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nogreatillusion:

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. 

I clung to “oh I met them in college!” for a long time. But yes, all the mutual friends!

fuck. I should have told my psychiatrist this. He thinks I’m social awkward because I met all friends through the internet.

But when I insisted they were all friends he mentioned that I could also find someone to date online, so.

When I would talk about you guys with my coworker-friend we agreed early on to refer to you all as, “My imaginary friends,” but she’s said that it’s been long enough that I can just say friends.

(Source: haygirlhay)

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   If you want an actual online bookclub to link to we can do zat!

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   “Online book club” is the one I always go for

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    “Online writing group.”

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    NO MOM I’M NOT TALKING TO STRANGERS ON THE INTERNET YOU TOLD ME NOT TO DO THAT

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    Heh. Usually I’m upfront about internetfolk, but “mutual friends” is now my not entirely false explanation for the...

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    I think the weirdest excuse I’ve ever come up with was “we went to primary school together and she moved away”. “I don’t...

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    I use this all the time. XD

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    I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve used that phrase.

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    Accurate statement is accurate.

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    YES!! I love Fandom secret code, lol.

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    “Pro bono legal project” sometimes works for me. But since I went to the wedding of two people who I met in the HP...

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    I call you all my invisible friends. And since there are approximately 576 of you named Sarah, I have to specify which...

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    I have two different versions of how I met my husband. For the general public we say mutual friend, for the...

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    I think that my coworkers wonder how I met all these people. Especially when I tweet y’all questions like “What’s the...

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    When I would talk about you guys with my coworker-friend we agreed early on to refer to you all as, “My imaginary...

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    I just told somebody today that I met up with some people from “my writing group online” when I went to NYC the other...

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    I clung to “oh I met them in college!” for a long time. But yes, all the mutual friends!

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    “We met through science” and then people just start talking over you or turn away because science: ew.

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