A handful of fannish links
Dec. 27th, 2021 04:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dolorosa_12My entire house smells like homemade chicken stock, which always feels like a cozy smell to me. I've spent most of the day reading — I finished one book, started another, and read and commented on everything that looked appealling in the Madness collection. I've been enjoying seeing people's Yuletide recs posts — it's always so interesting to me to see the sheer variety of people's tastes and fandoms.
I thought I'd gather some links to fannish resources/challenges here on Dreamwidth, even though I assume most people know about them.
The first is the comm![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
recthething. The clue is in the name — it's a community focused on gathering recs for fanworks. I plan to share my Yuletide recs there after I've posted them, as well as to the yuletide comm.
Apparently Tumblr is up to its usual shenanigans, and there is likely to be an influx of Tumblr discontents joining Dreamwidth. I was reminded, in this context, of the existence offictional_fans, which is intended to be a low-stakes space for people new to Dreamwidth (or returning here after a long absence on other platforms) to get a feel for the site, while also serving as a space for general fannish discussion.
And finally, I'm considering doingsnowflake_challenge for the first time ever this January. I've never felt that I had enough time to do the challenge properly, but I've always wished I could participate, so I've decided that I will make the time for it. So ... expect fannish navel-gazing ahead.
I thought I'd gather some links to fannish resources/challenges here on Dreamwidth, even though I assume most people know about them.
The first is the comm
recthething. The clue is in the name — it's a community focused on gathering recs for fanworks. I plan to share my Yuletide recs there after I've posted them, as well as to the yuletide comm.Apparently Tumblr is up to its usual shenanigans, and there is likely to be an influx of Tumblr discontents joining Dreamwidth. I was reminded, in this context, of the existence of
fictional_fans, which is intended to be a low-stakes space for people new to Dreamwidth (or returning here after a long absence on other platforms) to get a feel for the site, while also serving as a space for general fannish discussion.And finally, I'm considering doing
snowflake_challenge for the first time ever this January. I've never felt that I had enough time to do the challenge properly, but I've always wished I could participate, so I've decided that I will make the time for it. So ... expect fannish navel-gazing ahead.
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Date: 2021-12-28 04:01 pm (UTC)I never found a home on Tumblr either, even though I was there for around eight years. My friends sold it to me as being 'less full of drama than LJ', and maybe it was at the start, but I always found it to be a place with constant flare-ups and fights, a sense that one had to always watch what one said, and where most people seemed actively averse to comments, discussion, or making new friends. But I know for others it really was the perfect platform, and I'm sorry to hear that it's become a hostile space. This whole situation has reinforced my opinion that fannish platforms will always let fans down, unless said platforms are built by and for fans, and with no intention to monetise.