Almost 20 Monkey Island fic recs

Oct. 28th, 2025 11:48 pm
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Some of this is very old stuff (like, 20 years old in some cases) I found digging around in searches on LiveJournal and InsaneJournal, and a bonus one on FFN of even older vintage than that; also including some current stuff from this half of this year. Ranging all over the place in content and style--adventure, humor, friendship, whump, angst--and featuring a whole bunch of folks from Carla to Voodoo Lady. Read more... )

BTW, does anyone know why the "userhead" for AO3 profiles hasn't been loading lately?

fic recs: MST3K, HHG, Rocky Horror

Oct. 28th, 2025 09:55 pm
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Roll Opening Credits by [archiveofourown.org profile] sleepymarvel
Fandom: MST3K
Characters: Joel, Crow, Tom, GPC
Rating: General
Words: 2238

Author's summary: Joel's first moments on the satellite and the five stages of grief.
Author's notes: Takes place during the first few weeks Joel is in space.
Author's warnings: None
Additional tags: Five Stages of Grief, Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Character Study

My comment: "I like the device of the stages of grief. Neat idea."

Quote:
Joel sits on the floor in the center of the bridge and decides he won't cooperate. He'll wait until everything returns to normal. He'll wait till Dr. Forrester explains exactly what's going on. There has to be an explanation.

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Transexual, Transylvania by [archiveofourown.org profile] atrovel
Fandom: Rocky Horror Picture Show, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Pairing: Frank N. Furter/Everyone, Frank N. Furter/Arthur Dent
Rating: Teen
Words: 2523

Author's summary: Arthur Dent meets an alien he can actually sort of relate to.
Author's notes: i doubt this appeals to anyone except myself. it doesn’t really matter though, because myself is who i wrote it for. (also i haven’t brushed up on my h2g2 knowledge in quite a while so apologies for any inaccuracies or mischaracterization! frank on the other hand i have no excuse for i’m just not that great at writing him i think)
Author's warnings: None
Additional tags: Post Rocky Horror-Canon, Except Frank didn’t die, Crack Crossover, Crack Treated Seriously, Light Angst, Hurt/Comfort, but only kind of, Unexpected Bonding, I don’t know what this is, Frank is Zaphod’s ex-situationship, Bisexual Freak Ford Prefect, Frank just went back to Transexual instead of being killed

My comment: "Neat concept. I quite like it. From what I remember of Rocky Horror, I think you nailed Frank's tone of speaking, like that he made Arthur's name sound "thick and sticky"."

Quote:
Arthur perked up, not unlike a dog upon hearing the front door opening. “I’m sorry, did you say Earth?”

“Yes.” Frank looked at him. “Tiny blue-green planet. Fun little people with all these silly rules. Fascinating culture, really, because it’s ridiculous how-“


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On the 125th Story by [archiveofourown.org profile] Random_Guise
Fandom: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Characters: Arthur, Benjy Mouse, Frankie Mouse
Rating: General
Words: 2439

Author's summary: Arthur Dent has another encounter with Benjy and Frankie Mouse shortly after arriving with his group at Milliways. I don't own these characters, and even if I did I would still follow good advice and Don't Panic. Written as my 125th story (at the time).
Author's notes: For my 125th story, a tale that ends up ON the 125th story, with a few stops at earlier stories along the way. The building has a bit of inspiration from the Heinlein story "...and He Built a Crooked House".
Author's warnings: None

My comment: "Good one, very Adamsesque tone!"

Quote:
"That's the easy part. We've brought you to a special building; you're in the basement of a building 125 stories tall" Benjy explained. "Actually, none of the floors exist together but thanks to an extension into the fourth spacial dimension…"
"…it's amazing what you save on property tax by doing it that way…" Frankie interjected.

Database maintenance

Oct. 25th, 2025 08:42 am
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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

Oct. 20th, 2025 10:11 am
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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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