Sunday, June 21st, 2026 01:50 pm

Olá de Lisboa! (I'm in Lisbon right now for work...)

Thank you everybody who has tested on canary - I'm about to push the code up to stable. I know that not everything has been tested and there's a lot in this deploy, so I expect some things to break or be weird. We have ported a lot more of the "older" pages to the newer formats, so there will be some UI changes in a few places, but it shouldn't be anything too major.

Watch for: One thing I know will require tuning, we now have added rate limits (which basically allows us to control how rapidly DW pages are loaded.) This is a protection mostly designed against bots, but any time in my career I've rolled out new rate limits, I've learned someone is hitting them and they have to be tuned. So if you see them, please let me know!

Anyway please do comment and I'll work to fix things today. We also have a rollback ready in case we need to (and I'll be honest, I expect we may need to... we really should do more frequent deploys.)

Known Issues

  • Fixed: Search has gone walkabout.
  • Fixed: Some UI weirdness with Manage Tags.
  • Fixed: Login redirects are not working.
  • Fixed: Login page sometimes returning 'invalid form submission.'
  • Fixed: Rename keywords checkbox on icons page also gone walkabout.
  • Fixed: Uploading large icon files erroring / not going to the image editor.

As always, thank you for your patience and supporting our scrappy little service!

Saturday, June 20th, 2026 12:19 am
Continuing with the Ao3 vidding project, I'm getting my Agent Carter vids up on AO3!

Going in order so far:

One More Day (2015)
Another Tonight (Jan 2016)
Miracle and Wonder (March 2016)

Let me know if anything doesn't work! All the original download links should work (I just copied them over, I haven't changed anything that I can remember since then), and I've generated new embed codes from the original uploads. Happy to fix anything that goes kablooey.
Friday, June 19th, 2026 06:31 pm
In spite of my total lack of interest in any/all sports, I am following the World Cup for literally the first time in my entire life. Having your country (co)host it really makes a difference; who knew?
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Thursday, June 18th, 2026 12:49 pm
Writing up a few books I've read over the last few months and never wrote about. (There will be a separate post for the nonfiction. Probably. Eventually.)


Out Law by Jim Butcher - This is a Dresden Files novella set during or perhaps shortly after Twelve Months that came out in May. It took me a while to read it because the summary looked like it featured Marcone heavily and I ... really do not like Marcone AT ALL. (I know this is a very minority opinion among Dresden Files readers.) However, it turns out that he appears for a couple pages in the beginning to set up the plot, and is otherwise Sir Not Appearing In This Book. And I really enjoyed it!

Spoilers/reactions: Under here )


Emmett Hardy series by Chris Kelsey (books 1-6) - This is a noir-flavored series of mystery/crime/police procedurals set in small-town Oklahoma in the 1960s and 1970s that I inhaled over the course of the spring.

More about that: Under the cut, no specific spoilers )


The Inheritance by Ilona Andrews - This is "Ilona Andrews does portal fantasy." The first 2/3 or so of the book was GREAT. And then the ending was staggeringly disappointing. So all in all, I'm still trying to figure out how I feel about it.

Spoilers proceed: Under here )
Wednesday, June 17th, 2026 11:17 pm
[community profile] whumpex revealed this week and I loved my gift!

Strategic Alliances (Babylon 5, Londo & G'Kar & Na'Toth, 2900 wds, post-canon)
One of my requests was for Londo and Na'Toth interacting, maybe teaming up if something happened to G'Kar, and this satisfied that craving very nicely.

I picked up a pinch hit for Whumpex as well as my assignment, so I have a couple of things in the collection.

I also wrote a pinch hit for Casefic (done, not revealed) and I have my Id Pro Quo assignment. There are a few different exchanges currently or soon to be in nominations, including Multifandom Tropefest and Just Married, but I really need to not sign up for anything new in the near future; I'm enjoying doing exchanges again, but I want July to be mostly recharge time.

I finished my Dungeon Crawler Carl reread, and now I'm going back and rereading particular chapters for clues and other lore. I don't know if I'd say I'm having fandom feelings about it (for one thing, the state of most of the fanfic is dire) but I'm really enjoying it. I'm into it enough that I ended up backing Matt Dinniman's Patreon because I don't want to wait until the next book comes out to read new chapters.
Wednesday, June 17th, 2026 09:31 pm
GFW's unisex boxer briefs are back (now with a modified design that allows you to wear menstrual pads with wings, and a wider size range):

https://www.gfwclothing.com/collections/boxer-shorts-unisex

They are the best.
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Monday, June 15th, 2026 04:19 pm
WIP Big Bang & WIP Reverse Bang Check-In #2 is live! Please remember that all four check-ins are not mandatory so if you do not do it or you accidentally miss one of them, it's totally fine. This form is used for both WIPBB and WIPRB, so please fill it in once for each project you are completing for either Bang. You should be using a different unique check-in ID for each project if you are completing multiple projects, so if that's not the case send an email to the mod email account (wipbigbang@gmail.com) with check-in ID substitutions you may need and then do the check-ins with the new IDs you want to use. If you plan to drop out, DO NOT fill out the form for those projects and instead send an email about which projects you want to drop to wipbigbang@gmail.com.

https://forms.gle/y4DcGDb83xeUTCJVA
Monday, June 15th, 2026 04:21 pm


Saw this at Sheffield DocFest yesterday and stumbled out into the afternoon light afterwards with shellshock.

Found out afterwards that Dogwoof bought the rights and it's getting a UK cinema release in July (and apparently a "Oscar-qualifying run" in the US in the autumn).

We got an unscheduled bonus Q&A from the directors/stars (Janay Boulos and Abd Alkader Habak) and gave them a standing ovation, which British people do not give lightly.

The Q&A (in a screening room so small they didn't even need to hand a mike around) was intense and vulnerable and occasionally hilarious.

One of the people in the film, Habak's doctor friend Hamza, turned out to be in the fucking audience, and put his hand up to ask a thoughtful question and then troll gleefully: "So, that Dr Hamza, what a great character ..."

While the rest of the audience were like JESUS FUCK DUDE WE JUST WATCHED YOU IN AL-QUDS HOSPITAL TRYING TO TREAT PATIENTS WHILE BEING BOMBED.

(Habak like: "I MADE YOU LOOK THAT GOOD.")

And then the people in the front row of the audience were like "So, we're film-makers from Ukraine ..." and didn't even need to explain why it was so meaningful to them.
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Saturday, June 13th, 2026 09:48 pm
It's bonkers that The Pitt is about to overtake GK in the number of stories I've written...

Sloppy Seconds (3594 words) by Alethia
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Pitt (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jack Abbot/Michael "Robby" Robinavitch, Jack Abbot/Emery Walsh, Michael "Robby" Robinavitch & Emery Walsh
Characters: Michael "Robby" Robinavitch, Jack Abbot (The Pitt), Emery Walsh, Dana Evans
Additional Tags: Pre-Canon, Coitus Interruptus, First Kiss, First Time, Banter, everyone annoying each other through it, why do robby and walsh hate each other, let's explore, It's really just porn
Summary:

Robby shifted the takeout bag to his left hand as he unlocked the door to Jack's condo, then walked in. He started to call out—

A moan stopped him short. He zeroed in on the black leather couch, spotting a naked woman riding an equally naked Jack, flat on his back, his hands obscene on her hips as he pulled her down onto him.

No, not just a naked woman. A naked Emery Walsh.

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Tuesday, June 9th, 2026 09:28 pm
It is finally summer, or at least summer-ish. (Never mind the frost warning two days ago.) I took a drive this evening and took this picture from a boat launch at a nearby river.

water with reflected trees and golden evening light

I also drew a birthday card for my sister and mailed it today.

Under the cut )
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Monday, June 8th, 2026 08:54 pm


Featuring some of the most batshit possible Heath Robinson arrangements for making a tiny quasi-acoustic version of their industrial noise. MIDI-triggered mug pinging!

Daveed Diggs: "Thank y'all for this opportunity to do needlessly complicated shit."

ETA: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jte7_yZuZVk -- short on some of the aforementioned batshit Heath Robinson arrangements.
Sunday, June 7th, 2026 11:04 pm
I was answering a comment over on AO3 on my old Stargate fic Old Soldiers Die Hard, the one with Annie the candystriper viewpoint OC, and got to thinking about the elapsed time since I posted it in 2006. She was probably meant to be in her late teens in the story, something like 17 or 18, which means that if she aged in realtime, she'd be in her late 30s now.

I was thinking about this in particular because it was always one of my most popular fics in that fandom, and people often asked for a sequel to that story about Annie grown up (and still do now and then). I don't mind being asked, although it is definitely not happening because I've long since moved on, but it's a bit wild to consider the passage of time in that particular way.

(Annie is grown up and doing fine, btw.)
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