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amoamaDay 2
In your own space, promote three communities, challenges, blogs, pages, Twitters, Tumblrs or platforms and explain why you love them.
Part of the reason I'm so behind is because I love reading other people's entries for this. Last year I joined some great comms as a result of this challenge.
1.![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
smut_fest - a chance to be smutty and make other people happy by writing their kinks for them! Part of what I like so much about this comm though is the etiquette and respect with which it is run. They are definitely one of the Gold Standards for running exchanges.
2.ladiesbingo - I only know about this from someone else linking to it four days ago but I think it's a neat idea!
3.the_lamp_is_lighted - is a community for all things related to The Lost Prince by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Tiny fandom is miniscule but it's lovely there's a comm for it!
Day 4
Comment to someone you haven't ever interacted with before or introduce yourself to someone you've interacted with and friend/follow them.
I am now friends![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
moriann with who made this one easy for me by friending me first. :D She posts about The Good Wife which ensures I will love following her!
Day 5
In your own space, talk about a creator. Show us why you think they are amazing.
I hope this isn't going to be too creepy or out of the blue but I'm going to choosekass and I'm doing so for a couple of reasons:
1. Although I haven't read or watched even half of her fannish output, I know from what I have seen and consumed that she is a talented creator. She produces fanworks that are humorous, considered, and touching and just generally a joy to read & view.
2. Following her journal over the last year, I've also found that she is able to create a sense of positivity and thankfulness that is really awesome, especially when it doesn't come easy! Her posts always remind me to be super grateful for the small things in life as well as the big.
Day 6
In your own space, share a book/song/movie/tv show/fanwork/etc that changed your life. Something that impacted on your consciousness in a way that left its mark on your soul.
Oh gosh, this one's a big ask. A mark on my soul. I think it goes to...
Dorothea Brooke from Middlemarch by George Elliot.
I read Middlemarch for the first time when I was about 15 and it just resonated through me. Particularly the character of Dorothea. I think I recognised in her the same earnest ambition to change things for the good. Dorothea's story is powerful for me because she gets a rude awakening from how she believes she can make a difference (grand schemes, dedicated service to a genius) to the much more modest way that she eventually does - humbly - in the lives of her friends and her second husband, even though her desire to do good never wavers. It's served as a good reminder and a check on my character as well as a great story.
Also she has that puritanical air and yet, gorgeous! Oh how her head rests delicately on her hand as she stares mournfully out at the rain! (That part is not me at all, lol.) And I love Ladislaw, the rogue romantic in a sea of realism. Oh the exquisite pain of their self-denying, the space between them in empty rooms full of words unsaid and mistimed misunderstandings!
In your own space, promote three communities, challenges, blogs, pages, Twitters, Tumblrs or platforms and explain why you love them.
Part of the reason I'm so behind is because I love reading other people's entries for this. Last year I joined some great comms as a result of this challenge.
1.
smut_fest - a chance to be smutty and make other people happy by writing their kinks for them! Part of what I like so much about this comm though is the etiquette and respect with which it is run. They are definitely one of the Gold Standards for running exchanges. 2.
ladiesbingo - I only know about this from someone else linking to it four days ago but I think it's a neat idea!3.
the_lamp_is_lighted - is a community for all things related to The Lost Prince by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Tiny fandom is miniscule but it's lovely there's a comm for it! Day 4
Comment to someone you haven't ever interacted with before or introduce yourself to someone you've interacted with and friend/follow them.
I am now friends
moriann with who made this one easy for me by friending me first. :D She posts about The Good Wife which ensures I will love following her!Day 5
In your own space, talk about a creator. Show us why you think they are amazing.
I hope this isn't going to be too creepy or out of the blue but I'm going to choose
kass and I'm doing so for a couple of reasons: 1. Although I haven't read or watched even half of her fannish output, I know from what I have seen and consumed that she is a talented creator. She produces fanworks that are humorous, considered, and touching and just generally a joy to read & view.
2. Following her journal over the last year, I've also found that she is able to create a sense of positivity and thankfulness that is really awesome, especially when it doesn't come easy! Her posts always remind me to be super grateful for the small things in life as well as the big.
Day 6
In your own space, share a book/song/movie/tv show/fanwork/etc that changed your life. Something that impacted on your consciousness in a way that left its mark on your soul.
Oh gosh, this one's a big ask. A mark on my soul. I think it goes to...
Dorothea Brooke from Middlemarch by George Elliot.
I read Middlemarch for the first time when I was about 15 and it just resonated through me. Particularly the character of Dorothea. I think I recognised in her the same earnest ambition to change things for the good. Dorothea's story is powerful for me because she gets a rude awakening from how she believes she can make a difference (grand schemes, dedicated service to a genius) to the much more modest way that she eventually does - humbly - in the lives of her friends and her second husband, even though her desire to do good never wavers. It's served as a good reminder and a check on my character as well as a great story.
Also she has that puritanical air and yet, gorgeous! Oh how her head rests delicately on her hand as she stares mournfully out at the rain! (That part is not me at all, lol.) And I love Ladislaw, the rogue romantic in a sea of realism. Oh the exquisite pain of their self-denying, the space between them in empty rooms full of words unsaid and mistimed misunderstandings!
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