wednesday signal boost
Jan. 23rd, 2019 09:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sciatrixMissed out on last week--whoops!--but better late than never. Just for that, y'all get an extra big signal boost this week...
Stuff Happening Around Dreamwidth:
I didn't realize this, but we have a![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
theadventurezone comm! I have sneakily gotten T into listening by merit of leaving the Crystal Kingdom arc on while we were gearing up to play D&D and hooking them on the story, so I've been really immersing myself in the Balance arcs lately. I'm enjoying all the different comms people have been digging up and signal boosting, so I figured I should do my part to find neat comms.
With that in mind, I've also gone to post at the latest episode post forthe_good_place, since I just caught up on it last night. Oh, and brainwane has a communal Metafilter FPP framing request over at metafilter! I love that kind of thing! Plus, thisfinecrew has some useful updates on the ongoing LAUSD teachers' strike. ✊🌹
thisweekmeta is also kicking off, and I'm super excited to see it kick off. They're looking for more sources! There's a lot of good pieces I've seen on their latest linkspam here and was going to link, but... they already did and this is getting longish. So. Go check that out.
If you likedsnowflake_challenge, there's a spinoff happening for this summer at sunshine_challenge! Good to keep our minds on for now, I think.
I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, but Psychic Wolves for Lupercalia is coming up soon for February! I have a huge thing for psychic bond creatures, so I'm still... well, psyched.
Also in February,sara is kicking off Dreamwidth Is For Shitposting month. She has kicked off a big list of great ideas--I have some thoughts on "inside a whale"!--and melannen has gleefully broken out her coding skills to create a shitposting topic generator. (She's still taking suggestions to feed it!)
Stuff I Found On Dreamwidth:
Fromjesse_the_k, I learned that Ruth Bader Ginsburg has a dissent necklace and that other people have made an enamel pin for it. I've been eyeing up canvas jackets I could get to display my burgeoning collection of enamel pins as it is, so this is very exciting. (They do other pins! They have one of Alice Ball!)
seperis has a big ol' post about her bunnykeeping. I love people talking about the social dynamics of their pets and the ins and outs of their petkeeping setups, so I rolled around in this like a happy happy dog with a really dead fox.
kabarett has been hosting some interesting discussions about traditionally-recognized autism symptoms being, uh, synonymous with trauma, bouncing off a piece from a parent frustrated that protecting her son from being traumatized has made him "undiagnosable".
breathedout has some fascinating and dramatic details from the real life of Patricia Highsmith. In particular, the first one is an achingly painful image I wouldn't be surprised to find in a tragic poem.
ursula has an interesting piece on researching character names, especially in medieval Europe.
nerdflighter is thinking about how to handle edge cases of dysphoria, and how/whether to offer a particular person an identity that might or might not fit better.
quinfirefrorefiddle has a pretty cool roundup on fannish history. It's been a while since I thought about the Pit of Voles! Now that I work in a vole lab (although not on them), I gotta say that the moniker doesn't work nearly as well as it used to for me.
wanderingnork found a study that argues that you should be aiming to be about 85% wrong when you're learning in order to achieve maximum growth, and has some complaints about the methodology.
Stuff helpful for using Dreamwidth:
I am perhaps the last person to get around to this, but hey, there's a new signal boosting bookmark around!astolat made the first one, and melannen helpfully improved it so it warns you if you're trying to share a locked post. It should make it easier to format and share posts, which is nice. I don't know how much I'll personally use it, on account of how this system with a notepad works a little better for me, but we'll see.
tozka has some helpful tips on comm using, and how we should try using them now that we're by and large not using 'em to archive fanfic anymore.
On that note,novembermond spent some time explaining how to find interesting comms, whether it's worth resurrecting one, and when it's probably a good idea to make a new one. I need to post to comms more often, probably. Hrm. I also really need to scrape together some cash for a paid account; I want that network feature! Maybe after student loans come in and T has a job again.
jesse_the_k has a helpful guide to using Markdown on DW.
Stuff Happening Around Dreamwidth:
I didn't realize this, but we have a
theadventurezone comm! I have sneakily gotten T into listening by merit of leaving the Crystal Kingdom arc on while we were gearing up to play D&D and hooking them on the story, so I've been really immersing myself in the Balance arcs lately. I'm enjoying all the different comms people have been digging up and signal boosting, so I figured I should do my part to find neat comms.With that in mind, I've also gone to post at the latest episode post for
the_good_place, since I just caught up on it last night. Oh, and brainwane has a communal Metafilter FPP framing request over at metafilter! I love that kind of thing! Plus, thisfinecrew has some useful updates on the ongoing LAUSD teachers' strike. ✊🌹 thisweekmeta is also kicking off, and I'm super excited to see it kick off. They're looking for more sources! There's a lot of good pieces I've seen on their latest linkspam here and was going to link, but... they already did and this is getting longish. So. Go check that out. If you liked
snowflake_challenge, there's a spinoff happening for this summer at sunshine_challenge! Good to keep our minds on for now, I think. I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, but Psychic Wolves for Lupercalia is coming up soon for February! I have a huge thing for psychic bond creatures, so I'm still... well, psyched.
Also in February,
sara is kicking off Dreamwidth Is For Shitposting month. She has kicked off a big list of great ideas--I have some thoughts on "inside a whale"!--and melannen has gleefully broken out her coding skills to create a shitposting topic generator. (She's still taking suggestions to feed it!)Stuff I Found On Dreamwidth:
From
jesse_the_k, I learned that Ruth Bader Ginsburg has a dissent necklace and that other people have made an enamel pin for it. I've been eyeing up canvas jackets I could get to display my burgeoning collection of enamel pins as it is, so this is very exciting. (They do other pins! They have one of Alice Ball!)seperis has a big ol' post about her bunnykeeping. I love people talking about the social dynamics of their pets and the ins and outs of their petkeeping setups, so I rolled around in this like a happy happy dog with a really dead fox.kabarett has been hosting some interesting discussions about traditionally-recognized autism symptoms being, uh, synonymous with trauma, bouncing off a piece from a parent frustrated that protecting her son from being traumatized has made him "undiagnosable".breathedout has some fascinating and dramatic details from the real life of Patricia Highsmith. In particular, the first one is an achingly painful image I wouldn't be surprised to find in a tragic poem.ursula has an interesting piece on researching character names, especially in medieval Europe.nerdflighter is thinking about how to handle edge cases of dysphoria, and how/whether to offer a particular person an identity that might or might not fit better. quinfirefrorefiddle has a pretty cool roundup on fannish history. It's been a while since I thought about the Pit of Voles! Now that I work in a vole lab (although not on them), I gotta say that the moniker doesn't work nearly as well as it used to for me. wanderingnork found a study that argues that you should be aiming to be about 85% wrong when you're learning in order to achieve maximum growth, and has some complaints about the methodology.Stuff helpful for using Dreamwidth:
I am perhaps the last person to get around to this, but hey, there's a new signal boosting bookmark around!
astolat made the first one, and melannen helpfully improved it so it warns you if you're trying to share a locked post. It should make it easier to format and share posts, which is nice. I don't know how much I'll personally use it, on account of how this system with a notepad works a little better for me, but we'll see. tozka has some helpful tips on comm using, and how we should try using them now that we're by and large not using 'em to archive fanfic anymore.On that note,
novembermond spent some time explaining how to find interesting comms, whether it's worth resurrecting one, and when it's probably a good idea to make a new one. I need to post to comms more often, probably. Hrm. I also really need to scrape together some cash for a paid account; I want that network feature! Maybe after student loans come in and T has a job again. jesse_the_k has a helpful guide to using Markdown on DW.
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Date: 2019-01-23 05:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-01-23 05:52 pm (UTC)Hold onto your butts: Suffering Game definitely is kind of dark. If you want a spot to discuss it
and possibly scream together, I'm sure the comm would be delighted to hear about it. I'd definitely be happy to chatter about it with you!no subject
Date: 2019-01-24 03:43 am (UTC)