Three Weeks for Dreamwidth: Days 1 and 2

[soricel]

So I think for Three Weeks for Dreamwidth, I'm going to click on the "Random Community" link under the "Explore" tab everyday and write about the community I find. I'm psyched to maybe discover new, cool communities I might want to join, and introduce other people to stuff that might be interested in. I'm going to write about two communities today because I missed yesterday.

Day 1: filk

I don't really know anything about filk! My understanding is that it's fandom-inspired/related folk music? Maybe mostly for fantasy/sci-fi fandoms? I imagine it's popular at cons and stuff? Oh, I think I remember Howard and Raj doing a filky thing on Big Bang Theory. Anyway, one thing this community seems to do is promote a weekly podcast full of filk music. I'm listening to the latest episode now, and kinda digging it! So far, very traditional folk-style music with, yeah, some fantasy/sci-fi themes. Not quite my thing, but cool!

Day 2: bookcrossing

It looks like this is a community who participate in a kind of book exchange thing, in which people give away their books and keep track of where they end up. Like the Filk community, it looks like they have a non-DW site/web presence as well, and it all seems pretty active and well-organized.

Comments

[merricatb]

Bookcrossing sounds really fun actually.

[soricel]

Yeah! The DW community doesn't look very active, but it looks like they have a pretty active community on their website. Anyway, it seems like a cool idea!

[decemberthirty]

Ooh, this is an interesting project! I'm not really active in any communities, but I wouldn't mind finding some.... So I'm looking forward to reading about what you discover!

[goodbyebird]

This is an extremely cool experiment. I'll be keeping close tabs on what you discover :D

Yay!

[ysabetwordsmith]

That's a cool idea. I've listed it in my introductory post about Three Weeks for Dreamwidth.

[inchoatewords]

Cool idea! Bookcrossing has been around for a long time. I can't remember if I ever participated, but I always liked the idea of it. I might check it out again :-)