owlmoose | Snowflake Challenge Day 12: Challenge Accepted

Day 12: Create your own challenge.

Here's my thought, and it's fairly simple on the surface, although harder for some than others, and it might take a little research to complete. But since my hope for 2019 is to see a more active Dreamwidth community, I think it's a worthwhile one:

Comment on a friending meme. Then read through the meme and find at least one person to add to your circle.

Where does the research come in? Finding the friending meme! There's usually at least one or two running, and it's been more of a thing lately with the recent migration from Tumblr, but I admit that it might be a challenge. Try searching interests, or browsing your network page, or checking out communities like

fandom_on_dw and

fandomcalendar. Or if you can't find one, create your own and promote it in the communities above! (And on that note, if anyone knows of and/or decides to start a Critical Role or Dragon Age friending meme, hit me up.) I've met some great people through friending memes, and I highly recommend participating whenever you can.

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Yeah, it's like every time my boss says, "Can I see you for a minute?" my brain instantly goes, "Oh, God, I'm getting fired!" Every. Single. Time. I haven't been fired from a job since I was seventeen, yet that's the first thing I assume whenever my boss wants to talk to me.

Yyyyyyup. Got alerted to a bad school thing out of the blue once in my uni email and every time afterwards I'd feel super stressed checking it, even though I knew that thing couldn't happen again. :/

It's the worst when it comes out of nowhere, but as a result my brain is constantly trying to make sure any bad comments aren't unexpected by... convincing me the comment is going to be bad every time I get one?? which uh definitely makes the worst cases less bad but it also makes every other case WAY MORE bad lol great job there, brain. :/

I also have those things, although slightly more practically in the sense that one of my bosses probably did want to fire me, so the dread part was more real. But that boss hasn't been with Teh Organization for years now. Trauma-induced pathways are tough to overwrite, I guess.

Solidarity on that.

Mm. n.n;; But: communication! Can definitely improve things, or at least make things clearer so people don't get super offended and think you dislike them when really you're just overly anxious, haha;;

Yes. When I remember to communicate, it helps me not be a ball of anxiety! And actually someone people might like being around.

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