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[dissonantbeauty]

NAME: Nik.

AGE: 41.

INTERESTS & HOBBIES: My interests can seem fairly varied as I find people, culture, and society in general fascinating. Whatever specific thing I might be interested in at a particular time can vary though. I'm a data science student (retraining, my background is psych and anthro) and am also interested in maths, stats, and data stuff more generally, especially where that intersects with my other interests. For hobbies I enjoy crafts like knitting and crochet (though I'm very much a beginner), reading, and gaming (video games and D&D). I love sci fi and fantasy in most forms.

LOOKING FOR: I really don't know. People who write about their lives and maybe share some similar interests. Just coming out of a 100+ day lockdown that I spent with little adult contact and looking to connect with people.

ANYTHING ELSE?:I'm queer, pan, nonbinary, demi, and kinky. Please no TERFs, racists, ableists or bigots of any stripe.

I also went through a fairly traumatic break-up recently and am struggling with ED. I don't currently have any active journals on my friends list, so haven't been filtering or using cuts as much as I otherwise would, but I tried to go through and filter out the more depressing entries before posting here.

May or may not be autistic. I'm currently getting assessed but it's a process that won't be finished until late Feb probably. I also have depression and anxiety that can be more or less severe depending.

I'm adopted, Māori/Pākehā, and sometimes talk about that and the subsequent feelings of disconnection from my heritage and or birth whānau.

Shy and socially awkward, and I do talk about that a bit while trying to process social experiences.

Realising there are maybe not a lot of selling points here!

I'm looking for friends and self-care/beauty mentors, I guess?

[cocosmileyboo]

Name: My friends call me Sherrie or Coco.

Age: I'll be 33 on January 5th, 2022.

Looking For: New friends to connect with. In my unintended absence from DW, I've noticed I don't spend much time socializing outside of group therapy or my boyfriend's family and my dog. I need to start making real connections with people again. Similar interests and meshing personalities are a plus and I'll get to those in a minute. I will say that I tend to get along with people from most walks of life, though.

Anything Else: I'm female-ish, pansexual, struggle with mental illness, am inconsistent to a fault, self-centered a lot of the time, a witch, and quite the oddball. My interests are widely varied, but I do love reading, anime, writing, "window shopping" online, Facebook, receiving snail mail, playing video games, etc. I'm currently VERY into Animal Crossing and Skyrim, but my loving boyfriend ordered an original XBox copy of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind - Game of the Year Edition, so I could relive some of my middle school years not socializing. He's undecided if he wants to make me wait until Christmas or not. I never was very good at waiting, lol. Video games aside, I've been reading up on witchy things, trying to get back into my craft and spiritual center. I also would like to get back into various forms of self-care. I've been spending a lot of time over at holiday_wishes the past couple days, looking for random victims to send holiday cards stuffed with random tea from my stash to. And I'm on the hunt for active communities on here about self-care and/or beauty 101 stuff... but I've had no luck looking by myself. So I'm hoping to meet some friend well-versed in those things as well so I can pick their brain!

Don't mind the rambliness of my post... currently high on caffeine and anxiety.