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Oct. 26th, 2025 12:04 am
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Quote:

"When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way."

"With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose."

~ Wayne Dyer


Horror Movie music:

M3gan

https://youtu.be/LvY-do0eQh0?si=53oHvp0qZl2PGQew

BONUS: Bella Poarch - Dolls

https://youtu.be/cGJIl1TM074?si=108JpEC-7zqWOZOp

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Database maintenance

Oct. 25th, 2025 08:42 am
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[staff profile] mark posting in [site community profile] dw_maintenance

Good morning, afternoon, and evening!

We're doing some database and other light server maintenance this weekend (upgrading the version of MySQL we use in particular, but also probably doing some CDN work.)

I expect all of this to be pretty invisible except for some small "couple of minute" blips as we switch between machines, but there's a chance you will notice something untoward. I'll keep an eye on comments as per usual.

Ta for now!

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Oct. 25th, 2025 12:35 am
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Quote:

"The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls, if you are content because the one you love is near to you, either upstairs or downstairs, or in the same room, and you feel that warmth that you don't find very often, then that is what love is all about."

"It may be an old cliche, but I think true love will last; it has no end. But finding the right person is a very difficult thing."

~ Bruce Forsyth


Horror Movie music:

Psycho

https://youtu.be/w5Sqv_45A5c?si=9g__fPCyNG2h5O0T

BONUS: Marino - Devil in Disguise

https://youtu.be/PrSjlpWu0cw?si=9lJhRhmR0__MUwN-

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Oct. 23rd, 2025 12:04 am
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Quote:

"Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone and following one after the other like a flock of sheep. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods."

"The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking."

~ Alexander Graham Bell


Horror Movie music:

One Missed Call (Japanese)

https://youtu.be/ZemAoRzmobw?si=QS4H9UGMd9LMy0bk


BONUS: Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive

https://youtu.be/I_izvAbhExY?si=k2QoawAbbWDRLI4h

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Oct. 22nd, 2025 12:06 am
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Quote:

"Why should I be ashamed to describe what nature was not ashamed to create?"

"I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship."

~ Pietro Aretino


Horror Movie music:

Resident Evil

Marilyn Manson – Resident Evil Main Title Theme (Corp. Umbrella)

https://youtu.be/HpGQaUZ5Qzs?si=JXQFI_gQp_IEw-5s

BONUS: Voltaire - When You're Evil

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tWYCS6k1IOA

sign of the season

Oct. 21st, 2025 11:26 am
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I was going absolutely insane, trying to figure out which of my 50-odd tabs was playing holiday music. Nothing showed up on the tab list. Finally I hit command-option-escape, to list what was open, and discovered that the very nice holiday advent calendar a friend sent me had decided to serenade me. I shut it down; sanity restored.

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Oct. 21st, 2025 12:10 am
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Quote:

"The only one you should compare yourself to is you. Your mission is to become better today than you were yesterday."

"Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another."

~ John C. Maxwell


Horror Movie music:

Final Destination

https://youtu.be/Kyy5P1hNCBw?si=8wHdOk-WlAdSFlVo


BONUS: AC/DC - Highway to Hell (If you know, you know.)

https://youtu.be/l482T0yNkeo?si=mAty0Ff2NVtlHHmA

AWS outage

Oct. 20th, 2025 10:11 am
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[personal profile] alierak posting in [site community profile] dw_maintenance
DW is seeing some issues due to today's Amazon outage. For right now it looks like the site is loading, but it may be slow. Some of our processes like notifications and journal search don't appear to be running and can't be started due to rate limiting or capacity issues. DW could go down later if Amazon isn't able to improve things soon, but our services should return to normal when Amazon has cleared up the outage.

Edit: all services are running as of 16:12 CDT, but there is definitely still a backlog of notifications to get through.

Edit 2: and at 18:20 CDT everything's been running normally for about the last hour.

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Oct. 20th, 2025 12:10 am
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Quote:

"Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There's not some trick involved with it. It's pure and it's real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things."

"Music really isn’t supposed to be perfect. It’s all about people relating to each other and doing something that’s really from the soul. It must come from the soul."

~ Tom Petty


Horror Movie music:

Ghostbusters

https://youtu.be/Fe93CLbHjxQ?si=GEkGnpPpjKGBA3RJ


EXTRA: Rockwell - Somebody's Watching Me


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7YvAYIJSSZY

Dear Yuletide Writer!

Oct. 19th, 2025 11:56 am
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I am so happy you're willing to write a story for me!

Here are a few notes on the universes, and DNWs: behind cut )

Thank you so much, and I hope you have a very happy Yuletide yourself.

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Oct. 19th, 2025 02:12 am
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Quote:

"Humor helps us get through life with a modicum of grace. It offers one of the few benign ways of coping with the absurdity of it all."

"Even though all these obstacles keep coming at you, you just have to keep going through them. Because it's worth it to do something in your life, as opposed to fantasizing about doing something."

~ Diane Keato (R.I.P. January 5, 1946 – October 11, 2025)


Horror Television Show music:

Supernatural

https://youtu.be/FtYRMGnj-_A?si=mNNde4D0BLhp-CRz

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Oct. 18th, 2025 12:09 am
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Quote:

"I think the meaning of life is life itself. We don't necessarily want to know what it is, but we want to live it. Hopefully, we'll go out fast without knowing it."

"I have a three-piece suit. I’m an art collector. I have a funny accent. So I’m probably the killer."

~ Mads Mikkelsen


Horror Television Series music:

Hannibal

https://youtu.be/Gl0oIJvtzjA?si=SPnWieO--h_ETkDW

Bonus: (Because this is a wonderful fan-made version. Karliene has a beautiful voice.)

https://youtu.be/xmVzeriU5m0?si=_iNTK7RDmL7uYe9y

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Oct. 17th, 2025 12:28 am
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Quote:

"The more I expect, the more unhappy I am going to be. The more I accept, the more serene I am."

"Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it."

~ Michael J. Fox


Horror Television Series music:

Teen Wolf (T.V.)

https://youtu.be/ZSTMa016Sc0?si=ROlcrSAZyDEqaX4c

(BONUS: because this is my favorite song Teen Wolf)

https://youtu.be/2vyBu5TQ9s0?si=t3QFH5p370Fw5oco

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Oct. 16th, 2025 12:09 am
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Quote:

"We don't always get the kind of work we want, but we always have a choice of whether to do it with good grace or not."

"I was always fascinated by fairy stories, fantasy, you know, demons, necromancers, gods and goddesses, everything that is out of our kin and out of our everyday world. I was always interested in enchantment and magicians and still am."

~ Christopher Lee


Horror Movie music:

Dracula - Bram Stoker’s Dracula theme

https://youtu.be/Mi80O9uKB30?si=LVYmoja_so0ktlF2

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Oct. 15th, 2025 02:01 am
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Quote:

"The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else."

"We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit."

~ E. E. Cummings


Horror Movie music:

Friday the 13th

https://youtu.be/-Lf5GZx2x1M?si=YOsFSzk9lK9Q7-lk

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