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dolorosa_12It's my birthday today, and I've woken feeling refreshed and relaxed in a way that I haven't really felt all year. The morning is going to be spent packing and cleaning the house, before Matthias and I head down to London, where we'll stay overnight en route to travelling by train to his family in Germany tomorrow. We are going out to dinner in London for my birthday, but for the most part it's going to be an ordinary day of travel, with bigger celebrations happening next year.
I'm keeping this post access locked for the time being due to mentioning my travel plans, but will unlock it when we come back.
It's the penultimate Friday of 2024, so I thought I'd go with a bit of crowd-sourcing for today's prompt:
What prompts would you like me to use in Friday open threads for 2025?
List your suggestions in the replies, and feel free to respond to each other's suggestions. As I'm travelling, I can't promise to respond to each reply very quickly, but I'll definitely be looking to your suggestions for Friday posts next year. I also can't promise to use everything — but anything that isn't too similar to something I've used recently is definitely fair game.
I'm keeping this post access locked for the time being due to mentioning my travel plans, but will unlock it when we come back.
It's the penultimate Friday of 2024, so I thought I'd go with a bit of crowd-sourcing for today's prompt:
What prompts would you like me to use in Friday open threads for 2025?
List your suggestions in the replies, and feel free to respond to each other's suggestions. As I'm travelling, I can't promise to respond to each reply very quickly, but I'll definitely be looking to your suggestions for Friday posts next year. I also can't promise to use everything — but anything that isn't too similar to something I've used recently is definitely fair game.
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Date: 2024-12-20 10:07 am (UTC)Happy birthday and safe travels! I'll have a think re:the prompts. I love your Friday open threads and I'm always mad at myself for not commenting more often.
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Date: 2024-12-20 05:49 pm (UTC)As for the open thread topic, maybe what rituals people use to mark the new year?
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Date: 2024-12-20 11:43 pm (UTC)For open threads…
* What about resolutions? Do you do them? Do you do something else? What would you like to achieve this year? (What did you achieve last year?)
* Even though I didn't participate, I think your post about small joys is a good one to revisit and perhaps something about gratitude.
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Date: 2024-12-21 01:33 am (UTC)I'm suggesting a few questions I compiled a few years ago. View my full entry here: https://author-by-night.dreamwidth.org/1294576.html
- Did you ever have a Boo Radley/Boo Radley House growing up - that is, a seemingly strange person or spooky place in your area? Did you ever find out the whole story or at least most of it?
- Do you know anyone who's had an arranged marriage? Is the person/couple happy or do they seem to regret it?
- What are some common misconceptions that just bug you?
- Do you believe in dislike at first sight?
- What is the most awkward thing you ever misheard or misread? Were there embarrassing consequences?
- Talk about a non-life altering incident that happened a long time ago, and still bothers you.
- Is there anything people assume you like, but you actually hate or are at least completely indifferent to?
- If you have siblings, are you as close to them as you were when you were growing up?
- Talk about a movie or other media everyone loves that you absolutely hate. AND/OR media you love that everyone else seems to hate.
- Talk about an awkward trip.
- Have you always befriended and/or dated the same type of people, or has everyone in your social life been wildly different?
- What are your spiritual/religious beliefs? Have you always had those beliefs?
- When you travel, do you like to stick to the touristy places, OR do you like to explore the little-known destinations and even the surrounding area?
- How many languages do you speak? What led you to learning those other languages?
- Do you remember the first movie you absolutely loved? Book? Television show?
- Have you ever written fanfic? When did you first write it, and do you still write fanfic? (You can also apply this to fanart and other fannish mediums.)
- Do you believe in love at first sight?
- What is something you love the idea of doing, but know in reality you would probably hate?
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Date: 2024-12-23 05:28 am (UTC)I've always enjoyed Friday open threads, though I don't always participate in them myself, so don't feel entirely comfortable suggesting topics. I think it's always interesting to read what people say about any of the topics you come up with!