Valentines Meet and Greet
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allbingoI'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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Date: 2024-02-04 01:03 am (UTC)Name: Fleet, Fleet Sparrow/FleetSparrow
Gender Identity: Genderless brain trapped uncomfortably in physical form.
Sex/Romance/Other Orientation: Asexual, pretty much aromantic. Romance is one of those things that I strongly enjoy, but vicariously through fictional characters, much like how sexual attraction is a thing that I can understand exists, just not as it applies to me.
Find Me At: Here or on Tumblr (also FleetSparrow)
What I Love About Valentines Day: Honestly, it's my least favorite of the holidays.
What I Hate About Valentines Day: Specific to my life, but I have a coworker who hates Christmas (and reminds everyone of her hatred for it every chance she gets) because it's "so commercialized" yet loves Valentine's Day because she "loves love", as if this pseudo-holiday isn't basically a giant commercial.
What I Love to Do By Myself: Read, listen to music on speakers instead of headphones, write.
Heartbreak: I have been in two romantic relationships. The first ended with a mutual, amicable split due to distance and time. The second ended by being told by my girlfriend that we should split because I was too busy and she "deserved better" at the restaurant before we went in for my birthday dinner. I wasn't, strictly speaking, heartbroken, but jesus christ my man. I'd much rather have been broken up with via text, tbh.
Romantic Favorites: Extremely competent people absolutely losing their minds over their equally competent partners; emotionally damaged characters being 100% unhinged about each other; partners being so terrible together, yet so enamored of each other, that they can't function apart; male characters who realize only too late that their female ex-partner who they took for granted is not only fine without them, but better off, and they themselves are 10000% worse off for losing her; getting back together stories where the characters are older, maybe no wiser, but definitely changed.
Erotic Favorites: Physically smaller characters being more dominant and in control than larger ones; descriptions that focus on emotional states and reactions, especially when detachment or more intellectualized thoughts take a sharp left into hardcore smut.
My Kink(s): Characters losing control while knowing that they are, and either not caring about afterwards or being highly aware of how much they will care afterwards, but doing it anyway.
Platonic Favorites: Platonic casual physical intimacy, deep emotional intimacy between friends.
Favorite Blogs or Communities: Pour one out for Season of Kink, which is no longer active, but remains strong in my heart.
About My Blog: Honestly, it's a bit of a crapshoot what you're going to get. I'm only semi-active here during Snowflake and/or Sunshine Challenge. I'm very active on Tumblr, and that's just a random assortment of everything I like, think, or find interesting. Lots of memes, and DC Comics, and occasional politics/RL stuff. On AO3, it's about a 50/50 split between smut and gen fics.
What I Create: Fanfics, pretty exclusively. (My visual art skills are negligible at best.) I write a lot of stuff for DC Comics/Batman (most common ships are Bruce Wayne/Dick Grayson, Slade Wilson/Dick Grayson, and Bruce Wayne/Selina Kyle), half of which is sweet gen romance and the other half is fairly hardcore smut.
What I'm Looking For: Just interested in seeing what everyone's into!