Database maintenance
Oct. 25th, 2025 08:42 am![[staff profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user_staff.png){kind=small}
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dw_maintenanceGood morning, afternoon, and evening!
We're doing some database and other light server maintenance this weekend (upgrading the version of MySQL we use in particular, but also probably doing some CDN work.)
I expect all of this to be pretty invisible except for some small "couple of minute" blips as we switch between machines, but there's a chance you will notice something untoward. I'll keep an eye on comments as per usual.
Ta for now!
Dear Yuletide Writer 2025
Oct. 23rd, 2025 09:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
edenfallingHi, and thank you in advance for writing a story for me! I'm pretty easy to please -- unless you write a context-free sex scene, I'll be thrilled just to get a fic in one of the fandoms I asked for. *grin* But I realize that's not terribly helpful, so here's the (very!) long version. (I am sorry for the tl;dr, but I like to talk about things I love and I figure more details are better than fewer.)
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( General Information )
Okay. On to specific fandoms!
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( Summer in Orcus )
( The Steerswoman Series )
( The Darkangel Trilogy )
( Saga of the Skolian Empire )
And that is that. Thank you again, and happy writing!
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( General Information )
Okay. On to specific fandoms!
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( Summer in Orcus )
( The Steerswoman Series )
( The Darkangel Trilogy )
( Saga of the Skolian Empire )
And that is that. Thank you again, and happy writing!
Warning re Friday's Comic
Oct. 23rd, 2025 05:25 pmjbwoodford posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
girlgenius_lairAccording to the Girl Genius FB page, there won't be a new strip on 10/24/2025, as they're working on the cover for "Escape from the Island of the Rat Queen" for the next Kickstarter. They should be able to post the pencils for that, though.
AWS outage
Oct. 20th, 2025 10:11 amalierak posting in dw_maintenanceDW is seeing some issues due to today's Amazon outage. For right now it looks like the site is loading, but it may be slow. Some of our processes like notifications and journal search don't appear to be running and can't be started due to rate limiting or capacity issues. DW could go down later if Amazon isn't able to improve things soon, but our services should return to normal when Amazon has cleared up the outage.
Edit: all services are running as of 16:12 CDT, but there is definitely still a backlog of notifications to get through.
Edit 2: and at 18:20 CDT everything's been running normally for about the last hour.
Edit: all services are running as of 16:12 CDT, but there is definitely still a backlog of notifications to get through.
Edit 2: and at 18:20 CDT everything's been running normally for about the last hour.
Dear Yuletide Writer
Oct. 19th, 2025 06:33 pmsnackyHello, Yuletide Writer!
First things first: whatever you write for me, in any of these fandoms, I will be utterly delighted. These are faves and I love them and I will love whatever I get to read. And thanks so much for writing a story in one of these fandoms. I will just be so glad to have any story for any of the requests.
Some of this letter has been duplicated from previous years, so if you've been here before, that is why things seem familiar. :)
I am open to treats!
( General stuff... )
( Likes... )
( Do Not Wants... )
( Specific fandom details... )
I hope that helped! And honestly, no pressure to fulfill any of the specific details! Anything you want to write in any of these fandoms will be great. I'm just happy to be getting a story from you.
Thanks again and have fun!
Big love,
Snax
First things first: whatever you write for me, in any of these fandoms, I will be utterly delighted. These are faves and I love them and I will love whatever I get to read. And thanks so much for writing a story in one of these fandoms. I will just be so glad to have any story for any of the requests.
Some of this letter has been duplicated from previous years, so if you've been here before, that is why things seem familiar. :)
I am open to treats!
( General stuff... )
( Likes... )
( Do Not Wants... )
( Specific fandom details... )
I hope that helped! And honestly, no pressure to fulfill any of the specific details! Anything you want to write in any of these fandoms will be great. I'm just happy to be getting a story from you.
Thanks again and have fun!
Big love,
Snax
Battlefield Terra sort of, really messy summary
Oct. 19th, 2025 09:16 pmaskerianhello! hope youre doing well!! im on a bit of a homestuck kick lately with the animated pilot coming out and all i started rereading all my old fav fics. battlefield terra is still so amazing after all these years! i forgot how funny it was at parts and how the emotional or serious bits were such gut punches, and gamkar reunion arghhh. still hits right! i know beens been a damn long time, and i hope im not coming off as pushy, but i hope youll come back and give us a summary of what would have happened next. or not, no pressure! anyway thanks for writing 10/10 will read again!
hey, thank you. :)
i've been meaning to write the summary for BT for years and it keeps eating all my spoons. idk if you've seen this post which has the next chapter's first scene (fallout from the kiss and preparation for battle) but then i got bogged down in battle stuff. there was some vriska shenanigans VS karkat/john mindmeld and it was so damn hard to convey properly.
it's been so long now that i don't really remember any details. it's not like MotDP where i have the last two-three chapters plotted out pretty dang tight and know exactly where it ends. if i had kept going, BT would have been at a minimum 300k long (more likely to be 500-600k considering the chapters kept doing the accordion on me) and the later arcs were very "handwave it happens somehow".
i'm looking through my notes though and will paste them under there
( more rambles and chatlogs there )