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

[prixmium]

Commenting to let you know I subscribed! I will leave it up to you as to whether or not you want to share access in turn. I don't have many access-locked posts, but I have used it once or twice.

I am adding you because Doctor Who is one of my forever-fandoms. I'm actually rather behind on New Who, not having seen every episode of S10 because reasons and not having seen any of Thirteen yet, but I'll get around to it one day. I'm also interested in one day learning more about Old Who, particularly stuff that might be interesting in terms of the history of Gallifrey and the Time Lords, though I'm aware that the information is rather sparse and make-it-up-as-we-go.

Also we made very similar posts about this friending meme I noticed. So again hi!

[auroracloud]

Hey there, sorry for the delay, Christmas and Yuletide and family visits had me swamped for a bit, and I've had more responses than I expected in this friending meme (guess it comes from being among the first to post?). Anyway, it's always nice to get to know people with shared fandoms - as long as you don't mind certain differences of opinion, such as that S10 is my favourite Twelfth Doctor season and Bill will always be my true ultimate Twelve companion and I don't share any of your ships except Amy/Rory. And Jack/Martha a bit. (I'm kinda bad at shipping het anyway, to be honest, whether canon or not. Often the character combinations just don't work for me, and I have issues with a lot of the typical m/f tropes and dynamics.)

I'm always happy to babble about Old Who and convert people to it and so on (or at least, reasonably often).