Follow Friday 10-4-24

[ysabetwordsmith]

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".

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[ysabetwordsmith]

Today's theme is Fantasy.

[geraineon]

There's a list of communities related to Chinese media here: https://c-ent.dreamwidth.org/40472.html

Self-plug: cnovels is a community for people interested in Chinese novels, either in Chinese or in translation.

Plugging affiliated communities too:

c_ent is the catch all community for Chinese entertainment.

baihe_media is the community for Chinese GL media.

chinesestudy and guardian_learning for Chinese learners.

Also ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

Cohost is closing. If you're new here from Cohost, then you might like newcomers which is covering the shutdown and providing resources about Dreamwidth. You can introduce yourself in the Friending Meme or find your Cohost friends if you wish. These are also resources you can share with other folks riding the wave from Cohost. If you've been on both Cohost and Dreamwidth, then you can help your friends from Cohost learn how to use this platform.

Let Your Freak Flag Fly lists some communities that match interests commonly mentioned by Cohost refugees. Dreamwidth is a pretty safe place for a lot of topics that aren't always welcome in other venues.

See also "Cohost Communities on Dreamwidth" for communities devoted to former users of Cohost. If anyone else knows more of these, you can mention them in a comment under that post.

Let Your Freak Flag Fly lists some communities that match interests commonly mentioned by Cohost refugees. Dreamwidth is a pretty safe place for a lot of topics that aren't always welcome in other venues.

Thank you!

[ysabetwordsmith]

This is wonderful! I've seen more and more Asian-themed communities over the last several years, and I was hoping that someone might make a list of them, who actually knows that branch of entertainment.

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[geraineon]

<3

There's been a lot of activities within the Asian media communities (mostly the general communities) but yeah they can be a little scattered if one is not in those spheres.

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[ysabetwordsmith]

I've seen enough to extrapolate the rising activity, and seen friends posting about events or communities they are in. But I haven't seen a gathering spot yet where I could point someone, so getting this list here is super useful. It makes me wonder if there's enough to fill a bulletin board / calendar community like fandomcalendar or potterfests. People who are into one Chinese TV series or Japanese anime are usually into more.

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[geraineon]

Oh, I see one on fandomcalendar related to cmedia! And hm, I wonder if events are not promoted as much on fandomcalendar because I vaguely remember seeing more on c_ent. I will keep in mind to suggest to promote on other places as well!

And yeah, generally people do branch out and watch more/read more.

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[ysabetwordsmith]

>> Oh, I see one on fandomcalendar related to cmedia! And hm, I wonder if events are not promoted as much on fandomcalendar because I vaguely remember seeing more on c_ent. I will keep in mind to suggest to promote on other places as well!<<

I see occasional Asian things on fandomcalendar but not a lot, and I don't think it's nearly all of them. Mostly classic fest and bang type things appear there from the Asian branch. I see bits of that from friends who are into it, but I get the impression that it's kind of its own branch of Dreamwidth that doesn't overlap as much other stuff as some other fandoms do. Probably because some of it is actually in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc.

It occurs to me that you don't need a separate community unless traffic gets heavy. A calendar post in c_ent or somewhere like that could work to gather announcements of events. potterfests has both individual announcements and gather posts.

>> And yeah, generally people do branch out and watch more/read more. <<

I've seen some folks listing their interests that way, and it's generally true of fandoms that people have favorite genres or sources with a cluster of similar canons.