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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Comments

[delight]

I am definitely adding you -- I hope your Aliette de Bodard love includes Obsidian and Blood, one of my favorite series! Second and Fifth are my favorite Doctors. :)

Between here and Twitter I seem to be collecting Finnish folx and it makes me think I definitely need to see Finland as soon as I can get my husband to get a passport!

[auroracloud]

Hi, nice to meet you! I actually haven't read that series yet - I discovered Aliette de Bodard's fiction quite recently (I mean, I'd heard about her, but I think I started reading her stuff in 2018?) so I've still got a lot of ground to cover, but I've absolutely loved everything I've read by her. Mostly I've been reading the Xuya novellas, some short stories, and In the Vanishers' Palace, but I plan to read the Dominion of the Fallen series as soon as my current deluge of library loans lets up a bit. I'm sure after that I'll want to track down Obsidian and Blood, it sounds really interesting as well!

Also, yay Second and Fifth Doctor! Five is my other favourite after Two! :-)

Hee, in Finland we've clearly got lots of geeks. I was in the Dublin Worldcon this year, and Finns were the fourth biggest group of nationalities among the con members - pretty well for a North European nation of 5 million. :-) Anyway, hope you get to visit, this is a nice country (even if very dark at this time of year).