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05 February 2012 @ 07:32 pm

If you're not a woman, I bet you're at least related to one...

Below is a basically a 'pimp' of another community (which we try not to do too much of here at the coffee house). But, I feel very strongly about the topic of women's rights and about access to health care. I thought perhaps some of you might as well.

Recently, the two topics have come together and fandom is doing what fandom does best.
They're writing fic (and making vids, graphics, etc) @

fandom_helps

( charity auction for Planned Parenthood, feel free to skip if not interested )

Tags: !promotions

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everythingshiny

10 January 2012 @ 09:02 am

Places to Be

PLACES TO GO!

Because a lot of people are finding a home in dreamwidth, all communities promoted here or that we know about will be placed in this post. If you want to list a community, just say so in the comments.

fandom_on_dw,

dw_community_promo,

fandomcalendar, and

bigbangindex are a good place to look for fannish communities and challenges.

Challenge Communities/Fandom Communities

fandomcalendar - A general bulletin board for various ficathons, exchanges, challenges, etc.

fic_promptly - Multi-fandom comment-fic community similar to comment_fic on lj.

fanart_recs - Exactly what the name says.

fancake - A thematic, multi-fandom fanfic rec community.

bestthingever - For recs of really great, brand new fic.

fandom_fanvids - Multi-fandom fanvid community.

fanbingo - An ongoing, no-deadlines bingo.

addme_fandom - find friends for fandom!

graphics - pretty much what it says on the tin, folks.

icons - pretty much what it says on the tin, folks.

thefandomzoo - a fandom land comm challenge community

fan_flashworks - fast fanworks :D

5_prompts - prompts!

iconthat - a weekly icon challenge community.

10tropes - a new comm. There's a list of tropes taken from TV Tropes and the idea is you choose ten of those tropes and write fics for them.

treatyodeskop - for sharing wallpapers/desktops

overlooked - The idea is to claim and write for an overlooked fandom, character, or pairing. You define "overlooked"

scans_daily - a comic community

10_letters - 10-letters is a no-pressure fiction writing comm centered on characters writing letters. Any fandom or original fiction is welcome!

1sentencefic - A community for people who want to write just one sentence for each theme.

fandom_prompts - In this community, a writer and artist can find prompts that may provide inspiration in whatever they are trying to do.

ficondemand - a place where you may make requests for fanfic, and/or fulfill other people's requests for fanfic. Writers are encouraged to view the requests as challenges; get inspired and have fun answering someone else's request.

song_prompt - dedicated to using songs as prompts. All fandoms are welcome.

15_minute_fic - you have a prompt word and you have fifteen minutes. It's up to you to complete an entire ficlet from those two items.

asexual_fandom - As the name says: Ace + Fandom = Awesome

crossovers - crossover fic or art

dark_agenda - runs kaleidoscope alongside yuletide every year, for fandoms with chromatic characters or creators

not_primetime is for mid-sized fandoms that are ineligible for yuletide

daysofawesome - The Days of Awe are the period around the Jewish high holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.

hooked_on_heroines - writing women who are awesome

leftoverresearchquarterly - We want to know all about all the cool stuff you found researching your latest piece of fiction

starfighters - Starfighters: Fanworks & Discussion on Military Science Fiction

vidding - for vidders

3_ships is for OT3s.

junetide is for original fiction.

writing_religion - If you are an author, writing something that has to do with religion (a religious character, or community, or tradition, etc.) and you need a little help with your research, please feel free to ask any questions here

yuletide - Unofficial community for chat about Yuletide

fandom_of_one - for small fandoms

amplificathon - Podfic

podficmeta - What We Talk About When We Talk About Podfic

mastership - A community for the joys of competence... competence porn

yuletart

kink_bingo - multifandom community that runs year round

Random stuff!

toodamnpretty - A Daily posting comm for pretty people.

wehazmafia - A mafia comm

addme - find friends :D

thefridayfive - a friday five social comm

shes_awesome - A community dedicated to awesome women, and in particular to awesome female television and movie characters.