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ABC fics!

I've been seeing this meme around a lot, so let me revive my dw for five minutes just to do it. :D

How many letters of the alphabet have you used for starting a fic title? One fic per line, 'A' and 'The' do not count for 'A' and 'T'.

I'm only doing one fandom (Guardian and Guardian RPF) because I can. :D I didn't look at any art until I did all the letters, and then I added art for the two letters that didn't have fics (J and V). (And whenever there were options to choose Zhubai, I chose Zhubai, ngl. :D Many letters had 5+ fics to choose from btw, asdfhdjkl;)

I have nothing for U (I have no idea how, it's such a useful letter, and now I want to name a fic un[something] asap ;D), X (even though I've possibly started actual fics with 'Xiao Bai' or 'Xiao Wei', but not titles) and Z (I have definitely started fics with 'Zhao Yunlan' and possibly 'Zhu Yilong' too). (I'm getting a kick out of the fact that these four names are 4 out of 4 of my blorbos. :D)

So 23/26! And now onto the actual list:

A - As My Fingers Tremble (Zhubai, E, ~2K words)
B - But I Know Where to Start (Zhubai, M, ~1K words)
C - Caught You (drama Weilan, E, ~200 words)
D - Do You Want Me to Mean It? (Zhubai, G, ~1K words)
E - Emphatic No (novel Weilan & Daqing, T, 300 words)
F - Five More Minutes (Zhubai, G, ~700 words)
G - Gods Gone Wild (novel Kunlun/Zhao Yunlan, E, ~700 words)
H - How Do You Want Me? (Zhubai, E, 300 words)
I - I Look Over at You and See Sunshine (Zhubai, T, ~900 words)
J - Just Come Home (no fic -> honorary art; novel Weilan, G)
K - Kissing It Better (Zhubai, E, ~2K words)
L - Late (Zhubai, G, 200 words)
M - Match Made in Science (Lin Jing/Ye Zun, G, ~300 words)
N - No Coming Back From That (Zhubai, T, ~400 words)
O - Only Ever You (drama Weilan, E, ~2K words)
P - Poems on Your Skin (drama Weilan, E, ~2K words)
Q - A Quiet Celebration (Zhubai, T, ~300 words)
R - Ruby Insides (novel/drama Weilan, M, 200 words)
S - So Much More Delicious (Zhubai, M, ~400 words)
T - Taking What's (Not) Mine (Weilanzun, E, ~1,5K words)
U
V - Very Lucky (no fic -> honorary art; Zhubai, G)
W - When Dreams Come True (Zhubai, T, 300 words)
X
Y - You Melt Like Sugar (Zhubai, M, ~400 words)
Z

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!

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LJ Idol Wheel of Chaos — Prompt 13 — Happiness pump

( The alarm started going off at exactly two thirty-five in the afternoon )

This was written for the new season of

therealljidol, Wheel of Chaos! If you liked my entry, please consider voting for me or any of the other amazing contestants. You can find all the entries here. Looking for the voting post on Tuesday night!

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.

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yuletide

Yuletide letter 2025

Hi, person writing me a Yuletide gift! Thank you in advance! I am already delighted. I'm going to put a little bit of additional information here in case you find that helpful, but I promise I am overall very easily pleased and every time I open a story that's for me I clap my hands together like a happy toddler. I mostly write these because I always want to know about my recipient, to be honest. Maybe you do too. Either way, I hope you have a fantastic time.

( general things about me )

Requests:

( Remember You Will Die – Eden Robins )

( The Trials of Gabriel Ward = Sally Smith )

( Cyclist Friend Explains Necessity of $35 Socks – The Onion )

( All of Us Murderers = KJ Charles )