icons | Holiday Friending Meme! 🤎

Name/Preferred Name: Mint Chocolate Chip
Age/Location: Zillenial from Amurica
Occupation; Looking for work after a toxic job situation

Do you have any pets?? Unfortunately none yet....
How long have you been online journaling? Nearl 4 years!
Why do you like online journaling? Lets me be myself, lets me share creative stuff and my own analysis
What are some of your hobbies? I like a lot of technical stuff so I like analyzing things, I also like being creative so I'm slowly developing more confidence to share my comics and art! I LOVE music and rock is my life! Also a big fan of DIY'ing shit. Reading is cool and so is gaming but I hardly do the latter anymore.

Favorite bands/artists: Ozzy Osbourne, Morbid Saint, Iron Maiden, Crowbar, Helloween, Morbid Angel, The County Medical Examiners, Metallica, lexycat, The Phantom's Revenge, Sweet Trip, Breakbot, Yuji Ohno, Marcos Valle, Ayako Saso, Yosuke Yasui
Favorite TV shows: Sabrina the teenage witch, Spawn, MLP: FiM, Batman TAS, Batman Beyond, Voltes V, Getter Robo Armageddon
Favorite movies: Sabrina the teenage witch, Tim Burton's Batman, Ghidorah The Three-Headed Monster
Favorite books: Getter Robo, Batman, Spawn, Sonic The Comic, Beyond Good and Evil, Flannery O'Connor's complete stories
Other fandoms: Mainline Shin Megami Tensei, Super Mario, Metroid, Harvest Moon, Stardew Valley, POKEMON

Is your journal friends only, partial or public?: It's all public
How often do you update?: More than I want to (working on that)
What do you want in an DW friend?: Mentally ill and doing their best, independent, fun to banter with/talk to, also into weird niche shit, not easily scandalized and very interested in hearing other perspectives.
Any closing words/quotes/pictures/gifs/anything else you'd like to add: I don't believe media exists in a vacuum and reflects on us, so I'm not interested in people who tend to excuse distasteful "humor" or fetishistic depictions of say, child abuse, as being "just fiction" or "just a joke." (Please ask before adding me, it makes me uncomfortable when people just add me, even if they're announcing they're going to do it)

Hello there!
I've seen you around on friends' journals and actually been thinking about asking to add you because your comments have always been very supportive and thoughtful. So it's nice to see you in this meme.

My name is Tina, I am 37 and live in Germany, also a big music lover and reader. While we don't have a lot of artists and books in common, I'm always interested to check out other people's favourites ;)

I'm mentally ill and doing my best as well, and interested in hearing different perspectives myself, that's actually one of my favourite aspects of DW.
As for your last point...I don't think I consume any media that's like what you describe (certainly NOT child abuse!). As for humour, I can have a bit of an odd sense of humour but I don't joke about sensitive topics or find abuse etc. funny and I do my best to never offend anyone as much as possible.

If you do want to give being friends a try, I would love to, and concerning the above, if I ever hurt you, you would be more than welcome to tell me so and I'd do my best to make up for it. If you don't want to, of course no offense will be taken on my side ;)

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Hi dear! Let me know when you are more active, because this is the exact problem I'm having right now hehe. 🤎

Name/Preferred Name: yellowrosess/Lina

Age/Location:
33. Europe.

Occupation;
Store assistant.

Do you have any pets??
Yes. One bunny.

How long have you been online journaling? on and off for few years. But I have had this DW journal for 4 years.

Why do you like online journaling? I like to write down about my day and share about whatever. It's fun to journal and I really like doing it. Making friendships on here as well and reading entries from other people is something I enjoy doing.

What are some of your hobbies? Making jewelry, reading books, watching tv-shows or movies, playing Sims 4, yoga, listening to music and a lot more.

Favorite bands/artists: Taylor Swift, Sabrina Carpenter, Lewis Capaldi, Olivia Rodrigo, Mimi Webb, Dermot Kennedy, Post Malone, Demi Lovato, Miley Cyrus, Hey Violet, Lorde and more.

Favorite TV shows:
All the old shows haha..like True Blood, Vampire Diaries, Lost, Friends, Sex and the city, New girl. I also love Handmaid's tale.

Favorite movies:
Taken (all of the movies), It ends with Us, anything with Leonardo Dicaprio, Pearl Harbor, The Age Of Adaline.

Favorite books:
True Blood books, It ends with us by Colleen Hoover, anything by Harlan Coben.

Other fandoms:

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. I love fashion and I love their brand The Row and I grew up watching movies by them.

Is your journal friends only, partial or public?:
It's friends only. :-)

How often do you update?:
Once a week or more. Sometime less than that.

What do you want in an DW friend?: Someone with the same fandoms/hobbies or just someone who likes to talk about things and make a friendship. I like to know my friends list.

Any closing words/quotes/pictures/gifs/anything else you'd like to add: Nope <3

Edited 2025-12-18 20:54 (UTC)

howdy, howdy~! hope your holiday was easy-going and warm. c:

name/preferred name: hannah
age/location: 30s / united states (silent hill)
occupation: coding for educational games

do you have any pets??:

aye! a blue-fronted amazon parrot named 'dell' and a cockatiel named 'keagan' (or 'keeg'). both are rescued/adopted, and they're my babies. c:

how long have you been online journaling?

i guess it depends on what you'd define 'online journaling' by? i've always had a preference for online spaces that allow for bigger posts/formatted posts/personalization, so i enjoyed deviantart at its peak, moved to tumblr in 2012, and have... BASICALLY only been on tumblr since. efforts were made to use other platforms, but none stuck.

that all being said: i like to chatter to myself or share thoughts on things alongside my art and writing, and i think i've been doing that to SOME degree throughout my time on deviantart/tumblr. tldr: a long time. but if your definition's a bit more strict? ehhh, not that long? again, it feels like a loose term, but that could be my own inexperience!

why do you like online journaling?

alongside prefering online spaces that allow for bigger/personalized expression, i think i'm also drawn to the intimacy of it? that's a weird word, but over the years i've felt a much more isolated ...'energy' in online spaces, where people 'engage' passively or don't engage at all, OR when they do 'engage', it's done thoughtlessly or in a way that comes off quite empty and insincere. i dunno. maybe i'm rose-colored-lensing ye ol' deviantart days too much, but i can't help but think about the sense of community that place had before it went to hell. i met some of my best friends there, even went to college with one of them. maybe it's BECAUSE i'm only really active on a less mainstream site like tumblr, but i don't feel the desire for connection from other people like i thought i used to. something about online journaling feels slower, quieter... i'nno, i like that.

what are some of your hobbies?

drawing, writing, working through my book and video game libraries, watching video essays, dungeons & dragons, and learning SOME new skill or thing on the downlow.

favorite bands/artists:

hammock, city girl, slow dancing society, starset, christopher larkin (hollow knight/silksong osts), the crane wives, the oh hellos, akira yamaoka (silent hill osts), florence + the machine, daughter.

favorite tv shows:

tmnt 2003, batman: the animated series, monster (anime), fullmetal alchemist: brotherhood, mindhunter, severance, the haunting of hill house, the haunting of bly manor, avatar: the last air bender, buffy the vampire slayer, infinity train, the owl house, cowboy bebop.

favorite movies:

the ring, the dark knight, spider-man: into the spiderverse, NOPE, spirited away, jurassic park, gone girl, john wick 1-4, alien (1979), aliens (1986), and a handful of godzilla movies.

favorite books:

the long way to a small, angry planet by becky chambers, the house in the cerulean sea by tj klune, the folk of the air trilogy by holly black, the noumena trilogy by lindsay ellis (reading book 3 right now!), and basically all of my art and art-of books.

other fandoms:

huge fan of the original four silent hill games by team silent, though i also have a strange soft spot for silent hill: homecoming and lament the lost potential of downpour (do not get me started on P.T.). also very much love the horizon: zero dawn games and CONTROL, so you bet your bottom dollar i'm excited about the latter's upcoming sequel.

my primary fandom and the one i'm most active/creatively contributing to is definitely the tmnt 2003 animated series.

is your journal friends only, partial or public?:

partial! i'd say most of my babbling will be public, with a few private posts here and there that will be more private musings for friends OR first-drafts of my world-building concepts and such that i'd prefer be seen by my circle of trust before going public with them. i'nno, i'm just vibing.

how often do you update?:

presently, not that often. albeit that's been in big part due to dreamwidth use becoming 'lower priority' running against some end-of-the-year projects i needed to finish. i'm on a stay-cation for a little over a week, tho! and i intend to use a chunk of tomorrow to pin down some creative goals and new posting 'routines'. really hoping to start more consistant posting in the new year, and will likely share that plan once i've formed it!

what do you want in an dw friend?:

idk... be chill? be honest/authentic with me? enjoy dumb memes, vine references, and general silly behavior? but also be willing to engage in media/character conversation without irony? while also understanding that you can love something but discuss its short-comings at the same time. it's all about that nuanced and critical thinking, bay-beeee.

any closing words/quotes/pictures/gifs/anything else you'd like to add:

Hey Hannah,
you sound like a really interesting and cool person & I think I'd like to get to know you.

My name is Tina, I'm 37 and live in Germany with my cat Lucy. I love that you keep parrots, I used to have different kinds of those amazing birds when I was younger.
What you wrote about why you like online journalling also really spoke to me - I feel the same although I started out on LJ, not Deviantart.

Love Florence & the Machine and Godzilla movies too and I am a big fan of nuanced and critical thinking, which seems to become way too rare on the internet these days :(

Want to give it a try?

(Oh, and may I ask where your subject line is from?)

hey, tina!! lovely to meet you. c:
sorry for the long wait; i've been getting back into the post-holiday swing.

omgg, i LOVE the name lucy. ;-; what color of coat does she have? black and gray cats have always had a special place in my soul. void babies are silly-sweet, and i just love gray when it comes to animal coloration.

y'know, i feel like i had a livejournal back in the day, i just don't think i ever got into a routine of using it. 6-6 but yes, i miss spaces like those. DA was far from perfect, and nostalgia could very well be coloring my memories, but it was nice for what it was and while it lasted. need more pockets like dreamwidth floating around.

i'm down to clown and get to know ya, too! >:U *gently fistbumps you*

hahaha, and my subject line is a quote from a video essay on silent hill 3. >xD i don't remember which specific video off the top of my head, but i could probably find it again if that's a thing you'd be interested in checking out! uou

No worries at all! We can't be online all the time, after all ;)
It's lovely to meet you too and I added you back now :)

Lucy is a grayish-brown tabby with some light caramel-coloured fur on her belly :D

*fistbumps you back*

Hi! Mind if I friend you? we've got a lot in common about wanting the same flavor of online culture :D

apologies for the delay in replying! i'm trying to get better at working dreamwidth use into my routines, but i've also been battling off some neck pain e-e;;;

but hell yeah, dude! >:D go for it!

Haha no worries and thank you! :D

Name/Preferred Name: Amy

Age/Location: late 40s/Boston, MA, USA

Occupation; Lab manager in an academic research lab, focused on cornea research. As a lab manager, I am part scientist, part bureaucracy navigator, and unfotunately, part mom.

Do you have any pets?? Two cats, Ashmont Pixie and Hanna Valentina. I love dogs too, and volunteered at cat shelters for eight years.

How long have you been online journaling? Since 2003. I started on LiveJournal and came here after the Russians.

Why do you like online journaling? It started out as a way to connect with people with similar interests. With the rise of social media, I've come to appreciate Dreamwidth more. No algorithims, no bots, no ads, no performative posts, no fake stories for attention, no censorship of random words, just a bunch of people rambling about whatever is on their minds.

What are some of your hobbies? Baking, puzzles, biking, board games, reading, writing. I have one self-published book and I run a critique group. For biking, I commute to work in the warm months and try to do distance rides on weekends. I'm not fast, but I try my best. Also currently working on strength training.

Things I am interested in: queer history, bicycling safety/infrastructure advocacy, opposing diet culture, plane crash investigations, medical history,

Favorite bands/artists:
Uhhhh...my music taste is largely stuck in 1997.

Favorite TV shows: Of shows that are currently running, Doctor Who, Star Trek (anything but Enterprise because I hate the theme song), Severance, and as of Tuesday, I can add The Pitt. My 9 year old watches a lot of Phineas and Ferb, so by proxy I'm watching it too.
I'm gravitating more towards documentaries and limited series.

I'm doing more programs on YouTube these days. I enjoy Sean Munger, Tasting History with Max Miller, Mentour Pilot, Making Gay History, and Adam Wright Fitness.

Favorite movies: Airplane!, Back to the Future, Dr. Strangelove, Spaceballs. Apparently my movie taste is also stuck in the past.

Favorite books:: The Great Believers, The Time Traveler's Wife, Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents, Down Among the Sticks and Bones, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I'm currently on a big Frederik Backman kick.

Other fandoms: Nah.

Is your journal friends only, partial or public?: Friends only

How often do you update?: Daily or every other day

What do you want in an DW friend?: Don't be a dick.

Any closing words/quotes/pictures/gifs/anything else you'd like to add:

There's no I in team-but there is a ME.

Mind if I friend you? You seem neat :)

Name/Preferred Name: Jen

Age/Location:New Jersey, USA

Occupation; Animator for TV

Do you have any pets?? A cat named Booker and two human children?

How long have you been online journaling? Been journaling since I was 15 in 2001! Started with Livejournal than moved everything onto here a few years ago. I never left LJ/DW.

Why do you like online journaling? I like being able to see what I did a bunch of years ago. Especially now that I have kids, I like looking back and seeing what my kids have done or how much they've grown. I post a lot of pictures. It's just been fun to look back on.

What are some of your hobbies? I enjoy photography, drawing, stationary, crochet, watercolor, weight lifting, swimming, and reading!

Favorite bands/artists: My tastes range from Taylor Swift to Metallica to Slipknot, lol. I like most a lot of different things.

Favorite TV shows: Currently watching Plur1bus, which is so fun. Severence, Battlestar Galactica, Buffy, The Summer I Turned Pretty, The Great British Baking Show. I used to watch a lot of TV, but nowadays, I don't watch that much because I'm trying to do less screen time and do more reading.

Favorite movies: Knives Out (the first one), Edge of Tomorrow, Equilibrium, Shang Chi, Hush.

Favorite books: I have so many, but one of my favorites that I feel like is underrated is Six Crimson Cranes. I also used to love the Harry Potter series but gave it up because JK Rowling is a TERF. I also enjoy the Hunger Games series.

Other fandoms: I enjoy gaming. I don't have a lot of time to do it anymore, but I'll get my hands on one and binge for a month or so. Like Death Stranding, Baldur's Gate III, Skyrim, Dragon Age series, Mass Effect, Dishonored.

Is your journal friends only, partial or public?: Friends Only.

How often do you update?: I update very regularly. I usually average 3x a week. Sometimes I'll do a few days in a row if I have something to say. But since 2001 I've not missed more than a week. Journaling is a habit that is very ingrained in me.

What do you want in an DW friend?: Basically looking for someone active. People who wrote long "boring" entries about their lives. I love reading about everyone's jobs, relationships, children, hobbies, and lives. I have been consistent in journaling since 2001 and am looking for consistency. I also am anti-bigots and pro-vaccine, so I'd like someone on similar wavelengths.

Any closing words/quotes/pictures/gifs/anything else you'd like to add: Nice to meet you!

It sounds like we're looking for the same thing in friends, so, uh. Hi? I also love BG3 and have been blogging since I was 15 in 2003. :D

Absolutely! Bonus you’re a Jen(n) too! 😆

Hi there! We share a lot of the same hobbies, and I am a total gaming geek. I post about gaming and geeky crafts I make often, as well as the absurdity of my kids and our life in upstate NY.
Ooh, you've listed all my favorite game series. Dragon Age is probably my all time favorite.
I've also been on LJ/DW since 2001 and never left.
Mind if I add?

Yes! Nice to meet you! And yay Dragon Age! It is the best!

Hi! It sounds like we would get along and we have some friends in common, so I've added you. If we don't click, no hard feelings. :)

Yes! Nice to meet you!

Name/Preferred Name:Miriam
Age/Location:46, Manchester, uk
Occupation; administrator with the Methodist Church

Do you have any pets?? a much beloved blind cat called Mr Smith. He's 19.5 and I've had him 16 years
How long have you been online journaling? 22 years
Why do you like online journaling? I like interesting people to interact with and it stops me disappearing up my backside
What are some of your hobbies? yoga, swimming, reading theology books, embroidery

Favorite bands/artists: Taylor swift, early Martyn Joseph
Favorite TV shows: haven't had a TV for 28 years
Favorite movies:10 things I hate about you
Favorite books:womanist midrash
Other fandoms:

Is your journal friends only, partial or public?: friends only
How often do you update?: daily
What do you want in an DW friend?: conversation
Any closing words/quotes/pictures/gifs/anything else you'd like to add:

Name/Preferred Name: Jenn.
Age/Location: 38, PNW (slowly being consumed by moss).
Occupation: I'm a PhD chemist and have historically worked in semicon, but these days I am underemployed.

Do you have any pets?? Three cats — Gid, Hilda, and the Little Cat. :)
How long have you been online journaling? Since 2003. I've been on DW since 2012, mirrored entries for this journal date back to 2005.
Why do you like online journaling? It's a way to organize my thoughts and reflect on stuff, with the added bonus of tags etc making it possible to find stuff from ages back.
What are some of your hobbies? I'm big into writing and talk about it a lot. I'm also a fiber-arts person (think cross-stitch, crochet, quilting, etc), I read a fair amount, and I run a godawful lot of tabletop (D&D, Monster of the Week, and Blades in the Dark).

Favorite bands/artists: Uh, this is a loaded question. Sylvan Esso, Austra, Ladytron, the Decemberists, the National, Richard Skelton, VNV Nation... I love music and listen to a lot. I'm always down to talk about it.
Favorite TV shows: I...am not really a TV person, ha. I have gotten into Dropout? I like "Um Actually" and "Make Some Noise" (and "Game Changer" is fun too, ofc).
Favorite movies: Uh. In no particular order, "3000 Years of Longing", "Rear Window", "His Girl Friday", "V for Vendetta", "Howl's Moving Castle", "Moonstruck"... I can probably think of more, but honestly, every time someone goes, "what's your favorite [x]", my brain helpful returns a 404 error: "I have never engaged with [x] in my life." Ha.
Favorite books: The Lord of the Rings, Riddle-Master, Sunshine, The Scent Keeper, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, The Woman in White, Jane Eyre, The Left Hand of Darkness, A Deadly Education...I read a lot and again, the 404 error problem :)
Other fandoms: I love audiodramas. If you've listened to and liked The Silt Verses or Wolf 359, we should talk.

Is your journal friends only, partial or public?: It's a mix of public and not.
How often do you update?: A...couple of times a month, mostly? idk.
What do you want in an DW friend?: Uh. I will probably read and follow along. I'm pants at commenting, but I am trying to be better about it, and I don't expect comments on my posts unless you have something to say. :)
Any closing words/quotes/pictures/gifs/anything else you'd like to add: I'm also on Mastodon as titania@retro.pizza, if that gives a better overview of what I'm like ♥

Hi Jenn! I’m too in the PNW! Care to be friends? :)

Yes, totally, PNWers unite! :D

Name/Preferred Name: Meep

Age/Location: Millennial/ Tokyo, Japan (originally New England, USA)
Occupation: full time school librarian, part time grad student, occasional poet and picture book author

Do you have any pets?? Tiamat, my black cat familiar
How long have you been online journaling? I started on LiveJournal as

meepalicious in 2003 but I was on Diary-X before that, so… probably since 2001?
Why do you like online journaling? At this point, I've been on LJ/Dw for more than half of my life; it's as normal to me as putting on clean undies in the morning. That said, since the rise of short form algorithm-based (and ad-heavy) social media, I've come to appreciate (long form, chronological, no ads) Dreamwidth more than ever. I like the community here and I like writing and reading about everyone's real daily life, not just the "highlight reels" on other social media sites.
What are some of your hobbies? I'm really into dolls lately; I'd say I collect them but I immediately take everyone out of their box and love nothing more than to stuff a doll in my backpack and take them out for photos somewhere in Tokyo. I also crochet and I used to write picture books and hope to get back into that next year…

Favorite bands/artists: U2, Florence + The Machine, Bastille, Mumford & Sons… (I don't have great taste in music and it's not a big thing for me.)
Favorite TV shows: Saiyuki: Reload: Zeroin, His Dark Materials, Interview with the Vampire, Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Favorite movies: The Road to El Dorado, Rush Hour, Lilo & Stitch, The Lord of the Rings, Thor: Ragnarok (Are we sensing a theme, here? I love buddy movies.)
Favorite books: (always) His Dark Materials, The Lord of the Rings/The Silmarillion/ (recently) The Hours Have Lost their Clock: The Politics of Nostalgia, Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock, Strange Creatures
Favorite anime/manga: Saiyuki, TSUBASA: REservoir CHRoNiCLE, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

Is your journal friends only, partial or public?: My journal is friends only but I post creative work publicly at

pineisland.
How often do you update?: It depends: from 3-5 times a week to 1-3 times a day. (I sometimes get hit by bouts of hypergraphia; I'll backdate posts if it starts getting excessive (more than 2 or so posts in a day) so I don't spam everyone's flist.)
What do you want in a Dw friend?: I'm looking for someone who posts about their daily life, whatever that means for you and who comments sometimes. (I don't expect comments on every post but it's nice to hear from you occasionally.) I'm happy to read about your current squee or project but I'm not looking to friend mostly fic journals.
Any closing words/quotes/pictures/gifs/anything else you'd like to add: I won't add anyone younger than 21. Thanks for understanding.

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Hello! We sound like we might have some things in common, so I've added you. Feel free to add me back. If we don't click, no hard feelings.

I think your taste in music is great, actually! Florence is amazing ♥
(and anyway, it's all a question of personal preference, so there's no "good" or "bad" music taste imo)

Name/Preferred Name:
Maddie
Age/Location:
Virginia, USA
Occupation; Customer Service Rep

Do you have any pets?? No, but I wish I did.
How long have you been online journaling? Quite a few years now!
Why do you like online journaling? I have gained much in insight and friendship through the hobby.
What are some of your hobbies? Reading, writing, voice acting, singing, walking, watching tv, going to see live theatre, swimming.

Favorite bands/artists: Sleep Token, Lingua Ignota, Ethereal Treason, Ghost, Ethel Cain, Aimer, Susumu Hirasawa, Akiko Shikata, Radiohead, Yuki Kajiura, Ado, Other Realms, Iniko, The Smiths, Phoebe Bridgers, Small Fools, Epic: The Musical
Favorite TV shows: Legend of Vox Machina, The Mighty Nein, My Hero Academia, Full Metal Alchemist, Spice & Wolf, Akudama Drive, The Good Place, Call the Midwife, Victoria, Hazbin Hotel, Demon Slayer, and many others I’m forgetting rn
Favorite movies: Beauty and the Beast (1991), The Princess Bride, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Wizard of Oz, It’s a Wonderful Life, Casablanca, The Princess and The Frog
Favorite books: “If We Were Villains” by M.L. Rio, “Babel” by R. F. Kuang, “A Monster’s Notes” by Laurie Sheck
Other fandoms: Critical Role, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Revolutionary Girl Utena, Shakespeare

Is your journal friends only, partial or public?: Friends Only
How often do you update?: Every week or so
What do you want in an DW friend?: Someone open-minded, friendly, supportive, kind
Any closing words/quotes/pictures/gifs/anything else you'd like to add: Nope!

Hi, we have mutual friends so I have seen you around on here. I like your music taste and hobbies! I am open minded supportive and kind, so let me know if you want to be friends. :)

Hello! I would love to be friends ☺️

Hi! ❤️
We have some mutuals, and I adore Morrissey.

Care to be friends? :)

Hello! Yes, I’d love to! Adding you now.

Hello! We have quite a few mutuals and I like some of the same interests. Want to try adding each other?

Hello there! I’d love to add you! I’ll do it now.

Name/Preferred Name: Zhe

Age/Location: 40s, Scotland

Occupation; medically retired

Do you have any pets?? one dog and two cats

How long have you been online journaling? since college, which was a long time ago

Why do you like online journaling?it lets me remember things, and write things down. If the ability to do things takes spell slots, it is my cantrip

What are some of your hobbies? photography, sword fighting, writing, reading

Favorite bands/artists: Billy Joel, Evanescence, green Day, Ed Sheeran, Josh Groban

Favorite TV shows: I don't even own a TV

Favorite movies: Mostly Disney movies

Favorite books:The Great Alone by kristin Hannah

Other fandoms: not really in fandom

Is your journal friends only, partial or public?: friends only

How often do you update?: daily

What do you want in an DW friend?: someone who talks about real life and is pretty open

Any closing words/quotes/pictures/gifs/anything else you'd like to add:

We're currently friends at

enchanted_jae, which is more of a fandom journal. I'll add you here, and if you'd prefer to dump me there, that's fine. LOL! This journal has all the same personal posts + book reviews. No fic. Probably fewer memes. It's up to you.

sounds good!

Name/Preferred Name: Jae
Age/Location: Well into adulthood, chronologically at least / Midwest, US
Occupation: Office drone
Do you have any pets?? Um, the Cat Distribution System has kicked my ass over the years, and I currently share my home with 10 cats. Send help. LOL!
How long have you been online journaling? Since...2005, I think?
Why do you like online journaling? I like the sense of community here
What are some of your hobbies? Reading, writing, going on mini-adventures with friends and family

Favorite bands/artists: Old school KISS, Queen and AC/DC, newer artists include Imagine Dragons and similar artists
Favorite TV shows: I love paranormal programs (Ghost Adventures, Ancient Aliens), nerdy nature and archaeological shows (Shark Week, Expedition Unknown), old school cartoons (Scooby, Loony Tunes), and hockey
Favorite movies: Not much of a movie-goer these days, so older films like Better Off Dead, Monty Python, Die Hard
Favorite books: I’m more into genres and series. I love urban fantasy (Mercy Thompson, Cal Leandros, Kate Daniels), and cozy mysteries with animals and/or a hint of paranormal (Mrs Murphy, Magic Cats), male/male romance (anything by May Archer and/or Lucy Lennox)
Other fandoms:
Harry Potter, Fake
Is your journal friends only, partial or public?: Book reviews and memes are public, personal posts are friends-only
How often do you update?: 2-3 times a week
What do you want in an DW friend?: People who like to share tidbits of their lives and who don’t mind the occasional photo dump from me (cats, nature, noms)
Any closing words/quotes/pictures/gifs/anything else you'd like to add:
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Omg you sound like a treat! Also that meme is gold haha! Care to be friends? :)

Sounds good! Add me when you get a chance, and I'll reciprocate.

love the meme and we share a few interests (cozy mystery; nerdy nature shows). want to give it a go?

Absolutely!

Name/Preferred Name: Nicole (she/her)
Age/Location:mid-40s, Florida
Occupation: Law librarian

Do you have any pets?? Two cats!
How long have you been online journaling? Forever!! Not really, but close; I started with MyDearDiary in 2000/1 and then moved to Livejournal shortly thereafter, and continued on LJ until the last year or so when I stopped manually cross-posting from DW.
Why do you like online journaling?I love the community built up around our thoughts and writing, rather than quick, pithy hits on other social media. Also, folks are more likely to get real here, rather than showing only the "best bits" like on Facebook or Instagram, for example.
What are some of your hobbies? reading, handwritten letters/cards (although I don't really have as many penpals these days, so hit me up if you are interested!), podcasting (although I'm on hiatus right now due to general life and now surgical recovery), cooking, and baking. I'm sure there are others that I have forgotten.

Favorite bands/artists: I like a lot of different stuff, from Sabrina Carpenter to classical. I'm not as keen on heavy rap or country, although there are exceptions to every rule. I like a lot of stuff from the 1980s/90s.
Favorite TV shows:Still love Parks & Rec, and Community. Severance is really good. I never watched Buffy the Vampire Slayer, so I've started watching that and am enjoying it. But my newest love is for another older show, Farscape. I have never seen it and I just finished season 2.
Favorite movies: I don't actually watch a lot of movies - trying to change this - but this year I really enjoyed KPop Demon Hunters and Sinners.
Favorite books: My all-time favorite is Anne of Green Gables. I read a lot of books in a year (at least 50, usually more, so faves change a lot).
Other fandoms:I'm not really into fandom. There are lots of things I like, but I don't think it approaches the level of fandom.

Is your journal friends only, partial or public?:Mostly friends-only. I make my media posts public, where I talk about shows and books, to give new readers a flavor of my interests.
How often do you update?:Usually a couple of times a week, at least.
What do you want in an DW friend?:Some things in common is not necessary as I like different perspectives, but if your journal is mostly about fandom, we probably won't mesh. I also don't tolerate homophobia, transphobia, racism, or any other "isms and phobias" of this type.
Any closing words/quotes/pictures/gifs/anything else you'd like to add: I think this pretty much covers it!

Name/Preferred Name: Samantha
Age/Location: Late 30s, urban Midwest
Occupation: Tech-adjacent

Do you have any pets?? Three cats and dreaming of more pets
How long have you been online journaling? Since the mid-2000s
Why do you like online journaling? The sense of community, the oldweb feel, the privacy, and the intentional pace
What are some of your hobbies? Reading and writing are the biggest. Cooking, museums, handicrafts. Used to be really into plants until enough cats came along.

Favorite bands/artists: Too many to list, but currently I have been listening to a lot of Rose Betts, Rosalia, and The Longest Johns.
Favorite TV shows: Too many things to discuss here!
Favorite movies: I'm yourlastheroine on Letterboxd if you want to take a look at what I watch. I am a member of the Criterion Channel but not snotty about it.
Favorite books: Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell is my favorite book. My favorite authors include Banana Yoshimoto, Neal Stephenson, Raymond Chandler, A.S. Byatt, E.B. White, and my favorite genres are fantasy, scifi, and social history.
Other fandoms: The scifi community as a fandom. I realize this is weird but it scratches both the fandom itch and the social history itch at the same time. My past fandoms are listed in my stickied intro post.

Is your journal friends only, partial or public?: Friends only! Comment to be added.
How often do you update?: Haven't even started writing yet. Maybe once a week.
What do you want in an DW friend?: Discussion! Shared interests! Slice of life! I love seeing how people tick.
Any closing words/quotes/pictures/gifs/anything else you'd like to add: Add me if you know anything about ham radio, especially if you're a woman. I'm trying to find more women with this interest to discuss!

name/preferred name: Sig

age/location: millennial, England

occupation: STEM related

do you have any pets? I have a dog.

how long have you been online journalling? I was on LJ c. 2010, but I haven’t found other platforms that I liked using. (I use tumblr but not as a journal.)

why do you like online journaling? I like corresponding with people, and I like longer-form writing. I like that DW doesn’t have algorithms, ads or notifications. I like the pace. I hope to curate a blogging experience that is sort of the antithesis of tumblr, lol.

what are some of your hobbies? Writing, sketching, reading (mostly dead authors/poets and history), sewing, long walks, museums/galleries, design. I want to learn dressmaking and ham radio.

favourite bands/artists: Julia Kent, Public Service Broadcasting, The Felice Brothers, Old Blind Dogs.

favourite TV shows: The Singing Detective, Barkskins, Dark, 1899, Manhattan, Shtisel, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Quatermass and the Pit, HBO war shows.

favourite movies: Wings of Desire, The Third Murder, La Jetée, The Day of the Jackal, The Right Stuff, The Proposition, Master and Commander, Alien, An American Werewolf in London.

favourite books: Lud-in-the-Mist, Dracula, The Lord of the Rings, I Capture the Castle, Gormenghast, The Master and Margarita, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell. My favourite writers are Patricia Highsmith, Wilkie Collins, M. R. James, Shirley Jackson, Daphne du Maurier, Virginia Woolf, Raymond Chandler, and (for light reading) Agatha Christie.

other fandoms: I like going to the theatre. I prefer to read/watch things when there isn’t a lot of hype around them (sometimes this involves waiting a few years!). I’m very tired of franchises.

is your journal friends only, partial or public?: Mostly public.

how often do you update?: I try to post at least once a week and not more than once a day. I like to keep a reading log by posting an excerpt from each book; I don’t generally write reviews. I post about everyday life sometimes but not in great detail.

what do you want in an DW friend?: I treat the internet like I’m chatting with strangers in line at the grocery store / like I’m sending postcards to friends. I like to interact with DW friends regularly (I probably won’t comment on every entry and I don’t expect that everyone will comment on all of mine, but I like to maintain correspondence). I like people whose hobbies are mostly offline. I’m not very interested in fandom, despite occasionally creating things for it. I enjoy “sensitively unsentimental” discussions of fiction, though. I care about politics but I don’t post about politics.

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