I've never been this sad about the demise of a company

[zorkist]

I felt like I was part of the company. Certainly made a ton of animations for them in the past year.

I'm still getting used to how dreamwidth works. It's a little strange but it's heartening to see so many imzy expats gathered here.

Wow lots of members in just over 24 hours!

[wolfpurplemoon]

(we're actually at 50 members, but the Imzy bot celebrated 25 and then 100 :D)

Anyone good with themes?

[darkmagess]

I wouldn't mind a DW theme that had an Imzy look to it...

greetings, fellow former imzyites

[telwoman]

Hi. I guess it's time to dust off my years-old but never-used Dreamwidth account. I was part of the From Eroica With Love comm on Imzy. We haven't decided collectively what to do yet but I thought I'd drop in here to say hi.

Cranky Old Fangirls

[darkmagess]

By popular demand, I've made a new com for /cranky_old_fangirls that can be found here: cranky_old_fangirls

Advertise here!

[wolfpurplemoon]

Please feel free to make a post in this community when you make a Dreamwidth version of an Imzy community! Or if you find a suitable Dreamwidth community that already exists!

Places here to check out

[olivermoss]

Here are some comms I am in. Feel free to comment with existing DW comms to recc!

* Fancake - Weekly themed fic recs.

* Fandom Weekly - Weekly short fic challenges

* ONTD Creepy - The DW spin off of the Creepy spin off of ONTD. They've recently jumped to DW from LJ and still have weekly FFAs. If you like horror and/or creepy stuff, join us for FFAs on Saturdays or make individual posts yourself.

* Buckaroo Banzai - Of course I am recreating my comm for an obscure 80s cult classic. I'll run it whether or not it gets an audience, because I can treat it like a wiki. I also may be doing a big project that will make use of such info, and it's a good place to collect it. (I've not done set up on it at all yet, I just made it so I could link it.)

Comms to check out later:

* My favorite comm around here is Get Your Words Out. It's writer's support and discussion group with regular Word Wars, but they only open membership around the end of the year. It functions as year long challenge and the format works, even if it makes it hard to recc ;)

* Fandom Stockings - I love this comm. Around the holidays they hang 'stockings' for people so they can be filled with reccs, doodles, short fic, etc. It's a clever idea that makes good use of the way this site works. You can contribute with creative stuff or with non-creative stuff. It's no-stress feel-good fun. I am currently doing daily doodles so I can do more for the next round.

tokio_hotel_billy ---> youlooklikehome

[upanddisappear]

My little comm is very niche, but I thought I'd pimp it here anyway. The original comm was on lj, but I wasn't the original owner, I inherited it. I made the mirror over here when the tos thing happened and I've been running both here and on Imzy concurrently, though I posted differently on each.

But yeah, the Euro leg of the tour is over, waiting on news for the next legs. Two new videos should be shot soon.

Watch on YouTube

👽

Obituary: Here lies our last chance for human decency

[darkmagess]

Well, it's nice to see someone have something good to say.

https://thinkprogress.org/imzy-obit-f38c44b4e96e

/binding is now diybinder

[maunzikation]

Hi everyone :) I used to be kthxy on Imzy and I'm still getting used to Dreamwidth.

One of the communities that I co-led over there was /binding, a place to discuss chest binders without gatekeeping.

diybinding, who founded the community on Imzy, now created diybinder to have a replacement here, yay :)

Come join it if you want.

The other community that I co-led was /messy_bullet_journal, and currently I'm not planning to make a replacement for it because of limited spoons and such. If anyone else feels like doing that, feel free to start it yourself, copy & modify any descriptions if you want, and let me know so I can join :) There is already bujo on here though, which seems like a great place as well.

Expecto Patronum!

[coffeeontherocks]

Hey everyone! Riddikulus has relocated from imzy to dw as expecto_patronum! We are a Harry Potter complete read through book club. We finished Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets shortly before imzy announced it's closing, and the new reading schedule will be up soon. We hope to see new and old members there!

Sir Patrick Stewart Community

[mr_picard]

Since wolfpurplemoon encouraged us to promote communities that also existed on Imzy, I thought I'd do this as well. (I did make a post on Imzy itself but it can never hurt to do so again here, so here we go.)

I used to run the Sir Patrick Stewart community on Imzy, and I also run a Sir Patrick community here. I created it shortly before I knew Imzy was shutting down but hey, it's here, and it's basically the same as my Imzy community, with the latest Sir Patrick news and pictures.

It can be found here: sirpatrickstewartnews

So, if you like Sir Patrick, feel free to join. You don't have to be a super fan or anything, it's a community for everyone, casual fans and not-so-casual fans, everyone is welcome and ALSO welcome to post/comment/participate!

IMZY SUPPER

[zorkist]

This photo was from the ancient times of August 2016, slightly augmented by me. (Cthulhu critter drawn by Jaleh.)

I made so many IMZY animations in the year I was there, and they're all gonna get wiped out so I'm rehosting a good selection of them and I'll share here. With some commentary. My own little way of paying tribute to the time there.