Martyna

I follow you, dear circle, but I'm generally to engrossed in revisions to post and don't even notice the days going past. I feel unprepared for the upcoming week. It makes me want to cry out loud. Doesn't help to be ill (but yay, haven't been for quite some time!), have been stuck for the past days.

Before I start on my recommendations, does anyone know how to prepare honey lemon slices? I've seen them in HanaKimi (the manga) and it really grabbed my interest.

♥tofugu_feed - migrated on my circle from my LJ friendslist. Japanese learning ideas.
♥inalcojapon_feed - an information feed for our department at uni. Big, positive, surprise.

Fanfiction is lokifan's again: Hi, Malfoy and Trapped.

...and now one of the internet highlights from the past week: Hipp♥ Squee!

Here's the plan: every Friday, let's recommend some people, communities, feeds or just interesting journal entries on dreamwidth.

In random order.

Through one of my communities I found "Office Politics", a Death Note fanfiction. (Read the warnings!) Through the same or maybe another: "Draw a Bath" by Nan (Fandom: Demon Diary).

Items I subscribed to: green_living, post_secret_feed (By the way, the French post secret wants more input!), dw_codesharing and globalvoices_jp_feed.
Finally joined the kawaii_not_feed here, one less to follow on LJ. :)

Also got active in do_it - it was time!

Using the network reading list as long as I can, because my month of dreamwidth will expire more or less punctually for my exams, so in a way this is good.

yvi asked about...

What have been your favourite communities on Dreamwidth since being here?
create_my_comm has been one of the more interesting ones, no matter what it was about. There are some communities which prompt me to do more in the time I have, so basically this is good, like do_it and the cooking & baking communities I talked about in my previous Follow Friday posts.

What communities have you been most active in?
Recently I have posted to shutterspeed, but where I'm most active are probably polska and a_paris simply because there still new and my own communities.

Which do you hope will finally get active?
Since I know that a_paris will surely make it to a big number at some point, I wonder more about the little interest in polska, the community about Poland - for Polish and non-polish, no matter the language you communicate in. Also, another community I'd like to see more active is nihongo. No discussions in Japanese, no nothing. Basically I've the impression that dreamwidth is very, very English-dominated for the moment.

What are the most interesting personal journals in your circle? Who has made your reading place a happy/funny/thinky place?
resa is one of the person that just makes me beam with her achievements. It's just the way it is. But generally lir, schattenstern and some others do make me happy... or reading their entries. torachan makes me think, but sometimes it makes me feel very funny and out of place at times, too.

Well, I guess this is it for this week. *skittles off*

How come I haven't looked for them earlier on?
bento and bento_picnic are obviously both for bentos. That's the bright side! On the other side we find two communities with barely any entries or none at all and when I checked on the administrators neither the one nor the other seemed to have posted within the last 6 months on their dreamwidth journal. I have considered dropping both of them a message, but wonder how appropriate that would be.
Thus, none of the communities developed and none with challenges or recipes or How-to's. Too bad.

Also: wagashimaniac_feed

Nie moge uwierzyc.
Oto artikul Newsweeka polskiego.
Po tych wiadomsciach stworzylam polska kilka minut temu.

Polish president in "plane crash" - no survivors?(BBC)
Edit: Due to these circumstances polska was created as of now. Feel free to post in English and/or Polish.

What, you actually thought I have said all and everything there is to say and would do the second post for real? No WAY!

ajatt_feed is simply the feed to the All Japanese All The Time blog - and if you think it serves only for Japanese learners you're wrong! Whatever language you are studying, the blog talks about diverse methods for language acquisition and how to have fun all while learning.
The BBC "Spanish Phrase Of The Day" feed aka bbcpotdspanish_feed usually provides rather words than phrases, but is nevertheless a feed that makes me smile and that I do enjoy.
Another feed which is just for fun is sinfest_feed, a Sinfest comic-strip daily. You get to know the characters quite well after a short time.
bbc_news_asia_feed has everything in its name. But of course we need another source -the New York Times- for our Asian-centred news: ihtasia_feed.

thedailyyoji_feed is as well very Japan -and Japanese- centred. Many updates are about Grammar points from the JLPT 1kyû level or on idioms and their origin.

zichi_lorentz_feed is for the "Zichi's Artosphere" blog, which deals a lot with Japan, too.

The Kanji-A-Day-feeds don't properly update at the point being, but hopefully they get fixed quickly:
kanjiadaylevel1_feed
kanjiadaylevel2_feed
kanjiadaylevel3_feed
kanjiadaylevel4_feed


I will leave the fanfiction-related communities for another post, either during the week or for next Friday. I could go on talking, but there is some work to do. Life!

Here's the plan: every Friday, let's recommend some people and/or communities to follow on Dreamwidth. That's it. No complicated rules, no "pass this on to 7.328 friends or your cat will die". Just introduce us to some new things to read. (Whom am I quoting?)
You can follow all recommendations on http://www.dreamwidth.org/latest?feed=followfriday

I'm posting this before looking myself at the Follow Friday-feed and knowing this will take some time as it should be a longer entry, I'm just pushing away the thought of all the homework that wants to be done today. (I've also some TMI to share -maybe- in a later entry. It has nothing to do with it, but you gals might be interested in whining about menstruation from time to time.)
Let's face it: there are many interesting communities out there and luckily there are not all hyper-active or I'd be flooded by my reading list!

まず、let's start with a freshly created community that actually is important to me. It's name, a_paris, speaks for itself. I know some of you out there are interested what's going on in Paris, so don't leave me alone and venez a_paris! (For my friends: Yes, this is a literal invitation. It's been some time since I've seen most of you!)

I've also a special recommendation for schattenstern which comes second in this list: newgameplus (No, I'm not following it, it's just for you!)

There's also a 2nd add-on to my last Follow Friday-post: After harrypotter and daily_snitch I stumbled upon harrylovesdraco. (By the way, have a fic: Angelina has a night out with her friends, and it is fun (mostly)[Gen, G] by kumquatix ) Have I talked yet about hp_fanfiction? No?

Most of you know this community from some of my previous (personal) entries already, but let's not forget about bookcrossing as bookcrossing is one of my favourite past-times after all. (Which reminds me I should go back and write a new entry on hobbies, since I actually remembered something and only need to find out how to fit it again into my life. But that's not to be discussed in this highly official entry. *pouts* Although I could point to it by promoting hoerbuecher.)

So, let's get to the core. (What, you have thought this wouldn't actually get long and I'd be finishing to babble by now?)
Since yesterday was the first day of procrastination and today is yesterday's tomorrow, we should all get ready to pick up our to-do-lists again and... do_it. (I have done my share yesterday. *pulls a snobby face*)

Most of you know about my love for languages (and my absolute failing to get rules stuck in my head) and I've already talked to you about how much fun the Language Learner's Forum is. It really helps me to get a grip on myself and work on my languages -all of them-, but also reconsider my learning techniques once in a while, try out new ones and improve my learning experience. I've found during the past days some communities on dreamwidth too, let's see what they can give:
I'm not a linguist (and don't think I ever want to be), but linguaphiles is open to everyone interested in languages as its name suggests and I am curious about what discussions we might witness there. The concept of languageclub is really nice, though it may get spam-loaden when the number of members starts to grow. Haven't written my presentation yet, probably someone should prompt me to do so. At some point. (Is it yet again Procrastination Day?)
Japanese-wise we have...
.jmedia's name says it all, doesn't it?
.Handy and helpful nihongo has already been good support for stressed me.
.I'm not sure of its legality, but jmusic gives at least inspiration of what different Japanese music one can listen to - and you knwo immersion is win, right? And while talking about immersion asiandramas might be an inspiration for series, too, though the profile doesn't say anything about its target.

I'll try to make next week a point on (fan)fiction-related communities and my feeds, as time flies by like a mosquito, maybe I'll include all the other random interesting communities, too, depending on time and money and entry length.
Feel free to comment, if you have something, or anything, really, to say.