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Mark Smith ([staff profile] mark) wrote in [site community profile] dw_maintenance2026-03-14 01:04 pm

Performing some traffic maintenance today

Happy 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.

mific: (A pen and ink)
mific ([personal profile] mific) wrote in [community profile] drawesome2026-03-13 08:45 pm

Ilya's Tattoo - for challenge #76

Title: Ilya's Tattoo on AO3
Artist: [personal profile] mific
Rating: Gen
Fandom: Heated Rivalry
Characters/Pairings: Shane Hollander
Notes: No warnings apply. Made in Procreate for the tattoo-style art challenge. The first of a pair.

see AO3 for details


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yourlibrarian ([personal profile] yourlibrarian) wrote in [community profile] common_nature2026-03-12 03:22 pm
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Hole in the Sky Sunset



Loved the look of this sunset through a cloud gap the other night.

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bookscorpion ([personal profile] bookscorpion) wrote in [community profile] common_nature2026-03-11 04:24 pm

March: Pusekätzchen

I went out for a little walk this morning and found the first willow catkins - Pusekätzchen! They are an important flower for bees at this time of year, not just for honey bees but for solitary bees, bumblebees and solitary wasps.

catkins
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bookscorpion ([personal profile] bookscorpion) wrote in [community profile] common_nature2026-03-07 03:23 pm

Planet Crocuscant


a small patch of purple crocuses

The path to the park is once again Planet Crocuscant:

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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote in [community profile] common_nature2026-03-06 09:28 pm

Photos: House Yard

Today was unseasonably warm and sunny, so I took pictures around the yard. The first few are from indoors, then the rest are the house yard. (See the savanna.)

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yourlibrarian ([personal profile] yourlibrarian) wrote in [community profile] common_nature2026-03-05 08:16 pm
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Star Sunset and Flare + Ducks



Perhaps because we were seeing it at a rippling distance, when I looked out at the lake the other night, the ball of fire that was the setting sun seemed to be reflected as a five pointed star. Don't know how clearly that came out here but I liked the photo regardless.

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