Database maintenance

Oct. 25th, 2025 08:42 am
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[staff profile] mark posting in [site community profile] dw_maintenance

Good 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!

...p...p-p-PENIS?!!!

Oct. 21st, 2025 10:56 pm
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Today Belovedest had to bust the teenagers for playing "the penis game" in the library.

[You say the word increasingly loudly, in turns, until someone loses the game by being told to cut it out or being asked to leave.]

The weather's getting colder, but I have evolved myself an outfit to wear outdoors for lounging while the weather's in the high 50s F -- my slightly ratty plush bathrobe underneath my much more windproof corduroy floor length duster. And the ta'al fingerless mgloves Mama knitted for me, in rainbow stripes. They're just the thing for keeping my hands warm while I'm on the phone.

I've discovered I do enjoy cauliflower "wings", even though I don't enjoy chicken wings.

The scooter has arrived. I am plotting how best to bedazzle it. It does have its own USB power outlet! It also has head and tail lights. It's better for approaching counters than the wheelchair, since the tiller is so close to me.

[personal profile] norabombay points out that given all the poorly supervised international visitors who have been in and out of the White House, they're going to have to take it down to the studs when they refit it for #48 to use. So the general devastation in the East Wing is small potatoes as far as outrage fodder. And anywhere that the last major update was 1947-ish must really need some yanking out of the century of the fruitbat.

My legs are doing better. In part this is because I stuck ibuprofen in my nightly pill box, since I'd been waking up with aching legs and shouting knees pretty consistently.

Medication: the medication definitely has some activity. The main activity seems to be that my appetite has been fading in and out of "did we recently have chemo?!" mode. I'm tempted to give myself a week off every few weeks.

Makeup: currently waiting on a liquid formulation of the eyeshadow that promised to match the eyeliner, because the color is fantastic and I want it in a wide brush. I guess the powder can work for blending it out. (The powder just does not want to cooperate and layer on thick enough to get the color shift effect, even with a wet brush.) My skin continues to behave itself better than my ability to use foundation; there are only a few spots where I want to color correct if I'm doing Full Battle Makeup.

Games: keeping up with all the Gems of War events is sometimes tiring, but it does make winding down my brain at night much easier than other things I could be doing.

Perfume: went through my massive perfume spreadsheet and filled in the formulation for all the BPAL (which is the same except for that one spray). Cracked myself up at some of the descriptions I've left. One particular exceedingly long-lasting one
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AWS outage

Oct. 20th, 2025 10:11 am
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[personal profile] alierak posting in [site community profile] dw_maintenance
DW 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.
anr: (ff: river: make me a stone)
[personal profile] anr
Travelling Through the Sky (1704 words) by anr
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Firefly (TV 2002)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jayne Cobb/River Tam
Characters: Jayne Cobb, River Tam
Additional Tags: Post-Serenity (2005), Enemies to Lovers, courting, Pining
Summary: She moves like no one else he's ever seen fight before, as sleek and graceful as she is deadly, and he allows himself to think beautiful for the shortest ever second in the 'verse before banishing that thought back to whatever special hell it came from.

[admin post] Admin Post: Admin Post: Year-End Marathon 2025

Oct. 18th, 2025 01:24 pm
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[personal profile] gywomod posting in [community profile] getyourwordsout
At the end of the year, it can be tempting to give up on your writing goals. But giving up is not the Get Your Words Out way! We believe in writing. We believe in trying. We believe that any progress is good progress. So even if your big writing goals are out of reach, you can still reach a goal.

Let's set that new goal today.

Join us for the Year-End Marathon. And this is a special party, because we are inviting everyone!

Everyone—whether you're a current or previous GYWO member or have never even heard of this thing (is it a writing community? how do you pronounce "GYWO" anyway?)—EVERYONE is invited to join the 2025 GYWO writers in this marathon to the end of the year.


What Is the Year-End Marathon?

The Year-End Marathon begins Nov 1 and runs through Dec 31.

Make a pledge to write 15 Days each month (a total of 30 days) or 15,000 words each month (a total of 30,000 words).

Join other writers with the same goals on the GYWO Discord server in a set of channels exclusive to the YEM challenge where the moderators will be hosting special discussion topics and challenges for our YEM writers. YEM writers will also have access to GYWO writing sprints hosted on our Discord.

This year, we’re incorporating public, unlocked Dreamwidth discussion posts for you to participate in, as well as extra challenges and discussion posts on Bluesky, and a 30K leaderboard on Trackbear.

If you're new to GYWO, this can be a way to see if this community is right for you before our pledge drive for 2026 begins. And if you're a GYWO 2025 writer, this can be a chance to seize your goals and put in some concentrated effort at the end of the year so you can start 2026 on the right foot.


What Are the Requirements?

🤝 Like writers who sign up for the year-long GYWO challenge, you must have an account on Dreamwidth or through OpenID. GYWO usernames are based on Dreamwidth or OpenID usernames. New writers signing up for the Year-End Marathon will not have full access to the GYWO Dreamwidth community at this time, but there will be two unlocked discussion posts per month that YEM members may participate in. We hope you understand keeping our naming system consistent means the mod team doesn't have to sort duplicate usernames.

✍️ Write your words! The whole purpose of this challenge is to develop and maintain your writing life, so write something! All words and time counted toward your pledge progress must be your own work. Use of generative AI or passing off the work of a collaborator as your own is against the spirit of Get Your Words Out. See our website for an overview of what words count for the word count pledge and what activities count for a habit pledge.

🌈 Be a rainbow, not a pain-bow. We would love for you to participate in our Discord community and basically ask that you not be a jerk when doing so. Disrespect of the community and its members, along with hate speech, harassment, abuse, and endangerment may result in your removal from the community. We're pretty chill and ask that you be chill, too. (Also, if you have a problem with a member or find a conversation veering into uncomfortable territory, alert a moderator and we'll be on it as quick as can be.)

A monthly check-in specific to the Year-End Marathon will be posted for your own accountability, but attendance will not be taken and it is not a required part of your membership.
(Current GYWO writers—you're still responsible to check-in as part of your GYWO 2025 membership. Attendance is taken there, not on the Year-End Marathon check-in, so make sure to check in as usual.)


How Do I Participate?

To participate in the Year-End Marathon, complete the Year-End Marathon Pledge Form.

If you choose to join our Discord server, once your pledge has been processed, a moderator will assign you a pledge role to give you access to the YEM-exclusive area and writing sprints channel. Join other YEM writers to chat about the challenge, writing in general, and your writing life in particular.

On Discord: each week, moderators will post either a discussion topic or a writing activity for YEM writers. You can respond directly to the moderator as a reply or join in the wider discussion with other writers, depending on your comfort level.

On Bluesky: each week, moderators will post either a discussion question or writing challenge. Feel free to reply, quote post, tag us at getyourwordsout.bsky.social, or use the #gywo hashtag.

On Dreamwidth: twice a month, moderators will post discussion posts where you can talk about your progress and chat with fellow YEM participants.

All moderator-led engagement is crafted to support a wide range of writers, so whether you're writing fiction, nonfiction, or poetry or you engage in horror, romance, absurdism, or fanfic we do our best to find something to support your writing life.

✅To participate in the monthly check-in specific to the Year-End Marathon, you'll need to have access to the GYWO Discord server. The link to check in for the YEM challenge will only be posted on Discord. Check-in is optional but recommended.


Have you picked your pledge for the Year-End Marathon?
Remember, your choices are 15 Days per month (30 days total) or 15,000 Words per month (30,000 words total).

Pledging for the GYWO Year-End Marathon Ends Nov 7, 2025.

Pledge for the Year-End Marathon


If you have any questions, we're happy to answer them!
For more information about Get Your Words Out, please visit our website. Pledging for 2026 will open around December 12.

Dear Yuletide Santa

Oct. 15th, 2025 10:05 pm
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[personal profile] anr
Thank you for writing a story about my favourite two characters!

Likes:
Canon divergence... fix-it AU... character survives canonical death... dealing with the effects of canon trauma... what if x happens to character B instead of character A... survivors of trauma fall into codependency... missing scenes and/or post-ep's... enemies/friends/co-workers to lovers... battle couple... slow burn... character A caring for a wounded character B... touching the other person's scar/s... holding hands... sharing a bed/sleeping space... snuggling for warmth... first kiss... thank god you're alive/we're alive! kissing/sex... frottage... sex pollen makes them do it... dub-con no-no-yes... bang or die... slap-slap-kiss... time travel fixes everything... time loops... road trip... stranded alone together... it's the apocalypse... natural disasters... forced to work together... showing up on the other person's doorstep because 'I didn't know where else to go'... calling the other person to ask 'can you please come get me?'... forced marriage, arranged marriage, marriage of convenience, or fake relationship... infidelity/affairs because even though they're already taken they just can't resist the other person any longer... only calling each other by rank/surname until x happens then using their real/first name... yelling 'I love you' unexpectedly in an argument... mirror!verse AU... soulmarks AU... alpha!male/omega!female... 5 or 5+1 times...

Do Not Want:
Modern/mundane AUs, historical AUs, supernatural AUs, etc. Unhappy endings. Hurt/no comfort. Sick/illness fic. Character deaths. Unrequited or one-sided love between my OTP. Other characters matchmaking my OTP together. Established relationship for my OTP and/or relationships other than the ones requested. Embarrassing situations, pratfalls, overly comedic characterisations. First/second POVs or reader inserts. Song fic. Character bashing. BDSM, non-con, sub/dom, anal, rimming, spanking, choking, fisting. Rape, abuse, gore, child harm/abuse/death. Menstruation, bestiality, mpreg, genderbends. Characters intentionally ripping/tearing/cutting off clothing during sex scenes. Characters naming their children after dead family/friends.

Also:
- Treats adored! ❤️
- Optional details are optional.

Push, Nick/Cassie )

Stranger Things RPF, Grace/Joseph )

World War Z, Gerry/Segen )

Logan Lucky, Joe/Mellie )

Links:
My fic: Archive of Our Own anr
My tumblr: Tumblr anretc
My recs: Pinboard anr

Again: thank you!!

-- [personal profile] anr

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