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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alphaflyer[personal profile] alphaflyer on September 30th, 2023 12:31 am (UTC)
We have an LOTR marathon every year, between Christmas and New Year's. Start at 11, stop for lunch and cookies around 2, dinner at 6, and then The Big One with mulled wine and more cookies. Go, Samwise Gamgee!! (PS: My absolute fave scenes are the arrival of the Elves at Helms Deep, Pippin's song, and the lighting of the fires of Gondor.)

As for Wheel of Time, I tried, I really did. But I died over Book 6 (of 9, or was it 12?) and couldn't get the enthusiasm back... :P

Edited 2023-09-30 12:32 am (UTC)
princessofgeeks[personal profile] princessofgeeks on September 30th, 2023 12:24 pm (UTC)
Great idea for the LOTR marathon!

FYI I read Wheel of Time and found it very overwritten and draggy. But the TV show is excellent -- streamlined and quite well written. I so hope they get enough time to tell the whole story. Season 2 is about to wrap up next week.