Snowflake Challenge Day 6

[meridian_rose]

In your own space, create a list of at least three fannish things you'd love to receive, something you've wanted but were afraid to ask for - a fannish wish-list of sorts.

What I wrote that last year: Can we please do as most people asked on their fannish wishlist for day 4 and leave more comments? Can we journal more and create more? Can we rediscover the joy of fandom and stop with the "anti" behaviour? Please.

This year I have to say I've loved seeing more people come to/return to DW in light of the Tumblr purge. I did also find some communities actively standing up against anti behaviour and writing thoughtful meta about fiction, including at least one that's now at DW fiction_is_not_reality which helped me feel less alone. I've been spending less and less time at Tumblr and now more time here and I can honestly say I come away from DW far happier than I do from reading Tumblr. More community, more nuance, more focus on creating and supporting than "liking" and harassment. So yes, more of that!

Fanart is always welcome too of course!

Cheating because this isn't strictly fannish, but I always welcome more followers for my professional writing blogs, and I wouldn't have got this far writing original work and posting it without have the fanfic, LJ, and DW communities to encourage and support me. At the blogs I post fic snippets, flash fiction, poetry, writing prompts and more; I do write twists and modern takes on fairy tales and mythology, which straddles the border between original work and fanfiction!



My website has a WiP page for current novels in progress.

Comments

Snowflake Challenge 2019

[oldtoadwoman]

I just found that I wasted a lot of time on Tumblr and all I was doing was scrolling and hitting reblog. I wasn't really connecting with anyone and participating in fandom.

With Dreamwidth, you're more aware that those are real human beings behind the posts and comments.

Re: Snowflake Challenge 2019

[meridian_rose]

Yes, exactly that! I said in a recent post I didn't like part of fandom, a creator, just a consumer at Tumblr, endless scrolling and reblogging. There's very little sense of actual community and people as individuals.

Re: Snowflake Challenge 2019

[grayestofghosts]

I mean this is true, but it is also a lot more difficult to find certain kinds of content on DW. However for the mindless-image-saving that I actually enjoy to some extent, Pinterest actually does it better? It had all the visual content without much opportunity for interaction. The lack of interaction gives users much less of an opportunity to be mean to each other, while the amount of interaction required in DW discourages the kind of complete anonymity that makes people badly behaved. Tumblr was a really toxic mix with just the right amount of anonymity that brought out the worst in people, which is why I left in 2014.

[spikedluv]

Luckily I never really got deeply into Tumblr. I do like the ease of reblogging the pretty, but often that's all it was. I stopped reading my dash because I could never get through it all (and being a bit anal, it would drive me nuts to know there were posts left unseen *g*) and now I just go to individual accounts that I enjoy. Because of that I do spend a lot less time on Tumblr, but I'm also pretty insulated from the crap.

I'm also really glad to see a resurgence at DW. It's so much easier to ~talk to people here.

I didn't realize you wrote original fic (and if I did know at one point I must've had a brain fart); I bookmarked your website to check out later.

[meridian_rose]

I rely on rss feeds to keep with blogs I like because you can never, ever, keep with more than about 10 blogs if everyone is reblogging up to 250 posts per day! Scrolling the dash is the dangerous, mindnumbing part of Tumblr ;) (and where you tend to run into the crap, indeed)

It really makes a difference. I feel I'm having conversations and interactions with actual people at DW :)

Aw, thank you :) I keep separate accounts for the "professional" stuff, but I'm upfront on all platforms about writing both original and fanfic. However it's only the last year or so I've been working hard on posting regular content to the writing blogs, and then additionally promoting it to my fannish blogs :)

[spikedluv]

I just read a Day 6 post where someone mentioned their new comm meta_warehouse and I thought of you.

[meridian_rose]

Oh, thank you, that sounds perfect for me! I'll go subscribe :)

[spikedluv]

You're welcome! It was very serendipitous. *g*

[eternal-moonie.livejournal.com]

Great entry honey!

[meridian_rose]

Thank you! *hugs*