Hi ^^

[dividedbyblue]

Name: Dawn

Country: Belgium
 

Age: 39

 

I mostly post about: reading, fandom, art

 

My hobbies are: drawing, painting,reading, fandom, writing, occasionally playing video games and (solo) board games, sapphic ships and sapphic romance.

 

My fandoms are: Xena: Warrior Princess, Star Trek (Mainly Voyager and Picard), Legends of Tomorrow, Arrow, Sueños de Libertad, The Elder Scrolls, Dragon Age, The Lord of the Rings, Fallout (video game series and TV show)

 

I'm looking to meet people who: are kind and friendly, who like to connect, share insights and interests.

My posting schedule tends to be: At the moment I just came back from an absence, I'm doing Three Weeks for Dreamwidth, so in that time I will be posting once a day. After that, I plan to have at least one post a week.

Before adding me, you should know: I'm a nostalgic dreamer, and love like to escape in different times, while listening to older music or just some obscure instrumental stuff.

Comments

[florianschild]

Hi! Welcome back. I came back from a long absence recently too. I'm a big fan of Xena, although I've never delved into the fandom aspect of it...yet! Mind if I add you?

[dividedbyblue]

Hi! Thanks! Cool that you also came back from a long absence ^^ You can add me, nice to get to know you! Xena is a fantastic show, I think it’s in some ways timeless.

[yourivy]

Hi there :)
I would love to get to know you - I am a huge reader and love board games (though I hardly ever get to play them :() and anything sapphic sounds great to me.
Want to try being friends? My name is Tina, I turn 37 soon and live in Germany :)

[dividedbyblue]

Hi Tina. I'd love to be friends! Cool that you also like reading, playing boardgames and sapphic things ^^. What kind of books do you enjoy reading? Do you have favorite boardgames? Greetings from Belgium.

[yourivy]

Yay!
Well, I love most genres of books, but I tend to gravitate towards thrillers or non-fiction (biographies, political/social issues etc.).

[dividedbyblue]

Which are your favorite thriller authors?

I mostly read fiction. I’ve had a time in my life when I mainly read classics, I also had a time where it was mainly fantasy books. But now I mostly read lighter things, such as romance and adventure. I also have a few art-related non-fiction books on my reading list.

[yourivy]

I really like Harlan Coben, Michael Robotham & a couple of Swedish/Danish thriller authors (Johanna Mo, Erik Axl Sund, Jussi Adler-Olsen).

[dividedbyblue]

I've granted you access and subscribed to your journal, I hope that's ok? If not, I apologize. Just let me know, and I will change it. My journal is public but I see yours is friends only. I'm not familiar with private journals, so I'm not entirely sure how it works.

[yourivy]

That's completely fine! I will subscribe & grant access back (I keep calling it "adding" cause I am still so used to Livejournal speak xD)

[a_natural_beauty]

Hey! I recently have been reading different art books from my local library and writing about them. What sort of art do you like? I like creating art, too. It's just been mostly put into my online comic. :)

[dividedbyblue]

Hi! Fun that you’re reading art books! What books are you reading in that regard? What art do you like?

In art, I’m drawn to different things. In the sense of classic art, some artists I like are Breughel, Egon Schiele, Edward Hopper, Mucha, Hockney, and Morandi. It can happen that I go to an exhibition of an artist and only then feel a connection with their work. That happened with Belgian artists Permeke and Berlinda de Bruyckere (a sculptor). I also like artists who aren’t regarded as being part of the classic art scene, like fantasy painters Larry Elmore and the brothers Hildebrandt. I also like contemporary artists/illustrators who make pen drawings, for instance, like Tyrone Le Roux (@ just_that_guy_who_draws on Instagram)

So cool that you have an online comic! What is it about?

[a_natural_beauty]

I'm reading about older artists. So far painters from the late 1800's and early 1900's. But I plan on reading other different books on different artists and topics over time, too.

Thank you for explaining! I do like finding and learning about all sorts of artists. More independent artists are always interesting, too.

It's called Promised Memories. It starts off about a young princess named Fay who is upset with the idea of her fate to become a queen someday and isn't ready to grow up. Her two best friends come from rather difficult backgrounds and they are put in a rather dangerous situation of their own which overlaps into Fay's world. I can't go into much more details because I may give our some spoilers. But if you are curious to read it sometime I can give you the link. :)

[dividedbyblue]

So far painters from the late 1800's and early 1900's

Cool, which style are they? (Post-)Impressionists?

Your online comic sounds cool. I’m interested in learning more. If you feel comfortable with it, you may give me the link :) I’m looking forward to reading it ^

[a_natural_beauty]

So far I've read about Raoul Dufy who was a part of the fauvist movement and Auguste Renoir who worked in impressionism. I'm not sure who I will read for May yet.

Here is the link: https://promisedmemories.thecomicseries.com/comics/1
Thank you! :)

[dividedbyblue]

Auguste Renoir is an amazing artist, I love his work!

Thank you for sharing your comic. I haven’t read it yet. I just had a look at a few of the first pages, and I love how it looks! Your colored pencil drawings have a lot of charm and joy!
Looking forward to reading it! <3

[a_natural_beauty]

Next I'm going to read Bonnard. Wish me luck!

Thank you, that means a-lot! :) When you decide to read it let me know what you think. It is free to start an account on Comic Fury and if you want to check out other comics on there you can.

[dividedbyblue]

Bonnard was an incredible artist; his paintings are amazing. I wish you a lot of fun reading about him!

Thanks, I had never heard of Comic Fury. I’ll check out the site when I read your comic.

[a_natural_beauty]

Thank you, I look forward to it. :)

You might like it. Give it a try!

[soricel]

Hi! I saw some of your Three Weeks posts, and I enjoyed reading your thoughts about art-making and books and whatnot! I'm also always looking for journals from people outside the U.S. (I'm American, but I live in Romania now). Would you like to try adding each other?

[dividedbyblue]

Hi! Thank you for reaching out, nice to meet you ^^ How are you? I subscribed to your journal and granted you access.

I’m happy you liked my posts. I returned to Dreamwith more or less in time for the Three Weeks (one day late), I thought it’d be fun to do it with these kind of questions :)

[soricel]

Yay, thank you! And yeah, in a way I'm also "returning" to DW after some time of only using it as personal/private diary. But I'm slowly poking my head up and seeing who/what is out there. :) Honestly I have mixed feelings about how I want to use my journal here, and how exactly to navigate the line between public/semi-public and private, but I'm trying to figure it out. :)

[dividedbyblue]

Welcome back, I'm looking forward to seeing your posts <3 For me, concerning public/private, at the moment all of my posts are public, but I may want to write about something that makes me feel a bit more vulnerable in the future, and then I will make the post private.