Omggggg! I have tears in my eyes!!! This is PERFECT. Completely stunningly PERFECT. Harry’s outfit is exactly right!!!! I’m crying just omg! He’s so beautiful! And Draco is beautiful too, even though he thinks he looks drab in grey! (And so does Pansy. 😂) He’s not drab in the least. They look so perfect together! The pose makes my heart sing!!!! Amomiri this is EVERYTHING. Thank you SO MUCH! And @its-the-allure you minx!!! Bless you for commissioning all this gorgeous work for my story. I’m so humbled and grateful, I can’t even tell you! ❤️
So it seems like some of you might be interested in learning more about Dreamwidth.
Listen, here's the thing: Dreamwidth is not slick. It is not fancy. Its base code was originally put together some two decades ago or more, and it looks like it. It can't do much with images and definitely not with video—like, I think there's some way to embed video, but I have no idea how to do it, and hosting it on Dreamwidth is, uh...
The point is! Dreamwidth is a lot different from Tumblr. It's closer to Tumblr than it is to Facebook or Instagram, but it's a lot more old-school internet than Tumblr is. And that means that, for anyone who wasn't on the internet some ten, fifteen years ago, there's probably going to be a steep learning curve. It can take more effort to post things there, and more effort to find your people, its image hosting capacity can charitably be described as both "limited" and "poorly organized", and overall it may still never be the kind of website where you, personally, will want to spend a lot of time or do a lot of things. Dreamwidth does not and will never have an app, for pretty much the same reasons as AO3.
But there is one thing I can guarantee, and that is that Dreamwidth is willing to fight for us and our rights. They're already doing so.
Since this post isn't super specific in terms of facts I'm gonna be just adding some off the top of my head! (More at OP's link, this is just for the 'first glance pls' crowd)
Dreamwidth is predominantly text. Your feed will not be as visual as on Tumblr.
-> You can embed videos from e.g. YouTube, and you can post your own images/video, but Dreamwidth itself cannot host the images/video (like Tumblr can), so you will need to host them somewhere else, like imgur, and upload via link in the New Post editor.
Dreamwidth's New Post editor is very similar to Tumblr's. You can work in Rich Text (click buttons to do all the formatting), or HTML (code all formatting manually).
Your feed is similar to Tumblr's. You see the posts from the people and communities you follow, most recent first, and only those.
-> When reading, you can filter your feed (Reading page) and see only posts from people, or only posts from Communities.
No reblogging. Everything you post on your blog stays on your blog. It will be seen by fewer people -- this is a pro and a con. It will never spread wildly out of your control, and nobody can add anything to your posts.
Multiple levels of privacy. You can set your entries viewable to everyone, just friends, or just you, on an entry-by-entry basis. It can be changed after posting. Within "just friends", you can create more defined filters, and e.g. show an entry only to your Severance fan friends and not to your 911 fan friends. Or whatever.
There are comment sections under each post! You can delete comments on your entries. (You can also write very long comments. Up to 16k characters.)
You can make VERY LONG posts. The limit is 300k characters. You can easily host fanfics or long fic chapters as journal entries (and a lot of people do and always have done!).
-> Long posts can go under a Read More (Tumblr inherited this function from LJ and DW.)
Communities function like shared journals with mods, where all community members can make posts, and comment on each other's posts. You follow Communities the same way you follow people.
You can find communities by searching Dreamwidth for an interest (eg "crocheting") and filtering the results to Communities only.
Managing your friends: You can let someone read your entries (Grant access), or follow their blog (Subscribe), or both, depending on what suits you.
YOUR USERNAME IS FOREVER. Basically. If you want to change it, you need a token that costs money. (It's one of the few ways they get any money in, since using the site is free.) Choose carefully! :'D
Thank you for the at-a-glance summary! I do have two minor corrections to make, and one addition.
First, Dreamwidth does have its own image hosting, it's just non-intuitive for anyone used to Tumblr or Facebook or Instagram or what-have-you. Free users get 500 MB, which is not a lot for artists; paid users get 1.5 GB, and premium paid users get 3 GB. You can only embed images uploaded to Dreamwidth on Dreamwidth. Find out more about Dreamwidth's image hosting at this link. Again, this isn't really a lot of space for artists, and to the best of my knowledge there currently isn't a way to buy more storage space; your best bet may be to set up an account at squidge.org to host images instead.
Second, there's no native reblogging feature. It is technically possible to do with the use of a third party script, but it's not something that's built into Dreamwidth. You can find out how to reblog things on Dreamwidth at this link. What it effectively does is copy the post to share on your own account, without informing the original poster, so it's not quite the same as a Tumblr reblog, but if reblogging is something you rely heavily on, you may like this workaround.
Third is something really cool about Dreamwidth's cut tags (the native "read more" feature): You can close them. You know how on Tumblr, the second you add a Read More, everything you put after that is under the Read More? Not so on Dreamwidth! If you close the cut tag, you can have more stuff that's visible outside it. You can even have multiple cut tags in a single entry! (And that's not getting into things like nested cut tags 👀)
If you have any other questions about Dreamwidth, I'll do my best to answer them! Message me or reply to one of my posts here, or come visit the community Newcomers on Dreamwidth, or the Tumblr community Dreamwidth Sharing, and we'll see if we can't help you out 👍
What to post about on Dreamwidth
Dreamwidth alternatives to talking in the tags
A quick guide to mood themes
The (beta) Create Entries page
Personal Communities: Dreamwidth's "side blogs"
What do I do instead of reblogging?
Audience on Dreamwidth vs Audience on Tumblr
Cut Tag Basics
-Lu would be a medical major(I hc in canon he wanted to be a healer)
-Enemies to lovers
-I think they would have core classes together and would constantly be competing for the top spot which would cause some tension
-Lucius listens to Malcom Todd and Lil Peep RELIGIOUSLY
-He also has a bunch of tattoos and piecings and Cissa was lowkey scared of him at first or at least intimated by him
-I think Cissa would spend her summers at a county club with her family and Lucius would be a lifeguard and it’s like red string of fate where they keep running into each other
-I can imagine them getting closer by teaming up together for a project or something
-She fell first he slammed into a door harder
I think that’s where I’m gonna leave it for now
I’m sorry this is so short 😭😭😭 hopefully I’ll have more thoughts later!!
Harry lay on the bed, drew his knees to his chest, and closed his eyes. It was quiet — not a single sound penetrated from outside. Beyond the flimsy door, it was as if space began: an eternal, cold void where there were no other schoolchildren, no laughter, no problems. Harry wished it were so.
It's so common to have first war Snape be some super badass high ranking Death Eater, which is really odd imo. All the evidence points to Snape being not at all remarkable among existing Death Eaters. Karakaroff named him as a last resort, and didn't attach any specific crime to his name, unlike the other names he gave. Sirius didn't know he was a Death Eater, and Voldemort thought he was low profile enough that Dumbledore would not know he was a Death Eater and hire him as a teacher (though Dumbledore did in fact know). He wasn't trusted with a Horcrux. His soul is also intact until he kills Dumbledore, which wouldn't happen if he had directly killed anyone (which doesn't remove the possibility of him killing people indirectly like he did the Potter's).
The crime that is consistently emphasized with regards to Snape isn't active malice or sadism. Rather, it's indifference. Whether it's Mary McDonald or James and Harry, the crime that is emphasized were he's involved isn't hurting them, but not giving a shit when others do. Only when the one person who he does care about beyond himself is murdered, by his own indifference to the suffering of an innocent by delivering the prophecy, can Snape's moral journey begin. Evil prevails when men do nothing. Snape learned that lesson painfully, and so he embarks on a journey to learn by actively fighting against evil, so that what's left of Lily can live. In the process, he expands his moral universe beyond Lily, culminating in his year as headmaster, where he gives everything of himself to save others, including those he hates. He also accepts that Harry has to die, acknowledging that Voldemort's defeat and saving the wizarding world is more important than his personal atonement to Lily. He loves the wizarding world, more than he ever did Lily. Snape's arc is one of moving from selfishness, to selflessness.
i'll defend fanfic for my whole life. like the joy it brings is genuinely transformative and indulgent in a way unique to the genre. it isn't meant for a market, it isn't meant to be sold or marketed. it is born out of such care and passion for a media that one must write and must share it, so other folks can enjoy it to. for no other reason than love and joy. do you know how special that is? especially in our current social and political climate.
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