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Posted by glitterary

https://archiveofourown.org/works/67193413

ART paused. Then it said: You think about dying a lot.
My risk assessment module went into overdrive. What the fuck? What’s that supposed to mean?
Just statistically, ART said, like that explained anything.

Words: 6604, Chapters: 2/2, Language: English

Series: Part 3 of run box quartet

Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Categories: Gen
Characters: Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries), ART | Perihelion, Dr. Mensah (Murderbot Diaries), Dr. Bharadwaj (Murderbot Diaries), Dr. Ratthi (Murderbot Diaries), PreservationAux Survey Team (Murderbot Diaries)
Relationships: ART | Perihelion & Murderbot
Additional Tags: Friendship, Dead Dove: Do Not Eat, Depression, Suicidal Thoughts, the emotional fallout of sharing a body, 2.0 haunts the narrative, Angst

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I. SPOTLIGHT ON FICTIONALLEY IMPORT

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All FictionAlley creators should have received one or more emails with links to claim, orphan, delete their works, or prevent the import of any additional works of theirs in the future. If you were a creator and did not receive this email, please contact Open Doors for assistance. You can also contact Open Doors if you would like to prevent future imports of your Harry Potter works specifically.

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II. ARCHIVE OF OUR OWN

Accessibility, Design & Technology (AD&T) coordinated with Board and Volunteers & Recruiting to formally decommission the Quality Assurance & Testing (QA&T) subcommittee—thank you to everyone who has served on QA&T over the years. Quality assurance and testing of AO3's code will continue under the oversight of AD&T's new QA Supervisor role. AD&T's latest releases have focused on various bug fixes, code clean-up, and monitoring improvements: check out the release notes. Also, Systems has installed some new Elasticsearch servers and repurposed the old ones as application servers! \o/

Open Doors announced the import of Absolution – The Inugrrrl Memorial, an InuYasha fanfiction memorial archive.

In May, Support received 3,177 tickets, while Policy & Abuse (PAC) received 3,763 tickets—a nearly 40% increase which is likely due to PAC's recent TOS spotlight series. PAC worked with Legal and Communications' News Post Moderation subcommittee to review over 1,700 comments across seven posts, with more than 400 comments receiving a reply. PAC will also be recruiting soon, so look out for the upcoming recruitment post! In June, Tag Wrangling neared completion of phase two of three of their committee-wide guideline discussions on fandom metatags. They also launched a new procedure which streamlines creation of new "No Fandom" canonical tags, which are canonical tags not specific to any particular fandom. The committee plans to post announcements periodically detailing new tags, including one in a few weeks.

In May, Tag Wrangling handled over 610,000 tags, or over 1,200 tags per wrangling volunteer.

III. ELSEWHERE AT THE OTW

Fanlore's Annual Bingo was a huge success! \o/ 25 participants completed at least one bingo, and 16 got a total blackout. Thanks to everyone who took part!

In July, Fanlore is running a themed month—Fandom in Color—which celebrates characters of color, the contributions of fans of color, and more! Check out their social media (Bluesky and Tumblr) for page spotlights throughout the month.

Communications is now overseeing the OTW's Convention Outreach division, which was previously run by Development & Membership. If you have inquiries regarding OTW's convention presence, Communications can be reached through their contact form on the OTW website.

TWC is finalizing their upcoming general issue of Transformative Works and Cultures, volume 46, which will be published on September 15. They are still accepting submissions for their Latin American Fandoms special issue until January 1, 2026.

IV. THE 2025 ELECTION AND GOVERNANCE

Elections announced the 2025 Election candidates; this year's election is contested, with three candidates running for two open seats in this year's election. Their platforms are available on the Elections website. Communications has been coordinating public posts, while Translation is working on translating candidates' platforms.

2025's OTW Board Election will take place on August 15-18. OTW Members who plan to nominate a proxy should contact Elections by August 6. Specific dates for Q&A and Candidate Chats will be made available on the 2025 Election Timeline page.

Development & Membership has been checking membership for Board candidates and donors who want to vote in this year's election, while Finance has begun preparing for the 2024 audit.

Board uploaded minutes from the April 2025 Board public meeting to the OTW website. They also approved two new Finance Bookkeepers, held check-in meetings with Legal and the Paid Staff Transition Lead, and continued to work with the Organizational Culture Roadmap Workgroup. The Board Assistants Team's work also continues on several projects, including the Procurement Policy and Board Discord Server Guidelines revamp.

V. OUR VOLUNTEERS

Volunteers & Recruiting conducted recruitment for two committees—Tag Wrangling and Support—and two subcommittees—News Post Moderation and Internal Complaint and Conflict Resolution—this month.

From May 19 to June 22, Volunteers & Recruiting received 147 new requests and completed 139, leaving them with 53 open requests (including induction and removal tasks listed below).

As of June 22, 2025, the OTW has 944 volunteers. \o/

New Committee Chairs/Leads: 2 Organizational Culture Roadmap Workgroup Heads
New AD&T Volunteers: 1 QA Supervisor
New Communications Volunteers: 2 Convention Specialists and 3 TikTok Moderators
New Communications News Post Moderation Volunteers: Mossie, Vihi, and 1 other News Post Moderator
New Fanlore Volunteers: 90PercentHuman, Hobgirl, Sparrow, and 1 other Policy & Admin Volunteer
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New Organizational Culture Roadmap Workgroup Volunteers: 1 Goal Supervisor; megidola and 1 other Volunteer
New Support Volunteers: 2 Chair Assistants
New Translation Volunteers: 1 Volunteer Manager; Adri Jaimes, Lia404, ttom1323, and 5 other Translators
New User Response Translation Volunteers: Felipe and friki (Translators)

Departing Committee Chairs/Leads: Nary (Support) and 2 QA&T Leads
Departing AD&T QA&T Volunteers: runt and 1 other QA&T Testing Volunteer
Departing AO3 Documentation Volunteers: Leja, Evolcahra, and 1 other Editor
Departing Communications Volunteers: 1 TikTok Lead
Departing Development & Membership Volunteers: 1 Convention Specialist
Departing Fanlore Volunteers: 1 Policy & Admin Volunteer
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Challenge #2 from the Sunshine Revival

Tunnel of Love
Journaling: The romance of summer! What do you love? Write about anything you feel sentimental about or that gets your heart pumping.

I had to remember how to do cuts for this.

( I go on for three paragraphs about why I love fandom )

Creative: Write a love poem to anyone or anything you like. I may do this later if I feel moved to do so. I have really enjoyed reading everyone's poems for this challenge. Such joy.

Current Mood: hungry
Current Location: still on vacation and waiting for dinner
Current Music: THE MOWGLI'S - San Francisco

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What are you working on? What have you finished? What do you need encouragement on?

Are there any cool events or challenges happening that you want to hype?

What do you just want to talk about?

What have you been watching or reading?

Chores and other not-fun things count!

Remember to encourage other commenters and we have a discord where we can do work-alongs and chat, linked in the sticky

We had an unexpected treat last night. The big city fireworks are tonight, downtown. We've never even tried to go there, because crowds, heat, parking, etc. Not to mention that there have been a disturbing number of shootings in public places recently. However, the Village fireworks a mile away have been doable for us in the past. It involves carrying a folding chair about a mile, on foot, to avoid the traffic afterwards. Last year, it was very hot, and the homeward trip was a bit much for us. So this year, we decided we just wouldn't bother. However, we discovered that they have changed the location of the ignition platform, so the fireworks go off just above the treetops, and are visible from our bedroom window! We had the perfect seats and didn't even have to put our shoes on and go outside. Then it was rolling thunder all over town for about an hour and a half. People around here must have a lot of disposable income, because I heard thousands of dollars worth of private fireworks going off.

Today the high was 93, the hottest day so far. I woke up early, and went for a walk about 10, before it was absolutely sweltering. It was still pretty hot, though. When I got home I was disconcertingly unenthusiastic about doing anything. I don't like that I'm still tired and that everything takes too long! I changed the sheets, washed the sheets, and put away a heap of trip laundry. I should be scurrying around cleaning things up, because the Dante Book Club, which was supposed to meet elsewhere, is meeting here tomorrow after all. Our fearless leader, who was supposed to host, has chosen to live without AC, because reasons that I don't fully understand. I think he's sort of a re-skilling kind of guy who is preparing to survive without modern conveniences, should that become necessary. Anyway, the last time we met at his house in July, everyone but him suffered quite a bit, so he has made a concession that we could meet elsewhere. We have the biggest house and the most AC, so we felt we should volunteer. Thus I humble myself once again by allowing everyone to come in and revel in my dust. Because in theory, I could clean everything up by brunch time at 11, but in practice, if I can remember to thaw the bacon, that will be as much as I can manage.

To quote James Shirley (again), "Only the actions of the just/Smell sweet and blossom in their dust." Let's hope I'm just enough, and that bacon will smell sweet enough to cover my dust.

I just gave myself a headache by cracking my neck too hard, and then helped moderate a Virtual Accessible Pride event YouTube livestream for the first time. It was A Lot but I am still here. We only had one troll, too, so that part was cool.

The You Are Not So Smart Podcast did an episode a while back about cultures of genius vs cultures of growth that I listened to this week, and it is rearranging some stuff in my head in helpful ways, explaining why people do the frustrating thing where they compete to tear each other down because in a lot of cultures I was raised in, only the Single Most Correct person got any respect. And I was raised to do this, and managed to train myself out of it once I understood how nonsensical it was, but I didn't understand why it was that way or how we got there. So I will be having thinky thoughts.

Shadow work: ( Read more... )

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I am having a difficult brainweasel day, and would like to counteract that by making you some words. I am feeling poetic, with a side-order of "Drabbles are nice," so:

Comment with: Drabble or Poetry, Fandom(s) from the list of things I know, Character[/Character/etc.], Prompt (if any).

Feel free to publicize this.

Current Mood: aspiring
Current Music: I like your -- how you say? -- imperturbable perspicacity

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writing offer

In shadows deep where whispers creep,
Jebus mourns in silence steep,
A fractured cross, a hollow plea,
Beneath the weight of mortality.

Humanity, in dark decay,
Dances with its own dismay,
Echoes of a dying breath,
Entwined with shadows of death.

A bone collector caterpillar crawls,
Through skulls that crumble, flesh that falls,
Feasting on the remnants lost,
In a world forsaken, tempest-tossed.

Gott ist tot, the silence screams,
In broken prayers and shattered dreams,
A god long gone, in grave’s embrace,
Leaving only cold, empty space.

Where light once shone with sacred grace,
Now lies the void, an endless race,
To grasp the dark, to taste the night—
In macabre stillness, out of sight.

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challenges: sunshine

We were expecting it to be crowded today because of the holiday weekend but it was actually one of the least crowded days we've ever experienced at the parks.

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disney

Posted by John Scalzi

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/07/05/new-cover-everyday/

https://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=56350

Watch on YouTube

It’s a short and sweet oldy but a goody this time out, from Buddy Holly. Why this one? Why not? It’s been covered by just about everyone, from James Taylor to Erasure, and I really like the song, and I had free time this weekend, so here we are. If you like it, fabulous, if you don’t, well, it’s two minutes long, it’ll be over quickly enough.

And for those of you who have somehow never heard the original, here you go:

Watch on YouTube

— JS

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/07/05/new-cover-everyday/

https://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=56350

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