Performing some traffic maintenance today
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dw_maintenanceHappy Saturday!
I'm going to be doing a little maintenance today. It will likely cause a tiny interruption of service (specifically for www.dreamwidth.org) on the order of 2-3 minutes while some settings propagate. If you're on a journal page, that should still work throughout!
If it doesn't work, the rollback plan is pretty quick, I'm just toggling a setting on how traffic gets to the site. I'll update this post if something goes wrong, but don't anticipate any interruption to be longer than 10 minutes even in a rollback situation.
not putting this behind a cut sorry
Mar. 6th, 2026 09:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
raisedbymooglesranting about the brand new war with Iran, just scroll if you're not here for that -
-look, if I said "the people in power have started a war with another country so they can commit a Mass Human Sacrifice to summon their god down to Earth in order to kick off the apocalypse, an event which they believe they will get to watch and laugh at from their vantage point in heaven," you would expect me to follow it up with "only these badly dressed teenagers and their dragon can stop them! Final Fantasy Fucktangular, coming to a mobile store near you!"
And yet this is exactly what is happening down here in the real world.
We really are living in the most spectacularly stupid timeline.
based on this news article for reference, you'll just have to disable javascript to read it
-look, if I said "the people in power have started a war with another country so they can commit a Mass Human Sacrifice to summon their god down to Earth in order to kick off the apocalypse, an event which they believe they will get to watch and laugh at from their vantage point in heaven," you would expect me to follow it up with "only these badly dressed teenagers and their dragon can stop them! Final Fantasy Fucktangular, coming to a mobile store near you!"
And yet this is exactly what is happening down here in the real world.
We really are living in the most spectacularly stupid timeline.
based on this news article for reference, you'll just have to disable javascript to read it
card pull
Mar. 5th, 2026 04:36 pmharpers_childHeart of Faerie literally fell off the wall on me, so I guess I'll do a pull.
This has been the messiest, most difficult shuffle of my life. Many more shuffles than usual until feeling ready. The actual deck didn't want to move nicely. In the end I did a few flip the deck over and shuffle face up until the cards that wanted to be picked were on top. The third card was third card down from the usual top. Weirdest shuffle of the year. Calling it now.
The Queen of Passage. The Speaker of Truth. Nameless card with a bunch of little mushroom guys.
I'm going to replace this deck with a random pack of cards one of these days. (This is a fond threat.)
Queen of Passage- surrender/transition/trust. inevitability of change. ask for help during times of transition. keep going.
Speaker of Truth- trust/acceptance/open heart. A "face" card and the second one talking about trust. hearing truth sometimes hurts. (truth plus lies equals lies.)
-> clarifying card - cut the deck and grabbed one -> Queen of Shadows - introspection / acknowledgement / balance. stop and look. whole self not just parts. what's being neglected? it's another truth card.
nameless little mushroom guys - a bunch of little mushroom guys hanging out. most of them look friendly. one has it's hands spread in possible invitation.
So what I'm getting from this is seek truth, look into the shadows and bring things in the light, and hang out with some weird little guys. ... Sure.
Thank you so much deck for insisting on being read, fighting the actual physical parts of reading, and then saying the same thing three different ways.
This has been the messiest, most difficult shuffle of my life. Many more shuffles than usual until feeling ready. The actual deck didn't want to move nicely. In the end I did a few flip the deck over and shuffle face up until the cards that wanted to be picked were on top. The third card was third card down from the usual top. Weirdest shuffle of the year. Calling it now.
The Queen of Passage. The Speaker of Truth. Nameless card with a bunch of little mushroom guys.
I'm going to replace this deck with a random pack of cards one of these days. (This is a fond threat.)
Queen of Passage- surrender/transition/trust. inevitability of change. ask for help during times of transition. keep going.
Speaker of Truth- trust/acceptance/open heart. A "face" card and the second one talking about trust. hearing truth sometimes hurts. (truth plus lies equals lies.)
-> clarifying card - cut the deck and grabbed one -> Queen of Shadows - introspection / acknowledgement / balance. stop and look. whole self not just parts. what's being neglected? it's another truth card.
nameless little mushroom guys - a bunch of little mushroom guys hanging out. most of them look friendly. one has it's hands spread in possible invitation.
So what I'm getting from this is seek truth, look into the shadows and bring things in the light, and hang out with some weird little guys. ... Sure.
Thank you so much deck for insisting on being read, fighting the actual physical parts of reading, and then saying the same thing three different ways.
(no subject)
Mar. 5th, 2026 04:18 pmharpers_childSignal boosting a research survey on how childhood experiences impact military based PTSD. Anonymous survey. Results talking about group statistics not specific people. PTSD can be officially diagnosed, suspected, or self-diagnosed. Please share the link around if you know anyone who would be a good fit.
https://uhcno.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0pmAUTlHNFID0KW
https://uhcno.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0pmAUTlHNFID0KW
ALIENS. ::does the hand thing::
Mar. 5th, 2026 01:10 pmraisedbymooglesAm watching Miniminuteman's Ancient Aliens Origins response/drinking game and I just realized that in Transformers!verse, all the Ancient Aliens guys would immediately pivot to "And those aliens were Autobots! :DDDD"
because anything relating to Autobots instantly gets attention and attention = money, like all conspiracy theories.
eventually Optimus Prime learns to tune that shit out 'cause they treat every denial like a confession, but every once in a while a TikTokker gets an angry quote from one of the younger/less even-keeled Autobots that they can turn into Content.
.........oh my god but the Decepticons though. Maybe a few of them start going "oh yeah, we built your pyramids" because they think it's funny, but at one point Megatron starts incorporating it into his propaganda because, hey, flesh creatures, we built all of your civilizations, obviously this means you can't do anything on your own and you should hand over your planet to us!!!! :DDDD (what do you mean you only believe that about the natives of Africa and the Americas, no you're all insignificant insects trust me)
because anything relating to Autobots instantly gets attention and attention = money, like all conspiracy theories.
eventually Optimus Prime learns to tune that shit out 'cause they treat every denial like a confession, but every once in a while a TikTokker gets an angry quote from one of the younger/less even-keeled Autobots that they can turn into Content.
.........oh my god but the Decepticons though. Maybe a few of them start going "oh yeah, we built your pyramids" because they think it's funny, but at one point Megatron starts incorporating it into his propaganda because, hey, flesh creatures, we built all of your civilizations, obviously this means you can't do anything on your own and you should hand over your planet to us!!!! :DDDD (what do you mean you only believe that about the natives of Africa and the Americas, no you're all insignificant insects trust me)
Fancake Theme for March: Siblings
Mar. 3rd, 2026 10:05 amrunpunkrun posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
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