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Valentines Meet and Greet
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.
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.
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Name: NSFWords, Brandy
Sex/Gender Identity: Meh
Sex/Romance/Other Orientation: Bisexual Switch
Find Me At: Here on Dreamwidth and a mirrored site on Wordpress
What I Love About Valentines Day: Interesting chocolates and other confections
What I Hate About Valentines Day: Pressure to do something "romantic"
What I Love to Do By Myself: Read, nap, go thrifting
Heartbreak: I love Epic Pining. My favorite stories have a long drawn out time frame where one character WANTS so much, but can't have for some reason.
Erotic Favorites: BDSM in general, D/s in specific, and so many others. Pr0n is my jam.
My Kink(s): When I'm reading I'll search for D/s first, Sentinel/Guide next, and then Soulmate stuff.
Platonic Favorites: Hair petting!
What I Create: I'm over on my blog writing original ficlets that tend to form up into episodic series. Honest truth - Exploring what kinds of relationships I have in my various series currently is what convinced me to do this meet & greet, after I saw that Ysabet had done that!
The Earthen: They're very collaborative little beings, and I've explored their sexual/reproductive habits in 1 story so far, with Dezydery having attempted to make a baby with three different male partners. They're focused on fertility for mating, and not romantic partnerships per se.
Green Skies G.T.: G.T. is an AI apartment building. They have excellent discretion protocols and won't be telling you about all the sex the humans engage in within their walls. Two human couples have appeared by name in G.T.'s logs - Mr. & Mrs. Flores, an elderly heterosexual couple, and Mrs. & Mrs. Johnson, a younger Female/Female couple.
The OtherWorldly: Carnelle has an intense sexual hunger, as a succubus should, but is an Ethical Slut in her own estimation. She's been reluctantly paired with the Asexual Costa, a Dream being who perplexes and frustrates her, to solve a series of ghastly child murders. The series has a potential for some erotic stories, if I decide to write an interlude of Carnelle getting her freak on.
RePrint: This story is all ABOUT relationships, but about forming them in a healthy order for imprinting important moments and skills. Currently Althea is focused on building one solid, healthy, familial relationship with her Guardian Freddie. The RePrint process will eventually add in platonic friendship(s), and then sexual/romantic relationships based on Althea's preferences. Which she currently can't remember, on purpose.
Village Witch - Edwina: Edwina has a year to find a Village that will accept her as their Village Witch, so all her efforts and energy are going into trying to find a community where she belongs. She's been through two villages so far, and hasn't made any solid connections. She's feeling discouraged as she gets ready to head to the third village. While I think the series has the possibility to add a romantic entanglement for Edwina, I don't see one on the horizon soon. There is the story thread of Rowan/Engel, a gay couple who were run out of the first village, that I'm still weaving through Edwina's story, and I do intend to tie that up by the end.
The Witch's Kitchen: Lucia and Jeanette are best friends opening a magical Restaurant. There are also several important generational family relationships for Lucia: her Mother who taught her their FamTrad magic, her Father who she studied under to become a chef, and her Nonnetto who entrusted her with their ancestress Strega Nona's magical cauldron. I do intend to introduce love interests for both Lucia and Jeanette, but the series hasn't developed that far yet.
What I'm Looking For:
Reassurance that it is fine to have two Witch based series that I'm currently writing (+_+)