cpolk | Hello!

I'm glad to have an excuse to come back to this style of online socializing.

I'm going to have a look around and figure out how I want to tweak various access filters, but for now I'm going to keep it simple and get more complicated later.

But for now, hello! I'm glad you are here! I hope to get up to nonsense very soon.

I used to write a lot of longer posts on this style of platform back in the day. I'm not sure how often I will do that now.

I'm aiming to be interesting, if brief, and to drop in here pretty regularly.

If you would like to drop a comment to say hello, please do! and look around at any other commenters you see and say hello to them too.
if you don't know what to say, I have a few things you could tell me:

what is a subject of interest you would like to start learning more about?
what music have you had on repeat lately?
if you cook, what's something you're cooking now that the seasons are shifted?
what do you feel like reading, described with tropes and vibes?
what is the most fascinating activity you've been doing lately?
what is your favorite hot beverage recipe of the moment?
what are you making/building/creating/designing right now?

what is something you'd like to ask other commenters?

I have a question for those of you who have been on DW more regularly: are there communities you are fond of that could be of interest? my tastes are wide ranging so that could be anything, honestly.

Current Mood: sore
Current Location: home
Current Music: Florence and the Machine - King

Threaded | Flat

Posted by

yhlee

Hello!! Good to see you. :)

- what is a subject of interest you would like to start learning more about?

Coding in Unity/C#, for Reasons.

- what music have you had on repeat lately?

I-DLE's album I Love (it's kpop, Ataraxia's Llyr (folk??).

- what do you feel like reading, described with tropes and vibes?

I want to read something that is NOT sf/f that will completely rip my heart out. Maybe horror, if I can find something that isn't too gory/gross.

- what is the most fascinating activity you've been doing lately?

For Reasons, I am exploring 2D animation. Because I have
stupid hobbies. :p

- what are you making/building/creating/designing right now?

Relearning digital art by going back to basics (basically, how much can I do with Hard Brush and Soft Brush now that I know some fundamentals). Working on the second book in a YA mecha space opera trilogy. I'd like to do some more orchestral composition but my music rig died and I'm waiting for my husband to build the replacement computer. :p

- what is something you'd like to ask other commenters?

Is anyone else studying a foreign-to-you language? What are your favorite resources for it? I'm working on Korean and German for the moment, but I always love hearing about language resources!

Posted by

lcohen

good to see you posting!

what is a subject of interest you would like to start learning more about?

i think all my new learning energy is going to try to figure out the new financial system we are converting to at the beginning of the next fiscal year :( .

what music have you had on repeat lately?

i'm a shapenote singer and i've been returning and returning to the last song i led at a singing a couple of weeks ago, "agatite" by judy hauff.

what do you feel like reading, described with tropes and vibes?

i've been reading a lot of queer romances--there was a 10 best of list somewhere that was a leaping off point to try a bunch of new authors--usually i read queer historical romances but most of these are contemporary--some work, some don't. the most frustrating one was where there was a bisexual female main character and she was paired with a male main character so that aside from a reference to a female ex, the book was indistinguishable from a not-queer romance--what that book was doing on a list of best-of queer romances is anyone's guess.

what is the most fascinating activity you've been doing lately?

i've been trying role-playing games which is relatively new for me but unlikely to be fascinating to most people!

what are you making/building/creating/designing right now

nothing, and i'm not cooking either. i got COVID and then long COVID and i have the stamina of a wet turnip.

Posted by

naraht

Hello! Great to see people coming back to Dreamwidth.

The most interesting activity I've been doing recently is chatting with my fellow Viable Paradise participants and trying to absorb the experience. I think it's going to take a while, even after I get over the jet lag and I finish incorporating all the feedback from crit sessions. :)

On the question of communities, I don't really feel like they've ever properly taken here. Very little of my circle ends up being community posts, apart from

yuletide and the like.

meta_warehouse is not a bad place but it's nothing like Metafandom was back in its LJ heyday.

Edited on 2022-10-27 08:36 pm (UTC)

Posted by

kore

HAY HAY HAY GURL HAY

....right now a migraine is trying to eat me so I'll have to write anything of substance later. But it's so good to see you here!

Posted by

hobbitbabe

hi there!

Edmontonian here, engineer by day, theatre/creator by night, dilettante whenever.

what is a subject of interest you would like to start learning more about?
Dunno!

what music have you had on repeat lately?
Haven't really been listening to music - sometimes I want silence I can control.

if you cook, what's something you're cooking now that the seasons are shifted?
Turnips (what Americans call rutabagas). Honey-roasted carrots. Frittata.

what do you feel like reading, described with tropes and vibes?
I want to read fiction where the main character attends a school or learns the rules of magic or struggles with the details of running a business or a starship. Successfully. Where queerness exists and is not punished. And where families are complicated. Come to think of it, I'd love to read more people's lives like that on dreamwidth.

what is the most fascinating activity you've been doing lately?
Ushering a site-specific roving-theatre piece based on creepy local history.

what is your favorite hot beverage recipe of the moment?
Actually, just that powdered stuff that turns into a relative of cider.

what are you making/building/creating/designing right now?
Trying to figure out an entry for a 54-word playwriting competition.

what is something you'd like to ask other commenters?
What could I do with four large onions?

Posted by

ravenna_c_tan

Oh gosh, I've forgotten how to do social media where you have to reply instead of just hitting "like". I'm thinking about dipping my toe back in over here as well (and staying off twitter? but I still love twitter... sorta).

what is a subject of interest you would like to start learning more about?
-- I just attended a lecture on making mead, and now I want to know a lot more (not sure I'm going to actually try making it, but maybe...)

what music have you had on repeat lately?
-- I've fallen headlong into the TwoSet Violin fandom, so a lot of classical music has been on repeat. Just got Hilary Hahn's new album, Eclipse.

if you cook, what's something you're cooking now that the seasons are shifted?
-- Now that the weather is cold it's time to bake lots of banana bread and roast lots of chicken with root vegetables under it.

what do you feel like reading, described with tropes and vibes?
-- fucked up fuck-up fucks things up... but in just the right way

what is the most fascinating activity you've been doing lately?
-- I just started teaching myself the classical guitar a few months ago. There is so much to know! And I'm cobbling together my own lessons via youtube videos and advice from online friends.

what is your favorite hot beverage recipe of the moment?
-- I love a bourbon, honey, tea, and lemon hot toddy. With some orange peel and a dash of Gran Marnier or a ginger liqueur maybe.

what are you making/building/creating/designing right now?
-- Does rearranging my office count?

$umadoshi: (fractal 01 (enriana from obsessiveicons))$

Posted by

umadoshi

Hi! *^^* My brain is complete mush from work, but it's good to see you here!

Posted by

mrissa

Hello hello hello today I am making wild rice pudding with dried cherries and revising my novella. Which is simultaneously not that much and a lot.

Posted by

green

Hi. I cook pumpkin bread year round because I love it so much. as long as I can get my hands on canned pumpkin (or have some leftover from fall), I am golden. Favorite recipe has to be the Harvest Apple Pumpkin Bread from Libby's site.

Hot beverage is always coffee. Though occasionally I will tip a bit of milk in Chai.

Right now I'm writing constantly, or thinking of what I should be writing, and that is most of what takes up my mind.

My favorite community here is

getyourwordsout, though you can't join until December. It's year round but that's when you make the pledges. (word count or habit writing)