Valentines Meet and Greet

[ysabetwordsmith]

I've been participating in snowflake_challenge, where lots of folks want to see more activity on Dreamwidth. While researching community activities, I came across the idea of thematic meet and greet events. That seemed like something which might work here, given a membership of several hundred people and a new theme each month. So I made one for this month's theme.  It gives people a place to meet folks with similar interests, and to squee about the current theme.

Here is the basic outline. Fill in as much or as little of it as you wish, depending on your interests as they relate to the Valentines Fest.


Name: Whatever you wish to be known by.
Sex/Gender Identity: Share any descriptions you wish people to know about you, including pronouns.
Sex/Romance/Other Orientation: Who you connect with and how.
Find Me At: Your other blogs, services, or venues.
What I Love About Valentines Day: Favorite activities, traditions, decorations, stories, etc.
What I Hate About Valentines Day: Things you wish would go away, in real life or entertainment. Die, trope, die!
What I Love to Do By Myself: How do you treat yourself when you're alone? Self-love, self-romance, favorite sex toys, favorite snuggly things, places you like to visit alone, your One True Chocolate, whatever.
Heartbreak: Ways you enjoy breaking your characters, canonical breakups and betrayals, favorite fanworks about breakups, that time you got your heart broken, creative revenge ideas, horrible ex tropes, and such.
Romantic Favorites: Romance movies or novels, fandoms, tropes, etc.
Erotic Favorites: Sexyfuntimes in fiction, movies, art, or whatever. Slash all the things!
My Kink(s): In person, writing, or reading; favorite toys, pervertables, plausible deniability, kink-friendly fandoms, best kink scenes in movies, and the like.
Platonic Favorites: Nonsexual intimacies, situations. tropes, sex-free movies or books, ace/aro-friendly fandoms, and so on.
Favorite Blogs or Communities: Anything on Dreamwidth, or other venues, relating to the above topics.
About My Blog: A general description of your blog metaphor, what your blog contains, common formats / media, activity level, typical rating level, featured fandom(s) or original work, etc.
What I Create: Anything you make that relates to the Valentines theme or above topics; fandoms, formats, recurring motifs, and so forth.
What I'm Looking For: Things you would like to get from this activity; readers, comments, recommendations of fandoms or fanworks, new friends, wider representation of something, etc.


Feel free to copy this Meet and Greet into your blog as well as filling it out here -- you may catch some of the holiday traffic.

<br /><strong>Name:</strong> <br /><strong>Sex/Gender Identity:</strong> <br /><strong>Sex/Romance/Other Orientation:</strong> <br /><strong>Find Me At:</strong> <br /><strong>What I Love About Valentines Day:</strong> <br /><strong>What I Hate About Valentines Day:</strong> <br /><strong>What I Love to Do By Myself:</strong> <br /><strong>Heartbreak:</strong> <br /><strong>Romantic Favorites:</strong> <br /><strong>Erotic Favorites:</strong> <br /><strong>My Kink(s):</strong> <br /><strong>Platonic Favorites:</strong> <br /><strong>Favorite Blogs or Communities:</strong> <br /><strong>About My Blog:</strong> <br /><strong>What I Create:</strong> <br /><strong>What I'm Looking For:</strong> <br />

Comments

[curiosity]

Name: Cat
Sex/Gender Identity: Non-binary
Sex/Romance/Other Orientation: Queer / Grey-Ace
Find Me At: felidae_somni on Twitter. feline_somnambulist on AO3 and Tumblr (minus the _ on Tumblr)
What I Love About Valentines Day: Chocolate. Mocking it.
What I Hate About Valentines Day: Commercialization of affection and toxic societal standards.
What I Love to Do By Myself: Everything
Heartbreak: Erm?
Romantic Favorites: Not my strong suit.
Erotic Favorites: Sex is gross.
My Kink(s): I like power exchange. Consent is very sexy.
Platonic Favorites: Cuddling and communication.
Favorite Blogs or Communities: fandomweekly, allbingo, the mdzs communities on Tumblr and Twitter.
About My Blog: Random shit and writing.
What I Create: Stories about messed up families, crochet blankets, random doodles.
What I'm Looking For: Whatever's out there.

Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

>>What I Love About Valentines Day: Chocolate. Mocking it.<<

Have you seen the mockery chocolates? Along with the splendid sculptures of anatomical hearts and hugging couples are things like broken hearts and crossed-out Feb. 14 calendars.

We watched the School of Chocolate recently and I really admire its usefulness as a sculpture medium. Especially with ruby added to dark, milk, and white chocolates.

>> crochet blankets <<

I admire fibercrafting too. Nothing says love like a crochet blanket.

Re: Thoughts

[curiosity]

I really want to try ruby chocolate sometime. I bet it's delicious!

And I really like making blankets. I donate a lot of them and contribute squares to blankets being made for people who are sick or grieving.

Here are a few:







I just gave some of them away. Now it's time to build the supply up again, lol. The eternal cycle.