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[bonjour_cupcake]

New journal, but I've been on LJ since 2001. I don't update as often as I used to, but I keep up with my friends list. I'm very selective about who I add because after being on here so long I know what I want and don't want in an LJ friend

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[awickedmemory]

Hi! Wandered over here from holiday_wishes. Not sure if I'm what you'd want in a LJ-friend, but I'd be willing to try it out and see? My journal is mostly real-life (although there is periodic fangirling mixed in, especially if I have a fic-writing deadline I'm stressing out about or some new installment comes out that I adore), but if depression or anxiety are triggers for you, we probably won't be a good fit. :) I read and comment far, far, FAR more than I actually post - and I've been on LJ since I was 14 (so - 14 years, heh), although this particular journal is a tad younger than that.

edit: I do try to put potentially triggering topics under cuts, although I've slipped up a few times if my mind was elsewhere. I tend to not post for a while, then suddenly post frequently, then not post again, but I'm pretty good about keeping up-to-date with non-fandom LJ post notifications and I'm very good at responding back to people in a timely fashion unless LJ eats a notification~

[bonjour_cupcake]

Hello! :D I'd be willing to try things out if you are! :-) I took a peek at your journal and see you ship Destiel! That reminded me of the 200th episode of Supernatural. I'm not really into fandom so I'm not sure what Asexual!Castiel means and I'm curious!

Seeing as I have anxiety as well no issues with that. I'm like you in that I comment more than I actually post. :-)

Thank you for the comment! We can try things out and if for some reason or another it doesn't work that's cool. I like to think I'm not a dramatic defriender/defriended person. :D

Shall go add you!

[awickedmemory]

Haha, I'm the other way around - I'm more invested in Supernatural fandom than the canon. ;D Asexual!Castiel means stories of Castiel depicted as not experiencing sexual attraction (which, of course, is not canon-compliant from season 9 on). I love stories where Castiel and Dean are close, sometimes even romantic, sharing their lives and loyalty and devotion, maybe hand-holding or sharing the sort of casual kisses (some) people exchange with their loved ones that aren't strictly romantic/sexual, sleeping in the same bed, but not sexually intimate. :)

Yeah, I'm not dramatic at all, haha. If it doesn't work it, it doesn't work out, and we tried!

[bonjour_cupcake]

OMG shows what I know about stuff because I had no idea that fandom and canon aren't the same thing. -_- *super noob* Ahhh, gotcha, thank you for explaining!

Exactly! :D

[awickedmemory]

Hahaha, yup! Canon is a term used in professional fields as well, particularly religion and academia - although it's very flexible. Sometimes it means the source material, sometimes meaning the range of works by a specific writer, sometimes it means the range of works under a certain criteria, etc. Fanon comes from canon - fan canon, basically, to refer to ideas that have become so widespread amongst fans that they are widely accepted or treated, if not as fact, then as a widely established in-group "thing" without being formally established in the canon. Example

[bonjour_cupcake]

No, I appreciate it! I learned something new! Going off that definition is say I used to be part of HP fandom. Now I'm more of just a fan.

*the more you know* :-)

[awickedmemory]

Oh, good! :D I get a bit rambly when overly invested in a topic, haha. ♥

[bonjour_cupcake]

I totally understand! I'm the same. :D <3