Communities & Inspiration

I've mentioned this briefly, but in 2018 I left a lot of stuff behind. That meant leaving a community I'd been running for 6 years and leaving some people I realized weren't really my friends behind. It's made me feel a whole lot better and more positive in the last couple months, but it also means I've been sort of floating without much of a community I'm regularly participating in. Just coming back to Dreamwidth as a whole has really been helping me feel more connected to people in general - way more than I have on tumblr in the last few years, for sure.

What I do have is a couple of recommendations for really awesome accounts to follow if you need some encouragement or some inspiration that have been a help to me.

The MBMBAM Writing Buddies Discord
This is actually a Discord community I created last January for people who like the podcast My Brother, My Brother and Me and who like to write. Last year's MBMBAM them of collaboration had many of us inspired to try something new. As we talked about resolutions for 2018 in the MBMBAM Facebook community I brought up my goal of writing more and several people mentioned wanting to do the same. So I fired up this Discord server and we've used it this year to keep each other writing. It's a really chill group with occasional writing sprints. I'm planning on investing more time on that this year. We worked on an anthology this year called "Stronger Together" with stories based on the theme of collaboration. It'll be published in the next few months with the money going to a West Virginian charity in honor of the McElroys.

tenderdnd
This is just one of my most favorite twitter accounts to follow. It's frequent posts like this one with ideas for D&D characters with interesting traits or backstories or friends. I have yet to use one in a campaign, but I plan to. It's just exactly what it says on the tin and I appreciate it so much.

Wren, a hard femme tiefling mage, who leads the local resistance. Tieg, a tiefling wizard with a missing arm, and Abe.

— tender d&d (@tenderdnd) January 5, 2019

excellentcoatsonirritatedwomen
This instagram account is fairly new and inspired by Nancy Pelosi's amazing Max Mara coat. If you want to feel like a badass, this account is daily inspiration giving absolute bad bitch energy. I love it. And if you like this kind of thing, you might want to check out my tumblr tag women in suits. As my icon might suggest, I love a women in a badass suit.