Friending and info post!

[wafflelate]

Hi, I hope other people sign up! Well, I know pepperdoken has, but that would be a pretty small contingent.

If you're considering DW and don't know where to start, a good resources is dreamwidth-help!

Here's some basic info:

• This is a community or "comm" and you can kind of think about it like a blog that runs 100% on submissions. And anyone can submit!


• "Friending" on DW basically means you subscribe to someone's feed (meaning, you sign up to get their posts on your reading list, which is like a dashboard, kind of.) and also let them access your journal.


• If you subscribe but aren't allowed access you can only see their public posts.


• If you subscribe to this comm, anything anyone posts in it will show up in your reading list.


• All posts have a comment section with nested comments. God I love nested comments.

Here are some very basic rules, although I expect the first two will be very familiar:

• Teen/PG-13 rating. It's fine if your DW has NSFW content, but the comm should stay about the same rating as DoS does.It's just not for us.


• We assume blanket permission for further transformation! What this means is that if you post something we really love, people will probably write sequels, missing scenes, and generally expand on your idea. Possibly right there in the comments.


• Anon commenting is on! Mostly because I assume most of us don't have DWs yet. Please use it well and, if it's not too much trouble, consider signing your posts. Anon commenting may go away in the future, or only be turned on for certain posts.

So, if you have a DW please post here! If you don't have a DW but do have a question or opinion, please also post!

Comments

[pepperdoken]

hello, it's me, ur friendly neighborhood Pepper. feel free to subscribe or whatever!

[wafflelate]

Hello! I'm replying to you mostly bc I'm so excited about nested comments, per usual.

[pepperdoken]

omg right??? nested comments

[wafflelate]

So fancy!!!

and you can use subject titles too!

[jjhunter]

If there are enough comments in a thread, it will abbreviate to showing the usernames and comment subject lines, and you can click expand or hide to see all or whisk all away!

I'm especially fond of all the comment view options - 'top comments only' is a really neat one for top level preview, vs. 'flat' view is great for chronological order of comments (more tumblr like).

And don't even get me started on expandable cut tags in entries! DW's implementation was cutting edge back in the day.

Re: and you can use subject titles too!

[wafflelate]

Omg right. I love the comment titles and everything. I've hung around FFA enough to be familiar with how they're used there and it seems like something that would be super useful for recursive purposes, and I looooove flat view, although it's most useful when comment titles are used.

[kiezh]

Helloooooo! I am a teapot. Changed my default icon to be more recognizable around here. :D

Nested comments, whoo! It will be weird not to have emoji reactions but of course we still have discord. We can do both!

[wafflelate]

The worst is not having emojis in text actually. Gonna go back to typing \o/ like it's the dark ages.

Hello!

[spiritualatheist]

Figured I might as well make an account on here. Thanks for starting this, Waffle!

Re: Hello!

[wafflelate]

Thanks for joining!!!!

[sheliak]

Hi, and welcome!

I've been on Dreamwidth for a while—I'm way more comfortable here than on Tumblr, and I think of it as my main blog, even though it hasn't always been my most active one. So if anyone has questions, I might be able to help!

And if you want to subscribe to my journal, go right ahead.

[wafflelate]

Hi!! I definitely recognize your url (your... username??? ugh words) from being Around. I would love your input on any and all DW things on account of how I don't know what I'm doing.

Like, is it usually considered polite to ask for/wait for permission to subscribe on DW? What other mysterious social faux pas might I have already made? Yikes.

[sheliak]

On Dreamwidth it's username! And yep, this is the same one I use on Discord. (I'm Lyre of Sheliak on ffn and lyreofsheliak on Tumblr, because apparently I am not the first to think this pretty star name would make a nice handle.)

I'm not sure if there's any kind of firm etiquette about subscribing--I don't think so? I generally try to say hi when I subscribe, at least, but I don't get offended when people subscribe without saying anything, and I haven't heard anyone else grumbling about it either.

I can't speak for the whole site, but most of the people I've interacted with have been pretty easygoing. :)

[wafflelate]

Ahhh a whole new site of terms to learn. Exciting yet dangerous.

I've met some nice people already! It's very exciting.

[jjhunter]

Generally no need to ask when it comes to subscribing around here - DW splitting LJ's 'friend' feature into separate 'subscribe' and 'access' options has beautifully done away with a great deal of awkwardness LJ caused by conflating 'hey, your posts are interesting, I'd like to follow what you post' with 'I know you (and like what I know of you) well enough to grant you access to my circle-locked posts'.

So where on LJ someone adding you as 'friend' had an inherent intimacy offered up that could bring with it a degree of social pressure to reciprocate granting access to intimacy, and therefore an etiquette of asking first or otherwise contacting the person you'd like to 'friend' to introduce yourself first and clarify your expectations arose to avoid imposing intimacy without some kind of context first, on Dreamwidth subscribing tends to be very casual - people subscribe and unsubscribe without that having much social weight, so to speak.

[rune_of_luna]

Adding on my comment just to say hello XD
I hope more people join us here in dreamwidth (not that I know anything, just following your lead frolic~)
Our community is branching out once more, hopefully we'll manage to get something nice going on here as well.

[wafflelate]

It's hilarious that people are following my lead because I have no idea what I'm doing.

I think we'll do really well! The anon commenting option will probably come in handy. Maybe we can have a post to discuss the Discord rules. Maybe we can try bookclub again!

[gingerspark]

Hello! I'm relatively new to writing DOS fic.
Dw is so nice to use!
Is posting crossover fic as well as DOS canon-verse stuff cool here?

[wafflelate]

Hi!! Good to see you again.

Go ahead and post anything DoS-related here at all! Crossover fic, meta, discussion, etc. We can tag entries super easily so there's no reason to divide the fandom up into different comms at this point. Why... I'm even tentatively thinking of allowing shipping.

[jjhunter]

Idhren here! I go by J.J. on DW, having long since had cause to rethink preteen me's decision that Tolkien elvish was the very height of panache for selecting a username.

(I mean, I do still like the meaning of idhren, pl. idhrin: thoughtful pondering, wise.

(I just quickly discovered that it gives people pause when they try to pronounce it, and I couldn't assume someone would know how to spell it if they heard it.)

Will Silver Queen be active on this comm at all? Her replies to asks have reliably been my favorite aspect of dosbysilverqueen, but not sure what the equivalent mechanism would be here - maybe a community sticky post where all comments are screened as a default as a place to leave questions for the comm admins, who could then choose to make answer posts with the comment-questions quoted and their reply?

[wafflelate]

\o/ Hi!!

I haven't asked SQ but that sounds like an alight idea, so I'll bring it up. jacksgreyson | jacksgreyson is the main mod of dosbysiverqueen and is working on preserving that tumblr and their own stuff before working on getting settled into Dreamwidth and certainly SQ will be reading the comm, but I dunno yet if she'll ever show up.

A post with screened comments for people to privately contact the admins/mods (well... right now it's just me.... we'll work on that maybe lmao) is a good idea though for sure!!

[jjhunter]

One of the neat features of screening on Dreamwidth is that you can also have continued replies to screened comments that are also screened which only the specific user and the journal or comm owner(s) can view (unless the latter unscreens a comment, in which case any new reply would be unscreened to match the security level).

Anyway, you could also just have a sticky question post where incoming comments aren't unscreened as a default, but then you may have conversations starting more ad hoc (and some things public which aren't worth responding to).

Opportunity to experiment, at any rate!

[wafflelate]

Man I'm glad that someone here knows how things really work. What a relief.

[jjhunter]

I'm still learning new things myself! And there's new stuff in development.

There are a number of good 'welcome to Dreamwidth! have some tips' posts about; I'd especially recommending checking out staranise's Basic Dreamwidth for Tumblr users post.

VTHX

[vthx]

VTHX here, tumblr, Discord, and FFN. V_Haley on Ao3. Generally a lurker. :)

Re: VTHX

[wafflelate]

welcome!!! :D It's so great to have you.

Re: VTHX

[vthx]

Thank you!

[linnypants]

Is this still a thing? In any case, I'm also here now :)

[wafflelate]

it's so a thing!!! hi linny!!!!!!

(ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

[valiantbarnes]

Hey all, I'm also usually a lurker. Same username across most platforms. I had never come across DOS before I found this comm (via the 'random community' button) and then I went and read all of DOS in, like, two days and now I'm very, very invested. Ridiculously invested. I wanna art invested, which is rare for me. So I suppose I'll get to know you all?

And I know that we can't use emojis, but thankfully we have kaomoji! ٩(◕‿◕)۶

Re: (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

[wafflelate]

Oh man, sorry for the extremely late welcome, but welcome!!! That's a totally wild way to get someone into the fic but I'm so glad we caught you.

[newyn1]

Here. Joined. Feeling my way around. Happy to see new DOS fics and excited over the new projects. Thank you for setting this up.

[wafflelate]

o/ Hello!

Hey guys

[mageking17]

I have no idea what I'm doing, but by Gelel, we're going to try.