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Springgggggg Friending Memeeeeeee 🫶🏽
Hi everyone!
Spring flowers, sunshine, and good vibes are upon us!!!! Let's spread some online cheer!
Lets make some new friends, to keep our online journaling aesthetic alive!
Just copy and paste this code below as a comment, and let the friendships begin!
Feel free to reference this Friending Meme to others too!
(you can take out some of the questions to your liking as well.)
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Age/Location: 37, the PNW (US).
Occupation; Ha, that's a loaded question. I'm a PhD chemist and I work at a startup I co-founded. I also teach. I almost never talk about work.
Do you have any pets?? Three cats, all of them terrible goblins.
How long have you been online journaling? I started on GreatestJournal (RIP) in 2002, moved to lj in 2003, and never really quit.
Why do you like online journaling? I keep a paper journal, too — it's a place to organize my thoughts, and I like the aspect of being able to get to know people and keep up with them.
What are some of your hobbies? I write a fair amount. I also run tabletop RPGs (think D&D 5e, PbtA, etc), and I do game design as well. I like to read and in my downtime I cook and play videogames.
Favorite bands/artists: Good glob that's a loade question. Er. I am one of those people who really does listen to everything (including the usual exclusions, e.g. rap/country). Honestly, the best place to start is probably to simply go, "I saw William Basinki, the Decemberists, and Modest Mouse last year; this year, I thus far have tickets to see Lord Huron and the Decemberists again, and my husband and I are going to pick up tickets for a music festival in Portland so we can see Japanese Breakfast and Built to Spill." I love music, it's one of my special interests, and I usually have at least one band/artist in common with everyone I meet.
Favorite TV shows: Uh. I'm not really a TV person (and I totally blank on questions like this, good lord). Stuff that I have watched that sticks out to me as stuff I've liked is, uh. Unforgotten (BBC crime procedural about cold cases, it's quite good), Elementary (mostly because I was watching it along with my dad, so). Tuca and Birdie and Close Enough come to mind (RIP both, alas). If we count short-form series that are done by e.g. Netflix or whatever, I like a lot of what Mike Flanagan has done (ask ME my thoughts on Bly Manor or Midnight Mass!), and I loved Cunk on Earth.
Favorite movies: Same problem here, honestly! I have probably watched and liked a lot, and when you ask me, point-blank, I go "er..." and can't list anything of meaning. So, "er..." — ha. Um, Bladerunner is a perennial fave; ditto Alien. I love horror and make a point of watching stuff that interests me, especially folk horror (the original Wicker Man is fucking fantastic; also loved The Ritual and Starve Acre is on my to-watch list). Howl's Moving Castle is an imperfect adaptation in that it's got almost nothing in common with the book, but I still love it (as evidenced by the icon, I suppose). More recent stuff I've watched and enjoyed — American Fiction (it's hilarious, truly), The Holdovers, Barbarian...again, I'm blanking, but that's what I get, and if I think of something else I'll edit this.
Favorite books: Okay, books are my jam, and the list here is way too long to go into in a meaningful way. I love Ursula K LeGuin and she is probably my favorite author, but the bar is high. The Left Hand of Darkness is one of my favorites. The Dispossessed is why I'm a scientist. I really enjoy Naomi Novik, and Uprooted is probably on my favorites list. Erin Morgenstern has written two books I really enjoyed — The Starless Sea was weird but exactly up my alley. Um. I adore Kelly Link and Magic for Beginners is what made me want to write short stories. I'm still not great at writing, but I enjoy it, and I love that book to this day. I was lucky in high school/college that I wasn't forced to read anything off the "greatest books ever" lists, so I have a genuine fondness for Jane Eyre because I read it on my own (and it's totally bananas in a really fun way). Oh, and I adore Murderbot and I'm hoping (fingers crossed!) that the new adaptation is good.
Other fandoms: I mean, I did mention tabletop, right? I DM/GM a lot — it's probably my main hobby at this point, and I'm okay with that. I usually cut stuff that I talk about tabletop-wise in my journal, but it's definitely there. Not so much "here's this funny thing that happened during a campaign that you have zero context for", but things like, "I'm recruiting new players, here's the pitch" or the like, because I enjoy running stuff and I welcome new people at tables I run.
Is your journal friends only, partial or public?: It's a mix of public and friends only, depending on what I'm talking about at any given point.
How often do you update?: I used to update more frequently, but it waxes and wanes. Probably every two weeks or so?
What do you want in an DW friend?: Honestly...I will probably read your entries even if I don't comment more than sporadically. I like to get to know people and I do pay attention, though I don't always have the social bandwidth to comment, so if you are talking about your daily life and interests, that's great.
Any closing words/quotes/pictures/gifs/anything else you'd like to add: Nothing comes immediately to mind...?
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Neat! I was wondering if your username was a reference to, well, HfO2 :)
I haven't had a chance to fill out this thing yet, but I'm a 40s West Coaster, chemical engineer working in semiconductors (which is why I have an immediate association with hafnium, heh), and we have a nice overlap in books -- LeGuin (though I love her fantasy and essays on SFF more than her sci-fi), Naomi Novik, Murderbot, Kelly Link -- as well as other interests per our DW profiles and flisters. And I think we blog in reasonably compatible ways (I'm definitely talking about my daily life and interests, albeit under f-lock).
Cool if I friend you?
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Also, Titania is a FABULOUS username, factoring in the chemical meaning!