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

[notreallystars]

I was very confused by what she did with Remus. Obviously she's entitled to do what she wants with her characters, but I don't understand that at all.

I'm getting better with leaving comments! I think it's just about breaking the habit of not commenting, since I know most people appreciate interaction with their fics.

[paulamcg]

I didn’t understand it at all. At first I thought it was just me feeling that she wasted his potential as a character, although he was bound to stay a minor character for her. But I remember some other people, too, calling her portrayal of him as OOC compared with what we’d seen in PoA and OotP.

Great! I’ll be looking forward to your comments :) Don’t you write Remus fic yourself?

[notreallystars]

I haven't done for a while. The only thing I've written under this name is a Sirius fic, though I'm pretty sure Remus fic figured in my teenage fanfic writer incarnation. I keep meaning to write more, including Remus fics, but somehow never find the time.

[paulamcg]

Where could I find your Sirius fic? I thought your name implied that you’d written so much in Remus’s (first-person) pov that there could be some misunderstanding as to your identity! :)

[notreallystars]

Ah right! No, my username is because a friend of mine kept telling me I'm very like Remus - at least partly because I usually have chocolate close to hand - and I was struggling to think of something! My Sirius fic is pretty short but can be found here. I need to start writing more.

[paulamcg]

And now I guess I need to comment over on AO3.