This here’s a community for a month long rec event.
Throughout December - dubbed Rec-Cember - I’d love to inspire more folks to recommend fanworks. I feel that part of fandom culture has dwindled significantly after the introduction of the AO3. This community is a gathering point for the event, but recs will be posted to your own journals or communities here on Dreamwidth.
There’s a whole bunch of different approaches you could take:
* One fanwork rec per day for the month of December, mono or multi-fannish (✨the Christmas Calendar approach✨).
* A weekly rec-list, centered on a theme, character, pairing, fandom, or type of fanworks.
* Teaming up with some of your fandom pals to create a community for your fandom to host your collective recs (example), or create one all to yourself (example). The tagging system on Dreamwidth is most excellent, and more gathering grounds for fandoms is always a boon.
* A rec post for your current fandoms, also known as a fandom primer (example).
* [insert your own approach here]
Recs can of course encompass every type of fanwork there is, including more tertiary fanworks such as crafts, baked goods, what have you. Fannish creativity seems to know no bounds ❤️
I’ll be putting up a relaxed sign up post tomorrow so we can all mingle, but is there anything else you’d like to see here, or any questions you have?
. sign ups . tag feed .
Throughout December - dubbed Rec-Cember - I’d love to inspire more folks to recommend fanworks. I feel that part of fandom culture has dwindled significantly after the introduction of the AO3. This community is a gathering point for the event, but recs will be posted to your own journals or communities here on Dreamwidth.
There’s a whole bunch of different approaches you could take:
* One fanwork rec per day for the month of December, mono or multi-fannish (✨the Christmas Calendar approach✨).
* A weekly rec-list, centered on a theme, character, pairing, fandom, or type of fanworks.
* Teaming up with some of your fandom pals to create a community for your fandom to host your collective recs (example), or create one all to yourself (example). The tagging system on Dreamwidth is most excellent, and more gathering grounds for fandoms is always a boon.
* A rec post for your current fandoms, also known as a fandom primer (example).
* [insert your own approach here]
Recs can of course encompass every type of fanwork there is, including more tertiary fanworks such as crafts, baked goods, what have you. Fannish creativity seems to know no bounds ❤️