Friending Meme 2017

[penguinfaery]

DREAMWIDTH FRIENDING MEME

Heyo!

So after a few plurk discussions, the want to start journaling again a la Livejounal came up a few different places, and this idea was born!

We ask if you participate, that you attempt to post 1-3 time a week, and comment as much as possible to help jump start personal journaling here on dreamwidth. And if you use your journal already (or if you start from here) we'd love a link back to this meme! The more the merrier!

You can also follow this community for both daily writing prompts and a monthly friending meme!

To participate, copy and paste this in a comment, fill it out, and go make some friends!

<u>YOU</u> <B>Name|</B> <B>Age|</B> <B>Other platforms|</B> <user name=NAMEHERE site=lplurk.com> <a href="https://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse?faqid=87">See here for all websites you can make a tag to.</a> <B>Fandoms|</B> <B>Interest|</B> Any non-fandom subjects you are into. <B>Speed Bio|</B> Sum the whole of your life into a few sentences for us! No biggie. <U>YOUR JOURNAL</U> <B>What do you post|</B> A snap shot of what your journal is made of. <B>Posting habits|</B> Lots of long personal posts? A commentor who doesn't post a lot themselves? Also, be aware a lot of us haven't journaled in a long time and may not be sure/may have different habits than we expect. <B>Warnings|</B> Any general content warning for you/your blog. <B>Looking for|</B> What kind of friends do you want? <B>Deal breakers|</B> What kind of friends don't you want? <B>Tell us any interesting thing about you!</B> It's like the first day of class roll call! <B>Anything else?</B>

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Jamie

[jamiewinters]

YOU
Name| Jamie Winters
Age| 32
Other platforms| natalia_vdova#0150 on Discord, elsewise not really? I have a plurk but it is mostly for RP junk and dumb plurk memes.
Fandoms| MCU, Marvel comics, Red vs. Blue, random video games (The Secret World, Borderlands 2, Marvel Heroes, Avengers Academy, and so on)
Interest| Cosplay, lolita fashion, sewing, crafting, history, languages, dumb superhero TV series, and so on.
Speed Bio| Marvel nerd, creative type, more or less housebound and always screaming about Black Widow and Bucky Barnes.

YOUR JOURNAL
What do you post| I've never done the personal journal thing, so tba. I'm interested in using it as a place to toss fic thoughts/ideas/related junk (largely BuckyNat with maybe a little Clintasha or ot3 stuff; a drabble I did several months back is here for anyone curious; I haven't done much outside of RP since and I'm looking to change that!) There will likely be Comics Wednesday commentary/reviews, maybe some sewing and craft project tracking/organization. Maybe a place to force myself into trying to do some kind of art stuff? I loved the idea of Inktober, even if I missed it completely (and my art is Not Good, but I hear practice is the best way to fix that). Also maybe some icon posts, which I do either (rarely) on commission or when the urge strikes. Maybe some cooking things, though I don't get to try new recipes as much as I want to.
Posting habits| Who knows? Looking to post at least a few times a week.
Warnings| I'm injured, so possible venting about doctors if day-to-day stuff comes up, but nothing too heavy. I use cut tags / warnings if that ends up not being the case. I try to be inclusive and aware of what I say, but I am not perfect. I'm female, cishet and went through a lot of stuff to get here; if I say something that seems offensive it's unintentional and I'm always willing to hear other peoples' thoughts/feelings as I'm aware my journey was not someone else's. Gender politics are important to me.
Looking for| Nerdy types, people to talk about Marvel nonsense with, people to recc stuff and scream about ships and things and character meta with.
Deal breakers| Ship wars, the "slash is morally superior" crap, just. Really not into negativity overall, honestly.

Tell us any interesting thing about you! Could probably quote Captain America: Winter Soldier line for line.
Anything else?

Re: Jamie

[longmagpieroads]

What parts of history interest you the most? Also hi!

[jamiewinters]

Hi!

Largely WWII and the Cold War (which yes, covers a lot of time) but there's just so much interesting stuff. Especially a fan of things dealing with women during wartime (the female Soviet WW2 snipers are especially cool). The nuclear crisis, the space race, Vietnam, how Reagan let the stupid Star Wars program stand between nuclear disarmament, etc.

I'm mostly into the US and the USSR, but I dabble in England and Germany a bit. I' a huge fan of the "historically accurate " type blogs, though most of them seem to have gone inactive.

[longmagpieroads]

My two primary periods of focus are the Crusades through the Renaissances and then the World Wars and Cold War so I hear ya there. Yeah I keep thinking I need to get back to some of my history blogging, but lately time's not been on my side.

I love these periods because they're messy and complicated and not easily parsed. I'm big into the intelligence gathering parts of it all, how they developed, pitfalls and successes, that sort of thing.