youngwizards_dw | Dai stihó!

Dai stihó, cousins!

Welcome to the YoungWizards community on Dreamwidth. This is both an import of the old Young Wizards community on LiveJournal and hopefully a revitalization of it.

The history of this place can be summed up fairly easily: the only discussion space in the 2000s for Young Wizards fans that wasn’t the official forum. It also had pretty much all types fanworks (fanmixes, icons, etc.) but fanfics were generally posted on Myraid_Words, a fic-centric community. I cannot guarantee that any links or images in the imported posts still work.

Fandom now seems to mostly exist on the Slack channel (which is a lovely place to go and has subchannels for a whole bunch of non-YW things), on AO3 for fic, and then Tumblr for a mix of everything (though the latter has, with the advent of the Slack channel a couple of years ago, quieted down immensely).

I’d like to see this community become is a mix of things: discussion, posting of fanworks, etc. All types of fanwork are welcome-- art, fic, meta, craft, fanmix, etc. Crosspost your fanart from Tumblr! Post your speculation for future books! Give us meta or prompts or whatever your heart desires.

I plan on hosting a monthly challenge to encourage people to participate here. You do not have to wait for the challenges to post fanworks; they’re welcome at any time.

There’s only a handful of rules:

1. Remember the Wizard’s Oath. Treat people how you want to be treated. If you have a problem with a post or someone’s behavior, contact me. Don’t start fights in the comments.

2. This community operates under “don’t like, don’t read.” All fanworks must be under a cut so people can choose whether or not to view them. If you need to warn for something, please do so before the cut.

Note that fanworks from the import are exempt from this rule because they can’t be edited. If a post is dated 2016 or earlier, cuts and warnings may or may not exist.

3. Mature or Adult-rated fanworks are allowed here. You must use the Adult Content/18+ age restriction to mark them. Per Diane Duane’s request, all characters involved in sexually explicit fanworks must be 18 or older (yes, this means you can age up the characters as long as you state you have).

4. We use tags in this community for organizational purposes. They should be self-explanatory, but if not, please ask.* You can add your own tags if you need them. A complete tag list can be found here or on the sidebar.

* The only one I can think of that might be confusing at first glance is “fandom adjacent,” which means things that are related to material in the books, but are not about canon itself. For example, space weather.

5. Have fun!

Now for the enjoyable part: let’s introduce ourselves in the comments so we can get to know each other a little better. Possible things you may want to include: your usernames elsewhere, links to your fanworks, how active you are on Dreamwidth, other fandoms, etc.

Threaded | Top-Level Comments Only

From:

independence1776

I'm your mod, Independence1776 or Indy for short. I'm Independence1776 pretty much everywhere, including the Slack, Tumblr, and AO3.

My Young Wizards fanfic can be found on AO3.

I've been around in this fandom for a while; I don't know how long. My primary fandom is Tolkien, specifically the Silmarillion. I'm fairly active on Dreamwidth, though most of my posts are locked because they deal with offline life. I'm trying to have my fandom posts unlocked.

From:

tptigger

Dai stihó, everyone. I'm tptigger pretty much everywhere (except Twitter where I'm tptigger42 because of some egg who can't be bothered to post.)

I've been in and out of the fandom since around '03 or '04 and fully joined in the run up to the first CrossingsCon. Now you'll be lucky to get rid of me.

I'm trying to be more active on Dreamwidth. We shall see if I succeed.

From:

independence1776

It's great to see you here!

Ah, yes. The first CrossingsCon! That was such a wonderful time.

From:

threeringedmoon

Many years ago, I stumbled across DD's Door Into Fire, and read the first few chapters standing at the newsstand before buying it and taking it home. When I encountered SYWTBAW some years later, I bought it immediately and have been hooked on the Young Wizards ever since.

From:

alatefeline

Hello! I'm alatefeline... I actually got into Young Wizards fandom via the first two Feline Wizards books, and then fell totally in love with the philosophy of the YW books as well as the characters, who were among the few children/teenagers I ever read who weren't either hopelessly dull or absurdly idealized.

From:

amairylle

Dai Stihó, friends! I'm Masha, and I'm new to dreamwidth in the wake of the latest tumblr nonsense. You can find me literally everywhere under the username Amairylle, including the Slack, PFio, and Ao3. However, some of you may remember me as verdigrisvagabond, which was my handle for a long time before I switched.

I've been in the fandom since about 2012, although i read the books in middle school. I've written some for Young Wizards, and you can find it here, but I am a multifandom writer and right now the writer brain is three fandoms to the left, mostly working on haikyuu and gw2 stuff.

I'm also co-chair of CrossingsCon, and I look forward to seeing you all in Montreal this summer!

Nice to meet you!

Edited Date: 2018-12-07 07:31 am (UTC)

From:

independence1776

I love the Middle Kingdoms as well! Did you know DD just released an ebook novella in the universe?

Edited Date: 2018-12-07 01:01 pm (UTC)

From:

independence1776

Hi! That's a neat way to get into the YW universe! I love their philosophy, too. (And the characters, obviously.)

From:

independence1776

Dai, Masha! It's great to see you here! Welcome to Dreamwidth! (I'm not sure if you need this or not, but I've been collecting links to Tumblr-to-Dreamwidth guides.

CrossingsCon!!! :D Do you want to make a post about it? I'm not sure how big the overlap here is with the usual spaces, so I'm operating under the assumption some people won't know about the con.

Edited (HTML fail) Date: 2018-12-07 01:06 pm (UTC)

From:

threeringedmoon

The Levin-Gad? Yes, I bought it and read it on my Kindle.

Edited Date: 2018-12-07 01:11 pm (UTC)

From:

independence1776

Yes! I haven't had a chance to read it; how was it?

From:

threeringedmoon

I enjoyed it. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who hadn't read all the Middle Kingdom books since it lacked context.

From:

amairylle

Thank you very much for the guides. I'm actually finding that the learning curve is a little steeper than anticipated.

As for CrossingsCon, I'll absolutely make a post about it! Probably more than one, actually, because I don't think anyone from our PR team is on here, haha.

From:

independence1776

You're welcome! If you have any questions, please ask. I'm happy to help.

Thanks! I would have done it myself, but now that a member of the concom is here, I'd rather it be you. (I could see myself having to say, "I don't know; ask the staff.") :D

From:

alatefeline

Eeee! News to me! I need to go nab it as soon as I have some $ to hand! :D I love revisiting beloved characters and/or settings, even if it's just for a little slice of life. I identified SO HARD with Segnbora in so many ways.

From:

alatefeline

Dai stihó, Masha, and well met on the errand! May I add you to my DW circle? I have never been hugely active on any social media *but* Dreamwidth, so while I'm quite angry at Tumblr and upset about the loss of all the communities, content, creators, livelihoods, and lifelines they've decided to chuck under the bus, for me it's also very pleasant to be meeting more folks here in my fannish/blogtastic comfort zone.

From:

paradigm_shift

Dai Cousins!

I never really looked for YW communities after I'd first moved over from LJ but am also lurking as

ashoakandthorn.

I may not have been making much recently, (and I've been spoiled by Tumblr's image hosting system) but it will be cool to see where things go from here.

Edited Date: 2018-12-08 03:24 am (UTC)

From:

steorra

Hi!

I'm a longtime Dreamwidther, relatively new Young Wizards fan. I read the first book a few years ago and really liked it, but didn't read the whole series until this year, and when I finished I promptly reread the series in the revised version, read all the rest of the Young Wizards-related stories (I think I caught them all), and proceeded on to non-Young Wizards Diane Duane (which I also enjoy, but not as much).

I work in a bookstore, and I got a colleague to fall in love with the series too, and between the two of us we've sold several dozen copies of So You Want To Be A Wizard :-)

Despite my long Dreamwidth residence, this is my first time in any sort of fandom community (on DW or elsewhere), so I'll have to see if it works for me. I haven't really connected with fanfic of any sort so far.

From:

amairylle

You're welcome to add me to your circle! And yeah, i can understand being happy to see all the new people. I like what I've seen of the culture so far, but some of the etiquette and functionality is giving me trouble.

From:

alatefeline

Awesome!

Any specific questions I can help with?

From:

alatefeline

Cool! You don't have to be into fanfic to enjoy fandom, though DW fandom does lean text-heavy.

To counterbalance that, I'm going to go trawl for fan art of YW characters and such.

From:

alatefeline

From:

steorra

I have been hoping to come to CrossingsCon! And Montreal is a not-entirely-inconceivable location!
... but I probably still can't afford it :-(

From:

steorra

Thanks for the welcome!

From:

paradigm_shift

Indeed!

From:

unfavorableinstigation

Dai Stiho, all! =D I'm Autistic_Ace here (just autisticace on Tumblr) and on plurk.

While I joined for the RP (and yes, I do play Nita), I am ALL FOR more meta/fic talk over here. I also have a comm some may be interested in: cousinsindozens.dreamwidth.org

From:

independence1776

The YW comms already over here had been dead or all but so, so I'm hoping this comm changes that.

It will be!

From:

independence1776

Glad you made it over here!

Ooh, yes, please join that comm if you're interested. (It's linked in this comm's profile, too.)

From:

independence1776

Hi!

That's wonderful you've read all of that this year.

It's my not-so-secret mission to get everyone I know to read them. I even have a second copy of SYWTBAW just to loan out to people. So good on you and your colleague!

This isn't just a fanfic community, so I hope you find some way to enjoy fandom. Even just loving it and talking about it counts in my book.

From:

paradigm_shift

Knowing us we can make this happen!

First order of business - crossposting everything from my tumblrs over here, which can be a herculean task.

From:

steorra

Thanks for the welcome!

From:

amairylle

When I actually have a hot second to talk about CrossingsCon, I'll be sure to talk about the scholarship fund, okay?

From:

amairylle

I've actually got indy in my PMs giving me an in-depth walkthrough, but if you have an icon person or a theme person you like, I'll gladly take recs. Thank you though!

Edited (typo) Date: 2018-12-09 08:13 am (UTC)

From:

steorra

Sounds good, thanks!

From:

independence1776

Yes!

Yep. That's why I'm taking the time to decide what's worth keeping and what's not, but it's still a major effort.

From:

unfavorableinstigation

!!

Thank you for the plug. =D

From:

unfavorableinstigation

Dai Stiho, Masha! =D Mind if I add you on here? (While I use this Nita account for roleplay, I'm not opposed to just doing plain ol' journaling or ficcing with it either.)

Edited Date: 2018-12-09 06:19 pm (UTC)