#dreamwidth communities

[bisexualbaker]

As long as I'm doing this:

I would not say no to some more friends on Dreamwidth!

My account is here, at soc_puppet; I'm currently into The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System, with Miraculous Ladybug being my most recent previous fandom, and otherwise mostly post about either RL stuff or creative stuff

I run the inclusive queer-positive community Queerly Beloved over there, which these days is mostly a weekly recs post, but I would be delighted to have more activity in general!

I also run Mood Theme in a Year

For the fans of the spicy, I run Summer of the 69 from June 9th through September 6th

Heaven help me, if I get enough interest (new members, new subscribers, new content, whatever), I may even try to commit to making monthly posts at Kittens and Spitefic again!

So there's some stuff to do at Dreamwidth that I personally am in charge of. There's lots of stuff I'm not in charge of as well, but you'll have to do your own looking to find it! I recommend dw_community_promo, followfriday, and fandomcalendar as a start. addme_fandom is also probably a good idea. Oh, and here's my tutorial for finding cool stuff and people on Dreamwidth as well.

Edit: Updated tutorial for finding things to do and meeting people on Dreamwidth!

[shinelikethunder]

tumblr trying to make communities happen and adding individual-post-level interaction controls like turning off reblogs 🤝 discord trying to enable publicly-discoverable forum-like servers that still support granular permissions over who can see what 🤝 bluesky custom feeds and multiple ways to view/organize reply threads:

any sufficiently advanced social media site that bothers to listen to its users will eventually convergently evolve back into LiveJournal

[simstationdance]

out of curiosity, if tumblr was going to shut down in the near future, where would those of us on simblr - particularly the sims 2 side of simblr - go, exactly? just curious. like what's the plan here.

i ask because matt mullenweg has fired half of the remaining tumblr staff, leaving 25 people left to run this hell site and things are not looking good for us.

[hhimring]

Tolkien100 Drabble Community

Tolkien100 is a long-running drabble community that originated on LiveJournal and is currently maintained on both LiveJournal and Dreamwidth (the first link in this announcement goes to the Dreamwidth community; the Livejournal community is here). The community focusses on fixed-length or "perfect" drabbles (100 words) inspired by any fictional works by J.R.R. Tolkien, including their movie adaptations.

In its current incarnation (since 2018) there are also regular writing prompts. The current prompt is "Green Leaves". 

New participants would be really welcome!

(A Dreamwidth or LiveJournal account is required.)

Please signal-boost even if you do not write fixed-length drabbles yourself! But also, if you feel you might like to try, you may find that fixed-length does more for you than you might expect.

[bang-bang-gang]

when i say wrestling fandom, i do mean the shipping and transformative work and analysis that's unique to tumblr, as opposed to most other platforms. that's why AO3 is in this list, but reddit isn't. (but if you do fandom on reddit, please explain in the tags!)

if the answer is 'multiple' please vote for your primary one and elaborate in the tags! if you don't feel you're on this site enough or care about wrestling enough to feel addressed by the word 'wrestleblr' then just vote see results.

[scrawnytreedemon]

FYI, I'm moving most of my activity to Dreamwidth.

I'll still be using this blog to post my work (art, memes, links to writing), but I cannot stress enough how tired I am of Tumblr. I don't feel at home here, I don't feel like I belong. I feel like I'm constantly walking with eggshells with what I'm allowed to like, what I should reblog, what others expect of me.

I won't be abandoning this platform entirely. I'll still check in with you guys whenever I can (you cook great stuff, I'd hate to miss it). But yeah.

It's a shame. A surprise? No. I've been debating this for years. This platform has such a potential to be lovely, but I think it's really gotten so corrosive in the past few years. It's nothing new, of course. That doesn't make it any more enjoyable.

I, personally, would like to save my mental health.

Link to my Dreamwidth is here, for those curious.

[rainbowfic]

Today's prompt list is: Spirit Purple

Theme: Queer

we're here, we're queer, get used to it

fierce

no labels, just queer

androgyne, not androgynous

genderfuck

out of the closets and into the streets

gay by birth, fabulous by choice

let's get one thing straight: I'm not

be gay, do crime

sounds gay, I'm in

gender is imaginary

screw the binary gender system

Sweet mother, I cannot weave. Slender Aphrodite has overcome me with longing for a girl

yes, homo

gay & proud

I support the homosexual agenda

gay anger is gay power

100% bi

screw the binary gender system

there is no choice in being yourself

radical fairy

gaydar

it's a gay world

better gay than grumpy

we are not just good friends

how dare you presume I'm heterosexual

space ace

too gay to function

queer as in fuck you

camp

Mod note: The name of this list is inspired by the meanings assigned by Gilbert Baker when he originally designed the rainbow flag.

(I don't yet have a list for each color. I'm working on it. I'd take ideas for healing/orange, sunlight/yellow, and serenity/blue)

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RainbowFic is an original fiction (and more) community on Dreamwidth. The pinned post has more information.

[julybreakbingoevent]

Links

We're still slowly building this blog back up after tumblr seemingly deleted the original. Most of our focus right now is on getting cards put together and sent out so we don't have all of our tumblr pages set up yet. But we've also been working on updating our Dreamwidth Community. Below are some links we hope will be helpful with these pages now missing on our blog.

FAQ

Stamps Page

Bingo Line/Win Examples (up to 5x5 sized cards. Assume that the basic lines/blackouts also apply to 6x6 and 7x7)

AO3 Collection (all works created for July Break Bingo, including pre-JBB and post-July are allowed)

Sign Up Form (sign ups close July 7th)

Card Queue

[bisexualbaker]

Just an FYI, I'm working on copying a lot of my Dreamwidth how-to stuff over to these two Dreamwidth communities:

Newcomers is currently more active, since The Great Tumblr Purge was founded in late 2018, but both should have good resources; TGTP will generally be more Tumblr-focused, but you may have to do a bit more digging. You're definitely welcome to post questions at Newcomers, and I would imagine the same is true of TGTP, though again, less active so I can't say for sure.

Best of luck to anyone considering moving to Dreamwidth; I'll continue doing my best to make the learning curve smoother!

[dirty-dirty-muggle]

Reading about the Tumblr layoffs last week and everyone madly backing up their blogs, I am wondering if it’s time to go back to an open source community platform like Dreamwidth. I have a very old blog there I haven’t used in a decade and always liked it; the only issue it ever had was low user numbers. But honestly, anything corporate owned is going down the tubes and has been for a while. Meta apps are dead to me because of AI and being owned by a fascist bigot, there was a good reason everyone made a mass exodus of LJ in the mid 2010s, and Discord is trying to go public, which is essentially the death knell for them remaining at all user-centric (things have already gotten worse lately as they prep).

Feels like it may be the time to start leaning heavily again into open-source and fandom-run communities that can’t be turned off or fucked up at the whim of some asshole CEO who wants to line their pockets with a few more dollars.

Plus, because of the internet’s rapid decline into corporate, capitalist suckage, I’ve found myself growing increasingly nostalgic about the olden days of the internet and online fandom (sites like Sugar Quill, WIKTT, Granger Enchanted, and old LJ). I may just act on that impulse.

(I’m on bluesky as well and it seems great but not as good of a platform for community building vs others imo.)

Is anyone else in HP fandom using dreamwidth still?

[geddyqueer]

i'm working on exporting/backing up my tumblr (you should do this too). order of operations: download my blog archive onto a spare harddrive; go through my fic tags and copy anything not already cleaned up/archived onto ao3; go through my various fandom tags and copy any meta into a document which i'll eventually crosspost to dreamwidth; go through my rush archiving tag and download any pictures that aren't yet archived on my computer. really cursing my 2018 self for not doing this when i nuked the old blog, but whatever. we can only move forward.

[kalgalen]

GUARDIAN DISCORD WHERE..... SOB SOB CRIES

[beingatoaster]

Possibly controversial opinion but I don't think you "need to" learn a particular fandom's norms just to post work. To reply/reblog/engage on social media, sure (though I still think you should be able to post meta and personal opinions without it, you just have to have the understanding that if you do in the main tag you might hit a we don't talk about the orangutan button), but if you're posting fanworks and you're following the actual rules of the platform, you can just... do that without lurking in the tag first to see what the conventions are. If you used the required tags on AO3, don't break Tumblr or Bluesky's TOS, follow the formatting and warning rules of the Dreamwidth community, etc., then it's on other people to scroll past versions of the character, ship, etc. that they don't like, not your fault for putting them there. Block buttons, mute buttons, and filters are all free!

(Which is not to say people can't reply/reblog/otherwise engage to disagree. But telling people they have to follow common fanon or use particular tags to participate is not that.)

[alectoperdita]

admittedly this is "old man yells at clouds" energy, but I think it sucks that modern fandom often only conceives of community in the form of discord servers

[charmophron]

mambo no.5 on the sanji playlist

[gyokujyn]

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