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We tell everyone it was a “book club.”
Have used this one before. Will use it again.
“Writers group”
“Pen pal.” Also naming some common interest/activity and letting people assume that was the point of overlap, rather than the thing discovered after the fandom overlap.
Half of my local friends I originally met through LiveJournal and the HP fandom, many of them before I moved here or they did. And, yep, “mutual friends”. Every time.
“Pro bono legal project” sometimes works for me. But since I went to the wedding of two people who I met in the HP fandom, and discovered that I’d been friends with one of her cousins when we were in college, “mutual friends” is actually 100% accurate!
Accurate statement is accurate.
(Source: haygirlhay)
If you want an actual online bookclub to link to we can do zat!
“Online book club” is the one I always go for
“Online writing group.”
NO MOM I’M NOT TALKING TO STRANGERS ON THE INTERNET YOU TOLD ME NOT TO DO THAT
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I use this all the time. XD
I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve used that phrase.
Accurate statement is accurate.
YES!! I love Fandom secret code, lol.
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I clung to “oh I met them in college!” for a long time. But yes, all the mutual friends!
“We met through science” and then people just start talking over you or turn away because science: ew.