Satsuma @Satsuma@cat.family

7) Who's your ult OTP?
this is not a relevant concept to my relationship with fandom

8) Share a pic that would convince someone to fall for your current fandom!
are there people who can get baited into a fandom from a single pic? not even sure where to start with this tbh

9) Have you ever met a fandom friend IRL?
several! no one currently on fedi but purringvulcan, sadieyuki, flannellizard, & i all spent a weekend together in DC back in 2016 & i’ve since hung out with them offline a few times each for various occasions. my best friend and i have also been dragging eachother into various fandoms for over a decade now

4) What was your first fandom?
first fancon was harry potter (leaky chicago), first fanfic i wrote was james bond (long story), but the emotionally correct answer here is star trek tos

5) How often has fic made you cry?
…struggling to think of a time i’ve cried over a fic tbh. im sure its happened! but not recently lol

6) Rec a fic that you love!
i reread stark_burnt_heart’s How Does Distance Look? when i can’t sleep (so…often) & when the light goes out by
janonny is the classic postcanon guardian fixit for me

originally from https://fandom.ink/@bts_fanfic/109480796231157795 w/the text based list here: https://tinyurl.com/4373urj7

1) How long have you been in fandom?
It’s difficult to pin down exactly (does being fannish irl with friends count, for example?) but definitely over a decade!

2) Which fandoms are you in now?
Guardian & cdramas in general (I have a lovely watchparty group that I hang out with), star wars (prequel era mostly), & kpop are my main three

3) Do you create transformative works (fic, fan art, podfic, etc.)?
Not that you can currently find online ;)

@Lady @essentialrandom mh yeah i was going to say i’d only be interested in alt text getting embedded as metadata if it somehow preserved the ability to retrieve alt text without the actual image for slow connections, limited data plans, & browsing old sites where 3rd party embeds have failed (ive been in all 3 situations at various points). and that seems logistically p difficult lol

@tempest kitty is all holidayed out and settling in for a long winters nap instead

@ian@hachyderm.io if you live in the US, Upton Tea is a fairly reputable importer! i recently reviewed one of their black teas here: https://glitch.cat.family/@Satsuma/109280800945589593 (think i forgot a direct link to the tea itself in the thread but thats https://www.uptontea.com/yunnan-black-tea/loose-leaf-china-black-tea/p/V00972/ )

@kenchan@fedibird.com im glad it was helpful! people can have all sorts of stuff going on that impacts how & when they communicate so i try not to assume too much (not that thats necessarily easy haha)

if its really bothering you, you can always ask and see what they say

@kenchan@fedibird.com in cases where i’m friend, friend genuinely likes you but just has a terrible combo of executive processing issues + introversion that frequently precludes texting first

@troisroyaumes i dont have a source saved unfortunately but that sounds like mian xiang stuff — essentially placement / shape / etc of beauty marks is supposed to be reflective of certain aspects of a persons character or fate

@clayote @plastics by default i believe it posts a preview snippet and a link to the original, tho usually i just follow people via RSS instead so

there’s also write.as which has native activitypub integration