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]

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