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

[lirazel]

Late to the party, but I want to give it a try since I'm back on DW in a real way these days.

DW username: lirazel
Preferred pronouns: she/her
Other platforms (tumblr, twitter, etc): tumblr here
Active/primary interests or fandoms: I have been in fandom for almost two decades now. In the past I've been super active in Buffy and kpop fandoms (and long ago, some fandoms I don't admit to), but I've written a lot of fic in a lot of different fandoms. Writing-wise, I focus on my original fiction with the major exception of Yuletide which is my forever love. These days, my main interests are books (especially speculative fiction, historical fiction, nonfiction, and the classics), classic Hollywood films, genre TV (see below), kpop girl groups, podcasts, feminism, cats, and hope.
If you've seen me around, it's probably because: My Buffy fic back on lj where I posted under penny_lane_42 or my fanfiction on AO3 where I post as lirazel.
I post about: At the moment, mostly real life, but I've got a big fandom back catalogue and I hope to start writing more about the books I read and possibly the TV I watch soon. I'm always on the lookout for a new all-consuming fandom though I've been without one for the past few years.
I post/check my feed: check daily or every other day, post several times a week
I want to find people that post about: RL, books, history, any of the TV shows I've mentioned or any of my favorite things.
I am most interested in interacting with people on: DW but feel free to add me on tumblr if you want.
My blog is: My old fandom-y stuff is public but these days I'm mostly posting about my private life, so all that's locked. I hope to start writing more about books and perhaps TV soon, which will be publicly posted.
Anything else you need to know about me: Some shows that I'm keeping up with and would love to read other peoples' posts on:
Black Sails
The Expanse
Star Trek: Discovery and probably Picard when it airs
The Hour (okay, so this one has been off the air for years, but I'm still hungry for all the content)
Endeavour
Killing Eve
More interests here

[thisbluespirit]

Hi! I'd love to friend you, if you'd be willing. I recognised your name immediately from Press Gang fic, and fellow PG fans are too few and far between to pass up on. Plus, going over to your journal, it looks as if you might be in Aberystwyth even? (I went to Aber to do hist+Inf & Lib studies many moons ago and will forever be homesick for it.)

We also overlap on a few other things.

(I used to be known as lost_spook, although I don't know if you'll also remember bumping into me in the PG section in AO3 or not.)

[lirazel]

Of course! I do seem to remember your name in the PG section! (And yup, I'm getting my MLIS in Aber now!)

[thisbluespirit]

Hurrah!

And yup, I'm getting my MLIS in Aber now!

And, oh, how lovely, then! I hope you are enjoying Aber. I loved it there. (The rule pretty much is either you hate it and leave within two weeks or you stay and pine for it forever after when you have to go. There may be in-betweens, of course.)

Have you watched Hinterland (Y Gwyll)? It was really cool to see all the familiar places in it, even if they like to pretend that Penglais Hill & the Waun don't exist.

[lirazel]

Yes, I am definitely Team Aber Is Great. My friends and I keep talking about how we want the National Library to hire us so we can all stay here. It's really the perfect size for me because I am very much not a city person but there's so much going on here! I love a university town.

I have not watched it yet! I keep meaning to, but I haven't gotten around to it. I want to watch the version in Welsh and do subtitles since I enjoy listening to Welsh so much.

[eta] Are you a librarian now? I'm always interested in hearing where other people's MLIS have taken them.

[thisbluespirit]

I keep talking about how we want the National Library to hire us so we can all stay here.

LOL, it really should! And, aw, glad you're enjoying it. I left over 20 years ago now, and I still miss it. It really was a lovely place to be.

I have not watched it yet! I keep meaning to, but I haven't gotten around to it. I want to watch the version in Welsh and do subtitles since I enjoy listening to Welsh so much.

Either is cool for the language thing - they came up with a really clever way to do the Hinterland version, which was that they had the lead not be able to speak Welsh and everyone else can, so the majority of the dialogue is still in Welsh with subtitles and it isolates Mathias further. So, whichever one you can get hold of, it's cool, and will still have plenty of Welsh. (It can be pretty bleak, though. But it was worth it for Aber, and Mared was great.)

I was a children's librarian for ten years, but have been off work with a bad relapse of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome for nearly another ten years - I did a quick intro post here if you want to know the basics of me, as it were!

[lirazel]

I have such admiration for children's librarians--that is so not a thing I could do!

[thisbluespirit]

There is much glitter, it's true. :-D