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I’m at the start of PSOH volume 5 in the SS re-release, which is the start of volume 7 in the TP original.

There’s a bonus story at the end of TP v6 that we skipped, because SS doesn’t have it at the start of v5, but in the middle. More on that later.

As usual, originally threaded on Mastodon / Bluesky. Having a weird situation where my phone gave me reply notifications for Bsky posts, but I can’t see the replies themselves. It’s not that they were deleted — some of the posts (here’s an example) still list 2 replies — I just can’t see any other than mine, either on desktop or mobile. Can any of the rest of y’all read them?

Anyway. Affiliate links for the whole Collector’s Edition, in case you want your own.

D with possible other D family members in the background

 


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I don't really have anything to say, so here's what I did yesterday.

I went to Burnley, and I took a whole bag of books with me, which I donated to the RPSCA shop. It turns out they will do pickups for local people, but I don't think I qualify as local as I am not only in the next county, but also several miles away. I guess I can always ring them up and see, as I did ask for a contact number anyway!

Then I pootled around town, which included:

- buying some books - three used, one new. One of the second hand ones was Deric Longden book I somehow don't already own (he didn't write many, hence why I was surprised I didn't already have it). The new one was The Very Hungry Caterpillar as I don't know if I already have a copy, but I want that Eric Carle inspo at the moment (I am thinking about collage A LOT at the moment, especially using hand painted papers - to that end, I also recently bought Clover Robin's book Cut Paper Pictures for help/inspo. There is also a book called If You Can Cut, You Can Collage, which also looks interesting, but I'm trying (and failing) not to buy books right now).

- buying Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning (just so I have it) and Ni No Kuni II, even though I haven't beaten the first one yet (but I'm thinking about going back to it once I finish Miitopia, which is what I'm currently playing).

- buying a frame so I can frame a print of some artwork that was made by my friend Chris! I really love his art (this is him) and I have several postcards of his stuff, but it's nice to have a (frankly massive) print to enjoy as well. I don't know where I will hang it; I'm thinking somewhere in the living room, but we'll see.

edited to add: I also took a bunch of pictures while I was out, mostly of flowers (petunias, poppies, oxeye daisies), but also of some textures on walls, mostly different types of moss. It's the most photos I've taken in one day in a long time, and I had a lot of fun doing it. [/eta]

And that was really it. I felt like ass when I got home (I was only out for three hours!), and I still do today, but it's colder and damper today, and I was already feeling shite from work anyway. So today is a rest day and doing as little as possible! Maybe even napping if I feel like I need it. I have holiday coming up at the start of July, so I'm hoping to conserve what energy I can for then, so that I can do some house stuff that needs doing!

June Monthly Post

Jun. 1st, 2026 11:13 pm
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What are your planned crowdfunding projects for June? What did you accomplish during May?

The June [community profile] crowdfunding Creative Jam will run Saturday 20-Sunday 21 with a theme of "Resistance."

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Jun. 1st, 2026 10:56 pm
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Quick note that post-by-email and comment-by-email is (sometimes?) failing silently without actually posting right now! I'm pretty sure this is related to last night's shenanigans and will be fixed once Mark can finish the full fix for it, which he's working on, but if you've posted or replied by email in the last 24 hours, fish it out of your sent folder to check if it posted!

EDIT: This should be fixed as of around 7AM EDT! We *believe* everything that was stuck in the plumbing has been sent along to your journal or the comment thread it was meant for; it's definitely not where it was stuck anymore, at least.

TDS + TCR + HDM links and tidbits

Jun. 1st, 2026 10:35 pm
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Daily Show/Colbert Report:

Youtube has almost caught on that I want to see “Late Show segments that have continuity with TDS/TCR.” Some recs:

From 2024:

From the past couple weeks:

His Dark Materials:

Finally wrote up a full “what if The Secret Commonwealth was better, though?” AU outline, complete with illustrations!

Hat tip to atamascolily for pointing me to this Phillip Pullman interview talking about, among other things, the impact of having Long Covid. Which explains a lot about TSC and TRF, honestly.

The outline is on AO3, in a new series that organizes all my HDM-related works. I also have some HDM-related Tumblr writeups that occasionally still get reblogs. Maybe I should crosspost them as part of the series some time.

(Maybe I should crosspost all the meta I’ve written in response to Tumblr asks…but I know there’s a ton of it that’s never been organized in any way. It would take So Long.)

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I did check the tags before posting this, but I didn't see anything. There are a lot of styles that look great on a computer, but condense the text/entry area to a narrow vertical column when read on a mobile device. Mobility seems to be the best one for mobile (obviously) but I kind of hate the way it looks on a computer. Does anyone know a decent theme which allows for some customization (like custom backgrounds) but looks decent and reads decently on a mobile device? Or is there something I can throw into the custom CSS section of the customize theme page to fix this? I'd love to use the 5 AM theme, but it kind of looks like crap on my phone. Thanks in advance.

EDIT: I have switched back to Practicality. Thanks for your feedback, everyone.
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Happy Monday! And happy Pride Month to one and all <3

What is your pup most proud of? And why?

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May. 31st, 2026 10:00 pm
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Robby has managed to put in a temporary fix for the site errors and things failing to refresh or not showing up where they should! The permanent fix is going to need Mark's experience, and unfortunately -- seriously, this literally never fails -- Mark has been on an international flight all day, because of course he has. (Never. Fails. He and I are not allowed to both take vacation at once.)

The site will work just fine with the temporary fix in place, things just might be a little slow here and there. We'll keep you updated.

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May. 31st, 2026 08:59 pm
denise: Image: Me, facing away from camera, on top of the Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome (Default)
[staff profile] denise posting in [site community profile] dw_maintenance
We're aware of site traffic issues and are working to fix them for the people who are having problems! (The tactics the damn bot traffic uses are endlessly shifting, and they're really good at looking like real traffic, sigh.)
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[staff profile] denise posting in [site community profile] dw_maintenance
It's been a while since we've done a full code push rather than just hotfixes for bugs, so we are well overdue! Depending on availability, we're aiming to do one sometime soon; we'll let you know specifics once we've worked out good timing for everyone who needs to be available.

However! The reason it's been so long is we kept trying to get some of the stuff that's pending to "really finished" instead of just "mostly finished", and then we once again looked around and went "oh no, this is a really big code push with a lot of changes". Those make us nervous, because while we do a lot of testing ourselves, y'all are really creative in how you use the site and we inevitably find a bunch of edge cases when we let you loose on new code with your real-world data!

So, if folks have some spare time in the next few days, it would be a huge help if you could spend half an hour or so using the site the same way you normally do but with the "Site-Wide Canary" beta features flag turned on. Canary mode is a sort of "live testing" mode: it's your real data, but running the most up-to-date code.

Canary mode always does have a few glitches -- there may be missing text strings or errors about missing database properties, which is a limitation of how we run it. We don't need to know about those, but anything else weird that you run into, leave a comment with what you were trying to do and the error message you got.

I'll repeat that the "here be dragons" caution that's on the beta features page: some things may be broken, so don't use it for when you're doing something important. But a few more eyeballs on it before the push will help the push go more smoothly for everyone.

For folks who want to concentrate on what's changing, we haven't finished the second code tour of what's going to be in this push, but the ffirst one has a good chunk of what's going to be going live. (We'll get the second half done ASAP!)
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Reread thread for the back half of Pet Shop of Horrors volume 4 (Seven Seas edition), which is most of Volume 6 (TokyoPop edition).

I ended up doing each chapter as a separate thread on Mastodon / Bluesky, over 3 different days. Collating them all together here.

Affiliate links for the whole Collector’s Edition, in case you want your own!

Cover art for the original Volume 6, showing D with Honglong's three heads

 

Hear ye well!! I proclaim the word of Lady Tina! That man is vital to our quest for El Dorado! )

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