Friending Meme
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allbingoThe New Year is a good time for a friending meme. You can answer here, and copy your response to your own blog to stir up more interest if you wish.
Who are you?
Whereabouts do you live?
Where else can you be found online?
How long have you been into creative bingo?
Do you participate in any other bingo communities or fests, and if so, which ones?
What size cards do you like playing?
Do you usually use a public card or make your own?
How often do you make blackout?
What kind of fills do you make?
What are some of your favorite fandoms or original settings that you fill with?
What things do you enjoy seeing from other people's fills?
What have been some favorite themes?
Can you think of themes you'd love to see that haven't been done yet?
What is your blog like?
How busy is it?
What topics do you post about most often?
What kinds of friends are you looking for?
Who are you?
Whereabouts do you live?
Where else can you be found online?
How long have you been into creative bingo?
Do you participate in any other bingo communities or fests, and if so, which ones?
What size cards do you like playing?
Do you usually use a public card or make your own?
How often do you make blackout?
What kind of fills do you make?
What are some of your favorite fandoms or original settings that you fill with?
What things do you enjoy seeing from other people's fills?
What have been some favorite themes?
Can you think of themes you'd love to see that haven't been done yet?
What is your blog like?
How busy is it?
What topics do you post about most often?
What kinds of friends are you looking for?
Hello!
Date: 2023-01-02 06:21 am (UTC)Whereabouts do you live? Central Illinois, Turtle Island / USA
Where else can you be found online?
https://ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com/
http://penultimateproductions.weebly.com/serial-poetry.html
https://archiveofourown.org/users/Ysabetwordsmith/works
How long have you been into creative bingo? I've been in this community since it started in 2014, but I was playing bingo long before then. Maybe 2008 or so?
Do you participate in any other bingo communities or fests, and if so, which ones? Many of my old favorites are now defunct, like the old Cottoncandy Bingo. I think
What size cards do you like playing? I usually play 5x5. If I want to do several subtopics, sometimes I split them into 3x3 cards.
Do you usually use a public card or make your own? I usually make my own.
How often do you make blackout? In 2022, I made 5 blackouts: Valentines Bingo 2/1/22, National Crafting Month 3/1/22, Body Parts 7/1/22, Reel Time 8/1/22, Land of Oz 9/1/22.
What kind of fills do you make? Most of mine are poems. Occasionally I write fanfic or other fiction. I just posted "The Tie-Dye Tiger" which is a story from a 2021 card. I had fun with the March 2022 crafting theme, where I posted pictures of some of my crafts.
What are some of your favorite fandoms or original settings that you fill with? My most common fandom is The Avengers with Love Is For Children. Original work is usually poetry, which you can find much of on my Serial Poetry page. My biggest series is Polychrome Heroics, which is superhero fantasy.
What things do you enjoy seeing from other people's fills? I like fiction, but it's fun to see non-writing fills like photos or crafts.
What have been some favorite themes? Untranslateable words and crafts.
Can you think of themes you'd love to see that haven't been done yet? I'm toying with making a fest for The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. All new words!
What is your blog like? It's a cross between office and living room.
How busy is it? I post daily. It's most active during the Poetry Fishbowl on the first Tuesday of each month; next up is January 3 with a theme of "short forms."
What topics do you post about most often?
reading
writing
cyberfunded creativity
poetry
networking
fantasy
news
weblit
science fiction
personal
nature
What kinds of friends are you looking for? I'm up for creative people in general, readers and writers, fans, etc.
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Date: 2023-01-02 06:47 am (UTC)I'm Fleet a.k.a. FleetSparrow a.k.a. Fleet Sparrow. Basically, if there's a Fleet involved, it's probably me.
Whereabouts do you live? The very corner-edge of L.A. county in California, right next to the Orange Curtain. Usually, however, I live online.
Where else can you be found online? Here, Twitter, an archive of Tumblr, LJ, AO3, um... that's kinda it, although I'm kind of everywhere, too.
How long have you been into creative bingo? Oh, golly, as long as creative bingos have been around, I guess. Or as long as I've known about them.
Do you participate in any other bingo communities or fests, and if so, which ones? I don't, really, because most of them only lasted about a year or so.
What size cards do you like playing? Any size I can.
Do you usually use a public card or make your own? It depends on the prompts. Sometimes there's a great public one, but often I'll make my own until I get enough prompts I know I can write to.
How often do you make blackout? That would imply I can finish things....
What kind of fills do you make? Fanfic, exclusively. I'm not good at anything but writing.
What are some of your favorite fandoms or original settings that you fill with? DC Comics/Batman & Co., Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters, MST3k; original fics tend to be romantic and/or slice of life superhero type stuff.
What things do you enjoy seeing from other people's fills? I just love seeing all the creativity people have!
What have been some favorite themes? I love the holiday ones (Halloween, Winter, Fall, Christmas, that kind of thing).
Can you think of themes you'd love to see that haven't been done yet? I feel like I remember a superpower one once??? But that would be fun to do again, if already done. (I have memory of holey cheese, so don't trust me on what has/hasn't already happened.)
What is your blog like? Fandom stuff, mostly. It used to be all exchange letters, but I'm trying to do more with it now. Right now, it's mostly fandom question memes.
How busy is it? Let's just say, I typically have tumbleweeds to clear by the time I get back to it.
What topics do you post about most often? Fandom stuff. Question memes. Sometimes personal stuff, but not often.
What kinds of friends are you looking for? Oh, any kind! Writing friends, art friends, fandom friends, general friends.
As I mentioned, my memory is kind of garbage, which means often I don't reply to things, but that's not because I don't care; it's because, well, my memory is garbage and my brain decides that if I thought about, something I must have already done it, too.
Thoughts
Date: 2023-01-02 06:58 am (UTC)LOL
>>The very corner-edge of L.A. county in California, right next to the Orange Curtain.<<
Oh, that sounds interesting.
>>I don't, really, because most of them only lasted about a year or so.<<
Yeah, most of my favorites are gone too. I'm glad we have this general community to fall back on.
>> DC Comics/Batman & Co., <<
I have enjoyed your fills of this.
>>I feel like I remember a superpower one once??? But that would be fun to do again, if already done.<<
Holy smoke, that would be bat-tastic!
>> Let's just say, I typically have tumbleweeds to clear by the time I get back to it.<<
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Date: 2023-01-02 08:43 am (UTC)Whereabouts do you live? South Florida USA
Where else can you be found online? FAcebook,Twitter, Pintrest, Subeta, Ao3 and
SquidgeWorld Archive
How long have you been into creative bingo? A few years.
Do you participate in any other bingo communities or fests, and if so, which ones?
What size cards do you like playing? 3x3 or 5x5
Do you usually use a public card or make your own? My own
How often do you make blackouts? Not often
What kind of fills do you make? Mostly I fill with fics.
What are some of your favorite fandoms or original settings that you fill with? Supernatural, Stargate Atlantis, Fullmetal Alchemist 2003
What things do you enjoy seeing from other people's fills?
What have been some favorite themes? Cotton candy is one of my favorites.
Can you think of themes you'd love to see that haven't been done yet? I have no clue.
What is your blog like? Random thoughts and life
How busy is it? Very slow. I am trying to get better about updating it.
What topics do you post about most often? Fandom bits and life. My brother's band as well.
What kinds of friends are you looking for?Must be over 18 ,
Hey!
Date: 2023-01-03 04:27 pm (UTC)Whereabouts do you live? Middle of the Mitten - aka mid-Michigan
Where else can you be found online? Here on Dreamwidth, a mirror blog on Wordpress, Facebook, and Twitter
How long have you been into creative bingo? Since about 2017
Do you participate in any other bingo communities or fests, and if so, which ones? No, but I've considered some of the challenges on Kiera Marcos sites such as the Big Moxie or Rough Trade.
What size cards do you like playing? In the past I've tried all 5x5's, but this year I'm going with 3x3's
Do you usually use a public card or make your own? I make my own because I love to use the generator option to make my cards fancy colors.
How often do you make blackout? I've never accomplished this feat.
What kind of fills do you make? Original fiction drabbles between 200-1,500 words.
What are some of your favorite fandoms or original settings that you fill with? I haven't wrote any fanfic yet, although I've considered it several times for Stargate Atlantis (McShep) and for Robin D. Owens "Celta" series. I do have a few series of my original fiction - Village Witch - Edwina: a steampunky fantasy series based on a card/dice journaling game I'm playing with myself, RePrint: a scifi hurt/comfort story about being able to recreate moments of imprinting, and OtherWorldly: an urban fantasy series about a succubus on a mission.
What things do you enjoy seeing from other people's fills? Most of my reading time is spent on pr0n. So if I see a fill that is Mature or Explicit, I'll almost always be tempted into reading.
What have been some favorite themes? The January 2021 Fresh Starts bingo card has been my 1 and only Bingo - so I found those prompts highly successful.
Can you think of themes you'd love to see that haven't been done yet? Hmmm...not sure if it's been done or not, but I'd like to see an Ordinary Things fest - with just soooo many prompts from ordinary life that can be interpreted in 1,000 different ways.
What is your blog like? Occasional Angst (although I haven't done those posts in a couple years) mixed with short snippets of fiction. I don't share much personal stuff on the writing blogs, and the little bit I do share on FaceBook is skewed towards neutral/positive things. As I've aged I've just become much more comfortable keeping the painful/stressful stuff between me and my irl Framily.
How busy is it? January-March tends to have the biggest rush of creativity and posting, then trickles to nothing as my ability to go play outside increases with the weather. I feel really bad about it, but this year I'm determined to just accept that this is my creative pattern, and that fighting it doesn't make it any better, and just makes me miserable. So! I'm here to write and enjoy that while Michigan weather keeps me indoors.
What topics do you post about most often? I'd guess that 90% of my posts are my little fiction pieces, and the other posts are primarily bingo cards.
What kinds of friends are you looking for? Kind people who don't mind longish gaps in updates to my blogs/stories.
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Date: 2023-02-07 10:15 pm (UTC)Who are you?
Whereabouts do you live? the UK
Where else can you be found online? https://brightclothesforwinter.tumblr.com/ and very occasionally https://archiveofourown.org/users/zeropixelcount
How long have you been into creative bingo? Tags say since 2010, but there was, uhhh, a long gap.
Do you participate in any other bingo communities or fests, and if so, which ones? I'm still nominally in the old
What size cards do you like playing? 5x5 as a general rule, I really don't know why! Sometimes I think smaller cards would suit better.
Do you usually use a public card or make your own? Make my own.
How often do you make blackout? I'm pretty sure I never have!
What kind of fills do you make? Pretty much exclusively original fic.
What are some of your favorite fandoms or original settings that you fill with? For the most part, I'm currently writing in a setting that's optimistic, dark-but-not-grimdark (post-)dystopian fantasy, set in a faerie shaped by the myth-cycles of the Atlantic archipelago.
What things do you enjoy seeing from other people's fills? original fic and fanworks for media I like (as I'm sure is true of most folks!) but also, as someone who's had my share of difficulties actually writing, I like to see when others in the same boat have succeded nonetheless.
What have been some favorite themes? I'm not sure I've been here long enough to say that, but I'm more likely to do the more abstract ones (as a function of being mostly a secondary-world writer ofc)
Can you think of themes you'd love to see that haven't been done yet? Apparently not! (I pulled up the tag list and every time I thought of something, it was in there...)
What is your blog like? Green? Probably fairly random? (it's the ADHD)
How busy is it? Fairly quiet, but I've been trying to make it less so.
What topics do you post about most often? I try and do weekly updates with RL stuff, other than that mostly writing, flailing about writing, the very occasional fannish thing.
What kinds of friends are you looking for? I'd like to have more folks in my life to talk about writing with, I think.