Whumptober Day 26: Relapse | Drawn Curtains [Murderbot]
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sholioNo. 26: “Nothing like a relapse to rehash the kid who was scared.”
Relapse | Drawn Curtains | Power Cut
[TV-verse] Murderbot & Gurathin, 800 wds
Also posted on AO3 as Power Through.
( 800 wds under the cut )
Relapse | Drawn Curtains | Power Cut
[TV-verse] Murderbot & Gurathin, 800 wds
Also posted on AO3 as Power Through.
( 800 wds under the cut )
B5 fic: Where You End (And I Begin)
Oct. 26th, 2025 10:31 pmsholioThis is another one that's been sitting around in my drafts for a while now, mostly because I was trying to work out Lyta's POV chapter, and whether I was happy with the ending, but I finally decided to tidy it up and post it basically as-is. (Spoilers for everything; mostly gen despite the pairing notes.)
Where You End (And I Begin) (Babylon 5, G'Kar/Londo, Lyta/G'Kar [sort of], 4900 wds)
Lyta, G'Kar, Londo, and lingering vestiges of Dust telepathy. Set about a year after "Objects at Rest."
Where You End (And I Begin) (Babylon 5, G'Kar/Londo, Lyta/G'Kar [sort of], 4900 wds)
Lyta, G'Kar, Londo, and lingering vestiges of Dust telepathy. Set about a year after "Objects at Rest."
Inflicting my problems on fictional characters
Oct. 26th, 2025 06:10 pmsholioWhile I slog my way back from a 9-hour time difference of jet lag, I decided to make characters suffer too.
Organic (Murderbot books, MB & Mensah, 2600 wds)
Murderbot isn't sure what's up with its unreliable systems this time, so it asks Mensah. (Set somewhere after System Collapse.)
This one's pretty definitely bookverse, or at least bookverse-compatible; there's nothing specific to the TV universe.
Organic (Murderbot books, MB & Mensah, 2600 wds)
Murderbot isn't sure what's up with its unreliable systems this time, so it asks Mensah. (Set somewhere after System Collapse.)
This one's pretty definitely bookverse, or at least bookverse-compatible; there's nothing specific to the TV universe.
More movies courtesy of 10 hours on a trans-Atlantic flight
Oct. 25th, 2025 09:43 amsholioAsteroid City - I watched this because it looked visually interesting and I couldn't tell what it was about. I can now add that after seeing the whole movie, I still don't know what it was about.
( A little more about that )
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice - I've been meaning to see this anyway, and Halloween season felt right for it.
( More on that )
(I also watched the first like ... ten minutes or so of Transformers One and realized I was very much not in the mood for that, although I enjoyed the more classic designs for the characters.)
( A little more about that )
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice - I've been meaning to see this anyway, and Halloween season felt right for it.
( More on that )
(I also watched the first like ... ten minutes or so of Transformers One and realized I was very much not in the mood for that, although I enjoyed the more classic designs for the characters.)
Database maintenance
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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!
Babylon 5 fic: Dedicated
Oct. 22nd, 2025 12:03 amsholioMore B5 fic! This is one that I wrote some time ago, but haven't posted mostly because I was completely stuck for a title, until the right one fell into my lap. (I'm honestly delighted with how the titles for this little series have been working out; they're coming out so nicely multi-layered.)
Dedicated (1600 wds, gen, mostly G'Kar)
This is a follow-up to Devotional, the one I wrote a while back in which Londo reads G'Kar's book, post-canon. When I wrote that, I liked the idea that G'kar at some point gets a chance to read Londo's annotations in his book ... so that's what this is.
Dedicated (1600 wds, gen, mostly G'Kar)
This is a follow-up to Devotional, the one I wrote a while back in which Londo reads G'Kar's book, post-canon. When I wrote that, I liked the idea that G'kar at some point gets a chance to read Londo's annotations in his book ... so that's what this is.
Whumptober Day 20: Fancy Event (Murderbot)
Oct. 20th, 2025 11:39 pmsholioYet another instance of the Whumptober prompts basically being used for creative inspiration, but not really whump as such.
I feel this works equally well for TV-verse (future) or bookverse (probably post-System Collapse, but it could be somewhere between Fugitive Telemetry and Network Effect).
No. 20: "That's New."
Symptomatic | Fancy Event | Resignation
( 450 wds under the cut )
I feel this works equally well for TV-verse (future) or bookverse (probably post-System Collapse, but it could be somewhere between Fugitive Telemetry and Network Effect).
No. 20: "That's New."
Symptomatic | Fancy Event | Resignation
( 450 wds under the cut )
Whumptober Day 13: Forced Retirement (Biggles)
Oct. 20th, 2025 10:31 pmsholioI return to Whumptober! Obviously the days are completely off at this point, but I'm doing a bit of catch-up.
No. 13: “How dull is it to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished.”
Never Enough | Insignia | Forced Retirement
Biggles & EvS, late in canon (600 wds)
Also posted on Tumblr.
( 600 wds under the cut )
No. 13: “How dull is it to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished.”
Never Enough | Insignia | Forced Retirement
Biggles & EvS, late in canon (600 wds)
Also posted on Tumblr.
( 600 wds under the cut )
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.