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

[flamebyrd]

Ooh, podcasts! I'm going to subscribe for that. :D

The Far Meridian and Penumbra Podcast look really interesting and I've added them to my list. If you don't mind answering, how creepy or grim are they?

[auroracloud]

Hi! I'm planning to start actually posting about podcasts more now - I've got some podcast posts in my head, once I get myself down to actually write them!

I recommend both of those very much, they're fabulous! Hope you like them.

If you don't mind answering, how creepy or grim are they?

Usually for anything that I listen, the answer is "not very" because I'm super bad at dealing with horror stuff and not good with really grim, dark or violent stuff. The Far Meridian has some psychological distress, mental health problems and occasional creepiness, but more in a fantasy and psychological than horror vein, if you get what I mean.

The Penumbra Podcast, I'm not far into it yet, but they have several different storylines in one podcast - both stand-alones and long continuing series - and they vary a lot in content. They're extremely good with content warnings in the episode notes, however. There have been some stand-alones I've skipped because the description said that they're horror and/or very dark. Out of the long-running series, I haven't yet listened to the Second Citadel stuff, but the Juno Steel stories are like queer space noir (well, Martian-settlement noir) with both humor and dark stuff. The noir genre does bring some dark and violent things with it, but they're usually not too bad by my standards, and I'm quite sensitive. I feel like the humor tempers the darker stuff a bit. Again, I'd recommend checking out the individual episode notes. The story I'm currently listening to, Juno Steel and The Day that Wouldn't Die, is super creepy and distressing by my standards, though, and I'm having to listen to it in short pieces so that it doesn't affect me too much. So if you're sensitive to creepy stuff, I recommend caution with that one.

[flamebyrd]

Haha, it sounds like we have similar tastes, at least in this respect! Thank you so much for the detailed description, I will definitely be checking out the Far Meridian (I really love lighthouses, for one thing), and might use my recently-adopted approach of reading transcripts before listening for Penumbra.

[auroracloud]

That can work! And with regards to the story I mentioned earlier - Juno Steel and the Day That Wouldn't Die - I finished listening to it now, and without spoiling I want to add that it doesn't stay as creepy all the way through as it is for a portion of the story. The ending is still emotionally intense, but in a different way. They're super diligent about giving content warnings, which is good.