Friending Meme

[florianschild]

Maybe you struck up a conversation while you waited in line for the roller coaster. Maybe you and a questionably large group of friends all tumbled out of a van and walked in together. However it happened, you're now here at the Carnival with your friends. The best experiences are all the richer for having fun and interesting people to share them with. Let's all get to know each other and make some friends to hold our hands during the scary rides or split a basket of fries with.

Feel free to post your answers in the comments or on your own journal and share a link. See you around the fairgrounds!

Basics
Name:
Age:
Location:
Other blogs/socials:

Dreamwidth Stuff
What do you post about?
How often do you post
What communities, if any, are you involved in?
What kind of accounts do you like to follow?

Fandom Stuff
Fandoms:
Favorite Characters:
Ships:
Things you're into but not fannish about:

I Designed This Meme So I Get To Ask Weird Stuff
Explain your username:
Favorite season (it's ok if it's not summer):
What's your vibe?
What is your summeriest fandom? (You can interpret this however you like….):
Opening song on your summer mixtape:

<b><u>Basics</u></b> <b>Name: </b> <b>Age: </b> <b>Location: </b> <b>Other blogs/socials: </b> <b><u>Dreamwidth Stuff</u></b> <b>What do you post about? </b> <b>How often do you post? </b> <b>What communities, if any, are you involved in? </b> <b>What kind of accounts do you like to follow? </b> <b><u>Fandom Stuff</u></b> <b>Fandoms: </b> <b>Favorite Characters: </b> <b>Ships: </b> <b>Things you're into but not fannish about: </b> <b><u>I Designed This Meme So I Get To Ask Weird Stuff</u></b> <b>Explain your username: </b> <b>Favorite season (it's ok if it's not summer): </b> <b>What's your vibe? </b> <b>What is your summeriest fandom? (You can interpret this however you like….): </b> <b>Opening song on your summer mixtape: </b>

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[liriaen]

Basics
Name: liriaen
Age: 55 going on 5
Location: Germany
Other blogs/socials: Naah, this is pretty much it! I'm also liriaen on ao3.

Dreamwidth Stuff
What do you post about? Nerdy trouvailles, idle musings, rabid music, micro adventures, the inane stuff animals get up to, my thoughts as a crotchety far left anticapitalist flaneur, smatterings of unaesthetic travel pics, historical anecdotes, plus the occasional squeeing. I want to squee again, dammit, squee! I miss it! Oh, also fanfic.
How often do you post? In spurts. If the world gets me down too much I can be silent for weeks, but I mean nothing by it. My original Livejournal account was created 20 years ago, I migrated to Dreamwidth in 2009. So, I'm here, and here I'll stay!
What communities, if any, are you involved in? Mostly fic and challenge comms, like fffc and fandom_empire. I wish historium were more active!
What kind of accounts do you like to follow? My only rule is: no drama. Historical nerdiness and a taste for extreme music (drone, doom, sludge, black metal) are a bonus but not a prerequisite. If you ooze a black sense of humor I'll naturally gravitate towards you. I'm not good around people who are mainly consumers and whose souls are stuck in oral phase.

Fandom Stuff
Fandoms: These days I'm not as fannish as I used to be but my spouse swears my face lights up when Cesare Borgia or the Borgias in general are mentioned. (No, not the various TV shows.) Or anything Italian Renaissance. Or something something Albrecht Dürer. Big fan of the era 1450-1550 here! Other than that… old manga and anime that no-one reads anymore (Blade of the Immortal, that kind of thing?) Newer stuff? Blue Eye Samurai was gorgeous, wasn't it? And Barbarians II was fun. Eternally: I think Jesus and Lucifer are made for each other.
Favorite Characters: See above, kinda?
Ships: Cesare Borgia/Miquel de Corella is where it's at. I've been hewing away at them for the past 21 years, I can't help it. As for the rest - depends on whims, moods, and pervy penchants!
Things you're into but not fannish about: Everything by Zerocalcare.

I Designed This Meme So I Get To Ask Weird Stuff
Explain your username: Liriaen was an elven toddler from an old, old story mine and around 2 yrs old when I lost sight of him, in his snaggle-toothed state.
Favorite season (it's ok if it's not summer): No, really, it IS summer. I have a bad case of seasonal affective disorder and am in a funk from September 'til March.
What's your vibe? Antifascist Partisan Black Metal, alternating with Renaissance tunes by Josquin Desprez. Stylewise: something between old Goth, old Punk, timeless Mod and Skater Rockabilly. Can't skate, though!
What is your summeriest fandom? (You can interpret this however you like….): Any tales with crickets or swallows in it - set in Italy, Rome, Japan, Germany in summer - that'll work. You have to feel the warmth and taste the salt. Mostly Borgia, I guess.
Opening song on your summer mixtape: Holiday in Cambodia by Dead Kennedys… Or Message to you Rudy by The Specials. Followed by New Rose, The Damned.

[scripsi]

Big history nerd here, and I'll be happy to friend you!

[liriaen]

Oh gladly, please do! Snoop around, have a cappuccino freddo, and if there’s anything you’d like to know more about ask away:)

[tellshannon815]

Also a big history fan here, same era although for me it's the Wars of the Roses and the Princes of the Tower mystery. Want to give it a go?

[liriaen]

Oh for sure! Please. Also, kindly excuse my tardy reply; I've had a bit of shit work here at work. I hope to be better at posting and replying again soon.

Glad to meet a fellow history nut buff!

[desecrets]

Okay I love that you're into metal and Renaissance music lmao. I have playlists for both in my spotify to try to discover more, so I'd love to add you for that alone!

History (medievalist) postgrad here, so I always love to see historyposting in my feed, though I unfortunately don't do too much of it myself. (From a quick scroll, my recent posts are all mostly about fandom and books/tv I've read/seen. :)

[liriaen]

Oh, lovely, well met! :) I have only a literature degree and work as music journalist, but I'm an avid history nut. Always thrilled to try and unpeel the layers and get a sense of what realities our predecessors lived in! (Not that my posts necessarily always reflect that kind of depth and meticulousness in research - most of the time I'm just a dork. :)

Nice to meet you!

[desecrets]

No 'only' about it, I think historians should be dorks! Love the look of your music posts, btw!
Nice to meet you too!