That’s really lovely! Are you still friends or in contact with them today?

I was taken under the wing of a motherly school friend after I was ostracized and bullied by previous ‘friend’ group…I got my diagnosis 30+ years later

The bf has had a load of tests over the past fortnight as he has a mass on his lung, we get the results on the 27th

I don’t like Christmas anyway, and the fact that 5 years ago we were waiting again, over Christmas for my brothers cancer diagnosis, which turned out to be terminal…so it’s already a shitty time of year.

If I didn’t have my parents, me and the bloke would just stay at home, have poached eggs on toast and not bother with any of it…

Excellent news! Looking forward to some new art communities

see the comment below, re trending communities, I replied to myself instead of you

Also I forgot this which may/may not be of use

!trendingcommunities@feddit.nl

It lists all the trending communities by activity and subscriber numbers, I’ve found a few interesting places that way :)

Looks like fun, thanks

Sorry about the links, they should (hopefully) work now :)

If you like art there’s…

!abstractphotography@lemmy.ml

!collage@lemmy.ml

!printmaking@lemmy.ml

also

!traditional_art@lemmy.world

!artporn@lemm.ee

I’ve curated some other art communities in the side bar at !artistlounge@lemmy.ml including watercolour, art share and one of the photography communities

There are also lots of science and nature communities on mander and beehaw, if you search by ‘all’ in the communities tab at the top, type and just go down a few rabbit holes…nudibranchs, orchids, botany, minerals, geology, animals and pets etc all exist, you just need to start searching

Happy trails :)

edit forgot !awwnverts@lemmy.world and !natures_patterns@lemmy.world

That is excellent to hear!

Makes me look at this differently now

Thanks for this!

I subbed yesterday and just had a browse, I’m glad that my posting on my somewhat niche communities does actually do something for visibility

edit just found this strange place via Trending Communities oddlyspecificplaylists@sh.itjust.works

I enjoy seeing @WhippetBowie@lemmy.world, that dogs got style

Non tech background (art education), but I do like a minor bit of tech tinkering and tweaking

Aiming to remain semi retired for as long as possible doing a couple of hours work a day…

The rest of the time? I have several art projects to occupy me, and now I’ve migrated over from reddit to here I have more time available for that.

I have also created a few art subs here that I’m hoping to set up properly soon, and see where they go

While I fortunately don’t have Crohns, I do have periods of horrible IBS so I can relate to the demon-farts, one evening in the park, my bf had to run away from me after I dropped a stinker, this was outside

Clearing a dance floor though? Respect