Webrings, webrings...
Mar. 12th, 2024 12:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sammylux I absolutely love webrings, the main thing I do on my website lately is joining them, scroll through them, sending emails. They're such a lovely way to find new people, create little communities and make the web a nicer place to spend time at. Joining a webring uplifts me way more than getting a bunch of new followers on social media or joining discord servers, they let me feel like I'm socializing without all this stress and overstimulation. Lately I've been experiencing a pretty major social anxiety disorder relapse, it's a pain to spend time with people, talk, get out of my house or even post on my social media, both on my art and personal accounts. It's really weighting me down, since I absolutely love people, I love my friends, I love kind strangers. I'm an introvert, but I still need and desire the feel of belonging, of community. The web helps, webrings help.
Because of all that, I've been thinking about creating my own webring, nothing huge, just a nice little side project. I want to give back to the community and help with building a better web. Right now I'm just researching the technical side of it, thankfully there are a lot of resources online :-) If I decide to go through with it, I plan for it to be horror related. A place for horror fans to connect with each other... No need to be an expert or have a whole website in the horror aesthetic, just a connection to the genre and interest in anything related to it. Movies, art, comics, books, args, own writing or ocs... I'll also try to include some ways to integrate with other people in the ring, like banner/stamp/button submissions, a chatbox/guestbook for recommendations and just saying hi, shout outs to projects made or loved by members :-)
Idk... I know there won't be a lot of people joining, but just the thought of putting this together excites me!! I'll make my boyfriend (hi Arlo) test it and help me with whatever else he would want to do. At very least, I'll make it join my evil ring of horrors and fear and blood :D
Because of all that, I've been thinking about creating my own webring, nothing huge, just a nice little side project. I want to give back to the community and help with building a better web. Right now I'm just researching the technical side of it, thankfully there are a lot of resources online :-) If I decide to go through with it, I plan for it to be horror related. A place for horror fans to connect with each other... No need to be an expert or have a whole website in the horror aesthetic, just a connection to the genre and interest in anything related to it. Movies, art, comics, books, args, own writing or ocs... I'll also try to include some ways to integrate with other people in the ring, like banner/stamp/button submissions, a chatbox/guestbook for recommendations and just saying hi, shout outs to projects made or loved by members :-)
Idk... I know there won't be a lot of people joining, but just the thought of putting this together excites me!! I'll make my boyfriend (hi Arlo) test it and help me with whatever else he would want to do. At very least, I'll make it join my evil ring of horrors and fear and blood :D
