lj_refugees | Fandom-y question

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There's also Follow Friday -- basically, there's a meme of posting on Fridays reccing interesting people and comms to follow.

All public posts tagged with "follow friday" or "followfriday" get sucked up into the magic tag feed here:

http://www.dreamwidth.org/latest?feed=followfriday

So it's a good way for people to spread the word about comms they love.

Basically, I think there's not a shortage of places to pimp; it's just that many comms haven't yet quite reached the critical mass that encourages people to jump in.Though that's starting to change as the population of DW grows ...

I'm kind of evangelical about this, but the best way of boosting comm development is for people to jump in and start posting and commenting.

I'm kind of evangelical about this, but the best way of boosting comm development is for people to jump in and start posting and commenting.
I'm only new here, but this is becoming my motto already. They need to print us t-shirts, or something. :D

(Thanks for the heads-up on the Follow Friday thing, though. I wasn't aware of that!)

I loooove Follow Friday. It's much more interesting to get personal, individual recs than a flat list of comms from the interests search, and it often comes up with stuff I'd never have thought of searching for.

And the tag feeds are marvellous (not to mention the tag cloud).

They need to print us t-shirts, or something. :D

Well, they don't have mottos, but there are t-shirts ... *g*.

Oh dear, of course there are t-shirts! *laughs*

There are rumors that there may be official

dreamsheep merchandise at some point too. *g*

And 'fandom' is a common enough tag that it's generally on the Latest Things as well, though it's not an Official Tag like Follow Friday is.

http://www.dreamwidth.org/latest?tag=fandom
There's a nice selection of other tags in the cloud too: http://www.dreamwidth.org/latest

Some of the fannish comms I am part of/know of/run, though not all of them are particularly active:

metaquotes: similar to the LJ one, less of an aggressively unsafe space. I help run this.

bechdel_test: Analysis of stuff to see how it actually does at including female characters, and the women in the shows having lives of their own.

beginningcocks: Various humor/rants/education about the cock, and what not to do with it (aimed at fanwriters who don't have a cock of their own and it shows, and people headdesking at same). I help run this. Involves lube/not-lube, the game.

bunny_support: Adoption centre for abandoned plotbunnies.

clan_mitchell: Microfandom-specific, for the family of various iterations of Cameron Mitchell. It's usually very cheerful and squeeful (the thing that made f_w was literally the first non-cheerful incident, which was why it was such a surprise to everyone involved).

dresden_files

factfinding: for research, including fic research.

fantasy

fantechcamp: This was originally for a fannish technology use camp last year, no word on whether it's going to be used for that again.

farrow_marshall: another microfannish corner, for a company belonging to Ba'al.

followfriday: Not specifically fannish, but the centerpoint of the Follow Friday tag.

fringetv_at_dw: Fringe!

harrypotter

holmes_watson

kink_bingo: Just finished up a fest, so there are OMG FICS OMG.

leftoverresearchquarterly: the complement of factfinding: if you have random facts you can't really put into your fic, this is where to infodump.

metafandom: another mirror!

myth_confirmed: another microfandom, MythBusters RPF.

nano_writers: Whee

nanowrimo!

ncc_1701: one of the less active Trek comms.

otw_news: Mirror of the OTW newsblog.

philedom: X-Files.

pterry_fans: Terry Pratchett fans.

queerlygen: Genfic featuring queer characters.

shareandsharealike: Poly stuff, including poly fic.

singularity: Star Trek 2009, lots of lovely stuff.

steampunk

strangepornfic: The weirder the better.

temeraire

the_studio: a general creative space.

thetroublewithdrabbles: drabbles.

trek_kink

unfunnybusiness_dw

vorkosigan

vulcan_reforged: post-Star Trek 2009 fics involving Vulcans.

what_ho_chaps: fic from England between WWI and WWII.

white_collar_ot3: Neal/Peter/El.

writerstorm: more creative space

Anyone who's got more, please chime in.

There are also comms for all the obvious big-name (and small-name) fandoms -- just on my network page, I'm seeing lots of love for Merlin, Sherlock Holmes (in all its variations), Doctor Who, Trek (in all its variations), Supernatural, Avatar: The Last Airbender, etc. etc. etc.

I'm not even going to try listing them ~~because I'm too lazy~~; the interests search is the best place to start looking.

But for stuff that's not fandom-specific, I'll throw in a plug for:

eid_ka_chand and

daysofawesome -- fic about Muslim and Jewish characters respectively (with a bonus crossover challenge!)

age_of_sail -- Temeraire, Hornblower, Master and Commander, Austen, Sharpe, etc.

access_fandom -- disability in canon and fandom.

dark_agenda -- encouraging writing characters of colour in fic.

codswallopers -- hitting fictional characters with fish.

rarelitfic -- just what it says on the tin.

asexual_fandom -- for people in fandom who identify as asexual; includes lots of discussion about characters who are canonically asexual or can be read that way.

ETA: Sorry if this is spamming your post,

jynx.

But yeah. The irony is that DW can look so fannish that in March, people started a Giant Non-Fandom Friending Meme to try to change the impression some people were getting that DW was "yet another clubhouse for the cool fandom kids."

Edited 2010-09-06 18:50 (UTC)

And since it might not occur to everybody, since it's a very DW thing -- just hanging out on the latest page looking for interesting fannish content, and then hopping in to the comments and saying "Hi, here via the latest page and this looked interesting", is totally socially acceptable, since everybody was so OMG PEOPLE THERE ARE PEOPLE HERE OMG at the start of things, whereas it might get you looked at really weird on LJ, not to mention that the latest page there has got a whole bunch of spam on it.

Given that... that is only about half a shade away from what I'm doing right now (god, I feel like I'm just randomly talking to people everywhere), this comment makes me feel so much better! :)

lol. i'm a lurker by nature, so me doing this and talking to people and all is all very new. LJ, look what you've done to me!! making me such a lurker... :| *scolds it.........with a brick*

Yay for jumping in! Seriously, go for it -- it's cool here. I've never seen anyone object if you drop in out of the blue saying "Here via the network" or "Here via the Latest page".

Edited (I r punctuate gud.) 2010-09-07 11:26 (UTC)

Here’s a just plain list of comms that list “Dreamwidth” as an interest. If you’re looking for specific people and fandoms, your best place to start might be

dreamchasers, a community started so people coming in from other services could find each other again. I hope this helps.

addme -- Add Me Friending Community (Updated 3 hours ago) -- A place to make new Dreamwidth friends!

bajingoicons -- bajingo icons (Never updated) -- icons and graphics

banners -- Banners (Updated 14 weeks ago) -- A Community for banners of all sorts: profile/userinfo, friends-only, etc.

codes -- DreamWidth invitation code sharing community (Updated 24 weeks ago)

collision -- collision (Updated 67 weeks ago) -- lj user

collide's virtual playground/dumpster

community_promo -- Promote Your Community Here! (Updated 20 hours ago) -- Community Promotion

create_my_comm -- Create My Community (Updated 3 days ago) -- A list of communities we WISH someone would create on Dreamwidth

dreamchasers -- dreamchasers (Updated 10 weeks ago) -- Find Other Dreamwidth Members

dreamfic -- Dreamwidth Studios Fanfiction (Updated 35 weeks ago) -- Fanfiction featuring Dreamwidth Studios

dreamicons -- Dream Icons (Never updated)

dreamsheep -- For sheep that dream of Dreamwidth. (Updated 4 days ago) -- A flock of sheepy icons (and other graphics) dedicated to Dreamwidth.

dreamwidth_chronicle -- The Dreamwidth Chronicle (Updated 70 weeks ago) -- Dreamwidth News You Can Use

dreamwidth_haikai -- Celebrating Dreamwidth One Syllable At a Time (Updated 2 days ago) -- An archive for Dreamwidth-centered haiku and other haikai

dreamwidth_meta -- Dreamwidth Meta (Updated 24 weeks ago) -- For meta about the Dreamwidth project and service.

dw_codesharing -- Dreamwidth Code Sharing (Updated 29 minutes ago) -- The official Dreamwidth code sharing community.

dw_docs_training -- Dreamwidth Documentation Training (Updated 59 weeks ago) -- a closed, moderated, response-screened training community for site docs volunteers

dw_wiki -- Dreamwidth Wiki Management (Updated 4 weeks ago) -- For the maintenance and advancement of Dreamwidth's community wiki.

dwsockclub -- Dreamwidth Sock Club (Updated 9 weeks ago) -- Dreamwidth sock knitters knitting together.

fantechcamp -- FanTechCamp, the Fannish Technology BarCamp (Updated 56 weeks ago) -- Fannish Technology BarCamp

followfriday -- followfriday (Updated 3 days ago) --

foxfirefey_dev -- Foxfirefey's Dreamwidth Development (Updated 10 weeks ago) -- Let's get down to business!

getting_started -- Questions and answers for new or confused DW users (Updated 20 hours ago) -- questions and queries

halfbaked_dreams -- Baking project for DW devs and other volunteers (Updated 60 weeks ago)

harrypotterdays -- Harry Potter Days -- A Community for HP Fans (Updated 2 weeks ago) -- For Harry Potter fans. Icons, recs, fanfiction, vids and more.

housewarming_dw -- Dreamwidth Housewarming Party (Updated 70 weeks ago) -- Unofficial Dreamwidth open beta housewarming party, April 30th> -- May 1st!

icon_style -- Icon Style Challenge Community (Updated 3 days ago) -- An icon challenge community interested in style, not content

iconoclast -- Iconoclast (Never updated) -- journal icons

stylemakers -- Layout Makers (Updated 14 weeks ago) -- Layout Makers: discuss S2, CSS and HTML; help; tips & tricks; links to articles

layouttree -- The Layout Tree (Updated 8 weeks ago) -- Free layouts, themes, & skins for your Dreamwidth Journal.

lifeonmars -- Life on Mars Community (Updated 70 weeks ago) -- For fans of the BBC Series, Life on Mars

littlegraphix -- Le Petit Graphics (Updated 52 weeks ago)

mcconaughey -- Matthew McConaughey (Updated 69 weeks ago) -- for the fans of actor/producer Matthew McConaughey

memewidth -- Memewidth (Updated 17 weeks ago) -- Your source for Dreamwidth third party applications.

on_width -- Nifty or new on Dreamwidth (Updated 51 weeks ago) -- Nifty or new on Dreamwidth

open_source_ftw -- Because open is better than closed! (Updated 47 weeks ago) -- Do you like Firefox? Linux? Freedom of choice and free, open standards? Talk about it here!

patd_slash -- Panic At The Disco Slash (Updated 55 weeks ago) -- Panic At The Disco Slash!

photocons -- Photography Icons -- Icons made from photography (Updated 2 days ago) -- For icons or graphics made from photography. Banners, headers and wallpapers welcome!

qtxpost -- QTXpost -- a crossposting LJ/DW client for Linux (Updated 9 weeks ago) -- crossposting LJ/DW client for Linux

quidditch -- Quidditch (Updated 69 weeks ago) -- icons, layouts and more!

rpads -- Roleplay Ads -- Advertise your game here! (Updated 1 week ago) -- For advertising your roleplay community

seedaccounts -- Seed Accounts Community (Updated 67 weeks ago) -- For the 300-odd members of Dreamwidth who have seed accounts!

seeds -- ❧ Seed Account Holders (Updated 62 weeks ago)

shifgrethor -- K's graphics place \o\ (Updated 69 weeks ago) -- K's layouts and graphics &c

sidetrackedery -- Sidetrackedery (Updated 12 weeks ago) -- Random stuff found on LJ, DW, Twitter, emails, and elsewhere.

skuds_missiles -- skud's missiles (Never updated) -- New dreamhackers post-Skud's OSCON keynote

the_dw_herald- The Dreamwidth Herald (Updated 4 days ago) -- Unofficial Dreamwidth newsletter

the_dw_monthly -- The Dreamwidth Monthly (Updated 43 weeks ago) -- This is a monthly round up of notable DW events.

three_weeks_for_dw -- three weeks for dreamwidth anniversary fest (Updated 2 days ago) -- It's a dreamwidth anniversary party! \o/

torontotest -- just testing community creation/management (Updated 69 weeks ago) -- this is just a test. will be deleted later

tria_test_layouts -- testing layouts for trialia (Updated 68 weeks ago) -- Nothing to see here.

tsockclub -- tsockclub (Never updated) -- For members of the Tsock Flock Club!

tsubasa -- Tsubasa -- A private community. (Updated 71 weeks ago) -- Private community between two users.

uk -- United Kingdom (Updated 3 weeks ago) -- United Kingdom (UK) users

veni_vidi_vids -- Vidding Fandom Newsletter (Updated 4 days ago) -- Vid Recs, Vidding Meta and Tech, IP News

we_love_denise -- We Love Denise -- all sorts of love and happy thing (Updated 24 weeks ago) -- Spreading the love for

denise

we_love_mark -- We Love Mark -- all sorts of love and happy things (Updated 24 weeks ago) -- Spreading the love for

mark

wherethewind -- WHERETHEWIND -- Layout Testing by Magz (Updated 70 weeks ago) -- Layout testing comm, for making DW layouts. Nothing fancy!

wtf_omgz -- WTF_OMGZ? (Updated 6 days ago) -- Gallery of things that make you say WTF?

xpostulate- Xpostulate user support and development (Updated 19 weeks ago) -- Xpostulate user support and development

yvi_dev -- Yvi's development braindump (Updated 6 weeks ago)

Edited (because one missing html tag creates the exciting new genre of OS PatD slash) 2010-09-06 19:12 (UTC)

Well, besides the ever-popular search box (search for interests, see if there are communities there that look interesting) there's also

fandomcalendar, which is an advertising community for any upcoming fandom event. It also has posts of "what you can read this month," i.e. what ficathons are posting. That's a good way to find communities.

DW Fandom communities I am a part of:

age_of_sail: A com for anything related to the Age of Sail, from Austen to Horatio Hornblower to Naomi Novik.

asexual_fandom: a com for dealing with issues of asexuality in fandom and/or writing asexual characters.

coltanheart: Terminator: the Sarah Connor Chronicles

crossovers

dark_agenda: promoting characters of color in fandom and fic

dc_fandom

doctorwho

dwfiction: Doctor Who fic

fandom_fanvids

hooked_on_heroines: focused on writing women in fiction- original fiction or fanfiction- and more specifically, writing women who are awesome.

in_the_beginning: a ficathon for the Hebrew Bible

judgementday

ladiesbigbang

monstrousregiment: Military history, culture, and fandom from a female perspective

phoenix_gate: Second chances in fic/art/vids for neglected or killed-off Stargate characters.

prospectus: multi-fandom WIP amnesty, plot bunny adoption, and cheerleading community

sg1_missionreport: the sg1 noticeboard

sg1canon: help with canon checks. (See also:

sgacanon and

sgucanon)

sg1genrecs

sg_military_beta

singularity: Reboot trek fic

star_trek_flashfic

starfighters: fanworks and discussion of military science fiction

stargate_love: SG1 discussion and fanfic

starry_sea: TOS and its merchandise: the TV show, the first six movies, the books, the cartoon, etc.

startrek

the_hub: Torchwood fanworks

tokra_tunnels

trekfics

treknovelfest: ficathon for the Star Trek novels

vidding

vorkosigan

writing_religion: asking questions with open minds. If you have a religious question for a fic, there's where to ask. (Assuming you're not a jerk about it.)

yuletide

I was thinking of creating a post for people to name fandom communities they'd like to see here on DW and then meet up with people who might be interested in joining with them to start/mod new comms that meet their interests.

Would that be helpful?

I think so. I mean, when I first came over to DW, I made 2 mirror comms. Lots joined, no action. That's...kind of why I'm like :| but. Naming and then creating based on (or pointing people to existing comms) would be awesomely helpful, i think. ^^;

Yeah, one of the things about comms is people have to actually post! I have a couple of comms I actively love, but haven't had the time to post on decently and so they are languishing.

This is another reason that I use the interest search - I look very carefully at how long it's been since someone posted in a comm I'm thinking of subscribing to/joining. Also, a big difference in subscribers vs. joiners mean lots of people want to read and comment, but not so many want to post, so the people who do have to be gung ho about it.

LOL my problem is the comms I made were for Marvel fic annnnd I'm not too much into Marvel anymore. Nor do I really focus on writing fic right now. But I wanted to give people a place to come over here. Sadface, it didn't work the way I thought. *pouts in the general direction of LJ people who won't move*

I am with you there. I didn't create any fandom communities, but I joined a bunch, hoping to lurk. You can lurk, of course, but somebody needs to speak up or there are no posts to lurk on.

I started a couple of multi-fandom comms, and when I'm on top of my game, they do really well. One (

crossovers) doesn't really even take any maintenance - people post on it pretty constantly, I just have to manage the tags (which I'm behind on, of course).

I realized shortly after I got here that getting my LJ friends to move (or the majority of my fandom) was just not going to happen, for any number of reasons, so that's when I decided to just put my effort into making the comms I want active. It's worked out pretty well for me, I think.

There's a community for that -

create_my_comm.

ETA: Oooh, sorry to be so abrupt! I just popped in because I know this one. :D

Edited (clarify) 2010-09-07 00:12 (UTC)

Cool! I'll probably link to that when I get a sticky post made up, but I'm thinking that I'll probably also do a post here for now. If only because there were a lot of people in the friending meme talking about their favorite comms at LJ and there was a lot of overlap. I'm thinking people might be more inclined to participate if it's here, with the same group of people involved.

LOL, sorry if that explanation isn't coherent, I'm in desperate need of some food at the moment. :D

No, it makes perfect sense - I'm in an old-ish fandom, so the big comms have been reproduced over here, but no one's really posting on them, sadfax. My fandom (what's left of it) is still firmly entrenched at LJ and not likely to move. :(

I know what you mean. I've done several interest searches and found a lot of inactive communities. I'm really thinking of going back through and making a "Is anyone still here?!" post at some of them, because I'm sure new people have joined with the LJ exodus going on. People might just be hesitant to post. It might be worth it just to see if anyone comes out of the woodwork.

I think that's a brilliant idea! I should get it on it and take care of the communities I'm modding.

I've done several interest searches and found a lot of inactive communities.

Yeah, my impression is that when open beta started, a lot of people just sort of copied the names of big LJ communities over and waited for a flood of people to materialize and start posting in the comm. And when that didn't happen, they abandoned the comm.

So there are a number of comms that died out after a few introductory posts. The comms that have taken off are the ones where the mods have been really involved and put a lot of effort into promoting the comm, starting posts, getting other people involved, etc..