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Three Weeks for Dreamwidth: Introduction

Sat, 25 Apr 2026 08:14:19 GMT

Posted by: ysabetwordsmith

Three Weeks for Dreamwidth is a celebration of the platform's anniversary, running April 25-May 15. During this time, people post content only visible on Dreamwidth (although it can be reposted elsewhere after the event ends). There's usually a flurry of activity as bloggers share anchor posts, new fiction, icons, banners, questionnaires, friending fests, memes, and other goodies. Community hosts often hold special activities in their communities too. Watch your reading page for more festivities.

Are you posting about your experiences coming into Dreamwidth, or anything useful to newcomers on the platform? You can crosspost those entries here. Are you doing anything for Three Weeks in your blog or other community? Post a comment about that to attract more readers. Follow the Threeweeks feed. See my 2024 Questionnaire and a list of other thematic questionnaires. See the Introduction / Friending Meme for this community's questionnaire about new bloggers, and the Introduction tag.

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Three Weeks for Dreamwidth

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 01:30:17 GMT

Posted by: ysabetwordsmith

Watch for the upcoming event Three Weeks for Dreamwidth, running April 25-May 15. Folks post content only visible on Dreamwidth, and there are usually memes and other activities too. Mark your calendars!

This year I'm planning to focus on reading books to become an expert.

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March Meta Matters

Mon, 02 Mar 2026 03:05:07 GMT

Posted by: ysabetwordsmith

marchmetamatterschallenge is now open. \o/ Visit MARCH META MATTERS CHALLENGE, CHECK-IN NO. 1 to introduce yourself and lay out your goals. If you are new to Dreamwidth, this event is basically about archiving your meta -- which you can do by crossposting it to Dreamwidth or using an archive site -- and writing new meta if you wish.

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Crafts

Sun, 01 Mar 2026 23:43:40 GMT

Posted by: ysabetwordsmith

March is National Crafting Month Bingo over on allbingo. Drop by the Meet and Greet to talk about what crafts you love and hate or make new crafty friends.

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Snowflake Challenge: Friending Meme

Sun, 01 Feb 2026 04:14:58 GMT

Posted by: ysabetwordsmith

snowflake_challenge is hosting its Friending Meme today. This is one of the best opportunities of the year to make new friends on Dreamwidth. Use the template in that post to comment with your response.

You can also copy it onto your own blog, as I've done here. This provides a place for longer conversations if desired, so they don't clog up the main challenge, which typically runs hundreds of comments anyhow.

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Event

Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:37:18 GMT

Posted by: ysabetwordsmith

The threesentenceficathon starts this Saturday, January 17. Zero pressure comment fic community, where the idea is to write 3 sentence fills for prompts that anyone can post -- the "3 sentences" part is more of a starting point that inevitably leads to creative uses of punctuation. The ficathon is open to new prompts until February 15, but the community is always open to new fills.

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Snowflake Challenge

Wed, 31 Dec 2025 20:45:14 GMT

Posted by: ysabetwordsmith

The snowflake_challenge has made its Master Post. :D

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Snowflake Challenge

Mon, 29 Dec 2025 17:15:06 GMT

Posted by: ysabetwordsmith

Happy Snowflake Season to all! As we prepare to kick off the 2026 snowflake_challenge, please feel free to promote this event within your own circles. You are welcome to use any of these new banners for that. The community page also has icons.

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Sunshine Revival

Mon, 30 Jun 2025 18:28:46 GMT

Posted by: ysabetwordsmith

sunshine_revival has posted a Friending Meme. The calendar of activities is here and the fest will open on July 1. Prompts will appear throughout July which you can fill with any creative activity. It's a great way to make new friends. Use the master post to navigate the event.

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Sunshine Revival

Thu, 12 Jun 2025 21:24:33 GMT

Posted by: ysabetwordsmith

The old sunshine_challenge is defunct, but other folks are reviving it this summer with the sunshine_revival. See the schedule and link below for more information. There will be a friending meme if you want to meet new folks. Spread the word!

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Three Weeks for Dreamwidth Wrapup

Thu, 15 May 2025 18:37:03 GMT

Posted by: ysabetwordsmith

Today is the last day of Three Weeks for Dreamwidth. It's time to wrap up your projects from this event.

You can revisit my opening post above to see what other folks did during this event. Today is a good time to revisit new friends or communities and think about adding them if you have not already done so. Check for finished lists from folks who set a goal of posting every day, or making three anchor posts, to catch anything cool that you might have missed in the scurry. Revisit recent friending memes (some are linked in that post) and Add Me communities to read late entries.

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Sunshine Revival

Fri, 09 May 2025 18:17:15 GMT

Posted by: ysabetwordsmith

The old sunshine_challenge is defunct, but other folks are reviving it this summer.

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Dreamwidth Points

Sat, 26 Apr 2025 19:07:35 GMT

Posted by: ysabetwordsmith

yourlibrarian is hosting a Dreamwidth points giveaway. Points can buy paid time or other perks for an account, if you've been wanting to explore more of what this platform offers. Spread the word!

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Three Weeks for Dreamwidth: Introduction

Fri, 25 Apr 2025 06:43:09 GMT

Announcing the May Trope Mayhem Prompt List for 2025!

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 18:57:27 GMT

Posted by: ysabetwordsmith

Announcing the May Trope Mayhem Prompt List for 2025!

May Trope Mayhem is a multi-fandom/original creation event open to writers, artists, and creators of all kinds! Our creators have shared their favorite tropes, and we’ve put together a list of 31, one per day through the month of May. We encourage creators to join us for this month of fun tropey mayhem.
Our goal is to promote motivation and help with habit building, so we’re encouraging authors to keep their ficlets under 1,000 words, artists to stick to making just a sketch, gif makers to only do a single image, etc., as applicable to whatever you’re making.

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Three Weeks for Dreamwidth

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 16:36:33 GMT

Posted by: ysabetwordsmith

Watch for the upcoming event Three Weeks for Dreamwidth, running April 25-May 15. Folks post content only visible on Dreamwidth, and there are usually memes and other activities too. Mark your calendars! The higher activity level makes that a great time to make new friends, find communities, and otherwise get more involved on DW.

This year I'm planning to focus on goal-setting methods.

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March Meta Matters

Fri, 28 Feb 2025 03:46:33 GMT

Posted by: ysabetwordsmith

MARCH META MATTERS CHALLENGE, CHECK-IN NO. 1 on marchmetamatterschallenge

Welcome to year 6 of the Meta Matters Challenge! I'm your moderator, yourlibrarian .

These posts will be used for us all to check-in with one another, offer encouragement and answers to questions, and maybe tips we come up with as we copy our work to other locations.

This challenge runs through the month of March. Visit the above post to introduce yourself and your goals.

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Valentines Meet and Greet

Sun, 02 Feb 2025 05:05:50 GMT

Posted by: ysabetwordsmith

allbingo is hosting a Valentines Meet and Greet alongside the Valentines Bingo. The bingo includes sublists for romantic, erotic, platonic, solo, and other prompts. Swing by and make some new friends!

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Rose and Bay Awards

Fri, 31 Jan 2025 20:58:20 GMT

Posted by: ysabetwordsmith

Today is the last day to nominate projects and patrons for the 2025 Rose and Bay Awards. If you have not yet nominated or boosted the signal, please do so now. It would be especially helpful for folks you know via places like Kickstarter or Patreon, as I'm not on those sites.

These are the handlers for the 2025 award season:

Art: fuzzyred Nominate art! Vote for art! (3 nominations)
Fiction: curiosity Nominate fiction! Vote for fiction! (4 nominations)
Poetry: fuzzyred Nominate poetry! Vote for poetry! (4 nominations)
Webcomic: ysabetwordsmith Nominate webcomics! Vote for webcomics! (2 nominations)
Other Project: ysabetwordsmith Nominate other projects! Vote for other projects! (3 nominations)
Patron: curiosity Nominate patrons! Vote for patrons! (3 nominations)

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Snowflake Challenge: Friending Meme

Fri, 31 Jan 2025 18:43:27 GMT

Photos: Three for the Memories from 2024

Fri, 03 Jan 2025 05:46:09 GMT

Posted by: ysabetwordsmith

These are the three pictures I selected as most memorable (not the most aesthetically beautiful or technically ept) from 2024 for threeforthememories.

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Snowflake Challenge

Tue, 31 Dec 2024 22:47:30 GMT

Posted by: ysabetwordsmith

The snowflake_challenge is coming! It runs January 1-31 with fun fannish challenges on alternating days. This is one of the busiest times on Dreamwidth. Many fans post daily during this period to catch the extra traffic and make new friends.

Read "How to Hack the Snowflake Challenge" for ideas on planning ahead. Some challenges repeat every year or close to that, so you can do them early and just copy or link that on the relevant day. Among the things you can do in advance are:
-- Make sure you have a current introduction to use for reference in friending memes.
-- Update your fandom information in a blanket statement, profile, and/or sticky post.
-- Check that you have a fanwork ready to post.
-- Keep a list of your favorite fanworks to recommend, and a masterlist of your own to share.
-- Set some goals for the coming year.

EDIT 12/30/24: 2025 SNOWFLAKE CHALLENGE INTRODUCTION!.

EDIT 12/31/24: 2025 SNOWFLAKE CHALLENGE MASTER POST

EDIT 12/31/24: MEET THE MODS!

EDIT 12/31/24: 2025 SNOWFLAKE PROMO BANNERS

Are you planning to participate?

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Three for the Memories Coming Back Next Month!

Tue, 03 Dec 2024 03:11:31 GMT

Posted by: ysabetwordsmith

threeforthememories 2024 session will be open for posts on January 3, 2025 and will run until January 24. Three photos only per person during each annual session. Members are encouraged to discuss the reason for their choices. Read more here.

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Holiday Love Meme

Fri, 29 Nov 2024 04:54:44 GMT

Posted by: ysabetwordsmith

✨ holiday love meme 2024 ✨
my thread here

A love meme is where you make a comment under its main post, and people say nice things about you. There's a codebox so you can copy the code to paste on your blog. Once you make your comment, click the "link" text to get the URL -- you need to paste that into the code so it will point to your thread.

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Mood Calendars

Sat, 02 Nov 2024 05:29:36 GMT

Posted by: ysabetwordsmith

soc_puppet has posted a set of mood calendars so you can do the Mood Theme in a Month Challenge, which you are welcome to share on moodthemeinayear.

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