Weekly Activities
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newcomersSome communities and individual blogs have weekly activities or events that take place at a particular time. Most of these happen either at the beginning or the end of each week, most notably a gather post or a weekly update. Others happen at different times, and in fact there are lists of topics for every day of the week. Many people like to pick several events to space out through the week. This is one of the best ways to pin down the main topics of a blog or community. Events that run for one week also fall into the category of weekly events. This includes some challenges that have week-long sessions per prompt. Most people consider a blog or community "active" if it posts at least once a week, so this is a great way to maintain activity.
Fannish activities often advertise infandomcalendar and/or fandom_on_dw so watch those if this field interests you. Of these, fandomcalendar offers convenient Format: Fanweek and Frequency: Weekly tags, although not all relevant posts use those tags. fandom_on_dw does not offer frequency tags, but is a popular place to post all types of fannish events.
Other topics can be harder to hunt down because moderators often do not mark their community with Interests or Tags such as "weekly," "every 7 days," or other helpful descriptors of timing. However, it's worth trying the search tools for both of those features just in case. You can still find them by watching your reading page for things that your friends are doing. Some monthly events have banners that participants can use to promote them, and even with those that don't, you may see friends talking about what things they have signed up to do.
If you like "bleg" posts (short for "blog begging" where you ask questions of your audience) then this is a great topic for that. You can ask your friends what weekly events they are doing and/or which ones they recommend for you.
If you run a weekly community and/or make weekly posts in your blog, then put "weekly" in your Tags and Interests so that interested readers can find that. You may also find it helpful to note the frequency and any thematic plans in a calendar so you remember what to post when. If you're just repeating a gather post or using items from a list in order, you may not need the calendar support.
Weekly Activities and Communities
These have an official focus on posting once a week, or something similar in effect.
caturday -- Post some cats! Long cats, short cats, ceiling cat, basement cat, woolly cats, bald cats, all cats are welcome!
[Primarily Saturday cat pictures, memes, etc.]
Community Thursday is a type of recurring post. This began as a challenge fromgoodbyebird which has since spread; vriddy is another blogger who has a Community Thursday tag. Make an effort to engage with communities on Dreamwidth in one way or another, be it by commenting, posting, reccing, creating a community, or doing mod work for said community. Then talk about what you did in your journal, using the Community Thursday tag. Important: add Community Thursday to your Interests so that people can search for it, because the tag only lets them find it from inside your blog.
dw100 -- Doctor Who One Hundred
The weekly Doctor Who drabble challenge.
[New challenge each week.]
fandomocweekly -- Weekly Fandom OC Prompts
A weekly prompt community for original characters from existing canons. 2 new prompts are posted every Sunday. All mediums allowed, no length restrictions. Come have fun!
[New challenge each week.]
fandomweekly -- A multifandom weekly short fiction challenge.
This is a multifandom weekly fic challenge community, where participants write a short story (1000 words or less) based on a prompt. Each challenge has two elements: a Weekly Theme which the entry must be modeled on, and a Bonus Goal which may be a phrase, or other specific aspect to include or work with.
Challenges are posted on Wednesday and participants submit their entries through the week. On Monday night a voting poll is posted, and voting takes place through Tuesday and Wednesday, with winners announced Wednesday when the new challenge goes up.
[New challenge each week.]
fffc -- Froday Flash Fiction Challenge
Welcome to the Froday Flash Fiction Challenge. Every Froday will bring about some or other sort of challenge. Everyone is welcome to participate. All fandoms, pairings, ratings, genres, and languages are fair game, as is real person fiction. We also love original works.
[New challenge each week.]
Fitness Fellowship 2025 bysylvanwitch
[Gather post below which people can post comments.]
followfriday -- Every Friday, let's recommend some people and/or communities to follow on Dreamwidth.
[Gather post below which people can post comments with links. There is a list of active communities on a different theme each week.]
justcreate -- Just Create
A place for crafters, artists, coders, gardeners, and creators of any variety to share their projects. Weekly (or more) posts to sit down and create! Promote your on-going projects, livestreams, or recently finished works. Ask for feedback and concrit on your work. Encourage others!
[Gather post below which people can post comments with links.]
metropolising posts daily to weekly memes for fandoms that present scenarios to explore.
thankfulthursday -- Thankful Thursday
This is a weekly gratitude community. Nothing is too big or too small to share.
[Weekly community gratitude check-in.]
thefridayfive -- The Friday Five on Dreamwidth
There will be a set of five questions posted at the end of week. Please copy and paste them to your own journal, answer them there, and then post a comment to that week's Friday Five with a link to your journal entry. If your journal is "friends only," feel free to post your answers as a comment in that week's Friday Five.
[Gather post below which people can post comments with links.]
moodthemeinayear -- A Custom Mood Theme in a Year
At Mood Theme in a Year, the community assigns three moods a week for you to design images for. Draw, screencap, and/or animate your way to the custom mood theme of your dreams, with a community by your side to support and encourage you. Once a week starting in January, the community mod will make a post with three mood themes. Those are the suggested moods to work on for that week.
[Gather / discussion post each week listing its three moods.]
summerofthe69 -- Smut in the Style of 69
Themes forSummer of the 69 will be active for approximately two weeks, starting from posting time. At the end of a week's time, a new theme will be posted; a week after the new theme is posted, a post rounding up links to works created for the previous theme will be made, at which point the previous theme will officially close until September 7th. This will give all but the final two themes approximately two weeks for participants to post fills.
[Seasonally active from June 9 through September 6, with each week having a set of available themes.]
tv_talk -- Reviews, discussion and activities focused on TV content: come find your peeps!
[Two weekly posts, Speak Up Saturday and TV Tuesdays.
whenisitdue -- Challenge Deadline Directory
The reason for this community is to keep a running list of deadlines for different writing communities, icon challenges, and fests. There will be a main post that is sticky and is always updated with what is coming up. There will be a second sticky post that people can comment on to provide new entries that will be added to the main sticky post. And finally, there will be once a week posts that announce what is closing that coming week.
7 Days Of / 52 Weeks Of ...
Some challenges have a 7-day structure, whether online or offline. Some folks will grab any set of 7 and post it to their blog, usually one day at a time. There are also lists of 52 meant for one per week all year long. These are great if your brain tends to go, "AAAA I don't know what to post about AAAA" when you sit down to write. It's also a quick way to jumpstart a community. Here are some you might like to try:
1 Week of Journal Prompts
7 Days of Transformative Journal Prompts
7 Days of Writing Prompts to Unlock Your Untapped Potential
7 Journal Prompts for an Abundance Mindset
7 Prompts For Journaling Every Day Of The Week
Free Challenge: 7 Days To Genius Ideas
52 Types of Blog Posts that Are Proven to Work
52 Weeks of Sparkle: Journal and Planner Prompts
52 Weeks of Writing Prompts -- Carmen New
52 Writing Prompts to Inspire Your Next Blog Post
52 Writing Prompts
The "Fannish 50" project can be done as 50 weeks with two vacations, or you can expand it to Fannish 52 for one post every week. It can be any fannish topic, writing, art, whatever makes you fansquee.
Lets Do 52 Photo Prompts
A Week of Prompts From The Pillow Book
A Week of Writing Prompts: Week 1
Weekly 7-day writing prompts Archives
Holiday Lists
Another way to generate wildly different ideas for blog posts is to use a list of "(thing) Week" or "Week of (thing)" holidays. Some holiday calendars also update weekly, giving you a look at noteworthy days coming up.
2024 Cause Awareness Calendar
2024 Events & Recognition Dates Calendar
2025 Daily, Weekly and Monthly Holidays & Observances
Annual special weeks recognized by presidential proclamation
Appreciation Holidays
Awareness Months, Appreciation Weeks & National Days
Category:Week-long observances
List of International Days and Weeks
This Week's Worldwide Public Holidays
Recurring Posts
Weekly activities are a big category of recurring posts. Many of these appear either on the first day or the last day of the week. However, some bloggers pick a different day, or even several days each with its own theme.
Community moderators use recurring posts to make weekly check-ins, notify members about scheduled events, ask for volunteers, update members on community activity levels, encourage interaction, and so on. Usually this is just a copy of the basic form message, sometimes with changing details (like a weekly theme) updated accordingly.
Individual bloggers often use a recurring post to track things of personal interest. Writers may post the number of words written each week. Fanwriters may post a list of works created with links where you can find them, or just announce that they updated their Master List of Fics.
See the entry on Recurring Posts for more ideas. Here are a few popular options:
Monday
Meatless Monday
Monday Meme
Our Weekend
Plans for the Week
Tuesday
Review Tuesday
Tuesday Takeaways
Tuestorial
Wednesday
One Word Wednesday
WIP Wednesday
Wednesday Word Count
Thursday
Thankful Thursday
Three on Thursday
Thursday Thoughts
Friday
Fannish Friday
Friday Focus
Friday Freebie
Saturday
Saturday Craft
Saturday Showcase
Story Saturday
Sunday
Funday
Solar Sunday
Sunday Survey
Sustainable Sunday
Other Weekly Activities
Some weekly events don't fit neatly into any of the large categories. These are among the hardest to find, but well worth hunting if you want something outside of fandom. Watch your reading page for banners or friends talking about these events. You can also ask your audience if they know of any.
Bloggers may grab a "week of" and feature it. With a little searching, you can often find a list of prompts or suggested activities for that week's theme.
If you look at my Recurring Posts tag, you can see that I have:
Monday Update (which isn't actually on that tag)
Wednesday Rotation (Good News, Hard Things, Cuddle Party)
Thursday (currently Hobbies)
Follow Friday
Saturday (currently Philosophical Questions)
Fannish activities often advertise in
fandomcalendar and/or fandom_on_dw so watch those if this field interests you. Of these, fandomcalendar offers convenient Format: Fanweek and Frequency: Weekly tags, although not all relevant posts use those tags. fandom_on_dw does not offer frequency tags, but is a popular place to post all types of fannish events. Other topics can be harder to hunt down because moderators often do not mark their community with Interests or Tags such as "weekly," "every 7 days," or other helpful descriptors of timing. However, it's worth trying the search tools for both of those features just in case. You can still find them by watching your reading page for things that your friends are doing. Some monthly events have banners that participants can use to promote them, and even with those that don't, you may see friends talking about what things they have signed up to do.
If you like "bleg" posts (short for "blog begging" where you ask questions of your audience) then this is a great topic for that. You can ask your friends what weekly events they are doing and/or which ones they recommend for you.
If you run a weekly community and/or make weekly posts in your blog, then put "weekly" in your Tags and Interests so that interested readers can find that. You may also find it helpful to note the frequency and any thematic plans in a calendar so you remember what to post when. If you're just repeating a gather post or using items from a list in order, you may not need the calendar support.
Weekly Activities and Communities
These have an official focus on posting once a week, or something similar in effect.
caturday -- Post some cats! Long cats, short cats, ceiling cat, basement cat, woolly cats, bald cats, all cats are welcome![Primarily Saturday cat pictures, memes, etc.]
Community Thursday is a type of recurring post. This began as a challenge from
goodbyebird which has since spread; vriddy is another blogger who has a Community Thursday tag. Make an effort to engage with communities on Dreamwidth in one way or another, be it by commenting, posting, reccing, creating a community, or doing mod work for said community. Then talk about what you did in your journal, using the Community Thursday tag. Important: add Community Thursday to your Interests so that people can search for it, because the tag only lets them find it from inside your blog.dw100 -- Doctor Who One HundredThe weekly Doctor Who drabble challenge.
[New challenge each week.]
fandomocweekly -- Weekly Fandom OC PromptsA weekly prompt community for original characters from existing canons. 2 new prompts are posted every Sunday. All mediums allowed, no length restrictions. Come have fun!
[New challenge each week.]
fandomweekly -- A multifandom weekly short fiction challenge.This is a multifandom weekly fic challenge community, where participants write a short story (1000 words or less) based on a prompt. Each challenge has two elements: a Weekly Theme which the entry must be modeled on, and a Bonus Goal which may be a phrase, or other specific aspect to include or work with.
Challenges are posted on Wednesday and participants submit their entries through the week. On Monday night a voting poll is posted, and voting takes place through Tuesday and Wednesday, with winners announced Wednesday when the new challenge goes up.
[New challenge each week.]
fffc -- Froday Flash Fiction ChallengeWelcome to the Froday Flash Fiction Challenge. Every Froday will bring about some or other sort of challenge. Everyone is welcome to participate. All fandoms, pairings, ratings, genres, and languages are fair game, as is real person fiction. We also love original works.
[New challenge each week.]
Fitness Fellowship 2025 by
sylvanwitch[Gather post below which people can post comments.]
followfriday -- Every Friday, let's recommend some people and/or communities to follow on Dreamwidth.[Gather post below which people can post comments with links. There is a list of active communities on a different theme each week.]
justcreate -- Just CreateA place for crafters, artists, coders, gardeners, and creators of any variety to share their projects. Weekly (or more) posts to sit down and create! Promote your on-going projects, livestreams, or recently finished works. Ask for feedback and concrit on your work. Encourage others!
[Gather post below which people can post comments with links.]
metropolising posts daily to weekly memes for fandoms that present scenarios to explore.thankfulthursday -- Thankful ThursdayThis is a weekly gratitude community. Nothing is too big or too small to share.
[Weekly community gratitude check-in.]
thefridayfive -- The Friday Five on DreamwidthThere will be a set of five questions posted at the end of week. Please copy and paste them to your own journal, answer them there, and then post a comment to that week's Friday Five with a link to your journal entry. If your journal is "friends only," feel free to post your answers as a comment in that week's Friday Five.
[Gather post below which people can post comments with links.]
moodthemeinayear -- A Custom Mood Theme in a YearAt Mood Theme in a Year, the community assigns three moods a week for you to design images for. Draw, screencap, and/or animate your way to the custom mood theme of your dreams, with a community by your side to support and encourage you. Once a week starting in January, the community mod will make a post with three mood themes. Those are the suggested moods to work on for that week.
[Gather / discussion post each week listing its three moods.]
summerofthe69 -- Smut in the Style of 69Themes forSummer of the 69 will be active for approximately two weeks, starting from posting time. At the end of a week's time, a new theme will be posted; a week after the new theme is posted, a post rounding up links to works created for the previous theme will be made, at which point the previous theme will officially close until September 7th. This will give all but the final two themes approximately two weeks for participants to post fills.
[Seasonally active from June 9 through September 6, with each week having a set of available themes.]
tv_talk -- Reviews, discussion and activities focused on TV content: come find your peeps
You're welcome!
Date: Oct. 23rd, 2024 06:28 am (UTC)I'm happy to hear that.
>> It's great to have something to write about <<
Dreamwidth is full of things to write about! :D
>> and an excuse to necro a dead/dying community.<<
For what it's worth, I tend to use terms this way:
Dead -- a community that is inactive, with the moderator(s) unreachable, and the controls set to closed and/or moderated. It cannot be reactivated.
Dormant -- a community that is inactive, with the moderator(s) inattentive or unreachable, and the controls left open. People could still join and post, just wouldn't have access to moderation tools, so it could be revived.