Giant non-fandom friending meme

[liv]

Here's the thing: a lot of people are about ready to leave LJ over the latest shenanigans. But they don't want to make the leap to Dreamwidth because, frankly, there isn't enough going on here. The site is smaller, so there are fewer posts, and fewer cool people to meet. And all their friends are on LJ, which is of course a self-perpetuating situation: if "everybody" is still on LJ, then there's a huge disincentive against moving, which means that everybody continues to be on LJ.

Lots of people have realized that the best way to address this issue is, well, creating content. Some people are organizing collective efforts to create more content. This is a great idea, except for one small problem: the people who are really good at organizing and creating content are mainly fandom. I have nothing at all against fandom, but I'm not really part of it, and I think that a lot of other people who feel similarly are being put off because they see DW as yet another clubhouse for the cool fandom kids.

But I am going to take a leaf from fandom's book: I'm going to cease sitting around complaining about how DW is too quiet. Instead I'm going to participate in creating content and drawing attention to the cool stuff that already exists. So, I propose a giant non-fandom friending meme (thanks, delight). If you would like find some new, interesting people to read, or make new friends, or just help highlight how much cool stuff there is on DW, please comment to this post.

You're welcome to say whatever you like, but here's a suggested template:
Your identity: doesn't have to be A/S/L, but anything that you think people should know about you to be able to decide whether they're likely to be interested in getting to know you.
What you are passionate about
How you use Dreamwidth
A link to a recent post of yours that is characteristic of your journal or writing style.
A link to a journal on Dreamwidth you think people might enjoy reading, even if they don't know the writer personally.

Footnote 1: Some people have moral or technical objections to Dreamwidth, or actively prefer LJ. That's totally cool with me – this post isn't addressed to you. I'm looking to involve people who would like to make the move, but are put off because there isn't enough to read or enough people to meet here. I am not at all proselytizing, in other words, just doing my bit to fix what I see as the biggest glaring problem with DW. Other people may see other problems, and I am not trying to fix those.

Footnote 2: If you are involved in fandom, you're extremely welcome to participate. Perhaps you'd like to meet someone who shares some of your less fannish interests. Or you are welcome to go and join in some of the more explicitly fandom-related activities going on instead.

I am going to post this now, rather than waiting until the official three-week fest, because I think now is while the iron is hot and people are motivated to move to a new site. But I'll link it again when the fest starts up on 26^th April, around the one-year anniversary of Dreamwidth entering Open Beta. I don't have any strong opinions about the DW-only content thing, and you don't have to be participating in that to participate in this meme.

So, go forth and friend!

ETA: And if you like the idea, please link this post all over the place. Or make your own version, or whatever, but mainly spread the word as much as possible

Comments

[pj]

Your identity: 48 y/o female, married near 20 years, 3 adult children, pagan, co-leader of a Pagan CUUPs group at a local UU church in a suburb of Pittsburgh, PA. Here I am PJ and am nicked that all over the 'net, but my handle most everywhere else is pjvj. Work part-time retail for a multinational eyewear company. Live with the hubster, the youngest adult child, 1 dog, 1 cat, 1 lone fish (the aquarium needs to be restocked).

What you are passionate about: passionate about many things while remaining too lazy to do a lot to change them other than spreading the word via the internet.

How you use Dreamwidth: Reader and commenter more than a poster. Recently most posts have been either political links or Pagan related as I'm studying Reclaiming/Feri with a local teacher. My posts filter down to LJ and the public ones are picked up by Facebook.

A link to a recent post of yours that is characteristic of your journal or writing style. Uuummmmm ..... no style. Recent sorta non-pagan post http://pj.dreamwidth.org/253017.html

A link to a journal on Dreamwidth you think people might enjoy reading, even if they don't know the writer personally. Two brilliant minds I feel comfortable linking to for this project elf and jenett

[velvetpage]

May I add you?

[elf]

Identity: I'm Erica. elfwreck in most places around the web; 40 years old; I work in San Francisco, CA. White cis queer Pagan able-bodied polyamorous sex-positive politically-radical geek. Weird. Have been told I'm wanky; I don't avoid online conflicts.

Non-Fannish Passions: Paganism (I'm a satanic Discordian Feri witch) & religious discussion/debate; ebooks & document conversion; conlangs (although I'm pretty much too intimidated to be involved in conlang comms); copyfight activism, attachment parenting & extended breastfeeding; tabletop RPGs (not D20) (erm, isn't that fannish?).

How I use Dreamwidth: DW is my new online home; I hope to be here for years and years and years. I crosspost most things to IJ, and haven't posted at LJ at all (except the occasional "hey guys? I'm not here any more") in a long time. I post a lot of fannish stuff, a lot of religious stuff, and a scattered array of other stuff.

Representative posts:: Hmm. How recent is "recent?" Been scattered recently. Wrote some glee about my kid's icky former school is tanking. If I go back a bit, I posted about Sanity, Rationality, and the In and Ir thereof. I also keep a handful of posts in my profile for an overview of how & what I write.

Journal rec: pj posts more overtly pagan (and less debate-oriented) stuff than I do; legionseagle is always good for thinky thoughts.

[asecretchord]

I have subscribed to your journal as I noticed a number of thinky thoughts in your journal and thinky thoughts are good!

[teigh_corvus]

Your identity: What I identify most as: Poet, Artist, Blackbird and Witch. I'm 37, live in beautiful Vermont, both my sexuality and gender are mutable and am working through the death throes of an 11 year marriage. I think that covers the basics.
What you are passionate about: Stories and Art. Poetry, Mythology, Fairytales, Folklore and seeing how all of those infuse life. Corvids. Animation [including good ol' Saturday morning cartoons] and graphic novels. Writing. Fandom [it has to be said]. Feminism. Road trips, roadside attractions, diners and concrete dinosaurs. My state and the city I love in. New Orleans and Ireland. Paganism. Music. Bellydancing. Genre-wise, horror and magical realism. Life itself.
How you use Dreamwidth:Thus far, I've used it more to comment and read than post. It took me a very long time to get comfortable over on LJ; I'm hoping that I can settle in here with greater speed. I do talk about life a lot in my posts, as I see all kinds of Shiny Things in the day-to-day. Mostly I'm still trying to find my sea-legs here and meet folks.

[finch]

Hello. Anybody who likes magical realism is okay by me. ;) Adding you.

[maevele]

identity: I'm Maevele pretty much everywhere, you can call me Mav for short. I'm 35 homeschooling mother of two, male partnered, female assigned, but more and more realizing I am male gendered, or something. That's part of what I am using dw to explore. New to "Fandom" in the fanwork sense, old at it in the more general geekily interested way.

What I'm passionate about: books and media, particularly sf, intersectional feminism, fixing feminism, general social justice issues, music, mental health, homeschooling, technology, the intersection of homeschooling and technology, language, wiscon, getting comments on my posts.

How I use Dreamwidth: as a catch all for my brain, communicating what may be too much with a large circle of people. I read a lot of fannish stuff, but very little of what I post is fannish. Mostly, dw is cheaper than therapy.

A link to a recent post: honestly, almost all my public posts are short as hell or linkdrops but here, http://maevele.dreamwidth.org/237654.html or here http://maevele.dreamwidth.org/244167.html

A link to a journal on Dreamwidth I rec, um http://unusualmusic.dreamwidth.org/

[dancesontrains]

May I add you?

[finch]

Your identity: Twenty nine, transgenderqueer, neuroatypical, Buddhist-heathen, pansexual and poly, currently involved with one woman, and fond of big words.
What you are passionate about: Writing, painting, creating, gay and trans rights,
How you use Dreamwidth: Posting about anything and everything. Crossposting from my writing blog.
A link to a recent post of yours that is characteristic of your journal or writing style: I've been locking a bit more than usual lately, but here's my February Writing Post
A link to a journal on Dreamwidth you think people might enjoy reading, even if they don't know the writer personally: damned_colonial and nepenthe

[orbitaldiamonds]

Friends? :)

[orbitaldiamonds]

Your identity: Heather, 26, Fort Wainwright AK. Originally from Titusville, FL. Pan/poly, married with one almost-girlfriend, no kids or pets. Atheist, nerd, short, pudgy, nearsighted (but only literally :P).

What you are passionate about: Science fiction. Writing. Fighting discrimination (especially with regards to ableism, queerphobia, and anti-nonoreligion language). Not the PC police, just a young woman growing into her activism.

How you use Dreamwidth: Personal journaling (I crosspost to LJ since I have permanent accounts both here and there) and comm participation.

A link to a recent post of yours that is characteristic of your journal or writing style: http://orbitaldiamonds.dreamwidth.org/230816.html

A link to a journal on Dreamwidth you think people might enjoy reading, even if they don't know the writer personally. notsopeaceful: it's a friend's character-writing exercise fic journal and it's great fun to read. :)

[annotated_em]

Hi, it seems like we might have some things in common! Wanna do the subscribe/access thing? (Me: here)

[falcongrrl]

Identity: I'm 38yo and I live in Orlando, FL. I write a lot about being a mom, specifically a geeky, somewhat-unconventional one.

I'm also poly and sapiosexual, though I usually filter those posts pretty heavily. Although I haven't set up custom filters here yet, so who knows? Anyway, if you're opposed to such things, you may not want to friend me.

I believe in fat acceptance and body acceptance, and I do write sometimes (or link to posts) about being fat and what that means and navigating a society that can be negative or outright hostile to certain body types. (I'm a size 18, 5'4", just over 200 lbs, and while you don't need to know that, I'm okay with having it Out There. :-) ) All that said, while I may skim your posts on dieting, I won't hate on them.

Passion: I'm passionate about mental health, due to my own struggles with clinical depression and anxiety. I wish good therapy and (if necessary) medical care were available for all who want them. Conversely, I also agree with a friend who says we need more shamans and less therapists.

I'm passionate about kids, my own and other people's, and I want a world where they know both that they're safe and valued.

I'm passionate about writing and words.

I'm passionate about relationships and sex and what they mean and how we talk about them. I'm passionate about things like gender and sexual orientation being on a fluid continuum. I'm passionate about how all bodies and genders and types of people can be beautiful.

I'm passionate about the metaphysical, though if you're not, it's not a dealbreaker. Mostly I like hearing about people's spiritual paths and why they are (or are not) on one.

Okay, maybe this is a little tl;dr, but I'm a passionate person. :-D

How I Use Dreamwidth: I use Dreamwidth for posting, and I crosspost to LJ. I still do most of my reading on LJ, because all my friends are there, blahblah. I am one of the recent migrators from LJ, actually. :-) I'd love to make friends here though.

Link: http://falcongrrl.dreamwidth.org/440002.html This is a longer post than I usually write, but it touches on issues that are important to me.

Link to other journal: http://electrickeet.dreamwidth.org I don't know how often Jessie will post here, but she's an awesome person.

[velvetpage]

Why were you not on my list here yet? *fixes that*

[vatine]

My identity: Vatine, late-30s male. Born and raised in Sweden, now living in the UK. Sharing my house with my wife, some cats, a dog, some fish, a bunch of computers in various state of "working" and more books than I have shelves for.

What am I passionate about? Um. Stuffs. I read a lot and (on my LJ) chronicle all paper books that I read. I also make a quick summary at the end of each month and have started posting them on DW as well. I like big, complicated things. Networks, co-operating computers, piles and piles of unstructured data to try to make sense of. I have played (pen&paper) RPGs since my early teens and have been known to design new ones from scratch. I've also knocked out a couple of computer games (not RPG ones, though), because the concept intrigued me. When I have some spare time, I write, mostly stuff set in worlds of my own.

So, how to I use Dreamwidth? Mostly, I default to "locked to no specific access", with a couple of filters to allow people to see less of what I write. I occasionally post completely unlocked things, but that is the exception.

Recent, open, post, that is almost but not quite representational A small thing on Newton-Raphson fractals, from December.

[velvetpage]

Hello! Mind if I friend you?

[velvetpage]

Hello! I'm Velvetpage. I'm an elementary teacher in a place where that isn't an admission of abject poverty (Ontario, Canada) currently taking courses to make me a specialist in mathematics education. Dreamwidth isn't filtered by the net nanny at work, as LJ is, so a lot of my teaching-related posts go here first and often don't make the jump to LJ ever. I'm also a mom of two smallish children (7 and 4 later this spring) and wife to Pyat.

I've been using my Dreamwidth journal partly for teaching stuff like this one, and partly for character journals for one of my roleplaying games. Altriona is a lady elf turned pirate in the Warhammer universe. At other points in the year I write more fiction, but I'm just too busy at the moment, so my journal is split between character journals, rundowns of cool lessons usually but not exclusively in math, and venting when I'm fed up with my kids. (They're grade five. They're entering puberty. Venting saves my soul alive.)

I'll spend more time on DW if I end up with a larger circle of friends who aren't also posting to LJ. At the moment the crossover on my list is such that I have no need to visit both.

[ktnb]

I'm adding you because I need more teachers to read. :)

[tnrkitect]

Your identity: tnrkitect - I am a licensed architect from Knoxville, TN who is still employed. (A rarity in our profession). In my past lives I have been a soldier, a sales clerk, a mechanic, a dock worker.

What you are passionate about Architecture, Living within your means, Sustainability, Energy, Weather, Transportation (especially rail), Social Media, and the nexus at which all of the above intersect.

How you use Dreamwidth I use DW as my (more) professional blog (meaning my links to blog posts on Twitter point here), using it to discuss items that relate to architecture and my interests. It cross posts back to LJ due to the number of friends I still have there, so there is no need to follow in both places, however I will state that my LJ acct is a free one while my DW account is a seed one. (You see who I feel is worth giving money to). I took a hiatus at the end of last year, but have now resumed posting at least once a week, with the goal of getting back to a post a day. Work is making this goal challenging, to say the least.

A link to a recent post of yours that is characteristic of your journal or writing style. http://tnrkitect.dreamwidth.org/813662.html

A link to a journal on Dreamwidth you think people might enjoy reading, even if they don't know the writer personally. liz_marcs

[facetofcathy]

I had to subscribe to you--you have posts about leaky toilets! Er, I'm sort of fascinated by renovations stories. I'm mostly fannish on my main journal, but I have a second journal trapezoid_manner which chronicles our renovation, and needs more attention from me. There really doesn't seem to be too many people around here who are interested in building and renovation.

[ilyat]

Fascinating meme! Thank you for starting it. I got here through the latest news update and intend to take my time going back through some of those posted.


Your identity: USA citizen, late 20s, female, unmarried & w/no kids, raised agnostic-atheist, government worker for the state Dept. Conservation & Recreation, pro-military & "South Park Republican", boating & hockey fan, hobby artist/author & occasional cosplayer, and who is actively involved in the video game & game music community (specifically with the Music And Gaming Festival/MAGFest). Phew. I think that was a mouthful.

What you are passionate about: My pets (dog, cat, snake, fish), my family & friends, my career, and my toy hobbies (gaming, boating, travel).

How you use Dreamwidth: Typically, I post about things relating to my hobbies (noted above), frequently interspersed with 'work posts' that delve into life as a park ranger & conservation officer. I was never active in fandom, but I still comment on those that catch my interest (more so with TV & video games and less so with anime/manga, lately). You never need to ask my permission or give me an explanation to watch/unwatch me.

A link to a recent post of yours that is characteristic of your journal or writing style: Have three! A psuedo-meme video game post, a commentary post, and a work post.

A link to a journal on Dreamwidth you think people might enjoy reading, even if they don't know the writer personally:
karn posts a photo about every day, sometimes interspersed with links to some pretty interesting and diverse music.
vector typically posts some very interesting commentary related to her job and women in programming & the sciences in general.

[wyldbutterflies]

Here via everyone and would love to make ye olde journal more active. Would certainly welcome the adventurous and open-minded!

Identity :: 30-something plural attending university for the first time. Seeking degrees in history and anthropology with a huge concentration on East Asia. Heck, in one journal, you get several for the price of one.

Passions :: Love, Life, Laughter! Slightly fannish, but not hugely so, and rarely talk about it in the journal. Very into life betterment and living life to the fullest. Adore all kinds of music, books, and movies. Have a passion for history, other cultures, and gender (hence the areas of university study).

Dreamwidth use :: Tend to write at least once a week, if not more. Postings consist mostly of daily life (lately about trying to study abroad in Japan) - fears and anxieties faced with grace and dignity (hopefully!) and some flailing. Occasionally a thoughtful post will slip in, but trying not to be that serious about life.

Interested? Would love to have you aboard!

[teigh_corvus]

Very much interested! May I add?

[annotated_em]

Me: Late twenties, cis-gendered white queer woman, currently able-bodied, feminist, atheist, PhD student [rhetcomp], fan, opinionated, scatter-brained, servant to two cats, introvert

My passions: Teaching, reading, writing, feminism & queer rights; trying to get around my own privilege blinders [largely a private and internal process, not something I discuss a lot], fandom things [anime and manga, primarily; though I'm currently quietly gleeful about White Collar; previously active in Prince of Tennis, currently active in Katekyo Hitman Reborn]; knitting, cooking, baking

My journal: Is access-locked, and my posts are generally slice-of-life things: morning bitching, afternoon bitching; fannish squee. More sensitive things get filtered; occasionally I break off and go into thoughtful thinky posts about whatever is currently preoccupying me. I am drama-averse, though I give good rant from time to time. I strive to be mildly entertaining and to remain a sense of perspective about myself. I maintain an open subscribe/unsubscribe policy: relationships change and grow, and sometimes end and that's okay.

Commenting: If you can see it, you're welcome to weigh in. I am currently working on commenting more often in other journals. (See above re: introversion.)

I'd love to expand my DW circle!

[viklikesfic]

Hello! Adding because your description here is interesting and we appear to have a number of things in common (including but not limited to: feminism, queerness, reading/writing/teaching, and cooking/baking).

[ajnabieh]

Your identity: I'm Emily; I'm a PhD candidate in political science, writing my dissertation on the Arab community in New York. I've been living in NYC for six or seven years now, depending on how you count it. I teach political theory and comparative politics at my school. I'm married to a woman, and we have a toddler, who takes up a great deal of my time and mental energy. I'm fannish, but not on this journal. (White, [basically] cisgendered, queer, feminist, Quaker, progressive, unclear about whether I'm disabled or not...but most of those things will rarely be the topics of my writing as ajnabieh, with the likely exception of being white and a feminist.)
What you are passionate about: social justice; contemporary political theory; the Middle East; also cats, my kid and wife, snarking at the TV, and food.
How you use Dreamwidth: I use it like a blog, for writing about my research and things that are connected to it--basically anything to do with Arabs or Muslims in the US or elsewhere in the West, or other academicy things that spark my fancy. Some book reviews, some photo analysis, some linky business, some eyerolling.
A link to a recent post of yours that is characteristic of your journal or writing style. This post is a critique of the use of language in a popular mystery novel set in Palestine; it gives you a sense of what I'm like, even if it is a little wonky.
A link to a journal on Dreamwidth you think people might enjoy reading, even if they don't know the writer personally. Dude, I don't know anyone. Oh, azurelunatic is awesome, and I've know her like a million years, so there's that.

[eumelia]

Adding you!

I'm dying to read that book :)

Treed Turkeys and the Shetland Buss

[ranunculus]

I'm Ranunculus a person in her mid-50's. I live in San Francisco, work at the War Memorial Opera House, garden in my sunny backyard and care for the family ranch in Ukiah. Ukiah is 115 miles north of my house. I run a small horse boarding business there and am in the process of building a big arena for riders who prefer to go in circles rather than ride on the 1,500 acres of very hilly ranch land.
I care for the land where ever I am as a steward rather than an owner, and am actively doing riparian restoration with the streams on the ranch. In my SF garden I don't quite garden organically, but close. I read a SF & SF but rarely comment on it, prefering to mention the latest book on soil, cooking or biography that has caught my attention.

Here is a post from a recent ranch trip:
http://ranunculus.dreamwidth.org/298130.html

Here is a historical note of interest about the Shetland Islands where we go to vacation when time and funds permit:
http://ranunculus.dreamwidth.org/296976.html

A tour of the top of the Opera House:
http://ranunculus.dreamwidth.org/281503.html

Re: Treed Turkeys and the Shetland Buss

[crankyoldman]

You don't have to follow me, but I would LOVE to follow you, gardening is something I don't do much anymore (because I don't have the land) but it was something I enjoyed growing up.

Plus, you rock.

[dulcinbradbury]

Your identity: Female, cisgendered, agnostic/pagan, heterosexual, married, librarian from Upstate NY.

What you are passionate about: As another SCA member, I'm passionate about performing, handicrafts, and Early Medieval Ireland. I'm also passionate about writing. I've a few publications under my belt, though no professional level fiction publications. Yet. :) I'm also a fairly passionate feminist.

How you use Dreamwidth: Personal musings, original fiction & poetry, and the occasional soapbox.

A link to a recent post of yours that is characteristic of your journal or writing style.: Daily Life post. Feminist Musings. Poetry

[zhelana]

yay more SCA people!

Why yes I am a rocket scientist

[crankyoldman]

Your identity: I go by Cendri or Liz (I like Cendri slightly better because it is less common than Liz) and I'm turning 25 soon. I just finished an undergraduate in Aerospace Engineering, so that makes me a rocket scientist, even though I work in educational gaming. XD I'm a lesbian and a feminist and far too many things to put in this little space.

What you are passionate about Everything, but especially education, engineering, clothes (in a less than shallow sense, I sew), writing, reading, positive self-image, and fandom somewhat. My journal is more real life than fandom, so.

How you use Dreamwidth I post what's on my mind? XD

A link to a recent post of yours that is characteristic of your journal or writing style. Body Image Rant and The cliffnotes summary of my life so far that I point anyone who wants to friend me to now. I do have some entries that are more bulletpoint, when I'm busy. Usually on those days I'll at least have interesting links.

A link to a journal on Dreamwidth you think people might enjoy reading, even if they don't know the writer personally. Not for reading, but shoes is so fun. It's just pretties.

Re: Why yes I am a rocket scientist

[redroanchronicles]

Cool, just added you! I love your body image rant. :)

[blueswan]

Identity: Feminist, single, childless, queer, late-forties, atheist, cis-female. Canadian. Tree-hugging leftie with opinions. I believe in the basic decency of people, while keeping a wary eye on them at the same time. I do not hold my own opinions as facts and am equally certain my beliefs are on the same level.

What you are passionate about: Books, reading, animals, music, gardening.

How you use Dreamwidth: As a journal to record my person high-points, to talk about happy-making things, and to connect with and discuss fandom and fannish interests.

A link to a recent post of yours that is characteristic of your journal or writing style.: response to "Why Strong Female Characters are Bad for Women" and a happy-making moments post.

A link to a journal on Dreamwidth you think people might enjoy reading, even if they don't know the writer personally. My entire circle, but facetofcathy is always interesting.

[psyche29]

Your Identity: I am Psyche, 32 in 12 days and married with one son. I work in revenue cycle management in a major metropolitan hospital, which by turns vexes and contents me. I am liberal with some socialistic tendencies and a miniscule pinch of conservative thrown in for shits and giggles. I am faithful, hopeful, loyal and strong. Introverted, practical, generally cheerful and optimistic. Opinionated, bossy, detail-oriented and easy to get along with. I am a supertaster. I am a Harry Potter/Narnia/other sundry fantasy fan. I am "a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, a hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer." A wife, a mother, a friend, a memory.

What You Are Passionate About: Reading and writing, music and movies and life and love. Family and friends, and people in general as opposed to ideas. I like ideas, but I'm more interested in what you think of the ideas, in how the ideas affect you and the living of your life, and why. I am passionate about life and the living of it, in giving life meaning, in the belief that not seeing something doesn't mean it isn't there. I love words and language and the myriad ways they can be put together to form thoughts, ideas, expressions. I love food and video games, and mostly just spending time with those I love. I love - deeply, wholly, unconditionally.

How You Use Dreamwidth: I'm mostly a chronicler, on average 3-4 times a month, sometimes more, sometimes less; I post about life and how I view the things that affect me, things that happened to me, things that amuse me or that I find interesting. I vent about work and family, anything that comes to mind. And I always enjoy knowing what others think about things, hearing about similar things that others go through, and even just opinions from others about anything I've mentioned in my journal. I love the crosspost function because I write many posts while at work, where LJ is blocked but DW is not - and all my friends are there with no intentions of coming here. But I like DW better, so I've been stepping up my search for new people here, to find friends and pull them into my life, and hope they enjoy me enough to pull me into theirs.

Link to a recent Post: Here, here and here.

Link to something on DW: I don't have too many I read yet - I'm hesitant about adding things or people I don't know well, but there are some comms I enjoy reading, including books and omnomnom.

Please feel free to add me if you're interested!

[lonesome_george]

Your identity: I'm Tinny/George, 20 yo environmental-science student from north-east England currently living on the coast. I'm an atheist that only recently got out of the church and still haven't told my family (oops). I'm far too introverted for my own good, so I figured it was about time for me to get out and find some DW friends :3

What you are passionate about: writing and reading all sorts, I'm trying to expand my library and try out different genres. I love science having been bright up by my chemist father, our day-trips consisted of visiting the local power-station or chemical plant. I used to be more into my fandoms but seem to have slipped out of them when I came to uni, so they don't really crop up in my conversations as much as they used to. The main exception to this would probably be video games, and in particular pokémon--it's that thing that get me really excited, so with the new games coming out soon I will be gushing. A lot.

How you use Dreamwidth: I haven't been on DW for a while because I was having problems with depression and housing and uni work and all that jazz, but I plan on staying! My journal is mostly me rambling about what I've been up to, complaining about things that bother me, and getting excited over seagulls and ice-cream.

I don't really have any particular post that's typical, but pretty much all of my entries are public if you want to have a poke around. I'm hoping to become more active than I have been in the past couple of months, so I should be around more!

[dancesontrains]

Whereabouts on the coast, if you don't mind me asking? Fecking seagulls :P

[semtex]

Your identity: I'm a somewhat introverted lady workaholic currently living in Arizona.

What you are passionate about: Graphic design and computers are at the top of this list. I'm trying to get back into web design because a few years ago I used to be militantly passionate about html. My favorite kind of web designs are the ones that serve no purpose other than to exist or perhaps entertain me :D. I hate Flash except when it is used to make stupid games and yet I still have to know how to use it. I also love typography! Suffice to say, I'm probably overinvested, and given the chance, would probably share my ~feelings~ on any of the aforementioned subjects.

Also I ♥ comics and manga! :D?

How you use Dreamwidth: Usually my posts are brief and accompanied by images. The subject varies from complaining about work to posting comic scans that make me lol. Sometimes I post sketches. Everything is still cross-posted to my LJ and JF accounts.

A link to a recent post of yours: This post is a typical non-fannish post, while this post is a typical fannish one.

A link to a journal on Dreamwidth you think people might enjoy reading: kerrypolka I don't really even know her but I enjoy her entries. _{Now that I typed that out I feel like a creeper D:}

[dancesontrains]

May I add y...OWAIT

:D

[seryn]

I'm an almost 40 woman, opinionated (but not intolerant), used-to-be geekish, unemployed, living in California, in a stable relationship, non-childed and non-Christian.

I consider myself mildly talented at most everything and unable to truly focus on one of them, but this means my topics range wildly. I like cooking (or food in general) and reading books and tea. I'm big into common sense and looking at things from the wrong perspective.

DW is my conversation with everyone. It's the 15 emails I would have sent to friends, the conversations no one has time to have because I'd call at the wrong time, and my own space to sort through what I'm thinking. It's where I can share my creative attempts to get beyond the equivalent of macaroni collage.

I write about just about everything that's in my head. Politics. Recent books read or movies watched. Food experiments. Tech things that bother me. My favorite recent post is about the negative aspects of happiness.

I also wrote a first draft of this comment and put it in my own space.

I like the food experiments bookfanatic writes about.

[mutantenemy]

What we have in common: almost 40, opinionated, unemployed, un-childed, non-Christian, and the biggie, I consider myself mildly talented at most everything and unable to truly focus on one of them. By the gods, I couldn't written that myself. :)

And yes, common sense is king.

Subscribing!

[sporky_rat]

Your identity: I am Teh Sporky Rat also known as Nom (not the food) and Amy. I prefer Sporky.
What you are passionate about: DW. Food. Fabric. Some fandom. Video Games. A better question, really, is what am I not passionate about - that would be HFCS.
How you use Dreamwidth - chronicling my days and nights. That way we don't end up like Zardoz.
A link to a recent post of yours that is characteristic of your journal or writing style. How about this?
A link to a journal on Dreamwidth you think people might enjoy reading, even if they don't know the writer personally
zarhooie AWE HAIL THE GREAT NORTHSHIELD LADY. Ahem. Bacon, anyone?

[downtide]

Identity: My name is Lewis, or Casteylan, depending on whether you know me mainly offline or online. The part of my identity that gets talked about the most in my DW is my gender. I'm transgendered, FTM (female to male), and just starting the transition process at the ripe old age of 43. Aside from that I'm British, work in administration (boring) and I am an artist and amateur singer involved in the local folk music scene. Partnered to a wonderful guy that I've been with for 24 years (yes I identify mainly as a gay guy), have a daughter of 21 and a dog.

My passions: Art, music, trans/queer issues, my dog, walking, and everything else on the interests list of my profile. I write, a little, but I'm not involved in fandom any more and I don't currently post fic on DW. This may or may not change in the future.

How I use DW: I post a couple of times a week, when I have something to talk about. Mostly day-to-day stuff, although there is the gender thing as well. Nearly everything I post here is public although if I ever post artworks or fic they would usually be f'locked.

A recent post: How I managed to walk over 18000 steps in a day

Reccommending: slashfairy who is my very good friend in California and who is involved with nursing and healthcare, womens' rights and other related things. She posts a lot of very interesting stuff.

EDITED TO ADD: I have abandoned LJ now. Pretty much all my LJ friends post on DW as well so there's no longer any need for it.

[sisyphus_rolling]

Hi! I'm sisyphus_rolling. I'm 32 years old, female, in the Chicago area of Illinois, USA. I'm a questioning jew, a proud disabled woman, a bisexual. I'm passionate about self determination, independence, joy. I write in my journal every few days, and I read my flist far less than I would like to. My journal is a brain dump for all the stuff going on in my life, my form of self counseling. At the moment it's mostly about relationship angst and medical tribulations. If I ever get back into writing poetry, that'll be in there too.

Okay I'm out of steam. Anything else you want to know, just ask me in comments.

[orbitaldiamonds]

Looks like we have a lot in common. Mind if I friend you?