Hi! I’m new to Lemmy and I’m looking for a friend to get to know and chat with every day. I’m 27 years old from the Canadian prairies (MST), a complete homebody, and my hobbies include reading, drawing, baking, and watching things. I also love nature and am passionate about biodiversity and ecosystem conservation, even though I’m not really an outdoorsy or adventurous person.
Here are some photos of me and stuff I like to do: https://imgur.com/a/WXNxG2u. I hate taking photos of myself so please don’t ask me for pics when we get to chatting, but if appearance is important to you, there you go, that’s me. You can decide whether you’d like to talk to me based off those photos.
As a conversation starter I’d love to hear all about your 2026 resolutions. Maybe we can even work on ours together! Or if you’re not a goal setter, tell me about the last rabbit hole you tumbled into. Mine was a true crime case about the murder of Boston police officer John O’Keefe. If neither of those work, feel free to take the lead and direct our conversation as you please.
Thank you! 🙂
So I found this post of yours rather indirectly. I love how forthright you are in looking for friends. There’s a gentle and good quality to that which I like. I have mixed feelings about doing that myself.
[distracted by chores]
… so I got busy and stepped away from my phone. Now that I’m back, i was curious about what community this was before I said anything more. Ha! You were being forthright because that’s the whole point of this community! 🤦🏽 Interesting that such a thing exists and I hope it works well (and safely) for people.
I wasn’t really going to respond at all because, I don’t know, things and such. but then I clicked that link of yours and fell in love with the verdant colors and your excellent tastes in books!
Your area is gorgeous. The tortoises are delightful. Do they live with you? Here’s a tortoise I met on a hike when I lived in desert once upon a time. It took a good half hour for my friend’s tortoise to let me get this close.
I’m really curious what you thought of Children of Time and if you read the following books.
What about A Psalm for the Wild Built? I absolutely loved it. There’s another book after it as well. Both relatively short. Did you get to them? What did you think?
Anyway, I’ve said entirely more than I intended. I don’t think our demographics match what your looking for. I’m older with kids–different phase of life and such. But, like you, I enjoy watching things. Slowing down and paying attention is when I feel at my best. Sometimes I even try to capture the moments, like these autumnal trees by a lake and this butterfly.
Btw, there is another federated platform like this one for photos which you might consider sharing on. It’s called PixelFed. I think you might like sharing some of your photos and your art. Could be a nice way to interact with folks.
Time to end what may be my lengthiest post here ever.
I wish you the best in your quest to meet people and in your goals for this year!
Oh, I really like that sketch. You captured his smile so well. My eyes were also drawn to the beard detail and overall excellent shading. You have a gift. Don’t stop.
Stay warm this weekend!
Just going to throw out a random book recommendation because I’ve enjoyed it so far: Katabasis, by RF Kuang. A graduate student in analytic magic and her rival descend into Hell to try to find their horrible thesis advisor to see about bringing him back from the dead.
I’ve heard of Katabasis! RF Kuang is one of those authors I hear a lot about, but she seems to come with polarizing opinions. Katabasis is the one that appeals to me most out of all of her work so far. If you’ve read her other books, what did you think?
I haven’t - ran across this one by chance and picked it up as an audiobook for an eight hour drive. I didn’t stop it to listen to anything else the whole way!
I have two opposing goals for 2026: Figure out something called Intune Autopilot, which is a horribly complicated Microsoft product that is replacing a system that worked just fine, thank you very much. Also, get my tech off of the big tech companies. De-Google, De-Windows, De-Amazon.
I’m not sure what the first part of this means lol, but the latter half is definitely admirable! I can see how you’d de-windows and de-amazon your tech, but I can’t imagine not using google. Do you have a replacement in mind for it?
