Post-reveals Yuletide friending meme

[dolorosa_12]

I hope everyone had as good a Yuletide as I did! It's sometimes hard to find people who like the same small, Yuletide-eligible fandoms as you do, so I thought it would be great to do a friending meme after reveals, so that people could find and add the authors, recipients and commenters who made their 2018 Yuletides so enjoyable.

Please feel free to share this meme far and wide. To participate, just leave a comment on this post, copying the code below and filling in your own answers. I've enabled anonymous commenting so if you don't have a Dreamwidth account you can still participate.

People who didn't participate in Yuletide are also welcome to participate in this friending meme — obviously just leave out answers to the questions regarding Yuletide.

<b>Archive of Our Own username:</b> <b>Usernames on other platforms (Dreamwidth, Tumblr, Twitter etc):</b> <b>Preferred platform(s):</b> <b>I like to post about/read about:</b> <b>Fandoms (including bigger, non-Yuletide fandoms):</b> <b>This Yuletide I wrote:</b> <b>Any recs from this year's Yuletide and/or Madness collection?</b> <b>Anything else you want to say:</b>

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[dolorosa_12]

Archive of Our Own username: Dolorosa
Usernames on other platforms (Dreamwidth, Tumblr, Twitter etc): I'm obviously dolorosa_12 on Dreamwidth. I have a reviews blog on Wordpress (dolorosa12), and am on Twitter and Instagram as ronnidolorosa and ronnidolorosa, and am happy to be added by people on any of those places. All I ask is that if your username is very different to the one you use on Dreamwidth that you let me know who you are! I'm also on Pillowfort, but don't post there — I'm only there to ensure that no one takes the Dolorosa username!
Preferred platform(s): Dreamwidth and Instagram.
I like to post about/read about: A mixture of fannish and non-fannish things. I post book reviews, recs posts of both fanfic and original fiction, as well as longer meta posts. Occasionally I post about politics, and about being a migrant. I also post quite a bit about my everyday life - I'm a librarian in an academic library, and I used to be a medievalist academic, and I post about both those things from time to time. I'm online for discussion, commenting and interaction, and I love talking to people about things that interest them.
Fandoms (including bigger, non-Yuletide fandoms): I'm both extremely multifannish, but extremely loyal to the fandoms in which I'm invested. Most of my fandoms are small, Yuletide-eligible book fandoms: Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials and Sally Lockhart Mysteries books, The Pagan Chronicles series by Catherine Jinks, Galax Arena and the Space Demons trilogy by Gillian Rubinstein, pretty much everything Victor Kelleher has ever written, the Bone Season series by Samantha Shannon, the Romanitas trilogy by Sophia McDougall, the books of Kate Elliott, Leigh Bardugo's Six of Crows duology, Maggie Stiefvater's Raven Cycle, S. A. Chakraborty's Daevabad series, Katherine Arden's Winternight trilogy, The Queens of Innis Lear by Tessa Gratton, Naomi Novik's Spinning Silver and Uprooted, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, and a whole lot of mythology, folk tales and fairytales. In terms of larger fandoms, I dip in and out of the MCU (I love Thor: Ragnarok and, indeed, everything Taika Waititi's ever done, really enjoyed Black Panther, and am looking forward to Captain Marvel), Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Daria, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, and Veronica Mars are my TV forever fandoms, and I adore Mad Max: Fury Road. I'm also a huge fan of Briseis from the Iliad, and am always on the lookout for Iliad retellings that focus on her, and on the other female characters (although please don't recommend The Song of Achilles to me).
This Yuletide I wrote: Four fics: my assignment, Winter Branches, a pre-canon The Dark Is Rising fic about Merriman and the Black Rider, After Exaltation, another pre-canon Black Rider and Merriman fic, Drink the Earth, a post-canon, canon-divergent Bran/Elia fic in the Queens of Innis Lear fandom, and What the Sky Looks Like from Your View, which is Vasya/Morozko fic in the Winternight trilogy fandom.
Any recs from this year's Yuletide and/or Madness collection? I've written an extensive recs post here.
Anything else you want to say: I absolutely love talking to people about books, and I get a large number of reading recommendations from my Dreamwidth and Twitter feeds. I'd be very keen to friend anyone who's interested in talking about books! More generally, I'm online because I like talking to people, so I'm always keen to add good commenters, and I try to be a good commenter myself.

[shadaras]

Aha I just read this, and, of course I like you; you're an academic librarian and medievalist. That's basically the kind of people I grew close to in college and still love and talk to a lot as it is. :)

I recognise most of the books you mentioned, even if I haven't read all of them! I look forward to hopefully talking to you more as time goes on. :)

[dolorosa_12]

Haha! I take it you were medievalist/librarian-adjacent, rather than studying those things yourself? I've generally found medievalists to be a pretty fun bunch of people, very similar to fandom in a lot of ways (and of course with quite a degree of overlap between the two communities).

Looking forward to talking to you about books as well!

[shadaras]

I hung out with medievalists a lot and there's a world in which I went into history/medieval studies instead of psychology/education, and I live with two librarians. So, yeah, very adjacent. I also just love the specific kind of fannishness that medievalists have -- the line between fanfic and original work becomes very blurry when you think about things like The Mere Wife, which is a modern AU Beowulf story focusing on the women; and also all of Arthuriana is liminal like that.

[dolorosa_12]

Oh, you are absolutely spot on when it comes to medieval literature (obviously also the different attitudes to authorship, originality and canonicity in medieval times are much more fannish than they are like modern copyright and so on).

Thanks for the reminder of The Mere Wife, which I've been planning to read for a while, but had slipped my mind. I'll have to get onto that!

[tehexile]

how does one become an academic librarian?

[shadaras]

One works at an academic (college) library after getting one's Library and Information Sciences Master's Degree. I suspect the academic/public distinction is something that matters a lot more to librarians than to the general public? But that's fair, it's their field.

[tehexile]

cool, I have done neither job but I am looking for a way in, I have been volunteering at a bookshop for years now, I need work to do where I can organise stuff efficiently and not talk to customers

[bruttimabuoni]

Well, hello :-)

Libraries, books, history and general interest in fannishness sound absolutely perfect to me.

[dolorosa_12]

Hello to you too! I've added you back!

[implicated2]

Subscribing! Thanks for hosting this friending meme. I relate to mostly having small, Yuletide-eligible fandoms.

[dolorosa_12]

I'll subscribe right back!

[gingicat]

Thank you for hosting! I had already bookmarked at least one of your fics :)

[dolorosa_12]

You're very welcome — and I'm glad you liked the fic!

[britomartingal]

I used to be an early modernist academic, hello! I like talking about books - and Queen of Innis Lear is on my TBR list for this year.

[dolorosa_12]

Excellent! I'll definitely add you back!

subscribed!

[ashling]

I also loved Mad Max: Fury Road, and I'm looking to reread the Iliad, with very strong but vague memories of feeling indignation & sympathy for Briseis. If you get a good set of recs of content about women in the Iliad, I'd love to see that post

Re: subscribed!

[dolorosa_12]

Oooh, I will definitely add you!

I posted a recent review on my reviews blog of several Iliad retellings, as well as Emily Wilson's Odyssey translation, but I've not written much else on the subject -- maybe I should do!

Re: subscribed!

[ashling]

oh no pressure! just generally and very vaguely curious, I haven't even reread it yet. looking forward to the fanfiction--I mean retellings, tho!

[mk_tortie]

Also a former academic here! Talking about books sounds perfect, and I am also a BtVS fan. Mind if I add you?

[dolorosa_12]

You sound like my kind of person! Definitely okay to add me, and I will add you back!

[lyr]

It looks like we have a lot of common interests, and also I just appreciate your running a post-Yuletide friending meme. That's the kind of community building we need. Also, medievalist academic! I'm a rhetorician, but that was my secondary field, and I still write and present in it regularly.

[dolorosa_12]

Oh cool, a rhetorician! As I say, I'm not an academic any more (although I still work for a university and present at conferences and stuff), but I love hearing about what people are doing in academia!

Thanks for your kind words about the friending meme. This is the second year I've run it, and, given the kind of uptake I've had both times, I'm definitely intending for it to be a Yuletide tradition, should people continue to engage with it. Dreamwidth is my internet home, so it's great for me to see so many people posting here and wanting to, as you say, build community here.

I've added you back.

[ng_moonmoth]

I enjoy books, and people who like books. I suspect I'll enjoy you.I enjoy books, and people who like books. I suspect I'll enjoy you.

[dolorosa_12]

Excellent! I've added you back!