Introduction / Friending Meme

[ysabetwordsmith]

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About You
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Your Interests and Activities
What languages do you speak?
What are some of your favorite hobbies?
What television shows and movies do you like?
What books or other written fandoms are you into?
What kinds of music do you enjoy? Listening, playing, or both?
Do you have a transformative works statement / blanket statement?
What are some worthy causes you support?
Do you have pets or livestock, and if so, what kinds? Do you watch wildlife?
Do you enjoy gardening or houseplants, and if so, what kinds?
What does your average day look like?

About Your Blog
What is your Dreamwidth blog like?
What is your blog metaphor?
How active is it?
What are your most common topics? (Use Manage Tags and Sort by: usage to find this.)
How do you feel about crossposting?
Is your blog more text-heavy or image-heavy?
Do you paste in or link to a lot of audio or video content?
Do you use recurring posts, and if so, what topics?
Is your blog more personal, professional, topical, or a mix?
Is it all open, all friendslocked, or somewhere in between?
Do you use filters, and if so, what kinds?
What kinds of friends would you like to attract to your blog?
Do you participate in creative bingo, fests, challenges, memes, holiday festivities, or other blogging events? If so, what are some of your favorite ones?
What are your policies on friending and granting access, if any?

Your Blog-reading Habits
How often do you check your friends feed?
About how much time do you spend reading blogs?
How active do you like a blog to be?
What kinds of blogs or topics do you most enjoy reading?
What are some of your favorite individual blogs on Dreamwidth?
What are some of your favorite communities on Dreamwidth?

Currently...
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[atlantablack]

About You

Username: atlantablack

Your other online venues
-Tumblr: atlantablack and AO3: atlantablack are my two main places I'm active but honestly you can find me under atlantablack on Pillowfort, Bluesky, and the Silmarillion Writers Guild (even spotify and storygraph haha)

Your approximate location (e.g. city, state, country, and/or bioregion):
-USA in the pacific northwest

Any other important personal details you want to share:
-Just hit my 30's :)

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Your Interests and Activities

What languages do you speak?
-only English :( I keep trying to learn Spanish but...

What are some of your favorite hobbies?
-writing and reading mainly

What television shows and movies do you like?
-I don't watch a lot of stuff anymore but I like the MCU movies, LotR movies are amazing, The Good Place <3, The OA, Stranger Things, BBC Merlin

What books or other written fandoms are you into?
-Mainly into the Silmarillion fandom right now! I'm reading my way (slowly) through all the Tolkien works - I also really like reading Narnia fic - non-fandom I like reading a variety of different poetry (Richard Siken, Traci Brimhall, Ada Limón) & I LOVE The Raven Cycle

What kinds of music do you enjoy? Listening, playing, or both?
-I honestly will listen to pretty much anything if it just hits my brain right, I'm not married to any specific genre - my favorite artists at the moment though are: Taylor Swift, Xana, Gracie Abrams, Knox, Flora Cash, Nicotine Dolls, Jordan Davis - I have a spotify playlist if anyone wants to see it

Do you have a transformative works statement / blanket statement?
-uh no I should probably make one at some point though

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About Your Blog

What is your Dreamwidth blog like?
-It's going to be very fandom based, maybe a personal post here and there but very few if any, I do have a very specific tagging system so it'll be easy to filter by fandom

How active is it?
-Ideally I'll be posting a few times a week (right now I'm posting a lot because I'm archiving tumblr stuff)

What are your most common topics? (Use Manage Tags and Sort by: usage to find this.)
-web weaving (that's what I'm archiving from tumblr) - I imagine it'll eventually be the Silmarillion though

Is your blog more text-heavy or image-heavy?
-image heavy right now, will probably switch to text-heavy later

Is it all open, all friendslocked, or somewhere in between?
-at the moment everything is public and I don't really see myself ever changing that honestly - if I really want something to be private I will simply not be posting it on the internet haha

What kinds of friends would you like to attract to your blog?
-please talk to me about fandom! I really want to discuss all the silly little characters that constantly live in my brain

Do you participate in creative bingo, fests, challenges, memes, holiday festivities, or other blogging events? If so, what are some of your favorite ones?
-I do sometimes! I don't participate in a lot but I'm going to do the tolkien reverse big bang this summer which will be fun!

What are your policies on friending and granting access, if any?
-You automatically have access since all my stuff is public and as far as friending I suppose we will...have to become friends? And then we can friend each other? I'm only half-sure I understand how this part works honestly.

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Currently...

Listening to:
-Missing Home by flora cash

Reading:
-Unfinished Tales of Númenor & Middle Earth | On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder

Playing games:
-I play sporadically but I'm in the middle of playing Zelda Tears of the Kingdom whenever I get back to it

Planning for:
-how to use dreamwidth & how to finish the next chapter of the fic I'm writing

Hello!

[ysabetwordsmith]

Welcome to Dreamwidth. It's good to see you here.

>> -writing and reading mainly <<

There are many communities on these topics, so here's a sample:

drabble_zone -- The Weekly Drabble Zone
A community for people who enjoy writing 100 word drabbles.

ficlet_zone -- Fic writing.

writethisfanfic -- We help the helpless (fanfic writer)
Helping fanfic writer hopefuls.


book_love -- Let's chat books!

books -- Books are uniquely portable magic.


>> -Mainly into the Silmarillion fandom right now! <<

silwritersguild -- Silmarillion Writers' Guild
Fan writing and art focused on J.R.R. Tolkien's Silmarillion.

tolkienshortfanworks -- A community for short fanworks from Tolkien fandom.

>> non-fandom I like reading a variety of different poetry <<

I host a Poetry Fishbowl in blog on the first Tuesday of each month. I set a theme, folks give me prompts for it, and I write things based on that inspiration. Next up will be Ethical Supervillains on May 6. Come check it out and watch the fun.

Also a ton of my poetry is posted online in the Poem tag on DW, or use the Serial Poetry page to follow related sets. But make sure you've got time for reading, because people have lost whole weekends down that rabbit hole.

>> Do you have a transformative works statement / blanket statement?
-uh no I should probably make one at some point though <<

It would be very helpful to have that before you start joining communities where it's relevant, and especially before Three Weeks for Dreamwidth (April 25-May 15).

Mine is here:
https://ysabetwordsmith.dreamwidth.org/11265651.html

Some references:
https://fanlore.org/wiki/Blanket_Statement

https://thefourthvine.livejournal.com/173875.html

https://www.inklewriter.com/stories/115743


>> How active is it?
-Ideally I'll be posting a few times a week (right now I'm posting a lot because I'm archiving tumblr stuff) <<

Yay! Watch for people who say that they're having a hard time finding active blogs. You're right in the sweet spot for many of them, not too slow or too fast.

>> -at the moment everything is public and I don't really see myself ever changing that honestly - if I really want something to be private I will simply not be posting it on the internet haha <<

Yeah, that tends to be my approach too.


>>Do you participate in creative bingo, fests, challenges, memes, holiday festivities, or other blogging events? If so, what are some of your favorite ones?
-I do sometimes! I don't participate in a lot but I'm going to do the tolkien reverse big bang this summer which will be fun!<<

fandomcalendar and fandom_on_dw are the leading places for news about events.

allbingo hosts a new fest each month. You just missed the Tolkien fest in March, but you can play any card at any time, so feel free to make one now.

Three Weeks for Dreamwidth (April 25-May 15) is the next big event, when folks celebrate the platform's birthday by posting things only on DW. It's a great time to make new friends while activity is high.


>>as far as friending I suppose we will...have to become friends? And then we can friend each other? I'm only half-sure I understand how this part works honestly.<<

Friending is about following each other's blogs. Some platforms automate it more than others. DW is more versatile, less automatic. If you hover over the userhead it will give you a menu that includes "Subscribe."


>>Planning for:
-how to use dreamwidth & how to finish the next chapter of the fic I'm writing<<

There are lots of resources here on how DW works, particularly in How To and Cohost Is Closing.