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seleneheart

1. What have you recently finished reading?

Two Twisted Crowns by Rachel Gillig. Loved this one! Second (and last) book in The Shepherd King duology. Perfect autumn read as both books take place between the autumn equinox and winter solstice. Fantasy.

2. What are you currently reading?

Empire of Grass by Tad Williams. This will be in this category for a while, it's over 1000 pages long.

The Wild Huntress by Emily Lloyd-Jones. As I type out her last name, I realize why her book is set where it is, which is a fantasy version of medieval Wales.

The God of the Woods by Liz Moore. I'm reserving judgment.

3. What will you be reading next?
Hard to say. I do have a list of 'Want to Read' books that I'm working through. But I could potentially finish up the last Lily Adler mystery. I also have hard copies of The Spellshop and Six of Crows sitting on my shelf. Lots of possibilities!

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princessofgeeks

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seleneheart

I hiked up the trail beside the river yesterday morning. It was the first time I've had my hiking boots on since I broke my leg. The river hike was a good place to start because it is boardwalk most of the way. The morning was clear and cold, with frost that was driven away by the sun and mist on the river. The trail was covered in leaves with more drifting down.

The river was full of Canada geese, but here is the full list of birds that I heard:

Cedar waxwing

Northern cardinal

White-crowned sparrow

Red-bellied woodpecker

American crow

Blue jay

American goldfinch

American pipit*

Kildeer

Song sparrow

House sparrow

Common raven*

House finch

Tundra swan*

Canada goose

*I have never heard before, or I have never realized that I was hearing them.

I should get some actual birding binoculars so maybe I can *see* the birds next time.

My ankle held out pretty well, but I'm sore today. I haven't really pushed myself in a looong time.

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princessofgeeks

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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!

princessofgeeks

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princessofgeeks

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princessofgeeks

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It's time for another question thread!

The rules:

- You may ask any dev-related question you have in a comment. (It doesn't even need to be about Dreamwidth, although if it involves a language/library/framework/database Dreamwidth doesn't use, you will probably get answers pointing that out and suggesting a better place to ask.)
- You may also answer any question, using the guidelines given in To Answer, Or Not To Answer and in this comment thread.

princessofgeeks

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seleneheart

Last fall, I played Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom. I loved that the game play was a mixture of puzzle-solving and fighting, with the ability to find creative solutions to dealing with the bosses. I also liked that the game was non-linear to some extent. As opposed to previous Zelda games like Link's Awakening where everything was so linear and there was only one solution to each boss. Echoes of Wisdom is also relatively short compared to BotW or TotK (I have both of those).

I'm in the mood for something similar to Echoes of Wisdom. Any suggestions?

I have a Switch (original) and a PS5, so those are the platforms I can use. I don't have Steam.

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princessofgeeks

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dw_maintenance

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.

fenellaevangela

Hello, writer, and thank you for offering to write for one of my rare fandoms! It's always an exciting time when Yuletide rolls around each year <3 I've put this letter together to give you some ideas about what I might like for each of my requests, but do know that I'm extremely easy to please in exchanges and I really just want you to have a good time - if you enjoy writing it then I'm sure I'll enjoy reading it.

I'm fenellaevangela on AO3 and, if you want to poke around, lnich on tumblr. (Fair warning, about 98% of my posts in October were Hallowe'en related and might not help for inspiration, lol.) For any treaters out there, I do have gifts enabled on my account ✔️

I Do Not Want descriptions of mutilation, especially dismemberment, of people or animals. Other violence is fine. Thank you!

General Likes

I always enjoy a good AU, and that includes both canon divergence (like what if the characters' roles were reversed? Or what if someone made a different choice?) and true alternate realities - change the setting or the time period or the genre. I don't have particular prompts in the "Weird AU" vein this year, but if you have an idea then please go for it. I also love stories set around secrets! Characters keeping a secret together (trying to hide a relationship, for example, or conceal a crime) allows for such an interesting type of intimacy - having to rely and trust each other, sometimes when you don't or shouldn't want to - that I eat up. Or if one character accidentally or intentionally finds out someone else's secret, the implications can be so juicy to explore - are they shocked? Betrayed? What do they do with that information now? (Are they going to use it for good or evil?) Sometimes this fits quite nicely with another one of my likes, which is intense or complicated relationships. We're talking true ride-or-die relationships (that are tested), gut-wrenching betrayal, unexpected reconciliations, people who love each other but can't trust each other, lovers who become enemies, intimacy between two people that outsiders just can't understand, etc. Similarly, I'm fine with things like infidelity, incest, large age gaps, or unethical power dynamics, when the story digs into the characters' emotions or the implications that the relationship has for their day to day life.

Sexual content is absolutely welcome, if you like writing that kind of thing. Some things I enjoy in smut are sex pollen (especially if only one person is effected), breathplay/choking/asphyxiation, characters' first times together, and characters trying new kinks together. I'd rather not have a focus on bodily fluids/excretions during sex.

Some other tropes or plot elements I like include bodyswaps or bodysharing, 5 Things/5+1 fics, getting together/feelings realization, soulmates, time travel or time loops, holiday or anniversary celebrations, cryptozoology or paranormal themes, and casefic.

Feel free to write something inspired purely by my likes without fitting any of my specific story prompts!

Requests
( Spies are Forever, Little White Lie (Web Series), My Pet Brother, The Little Mermaid (2023), and The Gay Deceivers )

And that's the letter! Thank you again for matching with me, and have a happy Yuletide <3