enemytosleep: [Edward Elric from Fullmetal Alchemist] colored image of a teen boy adjusting his tie, looking serious (Winry Peeks)
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Check out the Master List to find links to all of the 2020 challenge posts.

As the [community profile] sunshine_challenge draws near, we invite everyone to take a look around their journals and take care of any tidying they might wish to complete before having new visitors next month. Of course, there is no right or wrong way to keep your journal. The possibilities are nearly endless and you can customize your space as you see fit.

As you peruse this checklist, please feel free to mark each item as being Up to Date, In Progress, or Not Applicable to your journals.

Many of us may benefit from the friendly nudge to neaten our spaces, but if you are already up to date, then please still use this post as a place to say hello and investigate new-to-you journals ... you may even have additional tips to share!



1. Transformative Works Policy + AO3 Profiles
There is no right or wrong way to feel about other people making transformative works, but having your feelings clearly listed in your various fannish profiles is a great start to more fannish interactions and collaborations — it’s also a great way to avoid awkward confrontations should someone incorrectly assume your stance! If you have an AO3 account, do you have anything on that profile page?

2. Friending Policy
Have you publicly stated your circle policy anywhere? Do you automatically add people back if they’ve added you, or do you want people to comment and introduce themselves first? Are all your fannish activities public anyway and only private stuff is access-locked? Are you only comfortable interacting with people through communities? Do you welcome people commenting on any random journal entry? What are your personal commenting habits, and do you feel it would be helpful to have that posted as well?

3. Sidebar + Profile Links
Do you have an AO3 or Tumblr page that people might like to visit? Do you have links to those accounts sites posted where people can easily find them? Your stickied About Me or Master List posts might be some places to link your other accounts. Your profile page also allows you to connect other services and list your account names there. You can also list links on your journal sidebar so that people visiting your journal can find your tags and links alongside your journal entries.

4. Interests (in profile) + Introductory “About Me” Sticky Page
Do you have an “About Me" page sticked to the top of your journal or in your journal profile? This can be a great place to list your interests (fandom or otherwise) and anything you'd like to share up front (pronouns, important tags or posts, etc.). Have you updated your interests on your profile page so that people can see at a glance what interests you have in common? People can search for journals by their listed interests, so this can help new friends find your page! Is your journal a fandom-only space, or do you also have personal posts and interests included? Having an About Me section on your profile or as a stickied post can really help new visitors decide if you both share interests in common, and can help them navigate your page and interact with you in more meaningful ways.

5. Master Lists
Some folks like to keep master lists linking all of their their fanworks, meta posts, fanwork rec posts … maybe they do weekly book/tv reviews? A master list can help organize your journal and allow people to find your content more easily. If you have any master lists on your journal, here is your call to make sure they are up to date and that no links are broken!

6. Post Tags
Do you use tags on your posts? Do you tag your fannish content only, or do you also tag your personal content? There is no right or wrong way to organize your posts, but using tags can help other people find your content in order to interact with you more easily. You can find more information about DW tags here at their FAQ page to see how you can best use tags on your journal.

7. Current Icons
Icons are a very quick way to visually advertise your interests to other users. Dreamwidth allows you to label your icons with keywords, comments, and descriptions.

The keywords help both you and the website know at a glance which image you’d like to use when creating a post or comment on the site. PRO TIP: if you edit the keywords on your icons after using them for a while, Dreamwidth will change past entries and comments to display your default icon unless you choose to rename keywords when editing.

The comments are a great place to give credit to the icon maker and/or the artist your icon image originated with. It’s not only polite, but it also gives people visiting your page an easy way to find more of the content you both enjoy!

Lastly, the icon descriptions allow you to describe what is happening in your icon visually. This is used to add a text description of the content of the icon, which shows as "alt" text for blind users and some other forms of assistive technology.

8. Access Filters
Have you remembered to access-lock that personal post about your family or your job that you might not want strangers seeing? Dreamwidth gives you the option to create posting filters that allow you to decide which members can read each post that you make. Perhaps you might leave your fandom posts public so that all users can read them. Perhaps you might lock your personal posts so that only users whom you’ve added to your circle can read them (Access List). Perhaps you create more specific filters so that certain posts can only be read by a selected group of users that you’ve added to a custom filter. Here is a post discussing how to set up access filters for your journal.


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Once you’ve finished tidying, leave a comment to this post saying you’ve done it! Include a link to your pages if you feel comfortable doing so, and let everyone know if you are "Ready for visitors!" If you have questions about any tips that we’ve posted, please don’t be afraid to ask for help. We’re all here to make friends and improve fandom. Also, if you have any tips and tricks to add to this post, please do share!

Most importantly, please check through the comments and go visit new journals, comment on their shiny posts, and maybe make a new friend or two. We encourage everyone here to aim to comment on two new journals if they are able (of course, you are welcome to do more!). ♥



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Date: 2020-06-01 04:08 am (UTC)
satsuma: a whole orange, a halved grapefruit, and two tangerine sections arranged into a still life (Default)
From: [personal profile] satsuma
This is a great list, thanks!

Date: 2020-06-01 05:06 am (UTC)
muccamukk: Close up of parted lips painted with sparkling rainbow lipstick. (Misc: Rainbow Lips)
From: [personal profile] muccamukk
It's June somewhere, and I'm changing my default icon to rainbow. Also ready for visitors.

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Date: 2020-06-01 06:16 am (UTC)
silveradept: A kodama with a trombone. The trombone is playing music, even though it is held in a rest position (Default)
From: [personal profile] silveradept
I should be ready for any visitors that are curious to see what I've been up to. I'm still weighting on the comment mods, but the current timeline has my own habits unmoored, so I'm not sure whether I could manage it.

Date: 2020-06-01 06:40 am (UTC)
peoriapeoriawhereart: Pre-Serum Steve Rogers, shirt and suspenders (Sad Steve)
From: [personal profile] peoriapeoriawhereart
I feel like my DW needs a beta or life coach. I haven't updated interests since I joined? I've not figured out all the features in the decade +- I've been here. Tagging, I'm not consistent.

But I'm better able to have guests on DW than I am participating in a Zoom happy hour!

Date: 2020-06-01 06:53 am (UTC)
scripsi: (Default)
From: [personal profile] scripsi
I have cleaned. Visitors welcome!

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Date: 2020-06-01 10:15 am (UTC)
ilyena_sylph: picture of Labyrinth!faerie with 'careful, i bite' as text (Default)
From: [personal profile] ilyena_sylph
Pretty sure I've got all my cleaning done!

Definitely open for visitors!

Date: 2020-06-01 10:51 am (UTC)
handmaid: ([NO.6] come and get it)
From: [personal profile] handmaid
Hooray, I was ready already!

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Date: 2020-06-01 02:21 pm (UTC)
novembermond: crawly and aziraphale (Default)
From: [personal profile] novembermond
changed the layout and cleaned up. I'm ready.

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Date: 2020-06-01 03:51 pm (UTC)
octahedrite: elf girl with a slight smile (Default)
From: [personal profile] octahedrite
I'm good on most fronts on this list thanks to last year's Sunshine :) I didn't have a transformative works policy, but I wrote one now and added it to my sticky post and AO3 profile. (even though I hardly have fic lol.) Visitors welcome!

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Date: 2020-06-01 04:26 pm (UTC)
peasina: (Default)
From: [personal profile] peasina
This is a fantastic list, thank you. I've done it!

Date: 2020-06-01 05:37 pm (UTC)
stellar_dust: Stylized comic-book drawing of Scully at her laptop in the pilot. (Default)
From: [personal profile] stellar_dust
My journal is still in decent shape, I think!

I'm excited to actually participate this year, I could use the kick to get back into posting.

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Date: 2020-06-01 08:24 pm (UTC)
runpunkrun: sunflowers against a blue sky with a huge billowy white cloud (where hydrogen is built into helium)
From: [personal profile] runpunkrun
PRO TIP: if you edit the keywords on your icons after using them for a while, Dreamwidth will change past entries and comments to display your default icon as the code trail will be lost, so to speak.

If you change the keywords on an already uploaded icon, Dreamwidth gives you the option to rename keywords so you don't lose that trail! If you select it, it goes back and renames all uses of that icon to the new keywords. Which is a feature I love.

Now to get my journal in order. :D

Date: 2020-06-01 11:19 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] gwenhwyfar1984
Done and ready for visitors! Thank you for this list!

Date: 2020-06-02 02:17 am (UTC)
autobotscoutriella: Picture of a brown otter in a tree (otter)
From: [personal profile] autobotscoutriella
That's awesome! I still need to do mine--but seeing everyone else do it is excellent motivation. :D

Date: 2020-06-02 07:24 pm (UTC)
lilly_c: Virgil Van Dijk holding the Premier League trophy on the parade route (Default)
From: [personal profile] lilly_c
Done and ready for visitors.

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Date: 2020-06-04 01:25 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] dray
I've done a good tidy... except for my profile page, which I have completely durped on. Whoops! Otherwise I'm open for visitors. Plot twist: I don't do as much fandom writing as origfic, art, and productivity gushing, and I don't know if I really belong here, but I really like you guys and I'm hoping to see and learn some cool new things.

Cheers!

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Done!

Date: 2020-06-04 02:10 am (UTC)
ysabetwordsmith: Cartoon of me in Wordsmith persona (Default)
From: [personal profile] ysabetwordsmith
My blog is ready for visitors.

Additionally I have marked the Sunshine Challenge on my calendar in hopes of remembering it.

Re: Done!

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Date: 2020-06-04 06:04 pm (UTC)
tamaraaeknight: Close up of a Black barbie doll wearing a pale blue hairaband (Default)
From: [personal profile] tamaraaeknight
The list is helpful, my journal is still a work in progress and I am ready for visitors.

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Date: 2020-06-04 08:46 pm (UTC)
icecheetah: A Cat Person holds a large glowing lightbulb (Default)
From: [personal profile] icecheetah
New here, going through the list!

Though... is it not a bit weird to add fandoms to your interest list if you haven't posted anything fannish at all yet? My Dreamwidth is pretty empty at this time.

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Sunshine Challenge ✹ 2020

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Date: 2020-06-06 08:54 pm (UTC)
lightbird: http://coelasquid.deviantart.com/ (Default)
From: [personal profile] lightbird
Still working on it, but always ready for visitors even without being completely organized.

Looking forward to participating again this year. :)

Date: 2020-06-07 04:45 am (UTC)
athaia: (Default)
From: [personal profile] athaia
Oof, that list makes my eyes glaze over a bit, LOL. I'm working through the bullet points one by one - so far, I've only updated my AO3 profile (I added a Transformative Works Policy statement, something I'd never have thought I'd need... but someone wrote a fanfic to one of my stories - and for one of my OCs, to boot - so miracles do happen, and I no longer feel preposterous for having such a policy :D).

Onwards to point 2, then.

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Date: 2020-06-09 11:03 pm (UTC)
greerwatson: (Default)
From: [personal profile] greerwatson
I decided to spend my "tidy" time doing something I should have done ages ago. When I first imported my LJ to DW, it came over without the comments people had made to my posts. So I re-imported it a few days later and wound up with double everything. Those cobwebs needed dusting; but I've been too lazy to do it.

So I've now gone back and removed the duplicates.   :)

❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Date: 2020-06-09 11:12 pm (UTC)
oldtoadwoman: Sam Winchester, Supernatural 14x17 (rainbow sunglasses)
From: [personal profile] oldtoadwoman
That sounds like a ton of work, so mega kudos.

Re: ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

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Date: 2020-06-10 03:37 pm (UTC)
kalloway: A close-up of Rocbouquet from Romacing SaGa 2 (Default)
From: [personal profile] kalloway
Done enough, I think. I definitely needed the reminder. I don't have alt-text on all my icons yet, but I have been trying to go back and add bits now and then.

Sunshine Challenge ✹ 2020

Date: 2020-06-10 05:15 pm (UTC)
oldtoadwoman: Sam Winchester, Supernatural 14x17 (sunshine on my shoulders)
From: [personal profile] oldtoadwoman
Knowing when things are done enough is a useful thing.

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Date: 2020-06-12 11:19 pm (UTC)
bemused_writer: Noblewoman in blue (Daidouji Tomoyo)
From: [personal profile] bemused_writer
I just love this list. ^^ It's always good to have these kinds of reminders! I also realized I had my transformative works policy everywhere except AO3, which is a little counter intuitive. 8D Everything should be good to go now!

Sunshine Challenge ✹ 2020

Date: 2020-06-13 02:43 am (UTC)
oldtoadwoman: Sam Winchester, Supernatural 14x17 (House Tarth)
From: [personal profile] oldtoadwoman
I'm glad it was helpful. I thought I was all set and then realized it was time to update a few details myself.

Date: 2020-06-15 02:08 pm (UTC)
venusinthenight: a smiling patsy stone holding a bottle of vodka (abfab - happy patsy with booze!)
From: [personal profile] venusinthenight
Generally open for visitors!

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Date: 2020-06-15 02:17 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] libbi
I spent all weekend working through this list! I'm now welcome for any and all visitors. ♥

Sunshine Challenge ✹ 2020

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