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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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

[ng_moonmoth]

>> Well, I haven't ruled Wellington out yet, [...] I've got the long service leave available from work, everything, except *money*! <<

Hope the first part of the year is financially kind enough to you that you feel you can afford the trip. It's the fans that make Worldcon what it is, and I always root for more local fans to find ways to get there.

>> You're in North America; is that right? I've always enjoyed visiting America :-) <<

Wondering where you've gotten to and what you saw while you were there.

[rattfan]

Sorry, this got buried in messages. I saw it again when I was going through to clear out my inbox!
I've been to the USA four times; 1995, 2004, 2008 and 2013. Dragoncon in Atlanta (where I also visited Florida to see Canaveral space centre), Boston Worldcon, Denver Worldcon and San Antonio Worldcon.
It's impossible to cover those trips in a short message (g) as I moved around a fair bit as well as those focus points. I have friends in Denver whom I visited each time, no matter where else I was headed and also a couple of times people in California. The train trips were fantastic - well, the times I had a sleeper, they were. The USA was just so....big. Snow capped mountains from the train windows in midsummer! Oh, and I also went to Washington twice to visit the Smithsonian. Those were sort of pilgrimages.

[ng_moonmoth]

Then our paths have crossed already. I was in Denver and San Antonio.

>> The USA was just so....big <<

And Australia isn't? Or is it that the US is big enough to look big by Australian standards? Interesting to think about either way.

>> Oh, and I also went to Washington twice to visit the Smithsonian. Those were sort of pilgrimages. <<

Maybe you'll do it again for next year's Worldcon.

We originally were thinking of checking out Australia this year as part of our Southern Hemisphere trip. That was before the events of the past couple of months. I mentioned that I thought visiting Australia in July would feel too much to me like visiting New Orleans five or six months after Hurricane Katrina. Too much of the population has been affected by the tragedy for me to want that in my memories of the place.

Hope you and yours are doing OK and taking care of one another and your friends.