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Signup Post: Full Content on Dreamwidth in 2026

2025-12-30T09:38:10Z

Posted by: ysabetwordsmith

Dreamwidth offers a place to post pretty much whatever people want to share. However, a lot of creators put their stories, webcomics, etc. on some other platform and only share links on Dreamwidth. The same holds true for the recommendation communities for fiction and other topics: most rely on links that lead offsite. The problem with this is that more and more platforms are closing to nonmembers, becoming unavailable in some parts of the world, incompatible with some software or hardware, suffering service outages -- or shutting down entirely like Cohost did. That makes offsite links less useful than in the past, because there's no telling who can see the content or not. When creators post the full content on Dreamwidth in an open blog, however, anyone already using Dreamwidth can access that content. (Creators still have the option of using access lists and filters if they want to serve a more specific audience.) Furthermore, copying the material to multiple platforms increases the chance of more people seeing it and of it surviving if one platform collapses. We've lost enough fanwork archives already.

A signup post over at goals_on_dw provides a place to list communities and individual blogs where people post full content. It will help readers find new sources to enjoy, and creators find new audience members. It supports goals related to blogging, reading, writing, networking, Dreamwidth, and so on. It's a bit like Three Weeks for Dreamwidth, except not limited in time and you can echo your work on other platforms in addition to this one. MOAR GOODEEZ for everyone! \o/

You can pick whichever challenge(s) you want to set as a goal in 2026 and reply with a comment. The post includes a list of sample full-content journals and a short form for listing what you have chosen. You can make a post in your blog like "I signed up for the Full Content on Dreamwidth challenge in goals_on_dw" or similar. Then make a tag for it like "Full Content" and put that on the post; it should stick that way. Check your Interests page to see if you have Writing, Fiction, Science Fiction, Fanfic, Webcomics, etc. listed there, which helps people find you. You don't have to sign up to participate, it just helps spread the word and attract more readers.

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Snowflake Challenge

2025-12-30T09:33:34Z

Posted by: ysabetwordsmith

Happy Snowflake Season to all! As we prepare to kick off the 2026 snowflake_challenge, please feel free to promote this event within your own circles. You are welcome to use any of these new banners for that. The community page also has icons.

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Event

2025-11-10T23:11:55Z

Posted by: ysabetwordsmith

smallfandomfest is running a fest. Visit that community to see the various information posts on how to participate. I know some folks on here are fans of small fandoms.

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Sunshine Revival

2025-05-09T22:27:42Z

Posted by: ysabetwordsmith

The old sunshine_challenge is defunct, but other folks are reviving it this summer.

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Announcing the May Trope Mayhem Prompt List for 2025!

2025-04-23T18:56:45Z

Posted by: ysabetwordsmith

Announcing the May Trope Mayhem Prompt List for 2025!

May Trope Mayhem is a multi-fandom/original creation event open to writers, artists, and creators of all kinds! Our creators have shared their favorite tropes, and we’ve put together a list of 31, one per day through the month of May. We encourage creators to join us for this month of fun tropey mayhem.
Our goal is to promote motivation and help with habit building, so we’re encouraging authors to keep their ficlets under 1,000 words, artists to stick to making just a sketch, gif makers to only do a single image, etc., as applicable to whatever you’re making.

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April Bingo Fest

2025-04-22T22:47:12Z

Posted by: ysabetwordsmith

sweetandshort is running an April Bingo with a 2x2 card.

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2025 Bingo

2024-12-28T07:41:50Z

Posted by: ysabetwordsmith

This entry over at goals_on_dw has a blank 2025 bingo card for you to fill with whatever you wish, around a center square that says "Survive." You could do New Year's resolutions, crazy things politicians do or say, fanfics you hope to write, fanart you'd love to find, anything.

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Uhuramonth 2025 prompt list

2024-12-02T20:22:16Z

Posted by: ysabetwordsmith

malainastar in uhuramonth has posted "Uhuramonth is taking place January 2025."

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Demoncember

2024-12-01T20:25:09Z

Posted by: ysabetwordsmith

mentat_emulator on eggbug_writes has posted a list of demon-based prompts for Demoncember with the format "Demon who..." for anyone to use. If you're disappointed that this month has only the Amnesty Fest instead of a thematic fest with prompts, this is one option to fill the gap. That community is great for prompts in general.

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Speculative Fiction Bingo Challenge

2024-04-26T17:49:42Z

Posted by: ysabetwordsmith

r/Fantasy's annual speculative fiction bingo challenge is up on Reddit.

It's a reading challenge, a reading party, a reading marathon, and YOU are welcome to join in on our nonsense!

r/Fantasy Book Bingo is a yearly reading challenge within our community. Its one-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new authors and books, to boldly go where few readers have gone before . . . (well, many actually because this is the TENTH year of our existence).

The core of this challenge is encouraging readers to step out of their comfort zones, discover amazing new reads, and motivate everyone to keep up on their reading throughout the year.

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March Meta Matters

2024-03-02T05:59:02Z

Posted by: ysabetwordsmith

March Meta Matters is running over on marchmetamatterschallenge. I have posted about my activities here.

Has anyone written meta about bingo challenges as a fannish activity, or do you plan to do so for this event? If so, feel free to crosspost your meta to this community.

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Domaystic

2023-04-26T09:34:55Z

Posted by: ysabetwordsmith

fadedwings posted this awesome "Domaystic" prompt list if anyone is into "slice of life" stuff.

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March Meta Matters

2023-03-03T03:47:38Z

Multifandom Communities on Dreamwidth

2023-02-04T17:20:30Z

Posted by: ysabetwordsmith

lee_bella has posted a terrific list of multifandom communities over on potterfests. Some of these may overlap with your bingo activities here, while others offer different inspiration and opportunities.

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Romance Challenge

2023-02-04T03:56:03Z

Posted by: ysabetwordsmith

story_works has posted a Romance Challenge that runs until March 1. Fills that you create for the Valentines Fest here will likely qualify for that also if you want more exposure.

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Twitter Exodus

2022-11-01T08:09:40Z

Posted by: ysabetwordsmith

Twitter faces a mass exodus.

For people on any other service, this is an opportunity to scoop new users. Listen to why people are leaving Twitter. Does your favorite service meet any of those needs? If so, encourage people to move there instead. Gathering more of your friends together will make any service more fun to use.

For example, many people are complaining about hate speech and poor privacy tools that don't let them block it. Dreamwidth offers private blogs, themed communities, and pretty robust moderation tools that let you delete comments you don't want on your blog or block people so they can't bother you. Want a hate-free online space? It's not that hard to make one. Want to make tweet-sized blog posts? Some people do that here, especially with certain formats like "3 Things Make a Post" in various blogs or "Just One Thing" on awesomeers. Looking for communities on your favorite topics? Check out followfriday for suggestions. You can also use the search box in your blog header for interests.

Some resources that you can share or reblog for new users to find:

* getting_started

* Dev Getting Started (for the code)

* dreamwidth 101: the (sort of) fast version

* Finding people on Dreamwidth

* Getting Started on DW (from LiveJournal)

* how to dreamwidth: a primer

* Making Friends on Dreamwidth

* So you're into BNHA and just created a Dreamwidth account

* A Tumblr User's Guide to Dreamwidth

I have not seen a DW guide for Twitter users, so if you know of one, please share the URL so I can link to it. Other guides are welcome too.

EDIT 11/30/22 -- I have continued editing the version of this post on my own blog. There is also now a community for twitter_refugees.

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Anamnesis

2022-03-25T15:10:32Z

Posted by: ysabetwordsmith

singedsun is running a writing game called Anamnesis using Tarot cards as prompts. It's not bingo, but I thought it might appeal to folks who like bingo prompts.

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Visual Bingo

2022-01-29T19:07:52Z

Posted by: ysabetwordsmith

catness made a visual bingo card for different activities, and included the simple Python script for it. This seems like something that could be fun to do here.

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LiveJournal Book Bingo

2020-01-03T05:23:13Z

Posted by: ysabetwordsmith

LiveJournal has a book bingo card.

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Fluff Bingo

2019-02-05T08:10:19Z

Posted by: ysabetwordsmith

Check out fluffbingo for prompts about the lighter side of romance. Fanfic and original characters welcome. February 5 is the last day to sign up for this quarter though.

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Four New Prompt Communities

2018-12-24T08:13:16Z

Posted by: ysabetwordsmith

All short stuff.

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Muse Fusion Bingo

2014-04-15T03:22:14Z

Posted by: ysabetwordsmith

We are now taking prompts for the Torn World Muse Fusion Bingo. (New to Torn World? Start here!) Prompters are encouraged to leave 5-10 prompts, which may be specific to Torn World or generic, whichever you prefer. A selection of prompts will be randomly sorted onto a bingo card, to be played collectively by Torn World creators. (Not a creator yet? Join us!) There will be individual (for prompters and for creators) and collective prizes depending on how much activity occurs.

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