#building community

[insanitysilver]

AO3 Tastemaker Game

You? You're an individual. You're a reader and a forager with fine tastes. You're not afraid to wade into the deep end. Browse the dustiest aisles. Get in the vents. Come, pan for gold with me in the far reaches. The game goes like this:

On AO3, navigate to your pairing/fandom of choice

Apply your standard filters

In the 'Search Within Results' field, paste this: kudos<100 comments<5 bookmarks<5 hits<500 sort:>updated

Press the 'Sort & Filter' button

Read down the line until you find something you like

Comment, bookmark, and mark it as a recommendation

For the ultimate connoisseur: Bonus Points - share your new rec off-site Hard Mode - kudos<12 comments<1 bookmarks<1 hits<395 sort:>updated

#won't really work in microfandoms where everyone already has read the 20 existing fics but #inspired by the time i challenged myself to read every fic for a pairing sorted chronologically #I found a lot of really excellent work that i wouldn't have found otherwise! #ao3 #archive of our own #fanfic #fanfiction #building community

[roseredsnow]

I love the old lady on the corner who gave me a bag of cooking apples and used to hand out dog treats.

I have joy for the blackberries that grew over from the neighbours yard, and the wild strawberries that grew in plant pots from seeds birds dropped.

I have hope for the kids that asked to wash my car for £2 a few weeks ago, and a different two that were selling homemade lemonade outside the co-op yesterday.

I look forward to doing up our garden into something my Dad is proud of, and to all the future cosplays I make.

I can't wait for my alone time when my parents go away in November for a few weeks, and I can't wait to see my friends in October.

Inspired by this post

#solarpunk #solar punk #hopepunk #gardening #building community #growing food

[lastcatghost]

True revolution starts with talking to your neighbors. Can't organize shit if you can't even be willing to learn your neighbors names.

Not saying it's safe to have deep political conversations with everybody, you have to use your best judgment and learn how to read the person you talk to. But the best practice for this, and path to understanding how to talk to strangers about heavy shit is by being open and willing to engage with small talk with others in your local community.

Go outside, ride public transit, have genuine interests in hearing your neighbors struggles and concerns. To paraphrase an elder in the revolutionary fight, if you don't know where to start with organizing, walk out your front door, look forward, look back, look side to side, and pick a direction.

#building community #community organizing #revolutionary process #neighbors #class warfare

[lazydally09]

So I use YouTube for news most times. I'm subscribed to Indian Country Today. It's a YT channel that goes over Native American and other indigenous news in America but it is a part of Arizona State University. I've watched the news from ICT for over a year now but if your interested in Native American and indigenous focused news give Indian Country Today at try. I see them as a small news organization that can't cover all indigenous peoples and their News but I want to share where I get some of my news on other Indigenous people.

#decolonization is not a metaphor #indigenous rights #indigenous solidarity #indigenous sovereignty #news #youtube video #building community #native american #current events #try something new #turtle island #decolonialism #decolonization #representation #white mountain apache #first nations #native #ndn #liberation #indigenous peoples #Youtube

[companionplanting]

Sometimes I'm reminded one of the benefits of being out as a system and being an activist for DID/OSDD/DDNOS.

That said benefit is talking to someone and that someone realizes they're not alone anymore.

Like no hun, you aren't broken or wrong or bad! What you're going through is hard but you aren't alone and shouldn't feel ashamed!

And the way they seem to just relax like a huge weight has been lifted, they seem to get this slight excitement as they recognize that there is at least one person in this world who just understands.

I don't want this to come off as shaming other systems for not being open like this. I recognize that I have a lot of privilege in this aspect and have the supports in my life to help if things go south after opening up about our system.

Just wanted to share something that just makes me really happy to see ówò

-🍂 (kinda 🌺)

#snails 🍂 #blurry 🌺 #companion_planting #did system #actually did #osdd system #actually osdd #actuallydid #actuallyosdd #did osdd #ddnos #ddnos system #osddid #activism #building community #system community

[pleasanttaleswithkaityb]

drop this sunflower🌻into the inboxes of the blogs that make you happy! lets spread a little sunshine ☀️

#ask kaity b #kaity b answers #simblr #simblr community #spread positivity #building community #simblr friends!

[robinlovexo]

thisssss>>>>>> 😻😻

#building community #classless #winnie the pooh

[dyrdeer]

tumblr is good and fun ppl are playing with polls like little building blocks

#building community #deerposting

[pixiedane]

Title: Black Butterfly Artist: Laura Veirs Footage: The Expanse

Summary: Clarissa Mao's transforms from bauble to monster to quiet force for good.

#the expanse #clarissa mao #redemption #building community #pixie vids #Youtube

[insanitysilver]

I’m not sure if this is a good place to ask this, but do you know if there’s an etiquette to gifting fics on AO3?

Somebody commented on a fic of mine, and that comment inspired me to write essentially a whole other fic. I’d like to dedicate the work to them in some way, and my first instinct was to use the gift function, but then I realized I’d never actually used it before or had it used for me.

Can I randomly gift someone a fic? Is that rude or a pleasant surprise? Should I ask first? Am I completely misunderstanding the purpose of this feature?

What a sweet gesture! Nearly everyone likes gifts—I’ve been on the receiving end of your situation and was thrilled to have been an inspiration. If you don’t know the person well, it can always be a safe practice to give them a heads up first. AO3 lets users opt out of gifts, so a heads up could give your recipient time to change that setting.

 The only bad practices I know of:

❌ don’t use gifts to harass others

❌ don’t use gifts to promote your own work by spamming irrelevant users

❌ don’t pressure/guilt your recipient into giving you something back

Overall, fic gifting is a lovely, underutilized practice that spreads a little joy, makes someone feel special, and makes fandom a nicer place to be.

#ao3 tips #ask #building community #ao3

[cryptidroots]

PSA to all vendors/ artists who do cons, markets, faires, whatever-

Be the booth buddy you would want to meet!

Talk to your booth neighbors! Say hi! Offer to help them with anything! Watch their stuff if they need to run to the restroom! Bring extra water bottles and snacks and offer to share! Follow each other on social media! Give shout outs to other small businesses and artists whose stuff you genuinely enjoy!

Some of our greatest friends we've made on our small business journey have been other small business owners! We share info about how certain cons went, what printers we do or don't like, what events look cool and which ones might be a dud - it's so nice and so amazing to be part of and building this community!

And you can too!!! Just be nice and friendly to the other people you meet on your journey, it might turn out you're all walking the same path!

#small business #cryptid roots #con artist tips #artist friends #building community #artists supporting artists #small business community #con artist #i love saying that #artist alley #artist alley tips

[lastcatghost]

The only people I go out of my way to offer a cigarette to are folks that are elevated in a very relatable way to me. I had learned from a past psych dr that nicotine can function as a self meditation for those in psychosis.

After I experienced this shit for myself, now I understand what's up when someone I don't know from a can of paint is aggressively talking at me on some paranoid or strange stuff. If I didn't understand it, there are people I would've felt threatened by, and I might not respond the right way.

Now I'll ask if they want one and nearly everyone accepts

One guy known downtown is perpetually in an episode, they never take him to the hospital, but put him jail for a night or few, and put him back in the streets. Everytime I see him I give him one, and let him say what he feels the need to, most the time he's connecting dots that don't make sense.

He's been struggling like this since before last winter, and he can't be allowed some places because of stuff he says to people. But I'll always give him a smoke and snacks if I got them. He asked me one night why I'm always nice to him and give him cigarettes, and it's because it's what would've helped me when I was in those states, wandering cities.

And I don't remember them as people, but when a person showed me kindness, they appeared as angels to me, a lot of the time I'd see someone I recognized by face, and I remembered when someone was kind to me.

Most of society is brutal towards people experiencing episodes, and you're more likely to experience violence from others while psychotic than you are to be violent

#mental health #empathy #humanity #kindness #schizophrenia #homelessness #psychosis #helping others #showing love #building community

[knode-garden]

I am reading two books right now, to give myself hope and strength in between moments of weakness and doubt in humanity:

Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown and Deciding For Ourselves edited by Cindy Milstein.

And within the first 10 or so pages of both what I have already learned is that everything rests on the relationships we have to people face-to-face. At the end of the day social fabric is about the relationships we have with each other. Each thread to each node. The stronger the thread, the stronger the fabric.

A one-sided relationship is weak, a two-sided relationship is stronger. But between two people can exist many layers of relationship. That of neighbors, of friends, of family, of admiration, of respect.

This week a friend gave me a small gem of wisdom, they said: "I use the word friend very liberally. We don't have to like each other, we just have to care about each other."

If we are to turn things around we need to start with the people we care about who care about us. Because love exists even when friendship doesn't, when w disagree on even some really heavy things. But as long as there is a connection, there is care, and that is the seed for relationship, for community, for a better society.

We need to be gardeners, planting seeds in our communities. Not only for trees to feed ourselves, but for the relationships that are our only salvation.

The revolution will happen at home and in our neighborhoods.

#free palestine #building community #emergent strategy #direct democracy #revolution

[purplenickel]

i wanna hangout with my friends and like have coffee at home together. make a meal and laugh over how messy we look. do parallel play together. talk on the phone about nothing for hours.

i had a phone call this week with a newer friend and it was so great even tho there was some static on the line. made me feel connected to the people around me. normally i hate phone calls bc of anxiety and audio processing issues but this went so well and was really low key.

i saw a video of a coffee candle painting party someone had and 🥺 i want that. i want potlucks and talking over home brew coffee and just community

so if any one wants to be my friend and have phone calls about whatever dm me

#community #building community #me #friendship #friends

[companionplanting]

The hogwarts legacy cope is strong 😂 writing stupid ass tumblr posts won't make a lick of difference, but you keep at it.. It's so entertaining to watch you whine and stomp your feet like an idiotic kid having a temper tantrum

Oh wowie! My first hate ask on this blog! Thought it would be about mental health but okay.

Just wanted to respond to this because I want people to understand that there is no issue caring about things. Especially things that are very obvious about what they are all about. We hold such little power in this world, so finding anything to help you sleep a little easier at night does not make you "an idiotic kid having a temper tantrum", it just makes you a person who cares what happens to others and having boundaries.

I don't care if my Tumblr post changes minds or not because that wasn't my goal, my goal was to get people to think a little critically about the things they take part in even if it seems small and unimportant at first. Especially if it involves minorities suffering as a cost. We should do that in general as a society but sometimes we need reminders and such.

So uh, sorry I actually give a shit about how people are treated despite my lack of power in this world to make big changes ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Hey, at least my post got you to care enough to try and send a half hearted ask my way so there's that. Hope you have a great day anon!

-🍂, 🏵️, & 💫

#snails 🍂 #mara 🏵️ #angel 💫 #companion_planting #anon #anon ask #talking to the bees #tw hogwarts legacy #cw hogwarts legacy #hogwarts legacy #building community #setting boundaries #intersectionality #intersectional activism #activism

[auressea]

#OH! cute #wikipedia #I support wikipedia #wikipedia is biased #i have concerns about wikipedia's ''strict moderation'' #support the resource #internet 2.0 #open source #building community #mutual aid #crowdsourcing #nerds #information should be free #information superhighway