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[potofsoup]

leveragehunters asked: Given your user name: what is your favourite soup?

!!!! I like many soups! Part of marrying my husband is that he promises to make me miso soup any time I want. My dad's go-to is chicken broth with bamboo shoots and smoked ham. He also make a great duck+napa+bamboo+vermicelli. Winter bamboo is so good in soups, guyz. But the 3 that I ended up thinking of when I was doodling was:

- Campbell's Chicken Noodle, low-sodium. This is my go-to for quick comfort food. Something about the soggy-chewy noodles and the over-abundance of sodium just calms me the fuck down.
- "Russian" soup, which is a Chinese soup that involves tomatoes, onions, cabbage, potatoes, and beef. Super yummy, and also really healthy! I keep being disappointed that minestrone isn't that.
- What I call "Naboden", which is just oden fishcakes and broth ... with lots of shiitake and napa added. And shirataki! It's my favorite winter soup.

norsellie asked: What are your favourite and least favourite things about modding a fest?

Oh man. Favorite thing: fiddling with spreadsheets. Getting the data to match up all pretty feels SO GOOD. It's like, something that gives me good results and happy feelings of order, but isn't super high-stress like life or work. This year I'm excited to try some HLookup functions!



Least favorite thing: situations that cause me social anxiety.
- I do best in chatrooms of 20-50 people that is focused around talking about the making of stuff. That...is not my typical slack/discord experience. I want to participate, but then it's too much and I end up abandoning ship. I want there to be an introvert corner
- And then there's the posting part of the fest, when there's suddenly all this cool stuff that I want to read, but it's ALL AT ONCE and SO MUCH and simultaneously there's this behind-the-scenes of chasing people down and figuring out pinch-hits or extensions and each of those has different protocols and wait periods, which is Stressful.

I guess the short answer is that I like spreadsheets but I'm bad with people????

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Anyway, I'm flying tomorrow, so I'll answer the other 2 later. Feel free to ask more here: https://potofsoup.dreamwidth.org/11491.html#comments

Comments

[leveragehunters]

<3 Now I want soup (and it's the middle of stupid summer, here). Happy flying!

[norsellie]

Your doodles are adorable.

I'm so sorry for the stressful bits of modding! *goes to Slack to suggest an #introvertcorner channel*

[potofsoup]

Thanks, dear! It's fine... I think it's easier if I just don't engage in systems that are hard for me, like text chat. It's good to be aware of my own needs and limitations. ,😙

[gingicat]

Lurking in the Discords I hang out in (except when I'm hippo'ing just before Yuletide reveals) is very low-key, in part because most of us are introverts and don't say much :)

[birdjay]

Ooo soup. That sounds delicious...

[the_genderman]

That duck+napa+bamboo+vermicelli soup sounds really good.

[glitteryv]

When I first found Fandom (many years ago in the Age of Dial-Up), I decided to lurk to get an idea of what the whole thing was about. So I kept quiet for literal years until I talked to someone who ended up becoming my BFF to this day.

FWIW, I do get that many of the Discord servers can be overwhelming. Especially if it's for a big fandom and/or a juggernaut ship. There's nothing wrong with lurking if that's what you're comfortable with. <3

[potofsoup]

<3 <3 <3 Definitely in lurk mode. I installed the Discord application on my computer, but the alerts block the top right corner of my screen and can't be closed?!! WTF. I think it's harder to have asynchronous conversations on Discord, even more so than slack, but it is where people hang out. I just need to be more bold!! :D!

Man, Age of Dial-Up. I remember subscribing to mailing lists and checking my email once a day, which downloads all of the fics onto my email client...

[glitteryv]

Huh, that's strange (the alerts blocking things). FWIW, I set the notifications off on both my phone (it was draining my battery because I'm in 10 servers \o?) and laptop (it was too distracting.)

I'm glad that Fandom's taken off in Discord vs. Slack (which I know some big bang challenges use.) Tho that's more of a personal thing for me as I detest Slack's UI and the fact that comments have to get deleted every so often. /o\

[potofsoup]

Yeah, for me, there's pros and cons of both. I really like Slack's threading feature -- it means that I can have slightly asynchronous conversations, and have comments on images be threaded. Plus Slack has better emoji handling. But Slack deleting history is pretty frustrating. I think discord works better for groups over a certain size (>80), since with enough people, backreading and threading becomes somewhat moot anyway. ::shrug::