Follow Friday 5-15-26: Active Communities on Dreamwidth Spring 2026 A-I

[ysabetwordsmith]

These are active communities in Dreamwidth from Spring 2026. They include things I've posted, but only the active ones; the thematic posts also list dormant communities of interest. This list includes some communities that I've found and saved but haven't made it into thematic posts yet. This post covers A-I.

See my Follow Friday Master Post for more topics.

Highly active with multiple posts per day, daily posts, or too many to count easily
Active with (one, multiple, many) posts in (current or recent month)
Somewhat active (latest post within current year, not in last month or few)
Low traffic (latest post in previous year)
Dormant (latest post before previous year, but could be revived because membership is open and posting is open to all members or anyone)
Dead (not listed because there are no recent posts, plus membership and/or posting are moderated)
Note that some communities are only active during a limited time, or only have gather posts on a certain schedule.


Themes
Follow Friday 3-6-26: Meta
Follow Friday 3-13-26: Love
Follow Friday 3-20-26: Magic
Follow Friday 3-27-26: Manga
Follow Friday 4-3-26: Marvel
Follow Friday 4-10-26: Meditation
Follow Friday 4-17-26: Merlin
Follow Friday 4-24-26: Metal
Follow Friday 5-1-26: Movies
Follow Friday 5-8-26: Muse


NEW Communities Started in Spring 2026

conradveidt
Created on 2025-08-10 12:25:48 (#4239605), last updated 2026-03-16 (2 weeks ago)
A community dedicated to Conrad Veidt. Whether you are a seasoned fan, a casual fan, someone who has seen everything there is to be seen or who's just starting their journey, this community is for you!

You can post about anything related to Herr Veidt here. Discussions, film reviews, fanworks (fic, art, icons, vids, anything!), recs, meta, picspams, gifs, etc. Discussion of film/culture and society of the 1910s-1940s is also acceptable.

Every month, we shall highlight one film.

Right now, we're hosting a movie tournament.


withnailandi
Created on 2025-10-15 17:05:28 (#4246525), last updated 2025-10-15 (23 weeks ago)
withnailandi is a community for everything related to Withnail & I (1987). Fanworks/recommendations, meta/discussions, whatever, all are welcome here! Another related community is withnailandinsfw , for any more explicit fanworks/discussions.

Although not entirely new (made in October 2025) both communities are unused as of yet, due to most of the fandom being on other platforms. Feel free to join whether you're a casual fan, or if it's your favourite film of all time, or if you're somewhere in between!


warrington_runcorn_ntdp
Created on 2026-03-18 10:49:21 (#4324139), last updated 2026-03-18 (1 week ago)
warrington_runcorn_ntdp is a new fan-run community focused on the music of electronic project Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan.

Anyone is free to join, even those who have never listened before! Although if that is you, I'd recommend checking out the project's Soundcloud, Bandcamp, and Youtube to get acquainted :D

Discussion on the community will include, but is not limited to, favourite songs/albums/album artwork, physical media, how you discovered the music, recommendations for similar music, etc.


latam
Created on 2026-03-21 23:59:24 (#4324628), last updated 2026-03-29 (19 hours ago)
maevedarcy
I've been looking for communities that want to center Latinx culture in their posting but haven't found any so I made one!

latam is a new community for people to come together to talk about latinamerican music, films, food, culture, fandom, and more!

Everyone's welcome, no matter where you're posting from! And you can also post in your language (official languages of the community are Spanish, Portuguese and English!)

Come make friends! We have a friending meme going on right now :)


queerbookclub
queer book club!
APR. 20TH, 2026 07:24 PM
cloversome
just wanted to promote my new DW comm queerbookclub!

the community is a no pressure book club dedicated to fiction books of all genres that are queer in some way! each month we take suggestions on what the next month's book should be and we vote on it. if you're not interested in the book for the month, that's perfectly fine! you are free to come and go as you please. :)

we plan to start in may and currently book nominations for may are open until april 26th.


gifs_at_dw
New Community for Gifs
APR. 26TH, 2026 05:49 PM
maevedarcy
Are you a tumblr user moving to DW who misses moving images? Are you a seasoned DW user who wants to try their hand in a new medium? Do you have an extensive gif catalog that you'd like to show off? Do you like gifmaking and want to share your knowledge to others? Then this comm might be for you!
See also How to Share Gifs on Dreamwidth.


Bulletin Board / Newsletter Communities
bigbangindex -- Big Bang Index
Index of Big Bang-type challenges.
doctor_who_sonic -- Doctor Who Fandom Newsletter
A daily fandom newsletter focusing on Doctor Who-related topics and discussions appearing on Dreamwidth.
ds_noticeboard -- the Dues South Noticeboard is for announcing DS stories, sharing DS news, and making DS recs.
fandomcalendar -- The Fandom Calendar
Bulletin board for fests, big bangs, memes, cons and any other fan-related activity.
potterfests -- Potterfests
Promoting Harry Potter Fests, Communities, Challenges, Exchanges, Big Bangs, etc.
smallfandom_nb -- Small Fandoms Noticeboard
This is the place for announcing any and all fanworks created in small fandoms (fanfic, graphics, vids, etc), new communities, challenges, etc. In general, the goal of this community is to be a centralized bulletin board to point small fandom fans in the direction of things that might interest them.
su_herald -- Sunnydale Herald
This journal is a newsletter for Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel fans to keep up with their fandom. We post links to what we find interesting in fandom, including: a small selection of the day's quality fics, icons or graphics, various meta posts, and news.
whenisitdue -- Challenge Deadline Directory
Fests, fanworks, deadlines.


Communities with Check-in or Gather Posts

allbingo -- All Bingo
Share your creative bingo activities and discussions here.
[Monthly check-in posts.]

awesomeers -- Own Your Awesome!
Defeat impostor syndrome by owning your awesome!
[Daily check-in posts.]

birdfeeding -- Birdfeeding: Friends of a Feather Flock Together
Birds, birdfeeding, and birdwatching.
[Monthly check-in posts.]

crowdfunding -- Crowdfunding: Connecting Creators and Patrons
Connecting creative people and patrons for fun and profit.
[Monthly check-in posts.]

ethical_society_of_satan -- The Freaks Club: Ethical Society Of Satan
[Monthly check-in posts.]

everykindofcraft -- Every Kind of Craft
For sharing information, advice and images about all sorts of crafts projects, old or new.
[Monthly check-in posts.]

fandom_checkin -- Fandom Check-in
Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.
[Daily check-in posts.]

first_nations_freaks -- The Freaks Club: First Nations Freaks
Indigenous culture.
[Monthly check-in posts.]

Fitness Fellowship 2025 by sylvanwitch
How has the past week been for you in terms of your fitness goals (or any others, for that matter)?
[Weekly check-in posts.]

followfriday -- Follow Friday
Recommend some people and/or communities to follow on Dreamwidth.
[Weekly gather posts.]

goals_on_dw -- New Year's Resolutions and Other Goals
Set New Year resolutions and other goals.
[Weekly check-in posts during January, then monthly check-in posts.]

justcreate -- Time to sit down and make it!
A place for creators of any variety to share their projects.
[Weekly check-in posts.]

tfc_musicianships -- The Freaks Club: Musicianships
This Community is for everyone who is involved in music in any way.
[Monthly check-in posts.]

thefreaksclub -- TFC // The Anti-Thesis Social Network
Everything related to darker alternative subcutlures. Discussion on books, the occult, music, & more.
[Monthly check-in posts.]


Foreign Language Communities

alterhumainfrance -- Alterhumains français: French alterhumans
Translation work for french alterhuman texts, and sometimes the other way around.


Memes

metropolising posts daily to weekly memes for fandoms that present scenarios to explore.


All Active Communities

40sedoretu -- 40 Prompts For The Sedoretu
This is the community for 40 prompts about the sedoretu from Ursula Le Guin's work.
[Follow Friday 3/13/26, somewhat active with last post in January.]

50books_poc -- Writers of Color 50 Books Challenge
The point of this comm is to read works by people of color. (Preferably fifty of them! Or more!)
Also post recommendations and/or reviews, and otherwise encourage people to read works by authors of color.
[Follow Friday 3/6/26, somewhat active with last post in January 2026.]

100quadrantedships -- Because We Don't Have Enough Of Quadrants
Quadrants, homestuck, shipping.
[Follow Friday 3/13/26, somewhat active with last post in January.]

add_a_writer -- Add A Writer
Connect with other writers.
[Follow Friday 5/8/26, active with one post in May.]

addme -- Add Me Friending Community
A place to make new Dreamwidth friends!
[Follow Friday 3/13/26, 3/27/26, 4/24/36, active with multiple posts in April.]

addme_fandom -- Addme Fandom
Find friends who share your fannish obsessions.
[Follow Friday 4/3/26, 5/1/26, active with multiple posts in April.]

allbingo -- All Bingo
Share your creative bingo activities and discussions here.
Meta can be used as a fill in pretty much any fest.
[Follow Friday 3/6/26, 5/1/26, active with multiple posts in April. The National Crafting Month Meet and Greet has over 140 comments!]

anime_manga -- Anime & Manga
Anime & Manga fanworks and general discussion.
[Follow Friday 3/27/26, active with multiple posts in March.]

animeicons -- ANIME ICONS
A community for posting icons from anime and manga.
[Follow Friday 3/27/26, active with one post in March.]

artistalley -- Artist Alley Hangout Community
Convention art event news, ideas, feedback & critiques, manu sourcing, and community.
[Follow Friday 3/27/26, active with one post in February.]

avengers_search -- Avengers Fanfic Search (From Livejournal)
Avengers Fanfic/Fanworks Search Community.
[Follow Friday 4/3/26, active with one post in March.]

beautifulmechanical -- Beautiful Mechanical
Do you love music? We do, too.
[Follow Friday 4/24/36, active with multiple posts in April.]

bdsm -- BDSM Meta-Discussion & Community
BDSM Meta-Discussion & Community.
[Follow Friday 3/13/26, somewhat active with last post in January 2025.]

bigbangindex -- Big Bang Index
Index of Big Bang-type challenges.
[Follow Friday 4/17/26, somewhat active with one post in January.]

bloomandawaken -- Bloom & Awaken: A Journaling Haven
A nurturing & inspiring space where individuals explore themselves through the power of journaling.
[Follow Friday 4/10/26, stickies from January 2025, but posts are locked to members only.]

blueheronteanook -- Blue Heron Tea Nook
Fanfiction and meta for the Otherverse web serials Pact, Pale, Pate, and Poke by Wildbow.
[Follow Friday 3/6/26, somewhat active with last post in February 2026.]

bnha_fans -- Fans of Boku no Hero Academia
A community for fans of Boku no Hero Academia.
[Follow Friday 3/27/26, active with multiple posts in March.]

book_love -- Let's chat books!
A place for readers to hang out with other readers, and chat all things books! Reviews, lists, news, discussions, group reads, whatever, if it's about books, here's your place to share it!
[Follow Friday 3/6/26, active with multiple posts in March.]

bookclub_dw -- MONTHLY BOOK CLUB
"Books are a uniquely portable magic." - Stephen King
This is meant to be a community that functions just like a physical book club. Participants will all read the same book each month that has been chosen by a ‘host’ and then there will be a discussion about the book at the end of the month.
[Follow Friday 3/6/26, active with multiple posts in March.]

booknook -- a nook just for the books.
[Follow Friday 3/6/26, active with multiple posts in March.]

books -- Books!
A book review community.
[Follow Friday 3/6/26, active with multiple posts in March.]

c_ent -- Chinese Entertainment
Umbrella community for c-ent fanworks & general discussion.
[Follow Friday 3/6/26, active with multiple posts in March.]

cap_ironman -- Everything Left Unsaid
Steve Rogers/Tony Stark and their friendship and love.
[Follow Friday 4/3/26, active with one post in March.]

capspiration -- Capspiration
Multi-fandom daily screen caps
[Follow Friday 4/3/26, 4/17/26, active with multiple posts in April.]

christianreader -- Christian Reader
Book lists, discussion, writing.
[Follow Friday 3/6/26, active with one post in March.]

classicfilm -- Classic Film: for the discussion of great cinema
All things film from the dawn of the medium to the 1980s.
[Follow Friday 5/1/26, low traffic with last post in December 2024.]

comicbook_icons -- Comic Book Icons
Bring us your spandexed, your drawn, your 100x100 squares.
[Follow Friday 3/27/26, 4/3/26, active with one post in March.]

communal_creators -- Create, Commiserate, Compete
Writing, art, podfic, meta, vidding, and other creative efforts.
[Follow Friday 3/6/26, active with one post in February.]

creativity -- Make It, Build It, Dream It. Creativity.
Sharing creative projects and ideas.
[Follow Friday 4/24/36, somewhat active with last post in June 2025.]

crossoverfic -- Crossover Fanfiction
This community is dedicated to authors and readers of crossover fan fiction. Anything is welcome here, any fandom, the only requirements are that all stories are crossovers. Here, you may discuss crossovers, issue challenges and post icons, pictures and crossover fics of any length.
[Follow Friday 4/3/26, somewhat active with last post in February.]

crossovers -- Crossover fiction from across the universe!
Crossover fan fiction.
[Follow Friday 4/17/26, active with one post in March.]

darcyland -- Darcyland
A Darcy Lewis Fan Community.
[Follow Friday 4/3/26, active with one post in March.]

dear_mun -- Dear Mun . . .
Characters speak out -- RP your muses meta-style.
[Follow Friday 3/6/26, active with multiple posts in February.]

dunmeshi -- Dungeon Meshi
A community for fans of Dungeon Meshi.
[Follow Friday 3/27/26, active with multiple posts in March.]

draco100 -- Draco 100
A community for drabbles and drawbles with a focus on our favourite snarky Slytherin, Draco Malfoy. The premise is simple: a new prompt will be set every second Monday. The challenge is to use the prompt to inspire a 100 word drabble or drawble, with Draco as the focus.
[Follow Friday 3/20/26, active with multiple posts in March.]

dreamwidth_meta -- For meta about the Dreamwidth project and service.
[Follow Friday 3/6/26, active with one post in February.]

dreamwalkers -- Dream Walkers
Discussion relating to dreams.
[Follow Friday 4/10/26, somewhat active with last post in September 2025.]

dreamwidth_pagans -- Dreamwidth Pagans
Community for Pagans of any path from Wicca to Shamanism to Satanism.
[Follow Friday 3/20/26, 4/10/26, active with one post in February.]

fancake -- Fancake
Fancake is a thematic multifandom recommendation community.
[Follow Friday 3/6/26, active with multiple posts in March.]

fandom_on_dw -- Fandom On Dreamwidth
Promoting Fandom Activity Hosted on Dreamwidth.
[Follow Friday 3/6/26, active with multiple posts in February.]

fandom_icons -- Fandom Icons
Icons for all your different fandom needs.
[Follow Friday 4/17/26, active with multiple posts in April.]

fandomcalendar -- The Fandom Calendar
Bulletin board for fests, big bangs, memes, cons and any other fan-related activity.
[Follow Friday 3/6/26, active with multiple posts in March.]

fanifesto -- A community for fannish manifestos (This thing is AMAZING. Here's why.)
[Follow Friday 3/6/26, active with one post in February.]

fantasy -- Fantasy discussion
For lovers of fantasy media.
[Follow Friday 3/20/26, active with one post in March.]

fem_thoughts -- Fem Thoughts: Meta about Women and/or Femslash
Meta about women and/or femslash.
[Follow Friday 3/6/26, active with one post in March.]

fffc -- Froday Flash Fiction Challenge
Fanfiction, fanwork, fanart, fanmix, multifandom, podfic.
[Follow Friday 3/6/26, somewhat active with last post in December 2025.]

finalfantasy -- Final Fantasy Community
For Fans of Final Fantasy.
[Follow Friday 3/13/26, active with one post in February.]

first_nations_freaks -- The Freaks Club: First Nations Freaks
Indigenous culture.
[Follow Friday 3/20/26, 4/102/6, active with multiple posts in March.]

fm_alchemist -- Fullmetal Alchemist Community
[Follow Friday 3/27/26, active with one post in February.]

fourormore -- and then there were four (or more!)
For relationships of 4 or more people. The more complicated the web, the more we want it.
[Follow Friday 3/6/26, 3/13/26, active with multiple posts in February.]

frillsofjustice -- Stars in the heavens! Flowers on the Earth! Love to the people!
This is a community dedicated to all things magical girl-related. Fic, news, discussion posts, links to meta articles, etc.
[Found via soricel, active with one post in May.]

gifs_at_dw -- GIFs at Dreamwidth
Gifs and gifmaking.
[Follow Friday 5/1/26, active with multiple posts in April.]

goddessfolk -- Goddess Folk
For all who honor the Feminine Divine.
[Follow Friday 3/20/26, active with one post in March.]

green_living -- Green Living
Practical green, natural, and simple living.
[Follow Friday 4/102/6, active with one post in April.]

harry100 -- Drabbles/Drawbles Featuring Harry Potter
Drabbles and Drawbles Featuring Harry Potter.
[Follow Friday 3/20/26, active with multiple posts in March.]

hellsing -- Hellsing Community
For fans of Hellsing!
[Follow Friday 3/27/26, somewhat active with last post in April 2025.]

hidden_paths -- A fortnight-long event to celebrate creations based on the smaller Tolkien fandoms (Roverandom, The Father Christmas Letters, etc.)
[Follow Friday 3/6/26, low traffic with last post in February 2025.]

historium -- A central community for all historical fandoms
Historical fandom activities and promotions.
[Follow Friday 3/6/26, 4/17/26, active with multiple posts in February.]

holly_poly -- A Holly Jolly Poly Fest!
Poly Fanworks Exchange.
[Follow Friday 3/13/26, active with multiple posts in February.]

hooked_on_heroines -- Hooked On Heroines
Carry on being awesome, ladies!
[Follow Friday 3/6/26, somewhat active with one post in January.]

i_read_what -- I Read What?!
A Nostalgia Themed Book Review Blog.
[Follow Friday 3/6/26, active with multiple posts in March.]

ic_animated -- icontest community for animation, games, comics.
[Follow Friday 3/27/26, 4/3/26, active with multiple posts in March.]