Twitter Exodus Friending Meme

[xancredible]

Maybe no-one besides my handful of DW mutuals will fill this out but let's try having a friending meme like in the good old days.

Comment with this form filled out, read other people's comments, chat, and friend each other :D

<b>Your username on DW:</b> <b>Your username on other social media:</b> <b>Pronouns:</b> <b>Age bracket:</b> <b>Geographical area:</b> <b>Interests:</b> <b>Fandoms:</b> <b>What type of posts can we expect in your journal?</b> <b>Anything else you'd like us to know?</b>

Comments

[kitewithfish]

Oh, you had me at "try very hard to comment on posts" - and it seems like my current fandoms overlap with some of your past ones, so I suspect we'll have some overlap. Friending!

[nerakrose]

so often 'being in fandom' is defined by fandom activity - like writing fic or making fanart or whatnot, something visible. but for me often a lot of fandom activity is "just" talking about it with friends :'''D

[kitewithfish]

Hi! I am also queer, crafty and into Star Trek! Hello!

[profiterole_reads]

I've added you back. I looked at your journal and we have a bunch of books in common.

[kitewithfish]

Hi! I'm also into Star Wars and Leverage- I haven't had too much luck getting a D&D group together but I have had some fun with other TTRPG systems for one shots. Friending!

[kitewithfish]

Hi! I'm also moderately losing my mind over the new Interview with the Vampire series - friending!

[kitewithfish]

Nice! I'm actually prepping my weekly Wednesday Reading Meme post now to have it all set for tomorrow.

[nerakrose]

yay another bookbinder :D

[xancredible]

Yeah sure!

[kitewithfish]

ETA: lol just saw your comments/requests. I take that as a yes :D
Great minds think alike, and have similar timing!

Uh, this answer got a bit long! But I'm really enjoying the SPN project and I'm happy to recommend some stuff!

The Great Queer Supernatural Rewatch (and I should share credit here, I'm doing this with a friend who's not on DW and who pulled me back into SPN just in time finish season 15 live) has a loooong reading list - some of which is not things I would recommend after the fact - and an even longer watch list.

But I think the things that were really rewarding for me for the Kripke era of SPN were Men Women and Chain Saws by Carol Clover, On the Road by Jack Kerouac, and Epistemology of the Closet by Eve Sedgewick. We paired them with movies suggested either by the SPN episodes, or by the reading themselves. (If you really want to lean into the gay subtext, the "Original Scroll" version of On the Road was really fun to compare to the published version, since it preserved a lot of the overt references to queer relationships in Kerouac's circle of friends.) Monsters in the Closet by Harry Benshoff was also great a history of gay and lesbian film and presence in Hollywood, tho I wished at the time he was more interested in gender.

A great movie to watch with Season 1 SPN would be Frailty (2001), which has a psychological take on the 'my father tells me we are called to kill demons in Kansas' plotline, and some great performances.

We're also doing little sub-fields of reading! We did a vampire section that ended up overlapping nicely with Dracula Daily. I really enjoyed both '"Kiss Me with Those Red Lips": Gender and Inversion in Bram Stoker's Dracula" by Christopher Craft, and a GREAT article "The Occidental Tourist: Dracula and the Anxiety of Reverse Colonization" by Stephen D. Arata -and we watched the restored Nosferatu version on Kanopy that has all the color grading to show which copy of the film they used to restore each scene. (I kind of pushed for this because I think "Monster Movie" is a truly fantastic episode of SPN for Overt Queer Themes.)

Right now, we've hit season 7 and we're branching out into Westerns - so the main text for reading is Lee Clark Mitchells' Westerns: Making the Man in Fiction and Film, and we just watched Stagecoach and The Virginian (1929) Honestly, this subsection is a little less exciting for me, but I think it's good background on a genre that was really important in US film history? So, mixed bag.

[yarnofariadne]

Added you back! :D

[ex_flameandsong751]

Hi! I added you!

[cephy]

*enthusiastic thumbs up!*

[senmut]

I'm sure we do have some! Hi, nice to meet you!

[leanwellback]

Awesome! Subscribed back :D

[pianogurl330]

I'm from the Midwest and love Grey's, Law & order: SVU, & Iron Man. Want to be friends?

[reidemosthenes]

Yes! I also need to rewatch Read or Die because it's fun and I have feelings about paper magic and books. Yomiko Readman brings me great joy :D

[reidemosthenes]

I haven't done it much recently but it's so much fun :D I will be doing a new book soon though because my wife asked for one.

[miscellanium]

hi there! i really like the idea of your queer supernatural rewatch - i quit the fandom after s8 but still have fondness for it - and i dig book recs even though i hoard them often than i do anything with them. i'll be subscribing but please don't feel obligated to do the same :)

[pauraque]

Likewise!

[pauraque]

Yay!

[reidemosthenes]

I am also an adhd autistic trans person (she/they) who likes crafting and cats!

[ex_flameandsong751]

Yay, I added you!

[ai]

Your username on DW: This one right here!
Your username on other social media: I have used so many usernames over the years, but my "active" one is sainklaus.
Pronouns: She/Her.
Age bracket: Thirties.
Geographical area: Recently moved to the nor'east, how fun.
Interests: Animanga, video games (mmo and visual novels mostly), everything to do with journals, trading card games, adoptables, kdramas, and collecting various things related to my hobbies.
Fandoms: My primary fandoms are Final Fantasy XIV, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Fire Emblem, and Ace Attorney. I have dabbled in hundreds more.
What type of posts can we expect in your journal? Daily posts about life, weekly video game log, photos of whatever creative thing I did or cute item I got in the mail, sharing things happening on Dreamwidth, etc. If you like old fashioned journaling like we did over on LiveJournal, I'm your gal. I don't really share fanworks or anything.
Anything else you'd like us to know? I love friending memes so much (╯✧▽✧)╯ Thanks for sharing! Oh right, I see others posting so obviously the usual DNI critera applies and my journal is friends only. Sorry!

[ai]

Hiii there, I think we would get along well. We have a lot of mutual fandoms and even if I've yet to brave into things like Critical Role or MDZS, I'm familiar enough with it from Internet osmosis.