Welcome and Community Brainstorming

[catpella]

Hello new people! Welcome to the SWTOR community on Dreamwidth.

It was made at the time of the game's latest beta and launch, but we've been very quiet over here. That's because a lot of the very early luanch fandom activity went to Tumblr, especially as people really wanted to post a lot of OC screenshots and with Dreamwidth's image limits. But now that there's trouble at Tumblr and people are coming to Dreamwidth to check it out, here's a chance to get the community up and running again!

I want this to be a fun and welcoming place for people, so let's use this post to brainstorm what you want to see here. And how you want to see it, too. Examples of what I'm imagining we're going to see here includes OC bios, looking for friends to play with or guild recruitments, lore and meta questions, fanart and fanfic.

Do people want to just post whatever they're feeling whenever they want it? Or would people like to see some recurring structures? For example, maybe like Fanart Friday, OC Sunday, Meta Monday, or a monthly post for guild recruitment and friending, etc?

Comments

[pyr0clast]

I feel like OC bios are a good starting point. Kind of a getting-to-know-you type thing as people join up and get used to the DW format. But recurring events might help encourage shyer people (myself included) to post and participate - I feel weird just posting things in communal/semi-public areas without prompting. (I've barely ever posted to the SWTOR tags on Tumblr in all the years I've been over there, sooooo.)

Other ideas:
- Something like OC ask memes to get people talking about their characters and interacting with each other ABOUT their characters
- Fic prompts for the writerly types
- LFG for roleplayers

[wallwalker]

Totally agreeing on the weekly events. Maybe a question a week, to start up some conversation.