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Building Your Circle

backofthebookshelf:

spank-the-villain:

dreamwidth-help:

dreamwidth-help:

If there’s one thing Tumblr does well, it’s that tag searches and reblogs make it fairly easy to find people to follow. In comparison, a common complaint I see often about Dreamwidth is that people unfamiliar with the format of LJ/DW find it hard to get “out there”. It’s not exactly like existing in a void, but you’re definitely not instantly connected the moment you start posting.

The key, similar to Tumblr, is exploring.

When you first make your journal, DW will suggest that you add a few interests to your profile. If the interest isn’t unique to you, it’ll turn into a search link when you view your profile, so you can find other users and communities who share it. Even if you don’t have a particular interest added, you can still look around using the search bar. (Example!)

Or, hey, curious to know what’s being posted to Dreamwidth in general? There’s the Latest Things page for you. (Keep in mind: you will see literally everything, depending on what and who are posting publicly, including unfiltered porn, spam, huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge images and posts.)

Friending memes play a part in finding other people. Essentially, someone sets up a post, you comment with some details and hopefully that way you gain some new friends. However, they tend to be rare and largely depend on where they’re posted/shared for people to find them. Add Me communities like these serve as an alternative.

Speaking of which: communities! The official FAQ gives a good overview of their purpose, but basically this is where most of the group discussion on DW happens. You might be familiar with them via kinkmemes. Some people even use them as separate art/writing blogs, as you can do on Tumblr.

As previously mentioned, you can search for communities by interest (WHICH IS WHY I can never emphasize enough how important it is to add interests when you make a new community). Alternatively, there’s the official community promo community (and others). Or, you can make your own!

I won’t lie: a lot of communities you come across will be inactive, since Dreamwidth kind of lost out when the majority of fandom shifted to Tumblr. A lot of people see this and try to start new ones, especially now, when it seems like there’s a growing need for more organized fandom than Tumblr can provide. I still highly encourage you to at least give the old communities a try, rather than letting them stay dead, as seeing someone else post may encourage others out of the woodworks. (I have seen it work, although with varying degrees of success.) The FAQ even has steps for you to consider if you think a community has been abandoned. But whatever works for you!

Phew. That should just about cover everything. Hope it helps!

Giving this post another bump again since people are reblogging it a lot right now.

Also, once you have a small circle, you can check out your friends’ circle for people with similar interests, and add them too.

Also - comment on people’s posts! Read the comments on your friends’ posts! I’ve found some of the best people just by reading comments and clicking through.

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butchmime:

i feel like. those gay boys who do makeup literally hav no idea how harmful makeup is to women because. theyre not expected to wear it they didnt grow up with that so its just a fun hobby to them. like this one time i was talking to this friend of a friend twink who has MUA in his instagram bio at a concert and he had like obv spent two hours doing his whole face highlight contour all the cut crease or whatever stuff and he was being real nice and then he was like “you have such good facial structure! i could do your makeup sometime itd be real fun!” and i was like thank you but nah i dont wear makeup anymore it fucked me up for a long time and made me feel real bad abt myself and. i swear he looked like a lost puppy he was glancing around like he was doing math equations in his head like he Could Not Process how my wearing makeup would hurt my self esteem bc? he does it to feel good and express himself! its 100% a personal choice for him! and i feel like these guys just have no idea how bad it is for women because its never been expected or required of them

im gonna!! add a lil something here bc ppl are misinterpreting this so reblog this version instead if ud like

-gay men are very brave and it is very hard for them to wear makeup. i didnt put this in this post because it’s not what it’s about, i didnt wanna make the post any longer than it was, and i feel like the mainstream media has done a relatively good job of showing that gay men are Very brave for wearing makeup and its something that does get talked abt

-the empowerment that men can feel through makeup creates a very different point of view from it than women who are expected to wear it. i think this leads them to not fully be aware of the harms it can cause women because while its talked a lot abt on tumblr not everyone. has tumblr and the mainstream media has done a Terrible job of showing this

-gay men who wear makeup arent at fault for not knowing abt it i just think it isnt talked abt like at all in their makeup communities specifically because they are makeup communities. its not their fault for not knowing but its def def def something we need to talk abt more and in general because that’s really a topic that often goes under the radar

-im not attempting to pit women against men here i just think men who wear makeup need to be aware at the difference in the ways makeup is defying the norm (men wearing it goes against society’s expectations, women not wearing it goes against society’s expectations) and thats def a thing men and women can unite over i dont want anyone thinking that this is a Men vs Women Whos Right Should We Wear Makeup Or Not thing

-terfs/radfems/transmisogynists don’t touch this post it’s not for you and trans women are fully included in all mentions of “women” in this post

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arkadycosplay:

From someone who’s survived MySpace, livejournal, deviantart, and fanfiction.nets’ content purges and bad policy updates, here’s some advice on how to get through tumblr’s recent bullshit:

- don’t knee jerk delete. I know it’s tempting to peace out immediately but hang on and do the other steps first. Out right ghosting and erasing everything is how fandoms die.

- archive everything on your blog you want to keep

- tell your followers how they can archive and keep your work too. A lot of fic and art were only saved from ff.net and lj because other people saved it first. If you’re cool with other people saving your work for them to personally keep, let them know this. You can absolutely discourage reposting but I really do highly recommend you allow people to personally save fic and art they like and are worried will disappear forever. Digital Dark Ages are a real thing.

- tell people where you’re jumping ship to. Give links. Keep that info up, even if you’ve left the site.

- go through who you follow and find out where else you can follow them. Save their work if they’ll allow it. It’s tedious as hell but if you want to keep up with people on here clicking on their page to check in is the best way to do it.

- support places like ao3. This is exactly why ao3 asks for donations a few times a year. They are a 100% anti-purging, judgement free, ad free non profit run by an elected board and protected by lawyers. Places like ao3 literally save fandom so please continue to support them and other similar archives. This is exactly why ao3 is so important.

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