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If anyone would like me to make a tutorial about something Dreamwidth related, or how it compares to Tumblr, I've got request posts up on Newcomers and The Great Tumblr Purge. Also on Dreamwidth Sharing on Tumblr. Leave a comment at one of those places or direct message me, and I'll see what I can do!

Current planned tutorials include cut tags, icons in general, and image uploading/sharing on Dreamwidth.

Current Mood: tired

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Absolutely devastating that Tumblr communities don't allow embedded links from Dreamwidth. I include so many of those fuckers in my tutorials, because I want to make things easier for potential Dreamwidth users! Unfortunately, when I go to copy-paste one of the tutorials I'm writing for

newcomers over to Dreamwidth Sharing on Tumblr, that means I have to manually remove all hyperlinks and either enter a Tumblr substitute (or the occasional non-Dreamwidth substitute), or include a plain text version of the link after the text I would normally embed the link in. Very frustrating, especially when Tumblr informs me that I missed a link, and therefore cannot post the entry to the community.

Current Mood: irritated

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Let us begin with the formal dissolution of NaNoWriMo, after several bad decisions, scandals, and questionable alliances had many of the participants moving away from the official forums or having official affiliations with the group.

musesfool gives us a poem from Barbara Jane Reyes that is a prayer to the Goddess of Lost Things, but the things that are lost are not merely the things that are physical, and several of the lost things are misplaced at a time where they are needed.

Social media influencers and thrill-seekers are still attempting to make contact with isolated peoples that have expressed a wish to stay isolated. Because the clicks and the potential revenue are worth more than the violation of international treaty, right? Or the possibility of bringing a disease with you that the isolated people have no defense against.

Obscenely wealthy person plans on going to another country because she's no longer getting a tax-preferred status, tries to soften the headline by claiming she'd be happy to pay more tax to maintain her preferred status.

There are burgeoning services for Catholic parishes, dioceses, and schools, to help make sure there isn't financial malfeasance and to give transparency and communication between clergy and laity to make those places work better for everyone. A far cry, indeed, from the Church that expected the laity to attend, say the appropriate prayers at the appropriate time, and otherwise just trust that the men who were priests and administrators were going to do well with it, even in the face of evidence to the contrary.

There are a lot of people out there who want the "right" people to have more children, and to have designer babies, and while many of them are also allegiants of eugenetics, people who decry the presence of women in the workplace (or doing anything other than popping out babies and raising them), and ideologies that praise white culture over any and all others, most of them also don't have a thought in their heads about what it would take to actually successfully raise all those kids. They've gotten to "Well, women should do it, because the only women we want are women who will enjoy having and raising children," and they think that will be sufficient as a national policy. Unfortunately for them, history did not begin in the 1950s, and therefore what they believe is timeless and traditional is actually quite newfangled and not very good for a lot of the population.

The National Health Service of the UK has announced that emergency contraception will be available at all community pharmacies for no charge, so as to try and alleviate some of the effects of variations in access and cost. This goes with plenty of other contraception available for no charge through the NHS.

Microsoft employees who protested the company's involvement in allowing Israel to prosecute its war against Gaza received retaliation for their act, either being ordered to retire a few days earlier or fired from their position.

( Your semi-monthly dose of U.S. politics, technology hacks, and people behaving poorly inside )

Last out for tonight, the trend of staying and living at your parents house for longer has been happening for quite some time, admittedly because there's less pressure for someone to leave and get an education, or to leave and put themselves into service in some other household. The people who are gung-ho about repealing child labor laws are probably hoping they can point to this kind of research and call it natural for children to go to work, never mind all the laws that are in place to prevent the exploitation of children and to make sure that they get enough sleep to go to their required schooling the next day.

And something to make you smile - a project to connect children to elders in Saidosho by turning the elders into trading card characters has worked extraordinarily well, with an entire TCG developing of these various community members and their skills.

(Materials via

adrian_turtle,

azurelunatic,

boxofdelights,

cmcmck,

conuly,

cosmolinguist,

elf,

finch,

firecat,

jadelennox,

jenett,

jjhunter,

kaberett,

lilysea,

oursin,

rydra_wong,

snowynight,

sonia,

the_future_modernes,

thewayne,

umadoshi,

vass, the

meta_warehouse community,

little_details, and anyone else I've neglected to mention or who I suspect would rather not be on the list. If you want to know where I get the neat stuff, my reading list has most of it.)

Current Mood: awake
Current Music: Danny Elfman - Serenada Schizophrana - I Forget

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Oh right, I should probably explain why I suddenly switched from posting about specific Dreamwidth communities I run to posting about Dreamwidth in general.

Automattic just laid off 16% of their workforce;

3liza reports:

from my sources adjacent to tumblr–from which i can spread rumors and insider information freely because i dont give a fuck about ever working in the tech sector–im hearing this round of firings was focused on purging the senior staff, and not just from support but from the entire remaining tumblr workforce. i’m hearing there are about 25 people left.

I know we've claimed that Tumblr's death knell was tolling before, but this sounds really bad.

I've seen people suggesting alternatives, but Dreamwidth is what I know, and I love it here, so Dreamwidth is what I'll be talking about. Expect me to be talking about it more for at least a little while, even if all I'm doing is drafting out posts to make elsewhere.

Current Mood: shrug emoji

jajalala

Wahoo for late fic retrospectives! I've previously done these during January, fresh off the year change, but life has been busy. Still, better late than never, right?

I got into some exciting experimentation with workskins, HTML, and CSS. I TECHNICALLY fulfilled my vow to post some smut in 2024, just barely in time. I was mostly in the BNHA zone as usual (with a lot of TogaChako!), but also dipped into Dragonball Z where I posted my first M/F fic.

So let's get into it!

Boku No Hero Academia
( Revolutionary Girl Ochako )

The three other BNHA fics were all oneshots for No Writing Academia's Fic Fight event, which takes place every June. No Writing Academia is positive BNHA writer's space, though the overall tastes of the server aren't the same as me, there were enough folks with prompts/ships/characters that I could work with that I had fun! It's a SFW server though, so I was a bit restrained from what I love most.

( The Red Beryl Athena )

( Uh-oh, I’m A Hero Who Transmigrated To The Dating Sim My Villain Rival Was Playing To Save Her, But Now She’s The Protagonist And I’m The Villainess! )

( Creation and Destruction Go Hand in Hand )

No Fandom
( Fic Ending Fakeout Demonstration (Dark/Light-compatible) )

Dragon Ball Z
( A Romance Novel is a Battle Manual )

In September, I started posting a new TogaChako multichapter (My Whole Life For Yours), but I didn't finish until March 2025, so I'll discuss it in the 2025 retrospective.

Compared to previous years, it feels like I've not written as much, but there are two particular factors I'll note: One, I was also working on an original project ("Vampires and Werewolves in Space"), which occupied my "multichapter project" energy between ending Revolutionary Girl Utena and starting My Whole Life For Yours. Secondly: I started part-time grad school in the late summer, which sapped away a bunch of my time.

I would like to say "No I'm really gonna write more smut this year!"... but who knows! I suspect my output this year will be attenuated again due to similar factors... I'm still doing grad school (and expect to be doing so through the end of the year), I have another original project I've been slowly working on ("Regency Lesbians"!), and there's some job uncertainty/potential job change (and apartment move!) coming up that might disrupt my schedule or my sanity depending on how it turns out.

There IS a smutty BNHA multichapter in the wings that I would love to start posting... I've been slowly adding to it since at least last year... but I need to work on it a bit more and get a better sense of the direction/timeline before I start posting. There's also a handful of little concepts I'd like to work on... plus Fic Fight in June! Depending on job and class stuff, I'd still like to participate in Fic Fight, as I've found the structure to stimulate creativity without being too overwhelming.

We'll see how things turn out!

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Well, Dreamwidth post organizing didn't really happen today, but I did post an updated version of "What to post about on Dreamwidth" a few places!

I also thought of a couple more About Dreamwidth posts I want to make, with some points I want to touch on:

Commenting on Dreamwidth, and specifically how the comment section is where our "Yes, And" stuff happens on "silly" posts.

Icons on Dreamwidth, and specifically the comparison I made to reaction images. Information on where to get icons and/or how to make icons is a must (I only know the most basic of basics myself, so I'll have some looking up to do!), but I also plan to cover the fun that can be had with icon keywords.

Both of these I'd say fall under the "Dreamwidth Culture" umbrella, with the icons post potentially also covering "How To" basics.

Current Mood: thoughtful

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Still not quite recovered from Surprise Nibling Appearance yesterday, nap imminent, but wanted to do a quick share: Dreamwidth Sharing community on Tumblr. Hopefully we'll be able to centralize some resources there, and then mirror them to Dreamwidth, and/or vice-versa.

Current Mood: sleepy

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Last thing I'm going to do tonight and then I'm going to bed for realsies, I swear.

I post a fair amount about Dreamwidth on Tumblr every time things look like they're going to shit there, because I love Dreamwidth and want more people to come hang out here, and I want to archive those posts over here. Tomorrow, I'm planning to go through my various Dreamwidth posts and sort out what's useful here and what's redundant. To that end, I'm going to sort them into what I think of as the categories of Dreamwidth posts I make.

These are the categories of posts I think I make about Dreamwidth; I may discover more in my organizing tomorrow, but I think this is a good start.

1) Love Letters to Dreamwidth
Any time Tumblr seems to be in danger, and sometimes for unrelated reasons, I write a post about why I love Dreamwidth and why I think a lot of people would also love it here. These are posts about that.

2) Links to Dreamwidth guides
Anywhere I collect links to guides other people have written about Dreamwidth. I'll probably just collect the direct links for those, rather than my reblogs of them, though I may also round all those links up into a single post for people to reblog on Tumblr.

3) Dreamwidth guides I've written myself
Sometimes I answer questions about how to do Dreamwidth; this is that

4) Dreamwidth cultural guides
There's some pretty significant cultural differences between Dreamwidth and Tumblr, and I talk about them in these posts. I certainly don't expect Dreamwidth to stay 100% the same with a huge influx of new users who bring their own experiences and posting styles from elseweb, but some of these differences stem from the technological side of things (such as no native reblogging feature, and tags being strictly organizational), so I figure that's important to know.

Okay, bed time now, I promise.

Current Mood: exhausted

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Me: *makes a post on Tumblr titled "What to post about on Dreamwith"*
Me: *notices ten minutes later that it's on my dash right under a post that's been reblogged by gimmick blog

trochaic-mutant-ninja-tetrameter, and that the title scans*
Me: Gosh it'd be swell if the person who runs that gimmick blog noticed...

Current Mood: amused

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Putting together a post for Tumblr, but I figure I'll probably want to back it up here, so I'm typing it here first to make copy-pasting easier 😂

[Edit] Now rebloggable on Tumblr! [/Edit]

[Edit 2] Added a few more things to this version! I'll be copy-pasting it to

newcomers,

the_great_tumblr_purge, and the new Dreamwidth Sharing community on Tumblr shortly. [/edit]

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There's a question that may be on a lot of minds right now, that some people may be afraid to ask. Or you might not even think to ask it until after you're in deep enough that you'll feel silly for doing so. So let's get it out of the way ASAP.

"But what do I even post on Dreamwidth? Don't all posts there need to be super long and thoughtful?"

Not even a little bit! As with any social media site, posting is the blood that keeps social interactions going. Comments are also vital, but they don't happen without posts to comment on. Unfortunately, with the (I'm sorry to say) sub-par image hosting interface on Dreamwidth (that will hopefully be fixed someday, but probably is at least several years out, I'm even sorrier to say), people who are used to an image-heavy social media site might be a bit daunted by Dreamwidth's text-heavy interface. So here's some ideas of things you can post:

Shitposts. It is entirely fine, okay, and even wonderful to make shitposts on Dreamwidth! Since Dreamwidth isn't a content aggregation site and doesn't have built-in reblogging, you probably shouldn't expect them to go very far (unless a member of

metaquotes sees them and wants to share), but they're still welcome 👍

GIPs, or, Gratuitous Icon Posts! Free users get a total of 15 icons to use like reaction images and gifs, and sometimes when you upload one, you just want to share it with everyone right away! That's when you make a Gratuitous Icon Post. You can literally just make a post using that icon, and then put GIP in the text field, and boom! You're done.

Steal some prompts from

sunshine_challenge,

snowflake_challenge, or

thefridayfive. While you can also do any of these challenges in real time, there's nothing stopping you from doing them whenever you want, and The Friday Five has a huge number of back-posts to dig through. Just go back a few pages on the main community page, pick a day with questions you like the look of, and post those (with your answers) to your journal!

Another good place to steal some prompts is Questions and Questionnaires for

3weeks4dreamwidth; Three Weeks for Dreamwidth is the annual celebration of Dreamwidth's birthday, and a lot of people come up with fun things to do for it that you can do at any time.

Check out

allbingo as well! While a lot of the bingo cards are made with fests in mind, there's no reason you can't pick or make a random bingo card and use the squares to come up with topics to post about. Money says the community would be down to celebrate a posting bingo with you, too!

Do you have a pet? Or more than one? Post about what they're doing right this second. Someone's bound to be interested in that!

To-do lists. Not only can it be helpful to have these actually written out, some of your followers may chime in to root for you to do them!

Media reviews in three sentences or less. Of course you can make them longer if you want, but if you're just looking to get a quick post out, this one might be pretty fun.

Something you're looking forward to! It doesn't have to be a big thing, even something like, "I can't wait for my next afternoon nap!" or "I just bought a new book and I'm really looking forward to reading it!" or "I wanna go home so I can pet my dog so bad!" Any of those would be a fine post.

Three (or more) Things Make a List: If you've got at least three things you've been meaning to post about, but don't have a lot to say about any of them, jumble them all together in the same post! Pretty sure this tradition dates back farther than Dreamwidth, though damned if I could say where it started.

Reoccurring posts are great for if you want to share something regularly and prompt discussion. Just come up with a few quick lines that you can copy-paste and share whenever, and boom! Solid posting strategy right there. There's a number of communities where this approach is fairly common, in addition to individual users.

It may not seem like these ideas have a lot in common, but one thing they're all good for is starting a conversation with your followers. And that's at least half the fun of Dreamwidth, IMO.

There's more ideas out there, but these should at least get you started. And if you keep it up, you'll have the hang of Dreamwidth in no time 😉

(With thanks to

ysabetwordsmith for some of these suggestions 💖)

Current Mood: you can do it!

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Arrrrrrgh, I need to advertise

moodthemeinayear and

summerofthe69 on Dreamwidth and not just Tumblr...!

Okay. Quick break to play a little Legends: Arceus (Enamorous is a huge pain to capture), then I'll go a-postin'. I can do this. I can beat my executive dysfunction about this.

Edit: Me, after twenty-five frustrating minutes of running around fruitlessly after Enamorous, without getting in so much as a single hit: "Okay, fuck this noise." *logs onto Pokémon Home* *finds someone willing to trade game-approved Enamorous for a Bloodmoon Ursaluna* *thinks about it for all of ten seconds before making the trade* Much better.

Then I offered up a shiny Eevee I'd migrated from Pokémon Go for a new Bloodmoon Ursaluna, and got one in under ten minutes. That felt a little bit like cheating, not gonna lie, but I don't regret it.

Okay, time to move some Pokémon around, then finally it'll be Posting Time.

Edit 2: Posting is done for tonight, along with some Mood Theme Bingo Cards 👀

Current Mood: listless

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exuberantocean made the following post:

Please call this recession the Trump Slump.

We need to put Trump’s name on this.

I, for one, like this idea and would like to see it come to fruition! Who's with me?

Current Mood: devious

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