AWS outage
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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.
Yuletide 2025 Dear Author letter
Oct. 19th, 2025 03:19 pmellen_fremedonDear Yuletide Author:
Thank you for writing a story for me! I love it already!
If you have a story in mind in any of the fandoms I requested, go for it--I will love pretty much anything for these sources. I love worldbuilding, I love character-focused fic, I love smut of all stripes, and I love gen. I want to read what you want to write.
In all of these fandoms, I am especially interested in any or all of the following:
--Nontraditional relationship dynamics and the way people find or build a niche for themselves in a world with strict rules--about gender and relationships and everything else.
--Seeing the characters deal with actual historical figures and events and inventions--ones offstage or coming up post-canon, or more detail on events during canon.
--Material culture: how they decorate their rooms, what they have for dinner, how they dress. These fandoms are all made for lavish descriptions of fashion--the men's no less than the women's!
If you are here as a pinch hitter: I'm so sorry. I have all historical fandoms this year. Fortunately they are all fairly short: two stand-alone novels, one film, and one TV series of 6 30-minute episodes. The one that will probably need the least amount of historical research is Mademoiselle de Maupin, which is extremely vague about what year or even what century it's set in.
One general DNW: Animal cruelty. I can handle non-graphic descriptions of hunting, butchery, or veterinary work, but please, nothing with an element of punishment or betrayal--no deliberate harm to animals by people they trust.
( Mademoiselle de Maupin - Théophile Gautier )
( Horace - George Sand )
( Quacks (TV) )
( Impromptu (1991) )
Thank you for writing a story for me! I love it already!
If you have a story in mind in any of the fandoms I requested, go for it--I will love pretty much anything for these sources. I love worldbuilding, I love character-focused fic, I love smut of all stripes, and I love gen. I want to read what you want to write.
In all of these fandoms, I am especially interested in any or all of the following:
--Nontraditional relationship dynamics and the way people find or build a niche for themselves in a world with strict rules--about gender and relationships and everything else.
--Seeing the characters deal with actual historical figures and events and inventions--ones offstage or coming up post-canon, or more detail on events during canon.
--Material culture: how they decorate their rooms, what they have for dinner, how they dress. These fandoms are all made for lavish descriptions of fashion--the men's no less than the women's!
If you are here as a pinch hitter: I'm so sorry. I have all historical fandoms this year. Fortunately they are all fairly short: two stand-alone novels, one film, and one TV series of 6 30-minute episodes. The one that will probably need the least amount of historical research is Mademoiselle de Maupin, which is extremely vague about what year or even what century it's set in.
One general DNW: Animal cruelty. I can handle non-graphic descriptions of hunting, butchery, or veterinary work, but please, nothing with an element of punishment or betrayal--no deliberate harm to animals by people they trust.
( Mademoiselle de Maupin - Théophile Gautier )
( Horace - George Sand )
( Quacks (TV) )
( Impromptu (1991) )
Dear Yuletide 2025 Author
Oct. 13th, 2025 11:09 amthefourthvineDear Yuletide Writer,
Hi!
I am going to provide you with all the details I can, because that is who I am as a person. Thank you so, so much for writing in one of these fandoms. See you on the 25th!
(And if you're not my writer, thank you for looking at my letter! I am entirely open to treats of any length.)
( Likes/DNWs and General Stuff )
( Between Silk and Cyanide -- Leo Marks, Leo Marks, Forest Yeo-Thomas )
( blink-182 )
( Blue Prince, Worldbuildling, Simon P. Jones )
( Nomads, Eileen Flax, Veronique Pommier )
Hi!
I am going to provide you with all the details I can, because that is who I am as a person. Thank you so, so much for writing in one of these fandoms. See you on the 25th!
(And if you're not my writer, thank you for looking at my letter! I am entirely open to treats of any length.)
( Likes/DNWs and General Stuff )
( Between Silk and Cyanide -- Leo Marks, Leo Marks, Forest Yeo-Thomas )
( blink-182 )
( Blue Prince, Worldbuildling, Simon P. Jones )
( Nomads, Eileen Flax, Veronique Pommier )