Crazy Boys and Violence

Jun. 23rd, 2026 09:05 am
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Rogan: hey guys, let’s talk about violence in Crazy Boys!

it’s impossible for me to discuss without minor spoilers, so skip this if you want to be surprised! )

In summary: Crazy Boys is not about my attackers or what they did to me. It is about D and what he did WITH me, and thus I have chosen to write accordingly.

Code push shortly

Jun. 21st, 2026 01:50 pm
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Olá 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!

Furry Girlfriend Fashion

Jun. 16th, 2026 09:34 am
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Mori: summer is here! Rawlin shed her winter coat, but she still gets overheated a lot faster than the rest of us. And since she’s pretty solid about being female now, she’s being like “should I... start wearing shirts...?” Only to get trapped between “I like the idea fashionwise but UGH SO HOT AND UNCOMFORTABLE.” Read more... )

Triggers and Smoke Alarms

Jun. 16th, 2026 08:11 am
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(based on a conversation I was having with my friend elsewhere)

Rogan: Okay, so as time has gone on, I've grown to really dislike how people talk about triggers and heartbreak.

Read more... )
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(copied from my email, because good political news is good!)

We’re thrilled to report that on Wednesday, June 10, An Act Regarding Free Expression was overwhelmingly passed in the Massachusetts House, with 151 votes in favor and only 3 against!

Good news! Now what comes next? )

2: Crazy Boys Surf Couches

Jun. 13th, 2026 01:49 pm
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Ch. 2: Crazy Boys Surf Couches

Summary: Plans gets made, couches get surfed... and the family find out.
Series: Crazy Boys
Word Count: 6000
Notes: Winner of this month’s fan poll! The quotes from the CIA’s “KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation Manual” of July 1963 comes from Eberhardt Press’s 2016 zine verbatim reproduction, called Interrorgation: The CIA’s Secret Manual On Coercive Questioning. The original manual was declassified in January 1997 under a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by the Baltimore Sun, and is in the public domain.

Content warnings (contain SPOILERS!)Grim after-effects of strangulation and sexual violence, but none shown on-screen, homophobia, hallucinations, walking corpse syndrome, and a heterosexual meltdown.

Junior Year: Rogan

It’s my first night at D’s beige box, he’s playing Halo, and I ask if I can use his shower.

“Sure. Use whatever’s there.” Then, chagrined, “I only have the one towel.”

The secret apartment was never meant to have TWO people in it! )

Politics At Home

Jun. 12th, 2026 08:36 am
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Rogan: normally we do not do this (we usually want our public blog to be fun or interesting), but considering the American political situation right now and how much it relies on complacency, cultural amnesia, and refusing to think about unpleasantries, we’ve decided to share how that political situation has directly affected us.

Read more... )

Low-Tech Cyborg Go Beep Boop

Jun. 10th, 2026 08:59 am
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Rogan: I haven’t been using the Internet (except for work purposes) much lately, for one temporary reason and two permanent.

Read more... )

*pokes head in*

Jun. 10th, 2026 06:36 am
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I have so many longposts in my head that I need to sit down and write but lemme tell yah, I've been so embroiled in this hybrid TTRPG/Role Play server (of which I'm the head of the lore team staff) it consumes a lot of my freetime.
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