some dw housekeeping notes
Nov. 17th, 2022 11:19 amstill deciding how i want to use ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
angelfeast moving forward but i've gone ahead and made a post about a recent ao3 exchange now that all authors have been revealed. i should probably delete or redo the pinned masterpost (it hasn't really been touched since the comm was imported to dw, lol) but that's not a big priority for me, mostly because ao3 functions as my archive rather than dreamwidth. i do want to eventually get more of my mixes off the graveyard that is 8tracks and hosted here instead but again, priorities. do people really do fanmixes anymore? and i think i'll make more icons for myself some time soon and post them there - several of the ones i have on this account are imported from my old lj, so.... i don't really have any fannish attachment to spn anymore, for example, though the icons are still pretty!
talking about ao3 vs dw reminds me: i read an interesting post a few days ago about the decline in activity for comms versus the heyday of livejournal and i'm still mulling it over. it's from 2018 by![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
muccamukk and you can read it here: "How Dreamwidth today is different from Livejournal fifteen years ago." the comm part isn't their focus but it caught my attention since that's something i've been thinking about with the current twitter chaos and related discussions about other ways to connect/network with likeminded creative people.
the point about personal journals being where a lot of fandom activity is these days sticks out to me because that's actually one thing i don't like about tumblr, how everything is thrown together. people talk about wanting a more decentralized internet experience again but that has to start at home, doesn't it? so there has to be a conscious effort to get fandom activity onto comms again rather than leaving it mixed in with everything else on your personal blog. i'm kicking around ideas of what to do withhellsing now that i'm the admin but whatever i do can only go so far without other active participants, so we'll see how that little experiment goes.
i know, i know - doesn't my daneposting on a personal journal put the lie to my complaints about mixing everything together? well, it started as incentive for me to use this journal again so there's that, but also it's not the kind of material that belongs in a fanworks comm (imo) and it certainly isn't something worth making a new comm for. it's not that i think people need to hypercompartmentalize their interests or whatever, but if you're interested in joining/building a community based on shared interests then using/creating a social hub for that purpose makes more sense to me. if i knew, say, five people who were also interested in daneposting then a comm might be appropriate but since it's really just me and the people who indulge me.... and if you're not interested in the community aspect of fandoms then obviously what i'm talking about here doesn't apply to you. there's nothing wrong with more solitary fannish experiences, especially given the minefields that a lot of contemporary fandom circles have become.
the comments on that post mention fake cuts, which i remember and did use, but i do think it depended a lot on the fandom. in tenipuri or playthedamncard, for example, a lot of discussion took place in the comm itself. most of the fic written by people in rahmbamarama was posted directly to the (locked!) comm. spn fandom had a lot of fake cuts and you can see from the imported posts in my fanworks comm that i posted fics there rather than to the relevant comm. but spn comms were still important as a social/discussion hub, even if they sometimes functioned more like the newsletters mentioned in the comments. i'll admit to not having yet taken the time to really go through the comments yet since i've mostly been using dreamwidth at work while waiting for things to scan like i'm doing now, orz, so do please let me know if you dig in and find anything you think i should read!
p.s. i went ahead and closed the poll in my previous post because for a while there it was a three-way tie and i didn't want that to happen again, lol. next chance i get to sit down for a screencap session it'll be the mission impossible episode and then, based on the level of interest expressed in the comments, after that post is done i'll finally focus on the seal-clubbing comedy. feel free to interpret that as either a promise or a threat.
angelfeast moving forward but i've gone ahead and made a post about a recent ao3 exchange now that all authors have been revealed. i should probably delete or redo the pinned masterpost (it hasn't really been touched since the comm was imported to dw, lol) but that's not a big priority for me, mostly because ao3 functions as my archive rather than dreamwidth. i do want to eventually get more of my mixes off the graveyard that is 8tracks and hosted here instead but again, priorities. do people really do fanmixes anymore? and i think i'll make more icons for myself some time soon and post them there - several of the ones i have on this account are imported from my old lj, so.... i don't really have any fannish attachment to spn anymore, for example, though the icons are still pretty!talking about ao3 vs dw reminds me: i read an interesting post a few days ago about the decline in activity for comms versus the heyday of livejournal and i'm still mulling it over. it's from 2018 by
muccamukk and you can read it here: "How Dreamwidth today is different from Livejournal fifteen years ago." the comm part isn't their focus but it caught my attention since that's something i've been thinking about with the current twitter chaos and related discussions about other ways to connect/network with likeminded creative people.the point about personal journals being where a lot of fandom activity is these days sticks out to me because that's actually one thing i don't like about tumblr, how everything is thrown together. people talk about wanting a more decentralized internet experience again but that has to start at home, doesn't it? so there has to be a conscious effort to get fandom activity onto comms again rather than leaving it mixed in with everything else on your personal blog. i'm kicking around ideas of what to do with
hellsing now that i'm the admin but whatever i do can only go so far without other active participants, so we'll see how that little experiment goes.i know, i know - doesn't my daneposting on a personal journal put the lie to my complaints about mixing everything together? well, it started as incentive for me to use this journal again so there's that, but also it's not the kind of material that belongs in a fanworks comm (imo) and it certainly isn't something worth making a new comm for. it's not that i think people need to hypercompartmentalize their interests or whatever, but if you're interested in joining/building a community based on shared interests then using/creating a social hub for that purpose makes more sense to me. if i knew, say, five people who were also interested in daneposting then a comm might be appropriate but since it's really just me and the people who indulge me.... and if you're not interested in the community aspect of fandoms then obviously what i'm talking about here doesn't apply to you. there's nothing wrong with more solitary fannish experiences, especially given the minefields that a lot of contemporary fandom circles have become.
the comments on that post mention fake cuts, which i remember and did use, but i do think it depended a lot on the fandom. in tenipuri or playthedamncard, for example, a lot of discussion took place in the comm itself. most of the fic written by people in rahmbamarama was posted directly to the (locked!) comm. spn fandom had a lot of fake cuts and you can see from the imported posts in my fanworks comm that i posted fics there rather than to the relevant comm. but spn comms were still important as a social/discussion hub, even if they sometimes functioned more like the newsletters mentioned in the comments. i'll admit to not having yet taken the time to really go through the comments yet since i've mostly been using dreamwidth at work while waiting for things to scan like i'm doing now, orz, so do please let me know if you dig in and find anything you think i should read!
p.s. i went ahead and closed the poll in my previous post because for a while there it was a three-way tie and i didn't want that to happen again, lol. next chance i get to sit down for a screencap session it'll be the mission impossible episode and then, based on the level of interest expressed in the comments, after that post is done i'll finally focus on the seal-clubbing comedy. feel free to interpret that as either a promise or a threat.
