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[wolfish_willow]

Hello! Nice to put my old Dreamwidth account to use! I miss the old Livejournal fandom days for sure.

Anyone wonder whether their current fandom has any sort of presence on this platform?

[memorizingthedigitsofpi]

I just started adding interests and it seems like there's some MCU and Agents of SHIELD people here, so I'm off to a good start!

[themightyflynn]

\o

Saw the tumblr post. I know Harry Potter still has a bit of a presence on here (and LJ for that matter), but not so sure about other fandoms.

[memorizingthedigitsofpi]

it seems at first glance that there's at least a few people representing anything I look for. I haven't poked too much yet, but yay!

[sarken]

Just last night, I was having some major nostalgia for the old LiveJournal/Dreamwidth-based multifandom porn battles.

[memorizingthedigitsofpi]

lolol yessss

o/

[anaisonfire]

this is very nice but also logging in made me see my old icon 😂 shows how often i'm on here really
would love for that to change but i don't think my current 'main' fandom would follow me over from tumblr and everything else is more 'niche fandom within a fandom' that's perfectly at home on tumblr and discord... might have to cast a wide net looking for things 😂

Re: o/

[memorizingthedigitsofpi]

yeah, I don't think it'll be fast move if you can even make a full move at all. but I'm going to make a go at it and I'm happy to chat about other things, even if we never write in the same fandoms at all :)

[vriddy]

Ha, delighted to see you on DW too!! I've been trying to use my account, and I do like being here - it feels more peaceful, things moves slower, it's okay to take your time...

But it's hard to meet people :') There aren't as many communities with "my people" as there used to be, and my current focus is an anime fandom which, I don't think they ever really thrived on LJ and DW?

Either way, welcome here and looking forward to follow what you have to share :)

[memorizingthedigitsofpi]

I purposely went with my fandom name instead of ao3cotd because I don't think I have the energy to repost that content over here. This is just going to be a social space for me, and I'm just looking to find people to have interesting conversations with.

I'm hoping I can join a fandom again, but I'm okay with it just being people on the internet that I chat with about stuff. Whatever that stuff might be :)

[likethenight]

Hi! I am a lurker/serial commenter-in-the-tags on Tumblr (I'm nocompromise-noregrets there) and greatly appreciate your ao3cotd content!

I'm another refugee from LJ who's never quite managed to find a community via Tumblr (Discord is a mystery to me) - your post the other day about community really struck a chord with me. I came back to being properly active in fandom after a ten year break last year, although I'd been sort-of active on Tumblr all that time, and found I no longer knew how to get to know people because things had changed so much.

That said...if anyone out there is in the LotR/Hobbit fandom and knows of good comms on here or Discord servers, do feel free to let me know. :D I had a bit of a look for comms but didn't really find much, and I have absolutely no idea how to go about finding servers on Discord! XD

[memorizingthedigitsofpi]

I'm a casual fan of both, but haven't engaged with the canon in years. Just enjoy the posts I see sometimes on tumblr. I'm sure there are others around though - you just have to find them! :D

[scribe_protra]

:D Glad to see others tryings to get back into DW!
Any chance anyone here are fellow Girl Genius or LEGO Monkie Kid fans? I'm also into My Hero Acadamia, but I am only interested in fanning All Might there.

[memorizingthedigitsofpi]

hi! no luck with me I'm afraid, but I'm sure you'll find some peeps!

[gothyringwald]

Saw your post on tumblr and popped on over! I never really did fandom on LJ tbh, but I still used it a lot for personal journalling and made friends that way and still miss the threaded comments and communities and all that. I've mostly been using my DW for dear creator letters for exchanges because I wasn't sure what else to use it for XD (or how to find people here—I know my main fandom is not at all active here, it's all tumblr, discord, or twitter)

I've mostly been into Stranger Things for the past 3 1/2 years (only writing Harringrove, which attracted a lot of hate, so I get anxious talking about it outside of my Tumblr bubble XD) and, like many others, have gone back to Destiel since what happened last November! Haha But I'm reallllllly struggling to find people to talk to in SPN/Destiel! Tumblr is so hit or miss and I deleted my discord account after finding it way too hard to make conversation in that environment ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

TBH, I enjoy fandom spaces that aren't necessarily fandom specific as well as specific places! But I seem to have forgotten how to start conversations...

[memorizingthedigitsofpi]

There's another Stranger Things fan further upthread! Possible connection there :D

I think it was the sudden resurgence of fandom in the wake of Destiel and the confession that made me realize how quiet fandom has been on tumblr since the purge. Suddenly it felt like 2012 again!

I'm not sure what I'll end up posting over here, but I'm happy to chit chat with anyone who wants to, so welcome friend :)

[laurelwisp]

None of my fandoms are here at all D: That's what I get for being a fan of small indie games that are mostly dead. Or that everyone knows about but no one seems to talk about.

Fortunately, it seems like there's a LOT of writing, prompts, and stuff. Used to follow a ton of those blogs on Tumblr until they kinda started winking out one by one.

Also, what seems to be a much more pro-AO3 stance in general is...really, REALLY welcome at this point.

[memorizingthedigitsofpi]

Yeah, I feel like this is more an opportunity to build a community than it is to join a thriving one. But I think it's worth a shot?

Fandom events and communities

[chacusha]

Since I saw people wondering what fandoms are active on DW and where you can get things like kink memes and such. I'd like to point people in the direction of these resources:

fandomcalendar (people post single-fandom and multi-fandom events here, which includes the activities of some long-running fic and other fanwork communities; and if you're running an event (on DW or elsewhere), this is great place to promote it!)
fanwork_events_calendar (collection of events posted in the above comm and elsewhere, in the form of a calendar)
fandom_on_dw (a place to promote fannish communities including ones that don't run events)

Unfortunately, most fandoms here are quite small, but there's enough people to support largely panfandom/multifandom events with a smattering of single-fandom events, which can take some getting used to. Hope this helps!

Re: Fandom events and communities

[memorizingthedigitsofpi]

👀

thank you so much!!

[visceranight]

*waves hi*

I'm only on here because this is where several of my fandoms' kink memes are hosted, so I don't understand how to use the rest of the site's features beyond what's necessary for that. D:

[memorizingthedigitsofpi]

I've never used dreamwidth and the last time I used LJ was probably 2006, so I'm kinda right there with you XD just remember that it's really hard to break things and keep poking around. we can do this! :D

[pikkugen]

Hi! Saw your post on tumblr and decided to peek in here too. I kinda miss the old LJ communities, but I haven't had enough time to try and build one here, but since the internet is getting splintered again, figured the non-commercial side of it might actually be worth the while again.

[memorizingthedigitsofpi]

Yeah, I have never actually built a community before (except by accident on tumblr) so I have no idea what I'm doing, but hey! we're trying!

[feckyeslife]

Hello!!! This is feckyeswriting over on Tumblr. Been a big fan of all that you've done with starting dialogue and (controlled, non-hostile) discussion in fandom :3 Glad to see you have joined us here on DW!

[memorizingthedigitsofpi]

hiiiiii!!!

big fan of yours too :D and honestly, I don't know how it happened but I'm super glad that people can usually keep a lid on it in my notes. Emphasis on usually (tonight's a bit of a gong show on a couple of older posts though)

[nrgburst]

Hiii! Welcome to DW! Very excited to see you here! :)

[memorizingthedigitsofpi]

hi :D :D excited to be here!

[josie20k]

Hello! I saw your post on Tumblr, as well as the Dreamwidth Primer you reblogged, and it inspired me to come out of my lurk cave. I never got into Livejournal, mainly because I didn't know about it until like, the late 2010s. But Dreamwidth seems like a pretty chill, low pressure kind of site. I'm too intimidated by sites like Twitter and Tumblr haha. The focus on conversation that DW seems to prioritize also makes it appealing. I often don't give my words much credit, but I do surprise myself quite a bit with how much I can talk when I allow myself to.

There's a lot of cool fandom events on DW, but I always seem to find them after they've already started or just after they're over :( I've had the passing thought of starting a fandom event for an obscure fandom, if only just to see what would happen. Liveblogging also seems to be fairly popular on DW, and that's something that's always interested me. I amuse myself a lot with the things I say and think while consuming media, and it'd be nice to amuse others with that as well, or at least have a place to keep them for future reference.

Anyway, I also want to quickly say thank you for all that you do for fandom. Your blog has helped me through a lot of tough times with writing, and honestly, with life in general. High hopes to all!

[razia]

:butts in:

Hi! If you use Discord, there's this server called Exchanges After Dark, for a lot of exchanges that happen on DW. A lot of the mods themselves participate in the server, and it's a good way to keep yourself updated and not miss sign-ups! If you're interested (the server is marked as NSFW and for 18+ only), the invite is this: https://discord.gg/7VSEuV9

You can always join, take a look around, and leave if you don't like it :]

*lurking catgirl noises*

[wingedcatgirl]

helo yes we do have the dreamed width and we don't post enough oh noes

Re: *lurking catgirl noises*

[memorizingthedigitsofpi]

lolol what is "enough" though? the great thing about a place like this is you can post as much or as little as you want!

I feel very 2003

[kentucka]

yes, why not! I ported over my LJ entries a while back when I stopped using it, and have made the occasional post over here since then when I needed it to be for my eyes only. But I'm definitely a victim of the LJ demise, never managed to get into a community spirit on other sites (too fast paced!), and didn't invest a whole lot into DW either... my only mutuals here are people I knew on LJ. None of them are actually active on DW.

What do you think of Pillowfort, which I'd describe as trying to be a blend of LJ and Tumblr?

Re: I feel very 2003

[memorizingthedigitsofpi]

I have an account on pillowfort that I never actually use. I signed up ahead of the tumblr purge and just... never used it. whoops XD

this definitely does take me back about 2 decades though. might be the nostalgia talking, but I kinda like it :D

[game_byrd]

Yay! Hi, I am here!

[memorizingthedigitsofpi]

yay! hi :D

[pauraque]

Heya! I happened to click over to your journal because you were one of the only other people someone who just friended me had friended (...if that sentence makes any sense). I see you're just getting started on here, so, welcome! I'm one of the HP people themightyflynn mentioned, though I'm also into some other fandoms. There are quite a few Star Trek and MCU people around here, I know. There's also a lot of people who may or may not be in fandom (or used to be) and post general interest stuff like photography, art, book reviews, funny things that happened in their lives, and so on. It can be a bit of a process to find people because comms aren't really a thing as much as they were on LJ. Generally I've met people on here by noticing them commenting on other people's posts and checking out their journals, or through fandom events.

But one thing you might be interested in, which I don't think has been mentioned so far, is sunshine_challenge, which is an annual event coming up in July. It's basically a big community-building thing where there are prompts and everyone's encouraged to go look at everybody else's posts in response to them. I've met tons of people through that over the last couple of years. (snowflake_challenge is similar and runs in January.)

Anyway, I've added you, if that's okay. Hope to see you around. :)

[mistressofmuses]

Hey! Also followed over from Tumblr (via ao3cotd). I dusted off my DW at the beginning of this year, and it has absolutely been a huge breath of fresh air to me as well. I was on LJ a decade ago, and I've missed the long-form posting ability, as well as not feeling like *everything* you say is being flung to the wilds. (Plus no ads. It's amazing what a difference that makes.)

There is definitely a decent fandom presence here still, depending on what fandoms. (Huge fandoms or slightly older ones like SG1 seem to have more.) I'd love for there to be more, though!

[memorizingthedigitsofpi]

hiii :D

I was on LJ from 2000 to 2006 or so. I used it more for journalling and keeping up with IRL friends than I did for fandom, but I read a few fandom communities. I was a lot more of a lurker than a creator back then, though.

It's good to come back. The slower pace and increased control over audience (and reading page!) is so so so so nice.

hi!

[301beq]

i also followed from tumblr (ultraviollettt), i havent had an account before but i had a hyperfixation on social media sites (specifically nonprofit ones) so im super glad you posted about it! I want more interaction, just like you said on tumblr, but i need to work on being anxious about every post i make lol.
howd you hear about dreamwidth in the first place?

Re: hi!

[memorizingthedigitsofpi]

I remember hearing something about an LJ clone years ago and then it came up in some fandom conversations here and there a few years back. It was when I started volunteering with Fanlore that I got more exposure because Fanlore has an account here where they post challenges and things.

I've been vaguely considering making an account for a while now and this week I decided to just fuckin' do it already lol. The last thing I need in my life is yet another social media account, but at the same time I think this is the potential for community and conversation that I've been talking about lately.

[surferofdreams]

Hi! I follow ao3cotd on tumblr, and I'm here a few days late with no Starbucks. I've had a DW account for a really long time, but I'm not super great at updating here. The last time I was really active with it was when everyone thought tumblr was ending a few years ago and there was a push for rebuilding some community here. I'm glad to have a reason to try again! Hope you are having a good start to your week :)

[memorizingthedigitsofpi]

hi! I haven't used a journal site like this since LJ in like 2006 so we'll see how this goes lol. I just think it's a better fit for the kinds of fandom meta I've got in my head. I'll probably post them to tumblr too but it's impossible to actually converse there - at least for me. If I reblog someone just to chat, I'm sharing it with a lot, more than just that one person.

My week started pretty well though :) how about yours?

[pegasus143]

Hi! I'm also Pegasus143 over on tumblr; you've probably seen me respond to ao3cotd posts a few times.
I first made a dreamwidth account after getting into fic exchanges through yuletide, since it seemed like the easiest way of keeping track of everything. That's about the extent of my activities on here, since none of my special interest fandoms really have an active community. I'd rather focus my community-building efforts on discord due to being pretty familiar with it, while also having a sense of control over it that I simply don't have on tumblr. Honestly, there are some days where I feel like I'm just unfollowing tons of people who I don't even remember why I started following them in the first place, rather than talking to people I already follow or following new people who seem interesting.

[memorizingthedigitsofpi]

yeah, tumblr for me right now is a place where I perform, not a place where I connect. I think it I start posting on my personal blog again that'll lessen but I also want to try out this space for the kind of meta conversations I want to have. The threaded comments are so key to being able to have the kinds of discussions I want, and tumblr can't give me that. and that's okay! it wasn't designed to do that. So I can use tumblr for my ask blog and for my fic updates and fanart. I'll use DW to dig elbow deep into thinky thoughts :D

[lackadaisicalnereid]

hello just dropping a comment here to say i've subscribed to you because i saw a tumblr link to your discussion of community in online spaces and i thought to myself 'well this is excellent, this is exactly the kind of conversation i would like to participate in or lurk around' so hi

[malurette]

Hello I've been silently following you on Tumblr for quite a while, thank you for making my experience over there more enjoyable and welcome to DW!