Things to Want

[singedsun]

Last year, I think one of the fandom type things I wanted was to learn how to make gifs. I've since learned that, although I haven't put that that to use quite as much as I'd like. It's still a time consuming process (for me), though I've been able to do it a few times with what I consider pretty good success. Be careful what you wish for, I guess. Still, I continue to really admire those people who can do it quickly and cleverly.



Last year in another post, I gave a bunch of reasons for people go to out there and watch the Dracula TV show from 2013. In the wave of yet another disappointing Dracula recreation, I'm right back to missing this ridiculous show and wishing that it had the kind of fandom presence it's dumb dramatic heart really deserved. It's only ten episodes, it's free to watch on the NBC website (here) and I NEED people to appreciate the heartbreaking beauty of what could have been between Lucy and Mina in this version. Then I desperately want fic I don't have to write myself.

Secondly, I'll repeat myself somewhat from last year. While art and icons and comments are all nice and good and I love them very, very much. My favorite fandom things to receive (aside from fiction itself) is a good fanmix. Obviously I adore music, but knowing someone has read my fic enough to understand the themes and or emotions of a piece enough to create a playlist for it, is pretty darn special to me.

I'd love more active DW communities for Critical Role or Dragon Age, since that's where I spend a lot of my fandom creative energy. I know there's active kink memes for both, but that seems to be about it these days.

There are two communities I really miss from LiveJournal that if someone has recs for similar communities on DW, I'd love to have. I know that commentfic is still active on LJ, but is there anything like that on DW? I've seen a lot of smaller ficathons on individual pages and several like prompt themed communities but nothing that does quite the same thing from what I've seen. I also miss the old crackvan community and while it seems like several fandoms have their own small rec communities there isn't anything more encompassing like that on DW. If places like this exist, PLEASE point me in their direction.

While I would like to get some of the energy of communities like that back in my life, if not just back to fandom in general. I also know that things aren't always going to be the way they were. No, this place might not be the powerhouse for fandom communities that LJ once was (for a variety of reasons). That's not to say we shouldn't put energy in the places we want to see grow. I feel a little like it's a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy when I see people write about how there's not much on DW these days, but then those same people only post on their own journals without interacting with other people by finding new friends, commenting on other posts, engaging in communities. I like things like this snowflake challenge because it so highly encourages that type of behavior with the prompts and the posts and the conversations in comments. I guess this wish is that I hope people reach outside their comfort zone more often, both in their own posts but also in comments and communities too. I guess I hope people don't feel like they need a prompt or a challenge to come and talk about their life or their interests on a regular basis.

Comments

[teigh_corvus]

For multifandom recs, check out fancake. They set a theme or trope - the current one is 'diplomatic marriage' - and anyone can post recs related to the theme. I've found tons of good stuff there.

Commentfic has been getting a lot of air-time this snowflake. It seems like there's a need; I'm not sure how to push it past that point, though. Declare commentfic Fridays once a month?

[singedsun]

I am following fancake and I like their take, but part of what I liked about crackfan was the deep-dives into specific fandoms and the types of tropes that were popular within them.

Yeah, when I went through other people's I saw I wasn't the only one. I don't know if the activity is there for like a daily commentfic type set up, but something weekly or bi-weekly might be worth trying out.

[teigh_corvus]

I agree! crackvan got me into multiple fandoms. Heck, it was what *finally* pulled me into bandom! And the deep-dives/ 'my fandom 101' seems like a logical thing to carry over. It's one of the best ways to spread the love!

People do the Friday five on a weekly basis, so that habit exists... I do think bi-weekly would be the way to go. At least to start. ;D

[singedsun]

Yes! Those fandom 101s were perfect and there's been so many new ones since it went away.

[buggyfiction]

Oh god, yes, I miss crack_van. I drove the van a few times for various fandoms back in the day!

[vae]

For a while there was fic_promptly for comment fic, which was replaced by prompt_dump when the fic_promptly mod went AWOL, but prompt_dump is also now on hiatus. Maybe it's a good time to try a new comm, while Snowflake is creating a buzz of activity?

[vae]

Also I DID watch that Dracula and I rather adored it. I may possibly watch quite a few things for JRM.

[enemytosleep]

Would fandomweekly fit some of your commentfic needs? I'm not a community, but I'm always all about CCR squee, so if I see a post about CR I will be happy to engage. :D I have plenty of red string for Essek atm.

[singedsun]

Kind of but not quite. Commentfic is basically a daily ficathon with a theme. So a mod posts the theme and then people make up to five character/pairing prompts in the comments that people write to. Its a cool cross between a comment ficathon and a prompt community. As I've mentioned elsewhere, I'm not sure it's got the sustainability to do it daily, but biweekly would definitely be a good place to start I'd think.

[impala_chick]

I agree 100% when it comes to fanmixes.

Oh yeah, Crackvan! I forgot about that comm, but it was fantastic.