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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inkvoices[personal profile] inkvoices on October 3rd, 2023 10:45 pm (UTC)
I'm liking life being messy and soft subtle intimacy *happy sigh*.

That gift set is fantastic and made me chuckle, thank you! Instantly added a reblog to the comm tumblr queue :D

Also liking your fic teaser there. Appreciate writing takes spoons (even the short fics), but if encouragement helps I would absolutely read wherever you're going with this idea <3

Guardians 3 is the last Marvel film I watched. And also the first one I've watched at the cinema for a while, with my sister. What did you think?
wolfarick[personal profile] wolfarick on October 4th, 2023 02:02 am (UTC)
Haha, I’m glad you liked the gif set! Like I said, I’m not really big on AUs, but that one just really tickled my fancy. Something about the idea seems very endearing to me, not to mention a lot of fun, that I always wanted to see a fic about it!

Thank you! It’s really just one scene, so I don’t know how to blow it up to something bigger which is my issue. I personally don’t like writing short/small stuff, so I’m not sure if I would ever post is unless I got something more going for it or if I could incorporate into something else.

I actually did end up getting inspired after I posted this though, so I have a fic idea lined up, and I’m actually very excited for it! I just hope I can end up finishing it. I have almost 2k words written, and now I’m thinking it might hit 4k or 5k.

Yeah, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 was also probably my first movie in a movie theater for a while, and I’m not a super big movie goer either. I liked it a lot though, and I thought it was really good? Third movie in a trilogy, so I wasn’t too sure on how’d it be, but I thought it was really well done. I also might be biased because GotG is my favorite Marvel movie in general, but I also think that makes me a bit more critical since I love it, haha

Edited 2023-10-04 02:06 am (UTC)