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[personal profile] underused2017-06-15 09:25 am

Word of the Day at DW

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How many English words are there? As the Oxford Dictionary drily observes "there is no... sensible answer to this question." But they have offered an estimate:

There are, at the very least, a quarter of a million distinct English words, excluding inflections, and words from technical and regional vocabulary not covered by the OED, or words not yet added to the published dictionary... If distinct senses were counted, the total would probably approach three quarters of a million.

Basically, we've got work to do, so there is now an offshoot of the Word of the Day community here. Posting is open to all members.

Perhaps we can start by discussing the fact talky is a word in the dictionary. Am I the only one surprised by this?

Mood Theme!

I have just created a mood theme for this community!

Check it out here!
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[personal profile] zorkist2017-06-12 02:15 pm

And so it begins...



I know it officially gets frozen on the 16th but I expect issues like this during the final stretch.
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[personal profile] olivermoss2017-06-11 07:12 pm

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Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 26


Polls!

View Answers

We should have polls!
19 (73.1%)

We should have serious polls!
10 (38.5%)

We should have silly polls!
11 (42.3%)

Ticky
12 (46.2%)

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[personal profile] darkmagess2017-06-08 09:25 pm

Free Tarot Readings!

 Tarot is still happening in Moonbeam Cafe, even thought it's moved to Discord!

https://discord.gg/Q2Ah54J

You are welcome to come ask a question (NOT in the form of a Y/N).

NOTE: Closed for today, but you can join the discord and come by next Thursday!
[personal profile] stile992017-06-05 07:40 pm

Like...boo, and stuff.

I miss Imzy. I miss random Giphy weirdness.

Also, I'm tired. And thirsty.
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[personal profile] zorkist2017-06-04 12:38 pm

The Last Imzysaurus



An artist friend drew me one last imzysaurus, which I animated and posted to the imzysaurus community while it's still up.

I drew so many imzysauruses during my IMZY year.

I loved that he was so easy to draw in so many different styles. You just needed a few basic things to identify him. Those three horns. Green skin. Spiked tail.

I imagined him as a corporate mascot in the vein of Mickey Mouse. I wanted to see him appear in animated shorts. I was fascinated with the idea of helping to launch a mascot. And if nothing else, I believed they had an adorable mascot in him.

He'll live on as an increasing obscurity. Like the Pets.com mascot...




Adorable mascots of people's surrendered dreams.
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Finding communities on DW

If you're having trouble finding communitites on Dreamwidth or wish to promote ones you've created to a wider audience on Dreamwidth, then check out [site community profile] dw_community_promo!

Check out their tag page to find posts under different categories.
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A couple more new communities!

Here are two more Imzy communities that now have Dreamwidth homes!

/bats is now [community profile] beautiful_bats

/hamsters is now [community profile] hammypurplemoon
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Childfree now on Imzy!

The Imzy /childfree community now has a home here on Dreamwidth at [community profile] childfree!
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[personal profile] zhemao2017-06-01 08:41 pm
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The Cookbook

I'm pleased to announce that thecookbook has made the move to Dreamwidth. I've imported and back-dated all of my old posts from the Imzy data export. Hope you'll all join me in posting recipes old and new.
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[personal profile] zorkist2017-06-01 08:18 am

One of my earliest IMZY posts: Jurassic Imzy



I believe it was an IMZY Photoshop Battle. Might have been an omen because I discovered that the level of activity on IMZY's PS-battle community was nowhere near its reddit counterpart.

I stopped posting to that community and started posting animations to more populated areas where they might be seen. That's when I started building a reputation as an animator.
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[personal profile] kalloway2017-05-29 06:53 am
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One Dead Plotbunny

If anyone was a member of One Dead Plotbunny, the writing/project-finishing community, it actually spawned off of [community profile] onedeadplotbunny, which has been very active on DW for a few years.

(And if you're new to it, welcome!)
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[personal profile] mandralyne2017-05-28 06:09 pm
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Women's Hockey Community

 I created a Dreamwidth mirror for the Imzy [community profile] womenshockey community. I'll be moving posts over this week. Feel free to peek in if you're interested. 
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[personal profile] romana032017-05-28 05:28 pm
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Lesbian Romance Community

I've made a community for the Lesbian Romance Community: [community profile] lesbianromance :)

Thank you anonymous person!

This community was just gifted paid account status - thanks so much to whoever gave us that!

I'm still working out what we can do with it but one thing this allows is that all members can post polls here!

Just go to this link https://www.dreamwidth.org/poll/create?authas=imzy and work through the options to create a poll post!

Imzysaurus!

I enjoyed making variations on the good old Imzysaurus as avatars for my various communities, here are some of them :)









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Expecto Patronum!

Harry Potter Guide to Self help written over Harry Potter books.
Hey everyone! Riddikulus has relocated from imzy to dw as [community profile] 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!
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[personal profile] zorkist2017-05-26 06:02 pm

IMZY SUPPER



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.
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[imzy.com profile] tokio_hotel_billy ---> [community profile] youlooklikehome


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.



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