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 inkvoices, cloud-atlas (on discord and tumblr) / franztastisch (on dreamwidth), and 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!

<b>Where can people find you and what are your usernames / online handles:</b> <b>What’s your brand of Marvel?</b> (MCU, comics, cartoons etc. or all the things?) <b>What’s your brand of Clint and Natasha?</b> a (Are you hanging out in Avengers Tower in 2012, camping out at the farm, sailing down a river in Egypt, in an alternative universe, following canon all the way off a cliff, all of the above, or somewhere else entirely?) <b>List some of your favourite Marvel characters/pairings other than Clint and Natasha:</b> <b>Are there any other fandoms you're currently into?</b> <b>How do you / would you like to participate in fandoms?</b> (Are you a writer, artist, reader, cheerleader, beta reader, podfic maker, vid maker, appreciative lurker…?) <b>What're some of your favourite things you love to see in fic/creative works?</b> <b>Rec us something/s (fic, vid, art, graphics, meta, anything):</b> <b>Self rec something that you've written/created:</b> <b>Give us 3 sentences or a teaser of something creative, fic or otherwise, that you’re working on:</b> <b>What’s the last book you read/film you watched/song you listened to (OR the last ones that stuck in your mind or that you’d like to share):</b> <b>What Marvel merchandise do you wish existed, or what's your favourite fan thing that you own?</b> <b>If someone were to win the lottery and we had a community convention (in Budapest, of course), suggest a panel, activity, event etc. you would like us to have:</b> <b>OPTIONAL extra info:</b>

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!