saturday share corner ii

a continuation of my weekly quest to encourage cross-pollination in my dreamwidth experience! what color would this quest be, anyway? is this purple? i guess it depends on the emotional flavor.

for anyone just joining me, my goal is to post links to DW content i enjoyed over the past ~week, in lieu of being able to reblog it, every saturday.

potofsoup has posted a "dreamwidth for tumblrites" primer going over some basic terminology, navigation, and HTML for new users, complete with screenshots of the interface, in two parts: [one] [two]

this week's theme was apparently "worldbuilding" - the two accounts i want to highlight are contrarianarchon , with an overview of three varied fantasy and sci-fi settings and some additional back-and-forth in the comments, and unseenlibrarian , who has been archiving short snippets originally posted on tumblr. because i'm me, OBVIOUSLY i love the big lizards who want to hug everyone they meet for religious reasons, but there's lots of other good stuff there!

isozyme began what i hope will become a series critiquing american comic book art and dissecting exactly what makes it not work. it's solid advice as well as an excellent snappy burn session. love anyone who seizes with both hands the chance to say things like "Our man Spidey here looks like a spandex bag of worms."

this isn't someone i follow, i just happened to catch it in Latest Things: 19th century character trope generator

millicy  : egg

besides all that i've been tentatively trying to scope for active communities that interest me, mostly by keeping a weather eye on dw_community_promo . if there are other major advertising spaces for communities, i'd love to hear about them. i'm still wary of multifandom comms; not really for any good reason, i'm just insufferably picky even when i'm already invested in the characters, so i don't step outside that zone very often except on recommendation from someone i know. strangers reccing from unfamiliar fandoms fails both tests.. it does seem like more of a norm here, though, or at least exponentially more likely to be active than a small single-fandom community, which makes sense. maybe i'll get over it.

searching on my own i found at least one masterlist of community masterlists, which was amusing, but so many ghost towns... one big score was turingfest, a robot-oriented fanwork exchange that took place this year. i can't tell if they plan to make it annual/recurring but i don't see why they wouldn't.

if you have anything you'd like to share, especially journals/communities/RSS feeds to promote, please, pop those bad boys in the comments section!