#justcreating

[dazzlerazz]

WHEN DID I GET CURLY HAIR

[wingedtyger]

Over on Dreamwidth, this week’s Just Create check-in post is up!.  A place for crafters, artists, coders, gardeners, and creators of any  variety to share their projects. Weekly posts to sit down and check-in on what you’re doing! Promote your on-going projects, livestreams, or recently finished works. Ask for feedback and concrit on your work. Encourage others! Whether you code, draw, stitch, vid, craft, podcast,  edit, write, or anything else, you’re welcome!  Even if you just want  encouragement to get done the ordinary obstacles that keep you from  enjoying stuff (like laundry), you’re welcome.

https://justcreate.dreamwidth.org/52365.html

[drawerfullofcrayons]

This is really validating not gonna lie :D

one of the best fics i've ever read, one that had me addicted to my phone and crying, wasn't even prose. it was a huge, casual, bullet-pointed outline with every detail of an au that the author never got around to writing in full. and it was amazing.

let this be a message to all you who want to write but can't do it "normally": write it! someone out there will eat it up. whether that be poetry, tiny drabbles, or bullet pointed list: your work is always worth it. your art (yes, art!) will alway deserve to have its moment in the spotlight. why? because you made it. even if it wasn't done in a traditional matter, it came from your brain and your creativity and that is amazing.

♡

[rainbowfic]

Joined Dreamwidth because you're afraid Tumblr is going away? But now you need things to follow?

Rainbowfic started on Dreamwidth! Rainbowfic is for original fiction. We also chat and do games on RainbowLounge

I (wingedtyger / silvercat17 on Dreamwidth) run another community for any sort of creative effort, including coding, writing, crafts, art, etc, called JustCreate. It's low-key and meant to help encourage people to get projects done

If you're a writer I also recommend AllBingo. Every month there's a fest with bingo boards of writing (or whatever) prompts.

Add your own recommendations!

[hoodtv]

We 💞 hood tv just do art 📺🎬📸🤩🌠🎨👨‍🎨🖼️🎯💯💯💯 #Drawing #Drawings #Drawingoftheday #Blackandwhite #Drawingskills #Drawingtime @hustlersneversleep #Drawingaday #justcreate #Drawingpen #hoodtv #Drawingart #Drawingbyme #hoodtvnetworks #Instadraw #love #Instadrawing #Selfportrait #Graphic #Sketch #painting #Sketchbook #Instaart #portrait #Sketching #Sketches #justdoart #Sketchaday #Art #Creative #justdoart

[rebeccasblogsphotosandmore]

30 Easter Drawing Prompts

30 Easter Drawing Prompts #Easter #drawing #JustCreate

Are you getting ready to celebrate Easter? Do you want to incorporate the upcoming holiday into your daily drawings? Or are you searching for a family-friendly Easter activity? Drawing is an easy way to bring your imagination of Easter to life.  If you need inspiration, check out the following drawing prompts for Easter.  Photo by Dziana Hasanbekava on Pexels.com Easter Self-Portrait Easter…

[bisexualbaker]

I highly recommend checking out the community justcreate on Dreamwidth. There's weekly check-in posts where the entire point is to talk about what things you're working on or have created recently (where "create" can include "I created some clean laundry" as one not-typically-art example). There tends to be at least a little bit of conversation there every week, and it can be a good place for people who are unused to the structure to dip their toes in, so to speak. Very friendly, very accommodating, very open about what exactly counts as created.

fictional_fans is also good for discussion, but less reliably so, IMO. Still, if you poke around it for a while, you can probably get a decent idea of what sort of posts invite more discussion, etc.

Those are the best two I can recommend for actual discussions off the top of my head, but I'll try and keep an eye out for others. And I'm usually pretty good about responding to comments if you want to check out my account, though sometimes I also run out of spoons. My recent focus has mostly been on the custom mood theme I'm making.

Re: Dreamwidth.

Recently I've gotten back to it, even if except for a couple of communities I lurk I've yet to find my "circle" of people to interact with. The biggest problem, obviously, is that there doesn't seem to be people on there—but when there are, it feels like all the posts are... post-only? Like comments are unwelcome, at the very least on platform.

Granted, most people I've seen end up using DW as an archive for fan translations and metas, or maybe like a type of personal log to update people of what they've been reading/writing. But when it comes to discussions, it's like they aren't wanted. Even in posts that do raise questions to the reader, if you do comment it feels like intruding, and the comments you receive often confirm it.

I wanted to ask if I've just been unlucky with the people I've come across, or if you think that maybe the culture on DW has changed since it has become an appendage of other websites (like it happens for fan tls, posted on DW for reading comfort but usually discussed on Twitter), or again if maybe the culture has always been like this.

I got into fandom when the LJ era had already been dying, but most importantly I got into fandom through non-English communities so I never got to experience what it was like to use LJ or DW during their "golden age". I'm wondering now if the type of communities back then were more of a "your post inspired my post, but I won't comment"—even if that seems weird to me because I do look through lots of archives and I can see that many posts did have interesting discussions in the comments! So maybe it is really just the current use of Dreamwidth that is making finding a community of people difficult.

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I think people remember some particularly good and active parts of LJ... but also the blogs of people who did like discussion.

I like discussion. There is no reason that people like that can't continue to be open to it on whatever platform they choose, including DW.

But I have noticed that a lot of people who claim to miss LJ aren't actually all that friendly to randos showing up to comment or can't handle comments that even mildly disagree. The thing they remember liking was either something other people fostered or is something they're no longer able to muster the energy and emotional space for.

That said, the main issue with DW is simply that there aren't enough people there. If you get unlucky now, that person who snapped at you for commenting is a significant part of who's posting. If you got unlucky on LJ, there were shittons of other active people around in every fandom of the day.

[jameschrismusic]

Great sess last night w Rod Carrillo and Cody, creativity just flowing #upinthestudio

[juliecaronart]

Another landscape in oil. I like the looser style of this as opposed to the last one… still experimenting . . . . . #landscapeoilpainting #landscapepainting #landscapeart #landscapelover #looselandscape #abstractlandscape #abstractlandscapes #abstractlandscapepaintings #abstractlandscapeart #juliecaronart #keepingitloose #justcreating #fridaypainting #creativefriday #creativemoms #paintingoftheweek #paintingoftheday🎨🖌️ (at Paoli, Pennsylvania) https://www.instagram.com/p/CaIOFvBOozT/?utm_medium=tumblr

[wingedtyger]

This week's Just Create check-in / encouragement post is up. Come tell us what you've been up to and what you've accomplished.

[steinthequeen]

"I'm not saying it's good I'm saying it exists."

I think this is so important, and something we often forget. Remember, the core of being creative is simply having the desire to create that which wasn't before. That's it: that's the long and short of it, snipped to the quick. JustCREATE

Its okay if you made something that didnt turn out how you wanted it to turn out, its okay to make art and to not like what you make and its okay if you're not at the skill level you thought you were or if you lost some of your skills. Creative things are not only about the results, but also about developing your ability to think creatively and the process of making itself. Im often already excited about the fact that i made something that didnt exist before, and i what i usually keep in mind is: "im not saying its good, im saying it exists."

[ernedits]

✌🏿&🤍All mediums #faeeaf #art #artist #tattoo #peace #love #yougonnafeelsme #stayear #ink #newcanvas #bodyart #allmediums #bemycanvas #justcreate #fakeartistern https://www.instagram.com/p/CQtmxwSAjXg/?utm_medium=tumblr

[rodprojects]

Time for creators. #funcreators #creatorstime #creation #creationtime #coolcreators #awesomecreators #justcreators #onlycreators #coolvideographers #videographytime #videograohyage #onlyvideography #justvideography #simplevideography #contentmakers #coolcontent #awesomecontent #grratcontent #coolchannel #awesimechannel #bestchannel #bestvideomakers #verycoolvideomakers #awesomecompany #funcompany #funnycreation #creativeage #creativetime #becomecreative #becomecreator (at Seventy 1 Studio) https://www.instagram.com/p/CRDTIn-lmIn/?utm_medium=tumblr

[wingedtyger]

If I can self-promo, I think my community JustCreate is pretty great! It's a low-key comm for encouraging creative stuff like writing, coding, art, crafts, etc; and non-creative stuff like laundry and vacuuming. We have weekly check-ins for encouragement.

If you like to write or draw, I also recommend AllBingo as a great source of prompts. If you do original fiction RainbowFic is picking up (I'm also running it's tumblr @rainbowfic )

FollowFriday is great to get recommendations

Disjointed Dreamwidth Tips (written by someone who wasn’t on LJ)

So as always when Tumblr decides to break its own gear, people are contemplating Dreamwidth. One thing I don’t really see much are recs on what to do after you’ve figured out how to use the site for yourself and are in that time where your feed is empty and you are discouraged from screaming into the void. I was also never on LJ, and for a long time after getting a Journal I didn’t use it because my feed was dead, and I wasn’t sure what I was supposed to do.

Some general tips past the obvious to get started

When making your journal, you should fill out your profile and interests, but what I find way more useful is to have a pinned post. You can either actually pin it on your journal or just set the date to some ridiculous date in the future, and it’ll stay on the top. On that pinned post go your interests and maybe your posting habits (are you doing regular updates or rapid-fire shitposting whenever you feel like it? Are you often gone for a while and answer slowly?). It’s also the place to put stuff about how you handle privacy, like ‘If you want to be added to my nsfw filter, shoot me a message here’.

A lot of people like and use the tumblr anon-ask function, and dw doesn’t really have that. So here’s an idea on how to set up something similar: Make a dedicated pinned/predated post, put in the post that it is your ask post, how to use it, what kind of anons you aren’t comfy with maybe. Set the comment function to ‘screen all comments’ or ‘screen anon only’. This gives people a way to leave you anon messages only you can see and copy over into a post. You can turn it off at any time by editing the post’s comment (not comment screening!) setting to say Disabled. I haven’t actually tried setting this up myself, but it should work. People who don’t have a dreamwidth account can message you this way, too.

People who like anon prompts might also be advised to go look for kinkmemes for their fandoms. A kinkmeme is a community or journal that lets people post and fill prompts anonymously. Contrary to what the name suggests, in a lot of them neither prompts nor fills must be sexual nor even romantic (thought they often are, so go browsing on your own risk). Requests are all anonymous, fills can be posted anonymously directly on the com, or on anon on ao3, or deanon’d on ao3, or any combination thereof.

So, you’re lonely on Dreamwidth

Dreamwidth has no reblogs and no algorithm, so there’s nothing to push stuff at you and help you find new friends. You’ve got to go looking for them, and invite them over to your place, too. Basically, think of tumblr as one giant, never-ending, really loud cocktail party – it’s easy to drift around and find a group to stand with, and you don’t even have to talk to have fun. Dreamwidth is more like bouncing from friend’s place to friend’s place for tea and gossip, or having a nice wine and dinner with The Squad or spending all night smoking and chatting on the balcony or something like that. Fewer people, slower conversations, more effort, more payoff. That doesn’t mean you can’t rapid-fire shitpost over there, people absolutely still do that. But keep that comparison in mind.

Type in an interest in the search and look for active people who also have that interest tagged. Look for communities with that interest. Look for people you vibe with in the communities you share. You can see everyone subscribed to a specific com in the com’s profile, and you can see people’s mutuals in their profiles, too.

A lot of stuff doesn’t show up in the interests tho. A great way to find people on Dreamwidth are friending memes. A friending meme is a post in a community or on a personal journal where people post little bios with personality, interests, posting habits etc. in the comments, and then go browsing for other people to chat with and follow. I don’t know if there’s any active right now, but participating in those does a lot ot liven up your dash and find people, especially people who want to be found and are actively looking for new people, too! There’s one at the end of Snowflake every year.

Etiquette – Likes

One thing that throws people off about switching from Web 2.0 to DW is that there’s no likes. I’ve found that posting a <3 comment is totally fine with many people tho.

Etiquette – Linkspamming

No reblogs means Linkspam is the name of the day. Linkspam is absolutely okay on Dreamwidth! I know it feels weird! Just do it! Websites like tumblr constantly discourage us from linking off-site or even to other stuff on themselves – Dreamwidth is not like that! ‘One/three/six interesting articles I read this week’, with a link and a sentence or two are a valid post, and people will chat with you about them in the comments. Posting a rec-post on your own journal and then just dropping a Post that’s like ‘I rec’ed seven Character X/Character Y fics over here’ in a relevant community is valid. To embed a link, copy over this

<a href=“Link”>Text</a>                                                

and replace the Link part with your link, and the Text part with what you want it to say. Go ahead, spam away!

Posting images

Honestly the best way is to embed them imo. Host somewhere else (Imgur, or your Insta, for example), and then use this code

<img src=“IMAGE URL” alt=“ALT TEXT”>

To make dreamwidth display them. If you want them centred, use

<center><img src=“IMAGE URL” alt=“ALT TEXT”></center>

When you want to show off other people’s images, consider just posting a link, thought. Embedding is not like reposting (if the source is deleted, the embed won’t load anymore), but it looks like reposting, and a lot of people don’t like that.

Other HTML

Ironically, I cannot link you to any, or tumblr will nuke this post, because tumblr sucks. Copy “html basics for dreamwidth” into your search engine of choice and you should find several journal entries that are just that, though! HTML is not as scary as it looks, and the Rich Text Editor also works fine.

Some communities to fill your feed, let you find stuff and get to know people:

These are obviously centred around stuff i like, but they are also pretty central and active in my experience.

fandomcalender and fandom_on_dw – People advertise new/restarted/repeating communities, fests, exchanges and such here! Great place to find stuff you want to participate in or just keep an eye on.

snowflake_challenge is running this year – it’s a one-month challenge were you get a blogging prompt every other day for all of January, so it starts in only a few days! Prompts are something like ‘write or update your bio’ or ‘what was your first fandom? Tell us!’ or ‘create something for the prompt X’. You fulfill the prompt and post about it on your dw and in the comments of the prompt post. You can always catch up later if you get busy and you’re always free to just drop a day. Chatting on the prompt-posts and going to others’ journals to comment is considered good form. Gives you ideas to use your journal, lets you connect with others and generally get a start at Dreamwidth. sunshine_challenge does the same in the summer.

fictional_friends – A community specifically to let you be a Dreamwidth Noob among other people! Great place to ask embarrassing questions about where to find what button.

fancake and recthething are pretty active multifandom recing communities. Fancake has a theme each month, and recs are one fic per post, only finished fics, no self-recs. Recthething is less structured, for making posts directly in the com or linking to rec posts on your journal, and they also have a weekly catch-all post every Thursday for making recs in the comments. Asking for recs is specifically allowed here.

fandom_icons is a community for people to post links to their icon uploads, with a good tagging system. Just go look for some nice stuff for your fandom and remember to credit the artist!

You can find any of these communities (and also other people’s journals) by setting the drop-down menu by the search to ‘Site and Account’ and typing them out like that, or by dumping them into the search engine of your choice with ‘dreamwidth’ at the end. Unironic tip, that one, dreamwidth search is Not Great for finding specific people or coms sometimes.

[darapnerd]

My philosophy as of lately and really what inspired #RawCookieDoughEP 🥰😤 #JustCreate #SelfLove #RapNerd https://www.instagram.com/p/CFENwK6sDg9/?igshid=13imtxtl7x9qx

[gogoxhit]

https://instagram.com/just_x_create?igshid=10tfpj5t2gw. IF YOU MAKE MUSIC, ART , CLOTHES ETC. follow and and send me your work I would love to help you net work and connect with other creatives