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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.

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



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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.

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.

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!

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.

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?

✨ 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.