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Pinning a post in Dreamwidth?
Apr. 16th, 2023 07:42 amIs there a way to pin a post to the top of my posts page in Dreamwidth?
Blorbo.Social unexpected downtime
Mar. 3rd, 2023 10:24 amBlorbo.Social has been down for over 36 hours now :(
I hope it will be back very soon! I deleted a piece of internet string that I thought was not doing anything, but actually it was a vital load-bearing piece of string.
I hope it will be back very soon! I deleted a piece of internet string that I thought was not doing anything, but actually it was a vital load-bearing piece of string.
(I deleted a DigitalOcean droplet that I thought we stopped using in November, but it turns out it’s been handling the nameserver requests this whole time. I’ve set it up to work through our actual domain registrar now, but it can take up to 48 hours to propagate across the internet. Argh! Our host is in Germany, so when this DNS checker shows a green tick for Germany, we should be close to working again. Otherwise we are in the hands of the internet deities.)
Call for NSFW fan artists
Dec. 15th, 2022 01:03 pmDo you want some place to post your horny fanart to an appreciative audience?
Tumblr allows female-presenting nipples again (hooray!) but you still can't post art of someone inserting some part of themselves into some part of someone else.
Tumblr allows female-presenting nipples again (hooray!) but you still can't post art of someone inserting some part of themselves into some part of someone else.
You could post it on twitter, while twitter still lives. But the audience is leaving, the site itself may collapse any day now, and meanwhile what do you do with all your high-quality fannish porn? (Or your low- and medium quality fannish porn, for that matter?)
Well, the fannish parts of Mastodon and the Fediverse are growing every day, and we are thirsty as fuck for your NSFW fanart. Please join the Fediverse, and show us your blorbo nudes!
For the moment, you can join our Blorbo.Social Mastodon instance instantly, without having to wait for a human moderator to review your application. Give us a try, see what you think.
If you'd rather try a different fandom-focused instance, here are some that also are cool with NSFW fanart: fandom.ink, fandom.garden, retro.pizza, federatedfandom.net, fanglitch.space. Each instance has its own rules & moderation team. It doesn't matter much which one you join -- we're all mostly connected to each other, and it's fairly easy to move to a different instance if you want, while still keeping all your followers.
Master list of fanwork recs
Dec. 13th, 2022 01:14 pmI like reccing fanworks.
All fandoms (including RPF)
All fanworks (fics and vids)
All fics
All vids
Lots of recs
Modao Zushi (MDZS), The Untamed/Chen Qing Ling (CQL)
Stray Kids RPF (SKZ)
YiZhan RPF (Wang Yibo/Xiao Zhan)
Only a few recs per fandom (fictional)
Anne of Green Gables (& Anne with an E)
Aubrey/Maturin Series (Aubreyad, Master & Commander)
Detroit Become Human (DBH)
Given (anime & manga)
Hamilton - Miranda
Jeeves & Wooster
Our Flag Means Death (OFMD)
Sherlock Holmes
Temeraire
The Adventure Zone (TAZ)
The Legend of Fei (LOF)
The Lord of the Rings (LOTR)
Tian Guan Ci Fu (TGCF, Heaven Official's Blessing)
Word of Honor (WOH, Faraway Wanderers)
Only a few recs per fandom (RPF)
All fandoms (including RPF)
All fanworks (fics and vids)
All fics
All vids
Lots of recs
Modao Zushi (MDZS), The Untamed/Chen Qing Ling (CQL)
Stray Kids RPF (SKZ)
YiZhan RPF (Wang Yibo/Xiao Zhan)
Only a few recs per fandom (fictional)
Anne of Green Gables (& Anne with an E)
Aubrey/Maturin Series (Aubreyad, Master & Commander)
Detroit Become Human (DBH)
Given (anime & manga)
Hamilton - Miranda
Jeeves & Wooster
Our Flag Means Death (OFMD)
Sherlock Holmes
Temeraire
The Adventure Zone (TAZ)
The Legend of Fei (LOF)
The Lord of the Rings (LOTR)
Tian Guan Ci Fu (TGCF, Heaven Official's Blessing)
Word of Honor (WOH, Faraway Wanderers)
Only a few recs per fandom (RPF)
Bangtan Boys RPF (BTS)
Chinese actor RPF
Street Dance of China RPF (SDOC)
UNIQ RPF
I sometimes post recs on the fediverse: fic recs, vid recs, RPF recs.
Chinese actor RPF
Street Dance of China RPF (SDOC)
UNIQ RPF
I sometimes post recs on the fediverse: fic recs, vid recs, RPF recs.
blorbo.social is live! Please come join us if you would like. We have a manual application process right now, so we don't get flooded with new users who just want any server and don't care about fandom. Just tell us about your blorbos and we'll let you in. :)
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Nov. 14th, 2022 11:08 amAfter learning more about Mastodon and the Fediverse, I've fallen in love with it. So my fandom social media presence will mostly be there, and I'll only pop in to Dreamwidth occasionally.
I'm setting up a Mastodon server focused on fandom people at blorbo.social. We're currently figuring out the technical aspects and deciding what kind of community we want to build. It's close to being ready for launch.
You don't have to join blorbo.social to find me. Each independent mastodon server has connections to others, so we can still follow & connect with each other from different mastodon servers.
Me: https://blorbo.social/web/@lookitmychicken
blorbo.social: https://blorbo.social/about/
or pick a server from this list if you don't want to wait for blorbo.social to open: https://joinmastodon.org/servers
(you can always transfer servers later -- it's normal & encouraged to do so -- while still keeping your followers etc)
Collection: all fanwork recs
Nov. 2nd, 2022 01:36 pmAll my fanwork recs on AO3, unfiltered. Any fandom, any rating, any pairing, any length, any tropes. Vids included. AO3 link
Collection: Golden Girls recs
Nov. 2nd, 2022 01:29 pmFanwork recs for the TV show Golden Girls. AO3 link
Collection: Jeeves & Wooster recs
Nov. 2nd, 2022 10:24 amFanwork recs for P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves & Wooster. AO3 link
Collection: Anne of Green Gables recs
Nov. 2nd, 2022 10:17 amFanwork recs for L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables & related works, including the TV show Anne with an E. AO3 link
Collection: Our Flag means Death recs
Nov. 2nd, 2022 10:01 amFanwork recs for the TV show Our Flag Means Death. AO3 link
Setting up recs collections on dreamwidth
Nov. 2nd, 2022 09:45 amIf I was going to set up my recs collections here on Dreamwidth, what would I need to do?
- Identify what information is captured in collection membership only. e.g. for MDZS/Untamed, I used to have a bookmarker's tag MDZS because there is no overarching tag that encompasses MDSZ & Untamed. But I got rid of that tag when I started using collections instead. Is there any other info I've stored like that?
- Develop a standard format & criteria for a recs list
- Experiment with dreamwidth tags to determine how best to use them (try to avoid replicating tags already on AO3)
- Think about a posting schedule. Should I promo rec collections? probably. but not all at once
- Create a master post on dreamwidth linking to all recs, my AO3, my twitter
- change twitter profile link to a master post here on dreamwidth
- Convert each AO3 collection to a rec:collection post here & a tweet
- Create a twitter collection of rec collection promo posts
- Should I duplicate recs here & on twitter? yeah I reckon I should
- But given the twitter character limit, it may be best to post there first & copy over here
- Can I create an IFTTT script to do it?
- rec
- collection
- mega
- fic
- vid
- meta
- collection
Oh god I hate the way dreamwidth works on my mobile phone I wanna throw it at the wall.
Um. Okay maybe it's not entirely appalling but it's certainly not optimised.
Whyyyyy is there so much padding on the left? What a waste of space for a mobile layout. Are there even any good mobile layouts for dreamwidth?
Um. Okay maybe it's not entirely appalling but it's certainly not optimised.
Whyyyyy is there so much padding on the left? What a waste of space for a mobile layout. Are there even any good mobile layouts for dreamwidth?
