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alierak ([personal profile] alierak) wrote in [site community profile] dw_maintenance2025-10-20 10:11 am

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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askerian ([personal profile] askerian) wrote2025-10-19 09:16 pm

Battlefield Terra sort of, really messy summary

hello! hope youre doing well!! im on a bit of a homestuck kick lately with the animated pilot coming out and all i started rereading all my old fav fics. battlefield terra is still so amazing after all these years! i forgot how funny it was at parts and how the emotional or serious bits were such gut punches, and gamkar reunion arghhh. still hits right! i know beens been a damn long time, and i hope im not coming off as pushy, but i hope youll come back and give us a summary of what would have happened next. or not, no pressure! anyway thanks for writing 10/10 will read again!



hey, thank you. :)
i've been meaning to write the summary for BT for years and it keeps eating all my spoons. idk if you've seen this post which has the next chapter's first scene (fallout from the kiss and preparation for battle) but then i got bogged down in battle stuff. there was some vriska shenanigans VS karkat/john mindmeld and it was so damn hard to convey properly.
it's been so long now that i don't really remember any details. it's not like MotDP where i have the last two-three chapters plotted out pretty dang tight and know exactly where it ends. if i had kept going, BT would have been at a minimum 300k long (more likely to be 500-600k considering the chapters kept doing the accordion on me) and the later arcs were very "handwave it happens somehow".
i'm looking through my notes though and will paste them under there


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slashmarks ([personal profile] slashmarks) wrote2025-10-18 06:35 am