Snowflake Challenge Day 9 (and 7)

[autodach]

I skipped some challenges, but I actually did #7 and commented on some fics I read. Did not feel worthy of its own post though. Anyway, on to #9!

Challenge #9

In your own space, celebrate a personal win from the past year: it can be a list of fanworks you're especially proud of, time you spent in the community, a quality or skill you cultivated in yourself, something you generally feel went well. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.


I have a fandom related and a personal thing I did last year.

1) I joined dreamwidth! I want to be more active in fandom communities and actually talk to people. I know it’s objectively not the most difficult thing to make a free account on a website. But I have a hard time coming out of my shell, so I’m proud of every little bit.

2) I took my boyfriend on a trip to Paris. I don’t travel often and this was actually the first vacation I planned and organized all by myself. So I was irrationally scared something would go wrong lol. Also my French is bad and rusty and I was scared it wouldn’t be good enough. But everything went great! Got Tintin merch out of it too.

Comments

Welcome!

[ysabetwordsmith]

>> I joined dreamwidth! <<

Go you! I hope it's working out for you.

>> I want to be more active in fandom communities and actually talk to people.<<

Some things that might help:

* twitter_refugees has many resources for people new to Dreamwidth.

* dw_community_promo is a place to find newly created communities.

* followfriday has lists of active communities by theme.

* allbingo is a good bet if you enjoy creative bingo. It hosts a new fest every month. Next up will be Valentines in February.

* Watch for Three Weeks for Dreamwidth April 25-May 15. It's another big event where you could make new friends.

* Some communities are general-purpose and good for chatting. Others have a much narrower focus and only do fic recs or icons or whatever. Check the bio page and any sticky posts to see which are which -- often it will specify somewhere.

>> I know it’s objectively not the most difficult thing to make a free account on a website. But I have a hard time coming out of my shell, so I’m proud of every little bit.<<

Making an account is easy. Maintaining it over time is more challenging.

Some folks find it helpful to set recurring posts to boost activity. These can be general things like a weekly update, or specific based on your favorite topics.