Admin Post: Community Check-In for April 2026
Apr. 30th, 2026 04:48 pm
Did you sign up for or take part in any fandom activities in April, or have you been working on any personal art projects? Are you currently trying to meet a deadline? Feel free to share upcoming art challenges that have got you excited, any frustrations you've been experiencing, possible goals for the next month, and so on.
Reminders:
- MerMay begins tomorrow!
- Our community Challenge #77: Windows and Openings continues until the end of May. :)
Back from Vienna
Apr. 26th, 2026 09:19 am We went on vacation this month and it was so wonderful! We did a group tour of Vienna, Austria, our first time doing something like that, and I have to say, it was really nice to have someone else organize the trip. We had a great time. Learned about the Hapsburgs, learned a lot about Mozart and Haydn, went to an opera, saw some of the countryside, had lunch on the Danube, saw a fantastic minerals collection at the Natural History museum, saw so much good art, ate really good food. It was really fun.
Farewell? - challenge #77
Apr. 26th, 2026 05:45 pmTitle: Farewell? on AO3
Artist:
mific
Rating: Teen - NSFW (bare breasts)
Fandom: Minoan culture
Characters/Pairings: Minoan woman
Notes: Made in Procreate for #77, the Windows and Openings challenge, and as a memorial and tribute to Ny (
minoanmiss).
Artist:
Rating: Teen - NSFW (bare breasts)
Fandom: Minoan culture
Characters/Pairings: Minoan woman
Notes: Made in Procreate for #77, the Windows and Openings challenge, and as a memorial and tribute to Ny (
Search maintenance
Apr. 22nd, 2026 09:19 amHappy Wednesday!
I'm taking search offline sometime today to upgrade the server to a new instance type. It should be down for a day or so -- sorry for the inconvenience. If you're curious, the existing search machine is over 10 years old and was starting to accumulate a decade of cruft...!
Also, apparently these older machines cost more than twice what the newer ones cost, on top of being slower. Trying to save a bit of maintenance and cost, and hopefully a Wednesday is okay!
Edited: The other cool thing is that this also means that the search index will be effectively realtime afterwards... no more waiting a few minutes for the indexer to catch new content.
