DW Communities I Wish Existed
Dec. 9th, 2023 01:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
soc_puppetWith the knowledge that I don't really have the capacity to manage and maintain another community:
- Mood Theme in a Year: Basically makes weekly posts with two or three of Dreamwidth's moods as a prompt, and participants come up with images to match those moods. Drawing, screencapping, typing, whatever. The goal is that, at the end of the year, participants will have created a custom mood theme with images for every mood.
- Mood Theme in a Hurry: Same as above, but in a shorter time frame. A month or a season would probably be good for this, especially for anyone who wants to, hmm. Collate? various moods into single images. (Like, come up with twenty images, all listed moods have to correlate to one of those images.)
- The Shitpost Office: Just a general community for making and sharing shitposts with a wider audience.
-![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
kittens_and_spitefic: ...Okay, this one does exist, I just haven't done anything with it in a few months. I lost steam 😞 I remembering saying that I'd consider the community a success if I got at least one other poster every month, and that didn't really happen. I'm tempted to ask if people would be more motivated to post if I made all posts public by default (with users opting to community-lock posts at their own discretion), but at the same time I'm. Not really sure I'd be up for trying to jump-start the community and see it dwindle to nothing again. Maybe if Dreamwidth in general gets a huge surge of new users/activity and/or when Tumblr finally bites the dust...
- Mood Theme in a Year: Basically makes weekly posts with two or three of Dreamwidth's moods as a prompt, and participants come up with images to match those moods. Drawing, screencapping, typing, whatever. The goal is that, at the end of the year, participants will have created a custom mood theme with images for every mood.
- Mood Theme in a Hurry: Same as above, but in a shorter time frame. A month or a season would probably be good for this, especially for anyone who wants to, hmm. Collate? various moods into single images. (Like, come up with twenty images, all listed moods have to correlate to one of those images.)
- The Shitpost Office: Just a general community for making and sharing shitposts with a wider audience.
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kittens_and_spitefic: ...Okay, this one does exist, I just haven't done anything with it in a few months. I lost steam 😞 I remembering saying that I'd consider the community a success if I got at least one other poster every month, and that didn't really happen. I'm tempted to ask if people would be more motivated to post if I made all posts public by default (with users opting to community-lock posts at their own discretion), but at the same time I'm. Not really sure I'd be up for trying to jump-start the community and see it dwindle to nothing again. Maybe if Dreamwidth in general gets a huge surge of new users/activity and/or when Tumblr finally bites the dust...
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Date: 2023-12-12 06:41 pm (UTC)My community on DW kinda..had a meltdown this year. Twice. So I'm not really in a good spot to share or promote it, I think? but if or when there's a resurgence to be had, I can at least post about it on my personal journal. o7
The Mood Theme is so tempting, yeah. I could draw something using my OCs, or cute budgies, or something.
Three tiny drawings a week really isn't that much.
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Date: 2023-12-13 01:50 am (UTC)I think I might seriously go through and start sorting some of those moods out, because it sounds like a very fun project.
I may have already copied out all of the various moods into their own document...I already mentioned wanting to draw tiny pet rats, but hippos and jellyfish would also be lots of fun, and there's definitely fun to be had with OCs and so forth. Still gonna wait a few weeks to do anything official with it, though 😂...January would be the perfect time to start the community, too, now that I think about it...no subject
Date: 2023-12-14 03:48 pm (UTC)mmmmaybe I can wedge some cute mood drawings in to 2024. xD