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Database 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!

AWS outage

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.

Current Mood: good
Current Music: The Dubliners - I'll Tell Me Ma

Entry tags:

FIC: Travelling Through the Sky (Firefly)

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.

Current Mood: merry

Entry tags:

Dear Yuletide Santa

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

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My tumblr: Tumblr

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My recs: Pinboard

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Again: thank you!!

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anr