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Dreamwidth offers a place to post pretty much whatever people want to share. However, a lot of creators put their stories, webcomics, etc. on some other platform and only share links on Dreamwidth. The same holds true for the recommendation communities for fiction and other topics: most rely on links that lead offsite. The problem with this is that more and more platforms are closing to nonmembers, becoming unavailable in some parts of the world, incompatible with some software or hardware -- or shutting down entirely like Cohost did. That makes offsite links less useful than in the past, because there's no telling who can see the content or not. When creators post the full content on Dreamwidth in an open blog, however, anyone already using Dreamwidth can access that content. (Creators still have the option of using access lists and filters if they want to serve a more specific audience.) Furthermore, copying the material to multiple platforms increases the chance of more people seeing it and of it surviving if one platform collapses.  We've lost enough fanwork archives already.

This post provides a place to list communities and individual blogs where people post full content. It will help readers find new sources to enjoy, and creators find new audience members. It supports goals related to blogging, reading, writing, networking, Dreamwidth, and so on. It's a bit like Three Weeks for Dreamwidth, except not limited in time and you can echo your work on other platforms in addition to this one. MOAR GOODEEZ for everyone! \o/

You can pick whichever challenge(s) you want to set as a goal in 2026 and reply with a comment. Below the list of sample full-content journals is a short form for listing what you have chosen. You can make a post in your blog like "I signed up for the Full Content on Dreamwidth challenge in [community profile] goals_on_dw" or similar. Then make a tag for it like "Full Content" and put that on the post; it should stick that way. Check your Interests page to see if you have Writing, Fiction, Science Fiction, Fanfic, Webcomics, etc. listed there, which helps people find you. You don't have to sign up to participate, it just helps spread the word and attract more readers.

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Just a SNowflake Reminder.

Dec. 28th, 2025 07:48 pm
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[personal profile] pattrose
Snowflake Challenge: A close up shot of an owl ornament hanging amidst pine boughs..


Coming Soon. January 1st. Woot!!!

Daily Check-In

Dec. 28th, 2025 08:16 pm
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[personal profile] mecurtin posting in [community profile] fandom_checkin
This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Sunday, December 28, to midnight on Monday, December 29 (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #34015 Daily check-in poll
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 9

How are you doing?

I am OK
8 (88.9%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now
1 (11.1%)

I could use some help
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single
3 (33.3%)

One other person
3 (33.3%)

More than one other person
3 (33.3%)



Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.
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[personal profile] cmk418 posting in [community profile] sweetandshort
Title: Rehearsals on the Road
Fandom: OZ (HBO)
Characters: Martin Querns, Tim McManus, Sean Murphy
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 300
Prompt: Mistletoe
Summary: When Querns' car is in the shop, he has to ride with some of his staff. It may be a decision he comes to regret.

Rehearsals on the Road )

{10 out of 20]: Poirot: Gen

Dec. 28th, 2025 02:48 pm
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[personal profile] stonepicnicking_okapi posting in [community profile] sweetandshort
Title: That cup
Fandom: Poirot
Rating: Gen
Length: 300
Prompt: singing Christmas carols
Summary: Poirot is aggrieved by Hastings' cup.

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[personal profile] florianschild posting in [community profile] snowflake_challenge
Happy Snowflake Season to all! As we prepare to kick off the 2026 challenge, please feel free to promo this event within your own circles. You are welcome to use any of these new banners and icons that I've created to include with your post. You can copy the code from the text box below the banner to use it where you like!

Icons:


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Icon table generated by Chlor's Icon Table Generator



Banners!



Snowflake Challenge: A flatlay of a snowflake shaped shortbread cake, a mug with coffee, and a string of holiday lights on top of a rustic napkin.



More Banners Below the Cut )

[10 out of 20] BTS: gen

Dec. 28th, 2025 01:43 pm
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[personal profile] stonepicnicking_okapi posting in [community profile] sweetandshort
Title: Ugh
Fandom: BTS
Characters: RM & Jin
Prompt: snowstorm
Rating: Gen
Also for: [community profile] adventdrabbles day 28 prompt: wizarding nutcracker
Summary: Namjoon is miserable. Hyung helps.

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[10 out of 20] BTS: gen

Dec. 28th, 2025 10:12 am
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[personal profile] stonepicnicking_okapi posting in [community profile] sweetandshort
Title: Kisses
Rating: Gen
Fandom: BTS
Pairing: RM/Jin
Length: 300
Notes: Coffee shop AU, meet-cute
Prompt: Grinch
Summary: A handsome stranger comes back to the cafe.

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Just one thing: 28 December 2025

Dec. 28th, 2025 07:48 am
[personal profile] jazzyjj posting in [community profile] awesomeers
It's challenge time!

Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.

Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished!

Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!

Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.

Go!

Voice Team Mystery Box - Goals

Dec. 28th, 2025 10:52 am
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[personal profile] peasina
The discord has now opened for this year's [community profile] voiceteam Mystery Box (VTMB), the winter mini-round of an event that’s kind of like [community profile] battleship but for podfic. This year I’m on team ‘Over The Top’, named for a team full of members who like to make lots of things! ^^

Earlier this year, I posted a list of personal goals for my participation in Battleship 2025, and it really helped guide me whenever I felt overwhelmed by the fast pace and variety of choices/challenges. So, I’m doing it again for VTMB! Here are my top ten wishes for this year’s event.

ONE: Record at least 5 femslash pods
Apparently, December 2025 has been the month of me getting into new femslash pairings, so I’d like to extend that to making podfic about them!

TWO: Repod one of my older pods
I got a comment from the author on a pod I made in Nov' 2020 recently, which was a lovely surprise. However, it reminded me that I’d always wanted to repod that one, as now that I have more experience, I believe could do it better. I’d like to give it a try and hope there’s a repod challenge this year 🤞 (I’ll still try to do it, even if there isn’t.)

THREE: Record at least three podfics that are over an hour in length
I’m aiming for 2026 to be my year of long pods, so it would be a good way to get started selecting longer things to record. With my pacing, a 1-hour podfic will be of a story around the 8,500 – 9,500 mark.

FOUR: Record gift pods for three specific people who aren’t playing VTMB
I’m combining my potential giftees into this one wish in the hopes I can manage all three. For now, I'll call them M, E, and W.

FIVE: Podfic my Night at the Museum fic ‘On Every Horizon’
I’ve wanted to podfic this one since I wrote it, as it’s probably the all-time fic I’m most proud of. I’ve always been intimidated to do so though (mostly because the character voices are so important for Jed and Octavius and I’m not so good at those) but if I can manage it, I’ll be so happy. It's also 15k so 😅

SIX: Record at least three Pokémon podfics
Just because it’s fun ^^

SEVEN: Record a gift for a member of my team I didn’t know before the event
Who knows who it will be and what they’ll be into! I hope I can deliver 💪

EIGHT: Make something physical for a challenge (crafts, baked goods, cosplay, etc.)
I’ve done this in prior rounds, making zines, wax melts, and cocktails. It’s soooo fun to steal use my podfic-related inspiration to make something tangible, so I hope to do it again this year.

NINE: Write something
I don’t care what it is! It could be a drabble, a tutorial, a rec post, but if it’s words, and let’s say… over 300 of them, then it counts. I’d prefer fic, but my writing mojo has been all over the place this year, so my goal can be a little all over the place too :P

TEN: Make new friends!
Voiceteam is great for this 🤞🤞🤞

Sunday 28/12/2025

Dec. 28th, 2025 10:17 am
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[personal profile] lhune posting in [community profile] 3_good_things_a_day
1) Great coffee to properly wake up

2) Visit to my parents to exchange the DVD players and enjoy their woodburner ^__^

3) Telephone call with my cousin (and my godchild)

Sunday Word: Contemporaneous

Dec. 28th, 2025 12:09 pm
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[personal profile] sallymn posting in [community profile] 1word1day

contemporaneous [kuhn-tem-puh-rey-nee-uhs]

adjective:
existing, beginning, or occurring in the same period of time

Examples:

Some economic data, such as last month’s unemployment rate and consumer-inflation numbers, can’t be compiled retroactively, the Labor Department has said, because they rely on contemporaneous surveys. (Nick Timiraos and Matt Grossman, Wholesale Price Gains Hint at Muted Rise in Fed’s Preferred Inflation Gauge, The Wall Street Journal, November 2025)

These moments of reckoning - in which something that once felt exciting begins to seem noxious, mephitic, dangerous - are important to heed. (Alex Ross, At Ninety, Arvo Pärt and Terry Riley Still Sound Vital, The New Yorker, November 2025)

In addition to contemporaneous comics, architecture, and music, the film explores the influence of the space race on everyday life of the 1960s. (Ben Sachs, Lewis Klahr’s Sixty Six is a masterful journey through inner space and the American past, Chicago Reader, May 2017)

It gave the explanation, gave sanity to the pranks of this atavistic brain of mine that, modern and normal, harked back to a past so remote as to be contemporaneous with the raw beginnings of mankind. (Jack London, Before Adam)

Origin:
'living or existing at the same time,' 1650s, from Late Latin contemporaneus 'contemporary,' from the same Latin source as contemporary but with an extended form after Late Latin temporaneous 'timely.' An earlier adjective was contemporanean (1550s). (Online Etymology Dictionary)

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[personal profile] cmk418 posting in [community profile] sweetandshort
Title: Weather Delay
Fandom: All for the Game
Characters: Neil Josten/Andrew Minyard, Kevin Day
Rating: Teen
Prompt: Snowed In
Word Count: 212
Summary: The trio is snowed in at the cabin

Weather Delay )

Daily Check In.

Dec. 27th, 2025 06:18 pm
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[personal profile] adafrog posting in [community profile] fandom_checkin
This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Saturday to midnight on Sunday (8pm Eastern Time).


Poll #34012 Daily poll
This poll is closed.
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 25

How are you doing?

I am okay
15 (62.5%)

I am not okay, but don't need help right now
9 (37.5%)

I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans are you living with?

I am living single
8 (32.0%)

One other person
12 (48.0%)

More than one other person
5 (20.0%)



Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.

photo: spotted on my morning walk

Dec. 27th, 2025 02:37 pm
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[personal profile] tozka
A puffy snowman sticker on a bright red pole. The snowman has a top hat, red scarf and little red mittens. It’s smiling!

📍Phoenix, Arizona - December 2025 / All Photos / Pixelfed

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r/fantasy MegaSale 2025

Dec 26-27

All books 99¢ or free. Each sale or download benefits the Mary Cariola Children's Center.

https://megasale.yrliu.com/

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[personal profile] cornerofmadness posting in [community profile] allbingo
Name: [personal profile] cornerofmadness
Card Theme: Amnesty remix (I like to mix and match unused prompts from the year)
Prompts: Love letters, "(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue", You have three choices. You can give up - give in or give it your all, Consent is sexy, Serpents in Eden

Fandoms: Hazbin Hotel
My Card: My Card


my fills under here  )

Saturday 27/12/2025

Dec. 27th, 2025 01:53 pm
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[personal profile] lhune posting in [community profile] 3_good_things_a_day
1) Gorgeous weather, cold but lots of sunshine. I lunched outside and went for a stroll to get some vitamin D

2) A little problem was solved easily. My parents and I are going to switch DVD players so that I can watch the blu-ray disc I received for Xmas

3) Bought new (warm) clothes yesterday and more are on it’s way after I discovered a better deal online before buying some of them.