[Challenge #197: Metanoia] The Mechanisms: "Change of Mind"
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vocab_drabblesTitle: Change of Mind
Fandom: The Mechanisms
Author:trashburgersblair
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 100
Characters: Jonny d'Ville
Warnings: Major character death, blood, murder
Summary: Jonny d'Ville changes his mind on his least favorite death.
( Change of Mind )
Fandom: The Mechanisms
Author:
trashburgersblair Rating: Teen
Word Count: 100
Characters: Jonny d'Ville
Warnings: Major character death, blood, murder
Summary: Jonny d'Ville changes his mind on his least favorite death.
( Change of Mind )
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dw_maintenanceQuick note that post-by-email and comment-by-email is (sometimes?) failing silently without actually posting right now! I'm pretty sure this is related to last night's shenanigans and will be fixed once Mark can finish the full fix for it, which he's working on, but if you've posted or replied by email in the last 24 hours, fish it out of your sent folder to check if it posted!
EDIT: This should be fixed as of around 7AM EDT! We *believe* everything that was stuck in the plumbing has been sent along to your journal or the comment thread it was meant for; it's definitely not where it was stuck anymore, at least.
EDIT: This should be fixed as of around 7AM EDT! We *believe* everything that was stuck in the plumbing has been sent along to your journal or the comment thread it was meant for; it's definitely not where it was stuck anymore, at least.
June: Historical AU
1 Jun 2026 06:01 pmtrope_mod posting in trope_of_the_monthThe theme for June is Historical AU; i.e. what characters' lives might be like if they lived in the past (or further into the past) rather than their canon era.
Posting guidelines are here, and if you have any recs or prompts you'd like to share, you can leave them in the comments using the templates below:
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This theme will last until 30th June.
Posting guidelines are here, and if you have any recs or prompts you'd like to share, you can leave them in the comments using the templates below:
For recs:
For prompts:
This theme will last until 30th June.
[Challenge #196: Tangential] Friends: 'I've Traveled All This Way for Something'
31 May 2026 09:09 pmbut_can_i_be_trusted posting in vocab_drabblesTitle: 'I've Traveled All This Way for Something'
Fandom: Friends
Author:but_can_i_be_trusted
Rating: G
Word Count: 100
Characters/Pairings: Rachel Greene, Phoebe Buffay
Warnings: None
Notes: Crossposted tolyricaltitles
Summary: Phoebe stared in mild displeasure at the pile of shopping bags that she and Rachel had just set down.
( I've Traveled All This Way for Something )
Fandom: Friends
Author:
but_can_i_be_trustedRating: G
Word Count: 100
Characters/Pairings: Rachel Greene, Phoebe Buffay
Warnings: None
Notes: Crossposted to
lyricaltitlesSummary: Phoebe stared in mild displeasure at the pile of shopping bags that she and Rachel had just set down.
( I've Traveled All This Way for Something )
but_can_i_be_trusted posting in vocab_drabblesTitle: 'When the Lights Fade Out, All the Sinners Crawl'
Fandom: Original Fiction
Author:but_can_i_be_trusted
Rating: G
Word Count: 100
Characters/Pairings: Original
Warnings: None
Notes: Crossposted tolyricaltitles
Summary: Late at night, with the sun ages away from rising, they come out.
( When the Lights Fade Out, All the Sinners Crawl )
Fandom: Original Fiction
Author:
but_can_i_be_trustedRating: G
Word Count: 100
Characters/Pairings: Original
Warnings: None
Notes: Crossposted to
lyricaltitlesSummary: Late at night, with the sun ages away from rising, they come out.
( When the Lights Fade Out, All the Sinners Crawl )
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31 May 2026 10:00 pmdenise posting in dw_maintenanceRobby has managed to put in a temporary fix for the site errors and things failing to refresh or not showing up where they should! The permanent fix is going to need Mark's experience, and unfortunately -- seriously, this literally never fails -- Mark has been on an international flight all day, because of course he has. (Never. Fails. He and I are not allowed to both take vacation at once.)
The site will work just fine with the temporary fix in place, things just might be a little slow here and there. We'll keep you updated.
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31 May 2026 08:59 pmdenise posting in dw_maintenanceWe're aware of site traffic issues and are working to fix them for the people who are having problems! (The tactics the damn bot traffic uses are endlessly shifting, and they're really good at looking like real traffic, sigh.)
Testing needed in advance of code push!
28 May 2026 04:10 pmdenise posting in dw_maintenanceIt's been a while since we've done a full code push rather than just hotfixes for bugs, so we are well overdue! Depending on availability, we're aiming to do one sometime soon; we'll let you know specifics once we've worked out good timing for everyone who needs to be available.
However! The reason it's been so long is we kept trying to get some of the stuff that's pending to "really finished" instead of just "mostly finished", and then we once again looked around and went "oh no, this is a really big code push with a lot of changes". Those make us nervous, because while we do a lot of testing ourselves, y'all are really creative in how you use the site and we inevitably find a bunch of edge cases when we let you loose on new code with your real-world data!
So, if folks have some spare time in the next few days, it would be a huge help if you could spend half an hour or so using the site the same way you normally do but with the "Site-Wide Canary" beta features flag turned on. Canary mode is a sort of "live testing" mode: it's your real data, but running the most up-to-date code.
Canary mode always does have a few glitches -- there may be missing text strings or errors about missing database properties, which is a limitation of how we run it. We don't need to know about those, but anything else weird that you run into, leave a comment with what you were trying to do and the error message you got.
I'll repeat that the "here be dragons" caution that's on the beta features page: some things may be broken, so don't use it for when you're doing something important. But a few more eyeballs on it before the push will help the push go more smoothly for everyone.
For folks who want to concentrate on what's changing, we haven't finished the second code tour of what's going to be in this push, but the ffirst one has a good chunk of what's going to be going live. (We'll get the second half done ASAP!)
However! The reason it's been so long is we kept trying to get some of the stuff that's pending to "really finished" instead of just "mostly finished", and then we once again looked around and went "oh no, this is a really big code push with a lot of changes". Those make us nervous, because while we do a lot of testing ourselves, y'all are really creative in how you use the site and we inevitably find a bunch of edge cases when we let you loose on new code with your real-world data!
So, if folks have some spare time in the next few days, it would be a huge help if you could spend half an hour or so using the site the same way you normally do but with the "Site-Wide Canary" beta features flag turned on. Canary mode is a sort of "live testing" mode: it's your real data, but running the most up-to-date code.
Canary mode always does have a few glitches -- there may be missing text strings or errors about missing database properties, which is a limitation of how we run it. We don't need to know about those, but anything else weird that you run into, leave a comment with what you were trying to do and the error message you got.
I'll repeat that the "here be dragons" caution that's on the beta features page: some things may be broken, so don't use it for when you're doing something important. But a few more eyeballs on it before the push will help the push go more smoothly for everyone.
For folks who want to concentrate on what's changing, we haven't finished the second code tour of what's going to be in this push, but the ffirst one has a good chunk of what's going to be going live. (We'll get the second half done ASAP!)