Code push shortly
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dw_maintenanceOlá de Lisboa! (I'm in Lisbon right now for work...)
Thank you everybody who has tested on canary - I'm about to push the code up to stable. I know that not everything has been tested and there's a lot in this deploy, so I expect some things to break or be weird. We have ported a lot more of the "older" pages to the newer formats, so there will be some UI changes in a few places, but it shouldn't be anything too major.
Watch for: One thing I know will require tuning, we now have added rate limits (which basically allows us to control how rapidly DW pages are loaded.) This is a protection mostly designed against bots, but any time in my career I've rolled out new rate limits, I've learned someone is hitting them and they have to be tuned. So if you see them, please let me know!
Anyway please do comment and I'll work to fix things today. We also have a rollback ready in case we need to (and I'll be honest, I expect we may need to... we really should do more frequent deploys.)
Known Issues
- Fixed: Search has gone walkabout.
- Fixed: Some UI weirdness with Manage Tags.
- Fixed: Login redirects are not working.
- Fixed: Login page sometimes returning 'invalid form submission.'
- Fixed: Rename keywords checkbox on icons page also gone walkabout.
- Fixed: Uploading large icon files erroring / not going to the image editor.
As always, thank you for your patience and supporting our scrappy little service!
Where's the Joke in Queer Comedy? (Meandering Thoughts on an OFMD BTS Detail)
Jun. 20th, 2026 09:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
delphiThis is just me poking at my own (negative) reaction to something that was shared about a joke in the Our Flag Means Death finale that didn't fully make it onscreen. I know it goes without saying around here, but this isn't a slam on the person who shared it—I just have continuing thoughts I keep chewing on about the show and about some of the production details that I think speak to larger trends.
( Queer as in [insert punchline here] )
( Queer as in [insert punchline here] )
2026 Our Flag Means Death Big Bang
Jun. 16th, 2026 01:33 pmdelphi(Also plugged this over at ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
ourflagmeansgay.)
The 2026 OFMD Big Bang is underway!
Author sign-ups are open until June 30th, artist sign-ups are open until August 22nd, and beta sign-ups will remain open throughout the challenge. More information is available on the challenge's FAQ and schedule.
I am writing a thing for this, which I can't talk about publicly (because it has to be anonymous when artists are choosing stories to create something for), but I am having a lot of fun with it so far. I really struggle with longer works, by which I mean anything above 500 words, but I am full of ideas and determination. I hope anyone else interested considers joining in.
ourflagmeansgay.)The 2026 OFMD Big Bang is underway!
The OFMD Big Bang is an annual writing challenge for the Our Flag Means Death fandom.
Authors will complete stories of 10,000 words or more over the course of four months, and these stories are claimed by artists who create works to go along with the story.
Final stories and their accompanying artwork will be posted over the course of several weeks (depending on the number of works). At the end of the bang, all story links will be compiled into a masterpost.
The OFMD Big Bang event is about collaboration and shared delight - taking joy in our shared love of Our Flag Means Death and its celebration of the value of loving, kind community and found family! We welcome you whether you are an author, an artist, or simply a lover of beauty who fancies fine fics and art.
Author sign-ups are open until June 30th, artist sign-ups are open until August 22nd, and beta sign-ups will remain open throughout the challenge. More information is available on the challenge's FAQ and schedule.
I am writing a thing for this, which I can't talk about publicly (because it has to be anonymous when artists are choosing stories to create something for), but I am having a lot of fun with it so far. I really struggle with longer works, by which I mean anything above 500 words, but I am full of ideas and determination. I hope anyone else interested considers joining in.
Post and Jam: Push by Moist [1994]
Jun. 15th, 2026 03:10 pmdelphiFandom 50 #18
Look, sometimes all there is to say is "This was extremely formative to me in my early adolescence, and I think you can all tell why."
I also distinctly remember that when I bought this album, my older sister—then in high school, very attached to her identity as a prep—informed me that if I kept listening to this kind of stuff, people would think I was a skid. By the time I was her age, I had a shaved head and a face full of metal, and my wardrobe was 95% black and 5% safety pins, so she wasn't wrong. Happily, by that point, no one I knew said "skid" anymore. Or "prep" for that matter.
Push by Moist
Look, sometimes all there is to say is "This was extremely formative to me in my early adolescence, and I think you can all tell why."
I also distinctly remember that when I bought this album, my older sister—then in high school, very attached to her identity as a prep—informed me that if I kept listening to this kind of stuff, people would think I was a skid. By the time I was her age, I had a shaved head and a face full of metal, and my wardrobe was 95% black and 5% safety pins, so she wasn't wrong. Happily, by that point, no one I knew said "skid" anymore. Or "prep" for that matter.
Push by Moist
Post and Jam: Afternoons & Coffeespoons by Crash Test Dummies [1993]
Jun. 9th, 2026 06:58 pmdelphiFandom 50 #17
It's not an exaggeration to say that my entire fifty-song list hinged on my choice for 1993. This was the year that had the greatest number of favourite songs by favourite bands vying for a single space, and whatever I slotted in had a domino effect spanning almost forty years as I prioritized finding other spots for the bands that didn't win out.
Was 1993 just a stellar year for Canadian music? Possibly. I think in general there was a maturing alternative sound in the air, not just in the mainstream breakthrough of grunge but people doing interesting things with folk, country, adult contemporary, and what used to be called college rock. There was a lot of accessibly different stuff out there getting radio play.
But I think it's mostly just that I was nine years old in 1993, had my first job (delivering the Pennysaver), and had the money to buy cassettes for myself for the first time. I had a hand-me-down Walkman too, and even though I'd got it because the tape player part had stopped working, it still functioned as a portable FM radio. My sister was old enough to have a proper after-school job, and she brought even more new music into the house that I was eager to borrow. Totally with permission, every time.
In short, 1993 was the year I started discovering my own music, and nothing hits like that.
Settling on Crash Test Dummies was partly a practical choice based on the logic puzzle I inadvertently created for myself and partly because God Shuffled His Feet just still thoroughly delights me as an album. And this song in particular seemed a fitting one to share thirty-some years later in my life.
Afternoons & Coffeespoons by Crash Test Dummies
It's not an exaggeration to say that my entire fifty-song list hinged on my choice for 1993. This was the year that had the greatest number of favourite songs by favourite bands vying for a single space, and whatever I slotted in had a domino effect spanning almost forty years as I prioritized finding other spots for the bands that didn't win out.
Was 1993 just a stellar year for Canadian music? Possibly. I think in general there was a maturing alternative sound in the air, not just in the mainstream breakthrough of grunge but people doing interesting things with folk, country, adult contemporary, and what used to be called college rock. There was a lot of accessibly different stuff out there getting radio play.
But I think it's mostly just that I was nine years old in 1993, had my first job (delivering the Pennysaver), and had the money to buy cassettes for myself for the first time. I had a hand-me-down Walkman too, and even though I'd got it because the tape player part had stopped working, it still functioned as a portable FM radio. My sister was old enough to have a proper after-school job, and she brought even more new music into the house that I was eager to borrow. Totally with permission, every time.
In short, 1993 was the year I started discovering my own music, and nothing hits like that.
Settling on Crash Test Dummies was partly a practical choice based on the logic puzzle I inadvertently created for myself and partly because God Shuffled His Feet just still thoroughly delights me as an album. And this song in particular seemed a fitting one to share thirty-some years later in my life.
Afternoons & Coffeespoons by Crash Test Dummies