Follow Friday - June 30th, 2023

[vriddy]

Got any Follow Friday-related posts to share this week? Comment here with the link(s).

Here's the plan: every Friday, let's recommend some people and/or communities to follow on Dreamwidth. That's it. No complicated rules, no "pass this on to 7.328 friends or your cat will die". Just introduce us to some new things to read.

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[vriddy]

I want to bring attention to little_details! A comm with resources to help writers with their research and fact-checking. People might remember it from LiveJournal!

[beameth]

I loved this comm back in the day on LJ, and I'm so happy to see it again!

[linky]

Boosting dwfanfic! A new comm made to be a directory of people who post fanfiction on dw! :D

[vriddy]

I really hope it takes off! :D

[vriddy]

Great comm and great pointer, thank you :D

[linky]

Of course!! :D

[soc_puppet]

New theme has begun on summerofthe69: Forced 69. There are more consensual options for interpretation in the post proper, but I tend to think of Dreamwidth as a very YKINMKATO website in general, which I am jazzed about ✌

Yes ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

DW is pretty kink-tolerant, some parts more than others. Plenty of folks should appreciate an actively kink-friendly event.

I'm rather a fan of mutual-noncon scenes (e.g. Fuck Or Die, Aliens Made Them Do It) not so much for the event itself, but the aftermath where people have to sort out a relationship following that disaster.

Try this ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

Check out dw_community_promo where there's a big flurry of new comms. I saw one pop up on fandom_on_dw too.

Done!

[ysabetwordsmith]

Today's theme is bisexuality.

Re: Yes ...

[soc_puppet]

That's what I'm hoping! And I've gotten a bit more activity than I was actively expecting, too; I thought for sure that at the end of things, the roundup post would just have a short list of fics by me, but I've been having such a blast I was okay with that. But now someone else posted a theme fill, and someone also filled one of the comment prompts! I'm basically over the moon ♥

Same here! Though I personally am most into them when there's a backdrop of mutual pining and the characters have some guilt over whether they're taking advantage of the situation, but being sure they'll never have another chance, and they have to do it for the other person's sake anyway...

Re: Yes ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

>> That's what I'm hoping! And I've gotten a bit more activity than I was actively expecting, too; I thought for sure that at the end of things, the roundup post would just have a short list of fics by me, but I've been having such a blast I was okay with that. But now someone else posted a theme fill, and someone also filled one of the comment prompts! I'm basically over the moon ♥ <<

Yay! I'm so glad more folks are getting involved. It can take a while to build momentum for a new event, and get more people into it.

*ponder* You might connect your event with sunshine_challenge since they overlap. (I've crossed over with Three Weeks for Dreamwidth in my communities.) They're doing flower prompts this year.

>>Though I personally am most into them when there's a backdrop of mutual pining and the characters have some guilt over whether they're taking advantage of the situation, but being sure they'll never have another chance, and they have to do it for the other person's sake anyway...<<

That can be fun too. It plays well to one of my favorite scenarios: spies or other agents captured by the enemy and forced to mess iwth each other, either for plain torture or in hopes it'll break up the team.

Re: Done!

[vriddy]

A most excellent theme :D

Re: Done!

[soc_puppet]

Agreed.