scene redraw from the office……… the instant she mentioned points i put this on my to draw list………. and then she mentioned a gold star and i moved it to the top of my list
As a reader, as a writer, and as a fan I can’t think of a single website that has given me more happiness than Archive of Our Own. Thank you so much to everyone who works so hard to make it such a wonderful place.
For people who want to use Dreamwidth, but are totally confused about how it works!
What is Dreamwidth?
Dreamwidth is a social media platform founded in 2009 after Strikethrough
It’s made out of a heavily-modified version of Livejournal code
It’s based around producing your own original content, and seeing original content other people post
The site is owned and run by fans and aims to provide creative people with an Internet home
Getting around your account
Your journal is like your “home”. It’s where you keep your stuff. It’s got different parts:
Recent Entries: View your posts in chronological order
(yourusername.dreamwidth.org)
Profile: Your “about” page
(yourusername.dreamwidth.org/profile)
Archive: See your posts as a calendar
(yourusername.dreamwidth.org/archive)
Tags: See all the tags you’ve used and go to their posts
(yourusername.dreamwidth.org/tag)
Memories: Like the “Likes” feature on Tumblr
You also have a “Reading” page (yourusername.dreamwidth.org/read)
This is like your Tumblr dash
It’s where you read entries from your “circle”, the people and communities you’re subscribed to
You can customize it a lot with filters and control who you see when
Finding new things
Listing an Interest in your profile is like getting listed in the phonebook. This is opt-in, choosing to say, “Yes! I’m really into this thing! Consider me a person who blogs about it!
Content Search is the more powerful way to search through the blog of everyone who’s opted into it, so you can look for everyone who’s posting about a certain thing right now. However, you’ll have to wade through a lot more junk.
Communities are Dreamwidth’s social hubs. They’re places where a lot of people can share content they’re interested in and talk to each other. Unlike Tumblr tags, they’re managed by specific people and have rules, so people behaving badly can get kicked out.
Paid members can see the Network page, which shows entries from everything everyone in your circle subscribes to. It’s a great way to discover new stuff and also learn what awful taste some of your circle members have
Latest Things is a direct firehose of EVERYTHING PUBLICLY POSTED TO THE SITE, HOMG
Privacy controls?! That’s a thing?!
You get to choose who sees your posts! You can make your posts public, private, or “locked”, which means only people you’ve added to your access list can read them
When you add a new person to your circle you can choose to subscribe to them, to make their posts show up on your Reading page, and/or to grant access, which lets them see your locked posts. You can do one, the other, or both!
Likewise, communities can make posts viewable to members only.
You can also create custom access filters, to allow only some of your access list to see a post.
Banning someone means they cannot leave you comments or send you messages. There are more advanced tweaks to make sure they never show up on your reading page if they post to a community you subscribe to, or remove them from the comments on a post.
Comments
The comments to a post are where the real fun happens.
Comments are sent to the email of whoever you’re replying to. They’re a real conversation. You’re not shouting into the void–you’re talking back directly to the post’s originator and other commenters.
You can edit your comment so long as it hasn’t been replied to, and you can delete your own comments.
The originator of the post, and administrators if it’s a community, can delete threads, or “freeze” them, leaving them intact but preventing anyone from replying to them.
You will add new skills to your resume
Dreamwidth leaves a lot more “backend” open so you can customize your experience to a huge degree. However, this means learning or using coding languages like HTML and CSS
The comment box on entries does not have a built-in text editor, so you will have to add your own HTML if you want to add <i>italic</i>, <b>bold</b>, or <a href=“http://websiteurl.com”>links</a>.
Yeah, ooh boy, that’s really shitty news. I’m really saddened to see Tumblr alienate so many of their users – and their attitude of “the internet’s big enough, go play somewhere else” is so shitty.
So yeah, I’ve been looking at potential alternatives all morning, too.
Dreamwidth.org seems to be one of the best contender, although it’s far less sleek and easy-to-use than tumblr. It’s basically an enhanced version of LiveJournal. It’ll probably have big difficulties hosting an influx of tumblr user tho. Explanations on how Dreamwidth works here.
Pillowfort.io (currently down for maintenance, but have a presence here on tumblr) seems to be “better tumblr in baby shoes”. But it’s still very, very new and small, so probably unable to sustain a large influx of people. Also, it has a one-time 5$ payment fee, which will already deter quite a lot of people (but also deter pornbots, so it may be a positive thing). Here’s their kickstarter that explains how it’s supposed to work
(on another note, i think we have to get rid of the idea that it’s possible to have security, quality, storage place and a competent staff with no payment fee, but that’s another story altogether)
Discord has been used as a community chatroom by different fandoms, but it hasn’t the same functions as a social media platform – it’s more of a space to chat with fandom friends and share a few pics than a place for fandom to gather as a whole.
So that’s what i gathered so far.
But i genuinely don’t think there’s a generalized consensus there, or that there’s yet a functional tumblr equivalent out there. So before things go for the worse, save as much as possible (screenshot the list of users you’re following, exchange information with your friends, save things on your computer). Also, @copperbadge has set upt a “tumblr find me directory” where you can save your pseuds on different platforms (Ive reblogged the original post).
This blog is inherently text-orientated and SFW, so i’ll stay here, even if i’ll probably won’t ever feel as comfortable on Tumblr with a lot of my mutuals gone. But don#t worry too much – fandom’s a pernicious cockroach and we’ll find spaces to thrive again.
Am I allowed to say that I‘m a bit proud of this one? 😅 David Tennant drawing Nr. 6: More Doctor Who . This time the Tenth Doctor with Rose Tyler. I really had a lot of fun with this and I LOVE how the effects on his jacket turned out! ❤️
Behind the Scenes of The Christmas Invasion (Part 21)
Excerpts from Doctor Who: The Inside Story:
For the show’s new star, reading the script for the first time was a slightly peculiar experience. “By page forty, I still hadn’t done very much,” David points out. “I thought that was bold, keeping the main character in a coma for most of it. Then he wakes up and you have five pages of sparkling Russell T Davies dialogue, and it works brilliantly. Obviously, it’s daunting because when you wake up you have to justify the fact that you’ve been kept off-screen all this time by making an impact. So from an acting point of view that was the challenge. But it’s a great script; it’s got some fantastic gags in it; a wonderful kind of heroic swagger; and it has a slightly off-the-wall, mercurial anarchy, which I think is what defines what’s extraordinary about the Doctor. I don’t do very much, then I wake up. I talk for five pages; I press the button that nobody’s allowed to press; I break the monster’s staff; I haul away his whip. And then, just to top it all off, I have a sword fight with him on the wing of a spaceship – my hand is cut off; I grow it back, and then bring down the Prime Minister of Great Britain – all within ten minutes. You can’t really ask for a better entrance than that.”
Fangirling over Everything 
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