Introductions meme!

[kaberett]

me_and, also referred to herein as facesfriend, is tentatively stepping back into using DW as a social network, on the grounds that having committed enough patches to make a dw_news post he might want to shake the dust off his account. He's techy (to nobody's surprise, um), he reads spec fic (I'm hoping to persuade him to post about the various books I just foisted onto him), he is into systems and logistics in a way that I find utterly captivating but leads D to describe him as My Boring Dudefriend With Whom I Boring, and he's kind and thoughtful and generous with his time. He does LARP (about which I know nothing), can be very entertainingly snide and deadpan if encouraged but is careful to keep it away from people who don't like it, and is a singlet who picked his handle lo these many years ago for entirely unrelated reasons unaware of what the naming convention implies (if this clause is opaque to you then the meaning's largely irrelevant).

Or, to put it another way, I think it's time for an introductions meme.

If you would like to, please comment to this post, and I'll introduce you to everybody else by giving a reason why I think you're great. Some people I know better than others, so I can't promise all my introductions will exactly encapsulate why someone might want to get to know you. You're also welcome to comment to someone else's thread and ask for a specific introduction to that person; I know some people are more confident than others about just jumping in and introducing themselves to a stranger. I am also happy to matchmake if you would like that; ask me for a recommendation of a personal journal and/or community from my circles.

And of course, feel free to repost this game in your own journal, if you think it would be a good way to make connections between some of your people. I think this could go quite well if it spreads a few hops away from here, but also worth doing even if no-one picks it up.

Please do play if you'd like to; if you want to PM me to ask permission and encouragement I will gladly dispense same. <3

Comments

[kaberett]

Silver's updates are mostly in the forms of fantastically curated linkspams, from grab-bags to single-topic-focus. They're always informative and always lovingly written; and as a commenter Silver is thoughtful & engaged if erring on the shy side. (me_and, Silver is one of the contributors who hung around with us a fair bit at OSB and is signing up to improve Dreamwidth's documentation -- everyone else, please observe the interest in community maintenance in a behind-the-scenes sort of a way.) Voracious interests expressed incredibly retiringly. :-)

[azurelunatic]

(Specifically, silveradept is the one who we had to break out color-coding for, silver vs. teal.)

[silveradept]

That is an incredibly kind introduction. The shy usually comes from impostor syndrome, mark vi: of I say something, it will be not only wrong, but the worst possible wrong, and all will hate me forever.

[azurelunatic]

And yet, most of the things you say come out kind, considerate, and well-considered.

[syntaxofthings]

I also love this introduction, and Silver, I'm happy you're getting into the behind-the-scenes community maintenance :D