29 September 2023 @ 03:29 pm
Friending Meme  
Hi All, since we haven’t done one of these in a long while and we’ve had some new faces join us this year (HELLO!) welcome to a good old-fashioned friending meme.

If you haven’t seen one of these before, they’re a chance for everyone in the community to get to know each other; to say hi if you’re new, if you’ve not been around for a while, if you’ve been lurking, and if you just fancy a chat. This is an open to all, friendly (pun intended) event. If you make new friends here feel free to join the community and/or friend each other on various platforms, or not - there’s no pressure, we’re just here to have fun. You can find examples of previous friending memes here.

An introduction to our community, the community rules, and some useful links are available here. This includes a link to the handy Username Database - we’d recommend taking a minute to add your usernames / online handles here since we’re spread across different platforms. Those being dreamwidth, discord (instructions on how to join the discord here), and tumblr. Big events, like the yearly promptathon and secret santa fic exchange, are advertised across all three platforms. Most chatting happens on discord. Feel free to spend time with us on as many or as few platforms you like.

Your mods are [personal profile] inkvoices, cloud-atlas (on discord and tumblr) / [personal profile] franztastisch (on dreamwidth), and [personal profile] gsparkle / quidnunc-life (on tumblr). Feel free to reach out to us on any platform you see us, but you’re most likely to find us on discord or in a ‘questions/general comments’ thread at the top of event posts on dreamwidth.

And on to the main event…

How to play:

1) Copy and paste the below questions and formatting from the box below into a new comment, as the start of a new comment thread.

2) Answer as many / as few of the questions as you like / feel comfortable with and hit post! All questions are optional.

3) Chat with the people who reply to your comment.

4) Reply to other people’s comments to have a chat with them. You might want to comment on one of their answers where you think you have a mutual interest, or you found something interesting, or you just want to say ‘hi’. It’s all good!



A note on ‘OPTIONAL extra info’: while ALL of the questions are optional, as someone from the school of ‘don’t share personal identifying information on the internet’ I want to emphasise that this freestyle space is especially optional. If you like, this is where you can share anything extra that you would like people to know about you, that you think it would be useful to know, or that you would just like to share. This could be, for example, your preferred pronouns, a general location/timezone, how frequently you’re online, what people might expect to find on your blog… a cute picture of a pet, a favourite gif… you name it. Or not, as the case can very much be. Stay safe <3

The usual community rules apply. As always, the first comment thread is for any questions or general comments and chatter. Have fun!
 
 
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chaed[personal profile] chaed on September 29th, 2023 03:48 pm (UTC)
Do you happen to have any good fic recs on cheating Clintasha?
poppypickle[personal profile] poppypickle on September 29th, 2023 03:52 pm (UTC)
I feel like there weirdly aren't that many (so I've started working on one 🫣). But these are in the ballpark:

https://www.tumblr.com/iriel3000/672016728550768640/friday-recs-the-for-me-edition
https://www.tumblr.com/iriel3000/690542000789979136/friday-recs-meant-to-be-part-2

Let me know if you have any recs!
chaed[personal profile] chaed on September 29th, 2023 04:18 pm (UTC)
Oh, thank you for those recs, I'll work my way through them while I wait for what you have in store. Off the top of my head I'd say catching bullets in our teeth and The Salacious Saga, although the latter is complete AU, so I'm not sure if that's up your alley.
poppypickle[personal profile] poppypickle on September 29th, 2023 04:25 pm (UTC)
Thank you! I LOVE catching bullets in our teeth!
archers_and_spies[personal profile] archers_and_spies on September 30th, 2023 04:25 pm (UTC)
HIGH INFIDELITY!CLINTASHA TRUTHERS RISE
(https://archiveofourown.org/works/7998025 I recall this one made me cry… which is how you know it's good)
poppypickle[personal profile] poppypickle on September 30th, 2023 10:56 pm (UTC)
THANK YOU.