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Apr. 22nd, 2026 09:19 am
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[staff profile] mark posting in [site community profile] dw_maintenance

Happy Wednesday!

I'm taking search offline sometime today to upgrade the server to a new instance type. It should be down for a day or so -- sorry for the inconvenience. If you're curious, the existing search machine is over 10 years old and was starting to accumulate a decade of cruft...!

Also, apparently these older machines cost more than twice what the newer ones cost, on top of being slower. Trying to save a bit of maintenance and cost, and hopefully a Wednesday is okay!

Edited: The other cool thing is that this also means that the search index will be effectively realtime afterwards... no more waiting a few minutes for the indexer to catch new content.

mific: Sepia pic john sheppard and rodney mckay leaning heads together, serious (McShep - intense)
[personal profile] mific posting in [community profile] fancake
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters/Pairings: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay, Elizabeth Weir, Teyla Emmagan, Radek Zelenka
Rating: Mature
Length: 13,319
Content Notes: no AO3 warnings apply
Creator Links: Rachael Sabotini on AO3
Themes: Arranged marriage, AU - royalty, Diplomatic marriage, Politics, Mutual pining

Summary: "It is your duty to the empire to marry Rodney McKay."

Reccer's Notes: This is an interesting romantic romp set in a somewhat steampunk AU where John is married off by his cousin the empress Elizabeth, to Rodney, a leader in the neighbouring nation. John is part of treaty agreements to negotiate peace. Consummating his marriage proves difficult due to Rodney being a workaholic, anxious about never having had sex with a man before, and, that common marriage of convenience trope, as John can end the marriage after a year and a day if he chooses. There are obstacles and pining and inadequate communication, but eventually John makes a place for himself in Rodney's labs, proves his loyalty, and we get the happy ending. A fun read!

Fanwork Links: The Spare

Wednesday 22/04/2026

Apr. 22nd, 2026 07:56 am
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[personal profile] dark_kana posting in [community profile] 3_good_things_a_day

1) a chocolate Easter egg

2) quick dinner at my parent's place when we pick up our daughter after training as well as our babysitter ^^

3) going to the theatre with hubby this evening

Tuesday 21/04/2026

Apr. 21st, 2026 09:46 am
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[personal profile] dark_kana posting in [community profile] 3_good_things_a_day

1) a caramel cookie

2) testing my new headphone

3) lazy evening, watching a Star Wars series with hubby

queer book club!

Apr. 20th, 2026 07:24 pm
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[personal profile] cloversome posting in [site community profile] dw_community_promo
hello!

just wanted to promote my new DW comm [community profile] queerbookclub

the community is a no pressure book club dedicated to fiction books of all genres that are queer in some way! each month we take suggestions on what the next month's book should be and we vote on it. if you're not interested in the book for the month, that's perfectly fine! you are free to come and go as you please. :)

we plan to start in may and currently book nominations for may are open until april 26th.

hope to see you there!

Monday 20/04/2026

Apr. 20th, 2026 08:48 am
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[personal profile] dark_kana posting in [community profile] 3_good_things_a_day

1) A day at the office. It's nice to see colleagues again after some weeks of working from home ^^

2) Going for a walk during lunchbreak. There is a shop near the office where they sell the most delicious granola 

3) Meeting up with Lhune this evening after dinner :-)

Sunday 19/04/2026

Apr. 19th, 2026 10:36 am
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1) Breakfast on my sunny balcony before the clouds came in.

2) Early sunshine inspired me to do a couple of pilates stretches (I’m usually not an early bird ^^)

3) Dinner at my parents’s place

Saturday 18/04/2026

Apr. 18th, 2026 12:51 pm
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[personal profile] lhune posting in [community profile] 3_good_things_a_day
1) We had fun at the late Easter celebration with my godchild yesterday ^_^ Extra good since we had sunshine opposed to the rain today

2) Time to read an old Agatha Christie again

3) I managed to solve a problem with the documents I had been putting off way too long ^^
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[personal profile] goddess47 posting in [community profile] fancake
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Pairings/Characters: Stiles Stilinski/Derek Hale
Rating: PG
Length: 12K for the first story; 35K for the 5 stories series
Creator Links: DiscontentedWinter on AO3
Theme: Arranged Marriage

Content Notes:

Canon-typical violence

Summary:

To honour a treaty with the people of a strange land, Derek Hale, prince of the kingdom of Triskelion, has to marry Stiles.

Reccer's Notes:

A beautifully lyric and almost mystical work about an arranged marriage between Prince Stiles and Prince Derek where they have never met before the wedding and do not speak each other's language. What could have been either slapstick or tragic turns beautiful in DiscontentedWinter's hands... she shows us the beauty in learning about others and how the power of belief can stop armies.

The additional stories expand the world-building and show how two very different peoples can learn to live together.

Fanwork Links:

The Light in the Woods On AO3

Friday 17/04/2026

Apr. 17th, 2026 11:31 am
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1) a day with our daughter ^^ And hubby working at home today ^^

2) dancing and singing with our daughter 

3) hopefully finish the second photo album for our daughter *crosses fingers*

Round 186 Theme Poll

Apr. 16th, 2026 08:36 am
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[personal profile] runpunkrun posting in [community profile] fancake
Poll #34481 round 186 theme poll
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 99

Pick the next theme of fancake:

Collaborations & Remixes
25 (25.3%)

Journey/Travel
45 (45.5%)

Whump
29 (29.3%)

Thursday 16/04/2026

Apr. 16th, 2026 09:32 am
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1) listening to good music while working

2) delicious blueberries

3) a nice long hot shower

Wednesday 15/04/2026

Apr. 15th, 2026 10:44 am
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1) Had a lovely sushi date evening with hubby yesterday ^^

2) A hot water bottle to sooth my headache and my aching shoulder/neck muscles

3) Looking forward to dinner. The first asparagus of the season for us :D

Tuesday 14/04/2026

Apr. 14th, 2026 09:32 am
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1) Trying not to procrastinate and get some things in order

2) Lunch together with hubby and our daughter :-)

3) Our daughter is going for a sleepover with her grandmother. So hubby and I have a date night ^^ We're going to have sushi for dinner and watch a movie

Monday 13/04/2026

Apr. 13th, 2026 10:08 am
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[personal profile] dark_kana posting in [community profile] 3_good_things_a_day

1) Yesterday's birthday party for our daughter was a great succes :D We had a super good time with family ^^

2) Lunch time with hubby and daughter

3) Lazy evening. Either reading, crocheting or working on photo albums. It's all fun :-)

mific: (Hockey sticks)
[personal profile] mific posting in [community profile] fancake
Fandom: Hockey RPF
Characters/Pairings: Sidney Crosby/Evgeni (Geno) Malkin, Alexander Ovechkin, Shea Weber, Joe Thornton
Rating: Explicit
Length: 15,934
Content Notes: no AO3 warnings apply
Creator Links: thehoyden on AO3
Themes: Arranged marriage, First time, AU: royalty, Secret identity

Summary: It’s actually his father who suggests it.

“Take the rest of the summer for yourself,” he says. “Do something fun.”

“Fun,” Sidney repeats blankly.

Reccer's Notes: I'm into hockey fics now! This is a classic, already reccd here ages ago and worth revisiting. It's a royalty AU with added hockey, which is where Sid meets Geno. There's a fun, hot and charming initial romance, then Sid has to get on with his life of obligations, including the frustrating search for a suitable royal-lineage husband to cement political ties. Ultimately, love wins, of course, and it's a satisfying, well written story.

Fanwork Links: You're the One That I Want (locked to AO3)

Sunday 12/04/2026

Apr. 12th, 2026 10:35 am
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1) After 4 days of inactivity, my old watch suddenly decided to start working again \o/ Almost a miracle ^_~ I’ll still turn it in with a watchmaker to give it a full check-up but i’m happy I can use it until then. EDIT it’s going on and off again ^^’ The good thing is that I can now borrow a watch while I wait for it to be fixed

2) Breakfast on my sunny balcony

3) Dinner at my parents’s place which means the swinging bench if the weather remains good

The case of the missing notifications

Apr. 11th, 2026 11:58 pm
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[staff profile] denise posting in [site community profile] dw_maintenance

I keep forgetting to post about this: we've been troubleshooting the "missing notifications" problem for the past few days. (Well, I say "we", really I mean Mark and Robby; I'm just the amanuensis.) It's been one of those annoying loops of "find a logical explanation for what could be causing the problem, fix that thing, observe that the problem gets better for some people but doesn't go away completely, go back to step one and start again", sigh.

Mark is hauling out the heavy debugging ordinance to try to find the root cause. Once he's done building all the extra logging tools he needs, he'll comment to this entry. After he does, if you find a comment that should have gone to your inbox and sent an email notification but didn't, leave him a link to the comment that should have sent the notification, as long as the comment itself was made after Mark says he's collecting them. (I'd wait and post this after he gets the debug code in but I need to go to sleep and he's not sure how long it will take!)

We're sorry about the hassle! Irregular/sporadic issues like this are really hard to troubleshoot because it's impossible to know if they're fixed or if they're just not happening while you're looking. With luck, this will give us enough information to figure out the root cause for real this time.

Saturday 11/04/2026

Apr. 11th, 2026 11:26 am
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1) Planting out my new flowers from yesterday

2) Yummy lunch (the fennel salad)

3) Clean bedlinen for tonight

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