Happy New Year!

Happy New Year, everyone!

Club-of-Aces's first year has been a very happy one, made even better by the many wonderful pictures, inspiring poems and stories, and kind messages from our fantastic members. But those of you who have never submitted anything are just as highly valued to us as those who have contributed a dozen things, and you help to make this group more successful and welcoming by your very presence.

And what a presence it is! Today, we have the joy of welcoming our 300th member, TwilitReader! It's often said that asexuals are estimated to make up about one-percent of the population. That didn't sound like a lot to me when I first started Club-of-Aces, and consequently I didn't expect the group to get very big; with how many aces I've met on dA over this past year, though, I've begun to realise how truly large that single percent is. Don't ever let anyone tell you that asexuality doesn't exist, because it's clearly untrue.

Quite a few of you have mentioned the wish to meet fellow asexuals among your reasons for joining Club-of-Aces. In honour of our first anniversary, and our 300th member, I'm pleased to announce our first friending meme! _{(Those of you who are active members of LiveJournal or similar sites probably know how these work already, but I'll explain for anyone who doesn't know yet.)}

If you're a member of this group, or even just watching it, you've probably seen the very successful Ace Meme (or other similar drawing memes) around--_{I don't know how anyone could have missed it, seeing how many we've got in our group gallery!}--which is a list of questions with empty spaces underneath that can be filled in with drawing or text answers. A friending meme is similar in the fill-in-the-blanks aspect, but  with a slightly different purpose and execution.  Instead of reposting the meme to your own gallery or journal, you post your answers in a reply to the original friending post (so, in this case, this group blog post).  

Whoever wants to find some new ace friends can then look over all the 'answer' comments and see if there's anyone they have something in common with, and then they can reply to that person's comment saying something like "Hey, we've got X in common!", and hopefully make a new friend!

Filling out the meme is not mandatory (you don't even have to answer every single question--pick and choose all you like, even make up your own questions if you want!), but these things usually work best when a lot of people fill them out. So, if you'd like to get to know some of your fellow group members a bit better, please post your answers. Also, after you post, check back later so you can see everyone else's answers!

Here are the questions for your copy+pasting ease:

Name (or nickname):
Age:
Gender:
Location (as detailed or vague as you like):
Asexual 'type' (Aromantic, Biromantic, Demisexual, etc):
What do you do? (Hobbies, work, school, etc):
Favourite color:
Fandoms:
Favourite kind of cake (or pie):
Favourite thing in your gallery:
Other sites you're on (Twitter, Tumblr, Last.fm, LJ, etc):
A random fact yourself:
Post your favourite emote!:
Anything else?:


Have fun making some new friends! I hope you all have a very safe and happy 2011!