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Updates
dreiser just established herself on DW (yay!) but is looking for femslash communities to join.

I recently posted an update of DW F/F Links to add on to the ones from the old girlgay profile but if you know of some more, please drop a comment; thanks!

Reading
elleth: Roundup: The Latest LJ Fail (And Fails to Come), First Steps on DW.
Remember my last post about how LJ was going to get rid of comment topics? It happened. There's already a CSS work-around available, but there seems to be a lot of people making back-ups at DW. I say back-ups because I doubt many will actually move.

mirabella: I just kind of felt like this needed to be said.
"Fandom has, like, a ten-year history of screaming blue murder about changes and then failing to leave or even stop buying paid accounts. Then you're all incredulous because the owners of LJ won't listen to you. Of course they won't listen to you. Why should they? You've taught them that there is literally nothing they can do that is so bad that you'll leave the service over it."

rydra_wong is hosting a Giant Community Rec-O-Matic!
Here's how it works: You leave a comment saying what sort of comms you'd be interested in finding on Dreamwidth (or you could ask people to rec comms on the basis of your profile interests). Other people reply to you with recs for active comms that are relevant to your interests.



Rec
Hanna
When You Get Older by evewithanapple (Hanna/Sophie)
Two years after her brush with a mysterious girl and an even more mysterious government agency, Sophie is now in her first year of university, concentrating on her studies and trying not to think about the girl who still haunts her thoughts. But when Hanna unexpectedly drops back into her life, Sophie can no longer ignore what the other girl represents- to the world, and to herself.

Read this a while ago, when victoria.p on pinboard first rec'ed it, and found the concept to be quite nicely fleshed out.

Lesbian Steampunk
Saw the table of contents for "Steam-Powered: Lesbian Steampunk Stories" referenced by starlady on Latest Things this morning. Conceptually the project sounds very cool, but will it work? There's a sample of one of the stories as a teaser. It should come out in December of this year.

Dreamwidth-Related Links

Some DW people I follow (I don't just read femslash and pr0n lol):
ajnabieh is writing an ethnography about Arab communities in New York and has rather articulate posts about her research and academia.
nonniemous often linkspams about happenings relevant to History and Archaeology.
novapsyche often linkspams to politically relevant news articles.

Some Feeds I Follow:
beatonna_feed (Kate Beaton's history-inspired comics (comedy))
fuckyouverymuch_feed (interesting picture spams)
oglaf_comic_feed (NSFW fantasy-inspired comic (comedy))
wonderella_comic_feed (female anti-hero comic (comedy))
xkcd_feed (stick figure comic (comedy, nerd-wisdom))

Femslash-Related
girlgay - check out the userinfo for like-minded communities
femslash_today_feed (LJ's femslash today feed)
uberetc_feed (Uber Etc (multi-genre f/f fanfic link updates) feed)
leavethesky (fellow femslash rec'er)

Some useful DW links:
What to do with Dreamwidth: a list of tutorials and information by stepps
Layouts on Dreamwidth by antagonist
HTML Codes to reproduce LiveJournal Links by thevressclan