Make stuff (art, food, whatever) with your friends across distances <3

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Any advice on ways to meaningfully maintain long-distance friendships that aren’t just texts and voice notes? I have some of the greatest friends in the world, but the differences in time zones is really getting in the way and I miss them all the time. How do you stay connected to people you don’t see as often as you’d like?

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For long-distance friendships, I love to work on projects together. This image is a scent + vessel collaboration that I began with my friend Andrew a while ago; we're still working on it. I'm finishing up on a book with my friend Sara and commissioned my friend Carlin to do a drag performance in the city where I was living, and so on.

If time zones are workable, I also love to attend friends' online lectures and events, like weekly Reiki with Kirien. I've also attended virtual events like those hosted by the Center for Sensory Studies in Montreal (linked here) with long-distance friends and then met up virtually afterwards to discuss.

Long-distance friendship can really open the world in various ways and these are just a few ways that I love to connect with friends across continents, despite some time zone math.

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Meg

@e_lectromegneticJul 9, 2026

Yes to project based interactions across space and time! Also this scent vessel project? Intrigued.

@drosen7877Jul 9, 2026

thanks! andrew made the vessel in uranium glass and i'm filling them with bait oils and other animalic scents. its a little on hold until we can find a residency or a grant to move the project forward but its been fun to work on

Meg

@e_lectromegneticJul 9, 2026

Sounds incredible. Hope you find the funds! I feel good about it 😉

@drosen7877Jul 9, 2026