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.

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[taichara]

DW username: taichara

Other platforms: I post on AO3 with the same username. I have a Twitter account as tjerrian but it's not this "end" of fandom.

Active/primary interests or fandoms: Final Fantasy (mainly original/II/IV/V/VII, Dissidia series, Brave Exvius ... someday I may get off my arse and play XV; I can carry along with the franchise as a whole), Saint Seiya of all varieties of the franchise, Mega Man X, Langrisser (relatively recent), Bravely series, ancient Egypt, an endless stream of (A)D&D and -adjacent ttrpgs as well as Exalted, Shadowrun, Legend of the Five Rings. Gundam (00/Wing/the Cosmic Era material; I am the Glory of Losers and Frozen Teardrop fan, yes). Fire Emblem fan (Awakening and Genealogy, in the main) but getting extremely selective as well as currently aggravated with the franchise. I tend towards archaeology, critters and dead folks, various crafty things. Jrpgs in general. There's more to things than this but I'm not good with long lists, especially in friending memes?

If you've seen me around, it's probably because: I've posted a fic on AO3, or turned up briefly on someone else's DW, or was in the EAD server until relatively recently; possibly because of extended DW reading circles, or you were looking up old original-fiction wank on FFA. I also run the drabblesoup prompt comm.

I post about: Fandom -- for my own definition of "fandom", which is broader than some and includes "they found a new species of leptoceratopsian!", "a new tomb from Thebes!!!" and posting video game trailers from YouTube -- with occasional vague wharrgarbl about life kicking me down a hole or me scrambling after some project or another. Also complaining, because I'm good at that. Polls about what I should poke at next pop up with semi-frequency?

I post/check my feed: I check my feed several times or day or more. I fell off the trolley as far as posting goes for several reasons but have recently started to try to pick that up again.

I want to find people that post about: Fannish interests similar to my own, basically.

I am most interested in interacting with people on: Dreamwidth. That's why this friending meme is here, right?

My blog is: Public.

Anything else you need to know about me: I'm not much for shipping; it's definitely not why I'm in any fandom, and when I do have a ship it's not a driving reason for my fannishness so I may be a disappointment there? (I'm also bad enough at writing "shipfic" that I stopped really trying aeons ago, lol.) Gnashing of teeth on my DW about unidentifiable source materials is probably me banging my head against my own writing which I don't tend to post much about otherwise, unless I'm wharrgarbling at some franchise development or grumping in general. Which does happen on occasion, I'm not going to lie.

[st_aurafina]

Hello hello, I think I know you from mutuals?

for my own definition of "fandom", which is broader than some and includes "they found a new species of leptoceratopsian!", "a new tomb from Thebes!!!"

This is awesome!! That is an excellent definition for fandom! I am going to add you, hope that's ok.

[taichara]

By all means ~ *hee*

[rosefox]

That is a highly excellent definition of fandom.

[anonamor]

I think I've seen your name because I'm DW friends with kalloway. I'm not that active here posting myself, but I like to read other people's posts... Hopefully that's okay with you?

[taichara]

That's fine with me ~

[coulditbemagic]

I'm a little bit in love with 'wharrgarbling' as a word, and despite having never seen it, I can hear it perfectly! :)

[taichara]

It's been very useful --!

[badfalcon]

Oh, sometimes the things I get excited and flail about are... random and varied, and I love hearing other peoples random excitements too. I also love tickyboxes, so I'm adding you

[taichara]

Hi --

[turgidwould]

We share a heck of a lot of fannish interests. I'm very FF, very FE, very tabletop. (Might be quite Gundam again in the future, we'll see.)

F a i r w a r n i n g, I might be doing some 3H liveblogging as I progress in that game's multiple playthroughs, and it sounds like you're maybe not such a fan of the more recent material in the franchise?

[taichara]

I am very much not a fan of 3H specifically (and the obnoxious shift in art in Cipher and FEH over the last year and a half-plus), but I just ignore 3H posts that come over my flist.