trek, The Magicians ... also BOOKS, esp books by queer authors
If you've seen me around, it's probably because: ...probably not? Unless we've talked about space lesbians together.
I post about: Mostly RL -- I have fibromyalgia and lately I've been struggling with my health, so I post about that. I also talk about my wife, my cats, books, kink, poetry, writing.
I post/check my feed: post weekly, check feed every day or two days
I want to find people that post about: queer and/or disabled people! and book lovers.
I am most interested in interacting with people on: just DW for now
My blog is: mostly friends-only
Anything else you need to know about me: I'm 30, autistic, passionate about writing and books.

[nafs]

DW username: nafs
Preferred pronouns: she/her
Other platforms: nafio, nafio
Active/primary interests or fandoms: Reading a lot of Good Omens fic right now, watching Prodigal Son and perennial viewer of the Voice.
If you've seen me around, it's probably because: I've been around for two decades or so. Wrote popslash and bandom fic, and one tiny House fic that's still getting kudos, I must have done something right. Occasional beta for tangeriner. Until recently I covered women's hockey for PensionPlanPuppets. Also doing the Write Every Day check ins.
I post about: Mostly rambles about real life, with some comments on what's going on in fandom as seen in passing on twitter, and lately some stuff about how I'm trying to get my original writing back in gear.
I post/check my feed: I check my feed about daily, post a couple times a month.
I want to find people that post about: I mostly like reading people I find interesting, a lot of people on my feed are not in the same fandoms as me anymore.
I am most interested in interacting with people on: Both Twitter and Dreamwidth.
My blog is: Friends-only with a couple of public posts (NB I just checked the public feed and a lot of the stuff is about the death of Lucy/reggie_mbq/Mona Hale so maybe be careful there if you check it out before adding me. That said, if you knew her by all means, I'd love to find more people who remember her)
Anything else you need to know about me: I used to be a big Nick Carter fan but now I am very not so anyone looking to dig up popslash memories might want to avoid me. I RT a fair bit on twitter, often having to do with women's hockey or Indigenous issues in Canada. (I am a settler myself, born in Canada to Scottish immigrant parents.) I'm hard of hearing, I go to at least one folk festival every year, I was at Crossings Con this past year. I am in my early 40s now and sometimes my patience with younger fans can be... short. I bill myself as a misanthrope on my twitter bio and it's only half a joke. I work at UofT and mention that a fair bit on Twitter.
I will not be offended if I add you and you don't add me back!

[paulamcg]

Unfortunately I’ve been too late to get an assignment and to create a gift, but I’m looking forward to dancing around in my dress robes, commenting on what others bring. And I’m glad the announcement of attendance made you do that slamming!

[kp_marlowe]

DW username: kp_marlowe
Preferred pronouns: F, but not picky.
Other platforms (tumblr, twitter, etc): None, ATM. Long story.
Active/primary interests or fandoms: Writing, art, cats, retrowave & old obscure and/or trashy anime. (Weiss Kreuz? Weiss Kreuz!)
If you've seen me around, it's probably because: You're reading this thread. ...actually, if you're in a niche enough fandom, you might have heard about me falling headlong into someone who's Kind Of A Big Deal. And that would be the story of my life.
I post about: Writing, art and slice-of-life nonsense. I'm aiming to be low-drama.
I post/check my feed: About twice a week, depending on how busy work is.
I want to find people that post about: COOL STUFF EVEN IF IT'S COOL STUFF I'M NOT SPECIFICALLY INTO. I like enthusiasm.
I am most interested in interacting with people on: DW, def.
My blog is: Mostly friends-only.
Anything else you need to know about me: Looking to have actual conversations with actual people. I write mostly original fic, but sometimes do fanworks. I have a terrible, morbid sense of humor. This is my favorite meme and I have considered ordering related stickers to label, umm, everything in my home. If you recognized what's in my icon, please definitely friend!

[kp_marlowe]

Yes, hello, I would very much like to talk to you about bees and books if that is acceptable. Have you read any Jacqueline Koyanagi?

[forestofglory]

Thank you! Nice to meet you.

If you would enjoy a rec list of short comforting SFF I put together < href=https://ladybusiness.dreamwidth.org/2018/09/26/short-sweet-comforting-stories.html>one last year. Most but not all of those are free online.

[mllesatine]

Wait wait wait. The dead dove thing is a real quote?

[kp_marlowe]

Yep! Apparently, it's from Arrested Development? I confess, I've never seen any of that show, but the fact it gave this meme makes me want to change that.

[forestofglory]

Hi, I've been falling in cdrama hole lately and I'd love to add more people who want to talk about that.

[tomakeanoffer]

Queer and kinky and mixed race and disabled! Hello, sir I would like to be friends

[tomakeanoffer]

Hello! You sound great ❤ I'm queer and disabled and kinky as well and I am trying to poke poetry with astick, so I would love to add you

[nafs]

I currently have very low ability to consume any kind of grim story and am having to skip a bunch of well regarded works.

Hello yes, same (although this applies more to the written medium for some reason). I have peeked at your DW and you seem very interesting and someone who is likely to add to my extremely long "to read" list so I have added you. *wave*

[tomakeanoffer]

Ooh I am here for enabling peolle unto more creative endeavors, I would love to watch you delve more into fountain pens and cookibg especially if that is okay

Which is an awkward way of asking if I can friend you

[tomakeanoffer]

Hi! I love mythology and folklore, and am also an anxious oerson who owns cats. May I add?

Re: Rathany

[kp_marlowe]

...did you say Buckaroo Banzai?

Would you be interested in saying Buckaroo Banzai together in the future?

Also, thank you for the post about the Folgers ad XD.

[emeraldarrows]

Of course! (:

[trobadora]

DW username: trobadora
Preferred pronouns: she/her
Other platforms (tumblr, twitter, etc): Trobadora
Active/primary interests or fandoms: Guardian, Doctor Who, Sherlock Holmes
If you've seen me around, it's probably because: I've been around for a long time, and have been through some big fandoms. You may have seen me in HP, or SGA, or Doctor Who, or around holmestice, or Guardian. Or any number of smaller fandoms! I write fic, and sometimes meta, and I've co-modded a few exchanges.
I post about: fandom, mostly
I post/check my feed: I read daily; I post irregularly (sometimes daily, sometimes once a week, less if I get busy)
I want to find people that post about: Guardian, cdramas, fandom in general
I am most interested in interacting with people on: DW
My blog is: mostly public
Anything else you need to know about me: I'm multifannish, always have several different fandoms at once, and never fully leave anything behind. For shipping, I like all gender configurations, and I also like gen. It all depends on how the canon and the characters hit me. My first love is always canon; if I don't wholeheartedly love it I can't get fannish about it.

[kp_marlowe]

Hi hi! My family is a bunch of bookworms and we always have unusual recs. I think I might be useful to have around just for that?

Also doing the engagement dance and allergic to Twitter.

[emeraldarrows]

:)

[flowersforgraves]

Totally! Added you :D