Introduction / Friending Meme

[ysabetwordsmith]

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About You
Username:
Your other online venues:
Your approximate location (e.g. city, state, country, and/or bioregion):
Any other important personal details you want to share:

Your Interests and Activities
What languages do you speak?
What are some of your favorite hobbies?
What television shows and movies do you like?
What books or other written fandoms are you into?
What kinds of music do you enjoy? Listening, playing, or both?
Do you have a transformative works statement / blanket statement?
What are some worthy causes you support?
Do you have pets or livestock, and if so, what kinds? Do you watch wildlife?
Do you enjoy gardening or houseplants, and if so, what kinds?
What does your average day look like?

About Your Blog
What is your Dreamwidth blog like?
What is your blog metaphor?
How active is it?
What are your most common topics? (Use Manage Tags and Sort by: usage to find this.)
How do you feel about crossposting?
Is your blog more text-heavy or image-heavy?
Do you paste in or link to a lot of audio or video content?
Do you use recurring posts, and if so, what topics?
Is your blog more personal, professional, topical, or a mix?
Is it all open, all friendslocked, or somewhere in between?
Do you use filters, and if so, what kinds?
What kinds of friends would you like to attract to your blog?
Do you participate in creative bingo, fests, challenges, memes, holiday festivities, or other blogging events? If so, what are some of your favorite ones?
What are your policies on friending and granting access, if any?

Your Blog-reading Habits
How often do you check your friends feed?
About how much time do you spend reading blogs?
How active do you like a blog to be?
What kinds of blogs or topics do you most enjoy reading?
What are some of your favorite individual blogs on Dreamwidth?
What are some of your favorite communities on Dreamwidth?

Currently...
Listening to:
Reading:
Watching:
Playing games:
Wondering about:
Planning for:
Proud of:


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Hello!

[ysabetwordsmith]

About You
Username: ysabetwordsmith
Your other online venues:
http://penultimateproductions.weebly.com/my-work.html
https://archiveofourown.org/users/Ysabetwordsmith/works
https://ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com/
Your approximate location (e.g. city, state, country, and/or bioregion): central Illinois, USA

Your Interests and Activities
What languages do you speak?
English, a little Spanish and Russian, a dab of Japanese, and a smattering of everything else I ever brushed up against. I am linguistic SillyPutty. Also I'm an avid xenolinguist and have constructed multiple languages ranging in size from short word lists to whole dictionary/grammar ones.

What are some of your favorite hobbies?
Cooking, crafts, gardening, photography, quantum mechanics.

What television shows and movies do you like?
Fandoms include Wednesday (The Addams Family), The Avengers, Good Omens, Jurassic Park, Lucifer, Magnificent 7, Star Trek, X-Men.
Most recently watched movie: Inside Out 2.
Most recently watched TV: The Dragon Prince.

What books or other written fandoms are you into?
Tolkien, Harry Potter, Mercedes Lackey, Pern, Sherlock Holmes.
Currently reading: How to Invent Everything.
Recently finished: Penric's Progress.

What kinds of music do you enjoy? Listening, playing, or both?
Filk and folk. Almost entirely listening. I can manage a PVC pipe drum in a drum jam okay, and I'm fairly good with a sea drum.

Do you have a transformative works statement / blanket statement?
Mine is here.

What are some worthy causes you support?
Environmentalism, various disadvantaged ethnic groups, human rights, S-risks and X-risks.

Do you have pets or livestock, and if so, what kinds?
I tend to focus more on wildlife, so for instance, birdfeeding and native plants to support insects.

Do you enjoy gardening or houseplants, and if so, what kinds?
I love gardening and my yard is a laissez-faire permaculture. I have a hippie plant window with, hmm, between 1-2 dozen plants.

What does your average day look like?
I spend much of my time in my home office writing. During the warm season, though, daylight hours involve many trips outdoors for yardwork. You can see the writing on my blog, and I usually make a post about the day's birdfeeding/yardening activities too.

About Your Blog
What is your Dreamwidth blog like?
Imagine taking a random slice of a very large library, and that's about it, with a bunch of folks chatting in the lounge.

What is your blog metaphor?
Mine is a combination of living room and home office, and in fact those rooms are adjacent in my house.

How active is it?
Highly active. I post almost every day, often more than once. If you're tired of dead blogs, this is well worth checking out. If you are easily overwhelmed, this may not be the blog for you.

What are your most common topics?
Reading, writing, crowdfunding, poetry, networking, fantasy & science fiction, news, weblit, nature, gender studies.

How do you feel about crossposting?
It keeps communities active. Crossposting between your blog and any community is fine. Crossposting between unrelated communities is fine. Crossposting to lots of similar communities gets tedious if there's too much of it, but when traffic is low, any post is better than none at all.

Is your blog more text-heavy or image-heavy?
Text-heavy. Occasionally I post photo-essays of my yard.

Do you paste in or link to a lot of audio or video content?
Not a lot, but occasionally. Most of my links go to text articles.

Do you use recurring posts, and if so, what topics?
Yes, see my Recurring Posts page here or click the tag in my blog.

Is your blog more personal, professional, topical, or a mix?
A mix, but more professional and topical than purely personal. I have friends who use me as a newsfeed because they like the articles I link to.

Is it all open, all friendslocked, or somewhere in between?
Open. I almost never use the lock feature. Once something goes online, it's not really private, so I tend to post only things that I want to be generally visible.

What kinds of friends would you like to attract to your blog?
Tolerant, open-minded people who enjoy discussing big topics.

Do you participate in creative bingo, fests, challenges, memes, holiday festivities, or other blogging events? If so, what are some of your favorite ones?
I love creative bingo and often make cards on allbingo. I also love friending memes. I participate in snowflake_challenge in January, Three Weeks for Dreamwidth in April-May, and sunshine_challenge in July.

What is your friending policy, if any?
Read mine here.


Your Blog-reading Habits

How often do you check your friends feed?
Erratically.

About how much time do you spend reading blogs?
It varies. I have a few that I check regularly. I can forget about my friends feed for days or weeks, then spend hours scrolling through hundreds of posts.

How active do you like a blog to be?
At least one post a week helps keep it in my mind. I really like daily-posting blogs. But I read some with lower traffic too.

What kinds of blogs or topics do you most enjoy reading?
I like art or photography blogs with images. I like writer's blogs too. Topical ones on favorite subjects are great fun. I'm less interested in purely personal blogs.

What are some of your favorite individual blogs on Dreamwidth?
dialecticdreamer and fuzzyred

What are some of your favorite communities on Dreamwidth?
I run allbingo, birdfeeding, and crowdfunding.
Some other favorites include books and book_love, recipecommunity and creative_cooks, awesomeers, and followfriday.


Currently...

Listening to: birdsong and wind outside.
Reading: How to Invent Everything.
Watching: Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir.
Playing games: Not a regular game player.
Wondering about: Whether the yard has dried out enough for yardwork.
Planning for: The Poetry Fishbowl on Tuesday, October 1 with a theme of "Cryptids."
Proud of: I finished the Unsold Poetry List.