Community Huddle: activities at personal journals

[goodbyebird]

Got ideas for stuff to do in your own journals? Cool formats, favorite memes?

Drop em in the comments!

✨ big shiny list of potential funtimes ✨
Daily card draws
April is National Poetry Month
Ten days of...
Fic Memes
Icon Memes
Rec Posts
Song Inspo
A week of three card spreads

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Daily Card Draws

[goodbyebird]

I have a few Oracle decks at home I'd like to get some use out of... Thinking of doing a daily card draw for ten days or something. Draw and post in the morning, check in via comment in the evening with how I incorporated the message throughout my day.

Be fun for others to tag along, either in comments regarding my pull, or doing their own in their journals (always great to see new decks in action).

Re: Daily Card Draws

[sporky_rat]

Oooo, I might do something similar.

My deck is extremely sarcastic though. I might even take a photo and share it. (I have a Heather Hall Tarocchi deck and it's GORGEOUS.

Re: Daily Card Draws

[goodbyebird]

A classic, nice!

Re: Daily Card Draws

[sporky_rat]

I love it, I just sometimes wish it didn't slap me in the face with the 'well duh, why are you asking me' sometimes.

April is National Poetry Month

[goodbyebird]

You could share your favorite poems, review your favorite poetry collections, or write some poetry of your own.

10 days of...

[goodbyebird]

Picspams, quick recipes, pictures of my most excellent pet, favorite characters/books/tarot decks/online comics/fic writers/etc. Sky's the limit.

Basically ten days of This Thing that makes you happy :D

Fic Memes

[goodbyebird]

<I> 1) Make a list of fifteen characters first, and keep it to yourself for the moment. 2) Ask your f-list to post questions in the comments. For example: "One, nine, and fifteen are chosen by a prophecy to save the world from four. Do they succeed?", "Under what circumstances might five and fourteen fall in love?", "Which character on the list would you most want on your side in a zombie invasion?" 3) After your f-list has stopped asking questions, round them up and answer them using the fifteen characters you selected beforehand, then post them.<I>

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<I> Post the first line of a story here, and I'll write the next five. No context or prompts, just a line, and if I don't twig who it is then you'll get something slightly surreal back!</I>

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<I> Give me one of my own stories, and a timestamp sometime in the future after the end of the story, or sometime in the past before the story started, and I'll write you at least a hundred words of what happened then, whether it's five minutes before the story started or ten years in the future.</I>

[muccamukk]

I might try to do a drabble a day, if things in RL aren't too too stupid. I might use tarot cards for prompts.

Icon Memes

[goodbyebird]

<i>Reply to this post with the word MEME and I will pick six of your icons. * make a post (including this info) and talk about the icons I chose. * other people can then comment to you and make their own posts. * this will create a never ending cycle of icon glee.</i>

<b>How many icons do you have total?</b> <b>How many can you have?</b> <b>If you could buy space for more, would you?</b> <b>Do your icons make a statement about you?</b> <b>What's your oldest uploaded icon?</b> <b>Newest icon?</b> <b>Do you change your default userpic or keep it?</b> <b>What fandom do you have the most icons of?</b> <b>What ship do you have the most icons of?</b> <b>How do you categorize your icons?</b> <b>Are your icons mostly made by other users?</b> <b>Do you make icons?</b> <b>If so, what aspects of your icons are you the most satisfied with?</b> <b>Animated icons are:</b> <b>In general I think icons are:</b>

<i>Look at my userpics. Based on those icons, answer the following questions: 1. Which icon do you associate with me? 2. Which icon is your favorite? 3. Which icon is your least favorite? 4. Which icon would you like to see me use more often? 5. One that you don't understand? 6. Can you make 2 of my icons converse? 7. When you comment, use your favorite icon and tell me why you love it.</i>

<i>Remember when you got to DW? The free one with 15 icons? <s>before the slippery slope</s> In this meme, you have to choose and post the 15 icons you would keep if you had no choice but go back to the limit. They don't have to be in your list of icons you're using right now, but you have to explain why you choose those specific icons.</i>

<i>Whether you have 15 icons or 250. Pick the 5 that you are liking best right now, for whatever reason. Maybe it's because you really like the colors or composition, or maybe it's really funny. Maybe it has emotional significance. Maybe it just looks fucking cool. Make sure you credit the maker so that other people can go shower them with love.</i

[scintilla10]

Rec posts! Especially to fanworks hosted/cross-posted on Dreamwidth.

[thesebonesaregood]

If anyone is down, I might offer to pull three songs each day and write drabbles off them, or let other people create things off of them, just to promote all the creativity!

[goodbyebird]

That's a great idea!

A week of three card spreads

[goodbyebird]

Do one daily and post to your journal :)

Some examples:
Past self / present self / future self
Current situation / Obstacle / Advice
What brings you together / What pulls you apart / What needs your attention
You / The other person / The relationship
Strengths / Weaknesses / Advice
You / Your current path / Your potential
Physical body / emotional body / spiritual body
Where I'm a little bit square / where I'm a little bit dense / where I'm perfectly delicious (the brownie spread *g*)

A helpful post on 3 card spreads. If you've Never tried tarot before and don't own a deck, there are many online generators where you can pick random cards. I've used The Light Seer's official page before; there's a Pick A Card button once you scroll down, and you get the guidebook entry for that card as well.
(hah I just clicked it and got Three of Cups, so friendship, community, and celebration!)