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([personal profile] muccamukk posting in [community profile] 3weeks4dreamwidth Apr. 25th, 2026 02:42 pm)
I ran this a few years ago, and thought I'd go again: one card drawn per day and posted with description and interpretation, comments open for all fanworks in all fandoms.

Check out my Three Weeks for Dreamwidth tag to see the first card this year, and all the cards from 2022.
Six of Pentacles )

What is this about? )

There's another really cool tarot meme here:

The Mystical Dream Tarot & Citadel Oracle
Prompt Meme

Open to all fanworks. Come play with us!
Many modern cars and trucks come with sealed "lifetime" transmission filters that supposedly never need service, but there's a hidden catch.

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([personal profile] rachelmanija Apr. 25th, 2026 01:47 pm)


This is the first book I've read by Tim Pratt. I had somehow gotten the impression that they wrote very highbrow, abstract sf that I probably wouldn't enjoy. I have no idea where that came from because this novel, which I tried because of the delightful premise, is completely not that and I enjoyed it very much.

Zax Delatree, a social worker/mediator from a utopian post-scarcity world, develops a condition where he travels to a random other world every time he sleeps. Through a lot of trial and error, he also discovers that he can take with him items on his person, and also other people if he's touching them when he falls asleep. If they're asleep too, they will arrive fine. If they're not, they arrive insane. ("The Jaunt" is one of many spottable influences.) Here's Zax and his companion, Minna, explaining their situation:

"Do you know the word 'multiverse?' [...] We're travelers, sort of. Sort of explorers. And sort of refugees."

"If this is true, the implications are immense."

"The implications are also very small and also personal," said Minna.


This is the most charming and heartfelt novel I've read in a while. It's mostly a picaresque, with Zax and Minna (and assorted friends and pursuing enemies) visiting all sorts of colorful other worlds, exploring and surviving and trying to be of use. The many worlds are great, I loved Zax and Minna and the friends they meet, and it's full of sense of wonder and hopefulness and people being kind under extremely difficult circumstances. I also liked that Zax and Minna are friends who are explicitly not romantically or sexually involved with each other.

There is a sequel, Prison of Sleep, which I have ordered.
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([personal profile] cmcmck Apr. 25th, 2026 08:57 pm)
The palace:



More pics: )
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([personal profile] settiai Apr. 25th, 2026 03:20 pm)
I've been trying to get my mother to watch The Mighty Nein for a while, and I finally got her to start this morning by volunteering to stay on the phone with her while she watched the first episode. She's one of those people who likes to talk constantly throughout when watching something new, asking questions and the like, so I sucked it up and stayed on the phone with her even though I'm the opposite and hate talking while watching something.

Then she decided to watch just one more episode. And then one more after that. And, well, you get the picture.

... yeah, she's five episodes in now, and the only reason she's not further along is because my father came in for lunch so she had to take a break for a bit. The rate she's going, she'll be finished with the whole season by later today.

Branch: refs/heads/main Home: https://github.com/dreamwidth/dreamwidth Commit: 94382a85a692de7e4c9184cc808301b916ab406d https://github.com/dreamwidth/dreamwidth/commit/94382a85a692de7e4c9184cc808301b916ab406d Author: Mark Smith mark@dreamwidth.org Date: 2026-04-25 (Sat, 25 Apr 2026)

Changed paths: M bin/search-tool M cgi-bin/DW/Task/SearchCopier.pm

Log Message:


search-tool/SearchCopier: depth-based dispatch, skip controls, timestamped logs

bin/search-tool import-all: - Pace dispatches against SQS queue depth instead of a fixed inter-job sleep. Default cap is --max-depth 100; when local-tracked depth hits the cap, the dispatcher waits for SQS-reported drain. Reconciliation with the real ApproximateNumberOfMessages happens every 50 dispatches and is logged when drift exceeds 20. - Keep a small per-dispatch sleep (50ms) as a cushion against ApproximateNumberOfMessages staleness — the real depth can lag behind the local counter, and without a sleep we can overshoot the cap in tight loops. - Fix queuedepth: a queue with 0 visible messages was being treated as "no depth signal" because '0' is falsy; use defined-check. - Show MAX(userid) up front for ETA scope (PK-index lookup, vs COUNT(*) which would scan). - Timestamp every log line "[YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS] ...". Progress lines emit current count, userid position, jobs/min, ETA duration, local depth. Wait/resume transitions log the wait duration. Final line reports total elapsed.

cgi-bin/DW/Task/SearchCopier.pm: - [profile] lj::SKIP_SEARCH_IMPORT: list of journalids to short-circuit. Checked at the top of work(), so it applies to all task types — full recopies, chunks, single-item updates. Adding a journalid drains any queued chunks for that journal fast (workers immediately return COMPLETED for them) so the operator can defer specific large journals while the rest of an import-all run progresses. - $LJ::SEARCH_MAX_COMMENT_RECOPY: limit for the comment recopy pass. In copy_comment's mass-dispatch path, if MAX(jtalkid) for the journal exceeds this value, the comment recopy is skipped (entries still process). Unset means no limit.

Both are additive config options; defaults are unset so prior behavior is unchanged until an operator opts in.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) noreply@anthropic.com

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goodbyebird: Wheel of Time: Aviendha on a peach background, haloed by the moon. (WoT wetlander nonsense)
([personal profile] goodbyebird posting in [community profile] 3weeks4dreamwidth Apr. 25th, 2026 08:35 pm)
three Weeks For Dreamwidth tarot Pulls written atop a random spread of RWS cards

Putting up a post for anyone who might want to offer or request readings (free of charge) at [community profile] tarot.

(I've also previously put up a collection of tarot memes - some general, some collection focused - in case folks are looking to post about tarot a bit more during the event ♥)
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([personal profile] carodee posting in [community profile] little_details Apr. 25th, 2026 12:58 pm)
Sadly, my experience with libraries at that time was just wandering the stacks and taking out interesting books. I vaguely remember using a microfiche once, for example, and all I remember is you have to turn the knob the opposite direction of what you're viewing. Research is a foreign land to me.

The googling I've done tells me that this year was smack dab in the middle of converting to computer use from old style card catalogues, etc. but no information on how a person goes about doing research. I would love to have a helpful librarian character too.

This is for an exchange fic so I'm putting the rest under a cut. Please don't click if you requested a canon set in the 80s in a current exchange. Thank you. Read more... )

Any help in how this would work or a website that has this research finding information would be very appreciated.

Edited to Add: Thanks for the suggestions so far but I actually need to have my character do some research beyond phone books for the story to work. What I'm getting is libraries might still? be using card catalogues rather than early computers but how would magazines and trade journals be listed in the card catalogue so that a specific company could be researched? Thank you for any suggestions. They do spark my imagination for adding to the scene.

ETA2: Thanks to everyone for their suggestions. I have what I need now. This community is a great resource.
Hi!

I've been embarking on a project to archive the Jrockyaoi LiveJournal community, which centered around RPF of Japanese rock/visual kei musicians, and as I've been doing the archiving, I've been noticing a lot of things! Overarching trends, fandom culture stuff, funny lines in fics, all of these that I wanted to share with people!

Even if you don't know who any of these guys are that I'll namedrop, if you're interested in Livejournal fandom culture, anime fandom culture, or RPF fandoms and how they operate, I'd really love my posts to spark discussion (and to maybe vkeipill some people...)

If this sounds like something you'd be into, here's my first post!
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