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

[indywind]

DW username: indywind
Preferred pronouns: I'm not totally comfortable with any of the 3rd-person ones in common use in English; I'll accept any except "it" and deeply appreciate attempts to unobtrusively minimize their use in reference to me.
Other platforms (tumblr, twitter, etc): I have a LJ which I don't use, Facebook I'm trying to use less but am stuck with for work and hobby club obligations, MeWe that's new/trial status and I'm cautiously open to connecting there with people who have good social media boundaries. AO3, same username. DW, obviously.
I am most interested in interacting with people on: DW.
If you've seen me around, it's probably: been in the comments of another DW user with a wider circle, or on LJ back the olden days.
I post about: once a month or less, usually access locked, on topics as varied as fannish meta, personal musing, original poetry or fiction, the diversity of bodies and brains, the development, maintenance, and conceptualization of same; language, science, animals, academia, crafting/art, cooking/baking/recipes, living history, sociology, rants, and other things I'm not thinking of at the moment. I'm much more active in others' comments than my own space, where "much more" is still not a lot.
Active/primary interests or fandoms: Not really super focused on anything at the moment; past fandoms I still have some interest in include: Good Omens (now I've seen the TV series I prefer that to the book); Shetland; dueSouth (my intro to online fandom); Stargate:SG1; Marvel Comics universe (but not Civil War, Age of Ultron, Infinity Game; Star Trek:TOS (my intro to fandom at all, back before internet), AOS, TNG, DS9; Agent Carter...
I want to find people that post about: Any of the things I am interested in or adjacent topics, with an attitude of curiosity and kindness toward differences of perspective on emotionally loaded topics.

Anything else you need to know about me: For purposes of making new internet acquaintances, this is probably most relevant: some of the popular ways social justice and accessibility issues often play out in online/fandom-adjacent spaces really do not work for me and can cumulatively be detrimental. I limit my engagement with practices that don't work for me, so if you're very invested in them as the Right Thing All Decent People Should Be On Board With, or if you need them personally and we can't work out a way to accommodate our competing access needs, we will only hurt each other and should not try to be friends. For representative instance: I use content notes/warnings infrequently and unreliably. I avoid most broadly recognized harmful language but do still use words in ways some consider problematic or painful or merely incorrect --often advisedly as a member of a relevant identity group, and I don't need to be told the way I talk about what affects me is Wrong. Etc. This is kind of a downer to end on, so lemme copypasta some of the above, below.
Oh: I try really hard not to kinkshame or squee-squash and I'll do my best to address or refer to anyone as they prefer. Even if I don't 'get' you or what's important to you, you're valid.


My blog is: Mostly friends (or at least acquaintances)-only, in part because the above.
I check my feed: a few times a week on average. I'm online a lot for day job, largely unplugged at home, so often absent for weekends and holidays.

[prixmium]

I've been around fandom since the early 00s in some way or other but I had never heard the term "squee-squash" before. I love it.

[pathofdestiny]

I'm always happy to meet Good Omens fans!

[ng_moonmoth]

Yeah, I have issues with pronouns, too. Someone else's idea of who they think you are, or should be. Better they should talk with me and find out.

My intro comment is over here.