Comment on Resignation of OTW Directors

  1. Queenofdragons6 Fri 28 Jul 2023 08:15AM UTC

    How does posting fanfic on Dreamwidth work compared to this site?

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    1. Muccamukk Fri 28 Jul 2023 02:52PM UTC

      Close up of parted lips painted with sparkling rainbow lipstick.

      I'm not sure how old you are, but you basically have to manually do a lot of things that are automated on AO3, like you have to make up and pick what tags to use, there isn't a pre-set list, and you can use a rich text editor, but it looks better if you do your own HTML (though You don't need to know very much).

      DW FanFic has a directory of people's personal archives and journals, if you want to see what it looks like.

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      1. Queenofdragons6 Sat 29 Jul 2023 06:16AM UTC

        That link is helpful.

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    3. cyberbrain Fri 28 Jul 2023 06:07PM UTC

      a brown-haired girl wearing glasses and a black turtleneck, making a heart with her left hand. there's a cartoonish halo and wings around her. made in utoooxs' picrew

      Replying because wow the other answer isn't very helpful. Also for anyone who is now hearing of Dreamwidth for the first time.

      Dreamwidth is basically a blogging site, you keep a journal there. You can post whatever you want, though text is mainly what it's used for. That said, most embeds are allowed as well (images can be hosted on dreamwidth, but videos/sounds would have to be hosted elsewhere). Embedding is done using HTML and most sites just have a ready embed in the share dialogue.

      Your journal supports comments and entries have a privacy setting (show to everyone, show to "friends" (i.e. people that you've granted access to), show to only yourself). You can subscribe to other journals and communities and that's what gives the ability to interact with people. Communities are mainly where you come in contact with lots of people, so that's how you find like-minded folk.

      Posting fic can be done in two ways, either directly posting to a community or posting to your own journal and then (possibly in both cases) sharing the link to the fic post to communities. Yes, you'll have to come up with your own tags but you still need to do that here anyway. Searching for fic to read on dreamwidth is a bit of a pain, which is why communities like the one linked before are helpful.

      (Guessing they brought up your age because someone older is more likely to have used a blogging/journal site and know how it works as opposed to someone who is young now and who most likely uses mainly social media, with tumblr being the closest example to Dreamwidth.)

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      1. Queenofdragons6 Sat 29 Jul 2023 06:23AM UTC

        Yeah, I'm VERY unused to blogging sites like Dreamwidth. Just trying to find fitting communities on there is proving very unintuitive to me.

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