artyartie

( some ~deep thoughts~ on personal growth )

anyway that's nearly 600 words to say i've been coming out of my cage and i've been doing much better than just fine, in a lot of respects. i've felt for a few weeks like today would be significant for me, and i was right, but it was significant in way the italicized oh is in so much fic rather than something involving external happenings. the drive between where i grew up/live now and chapel hill (or raleigh/cary, when i lived there) has so often been among my best thinking time (typically while singing loudly, enthusiastically, and badly).

so far in october, i've made plans to see a grad school friend i haven't seen since 2008, iirc; had my boss ask me if i would accept another promotion if he has another new role created for me; have reframed a volunteer role from something i do as the price of admission to something i get to do to give back to a group that is very important to me; had a fun road trip where i got to socialize (i can usually count on one hand the number of times per year where i get to hang out with friends/friend-adjacent people); had a heavy AI user tell me he'd wait for my analysis because he trusts me more than Claude; and figured out how i want to focus my energies for the next while.

sometime back in 2008 or thereabouts,

watersword said she wanted to earn the respect of the people she respects. it's a beautiful idea and i had it taped to my wall for years. what i want now is a little different; yes, i want to earn the respect of the people i respect, but also: i want to earn the trust of the people i respect. i can't control other people and how they feel, but learning how to trust myself and to be worthy of earning my own trust will be enough of a challenge for now (and as my own harshest critic, if i can earn my own trust i'll more than likely have done enough to earn the respect of others, whether they choose to trust me or not).

i should probably start on that by not staying up excessively past my bedtime, even though a dark quiet room when the world is asleep is an ideal environment for reading and i'm on the last chapter of a robby/abbot (the pitt fic i've been saving for the right occasion and which has been even better than i'd hoped

mark posting in

dw_maintenance

Hi all,

I had to push some code live today to fix something, and that brought with it a couple of new things like if you have two-factor authentication (2FA/MFA) enabled, you got automatically logged out and it is now required to log in. If you don't, you can set it up if you want (you don't have to.)

This also means that if you have 2FA enabled, you will not be able to use 3P clients using your username and password anymore. You should be able to use API keys in most cases, but there's some nuance to that (and tbh, I just am not precisely sure what clients anybody even uses.)

Please do comment if you're seeing anything weird, as per usual, and we'll work on it. Thank you!

miss_marina95 posting in

amplificathon

This is the official post for the seventh annual Chromatic Characters Podfic Anthology! This year, the anthology contains 59 podfics, featuring 52 characters of color, read by 19 podficcers.

This year's optional theme was: creation.

cover art by

silverandblue

Listening options:

The Chromatic Characters Podfic Anthology VII podbook, (m4b format, 63 kbps, 156 mb, 05:37:11), with chapter stops for individual podfics

A zip file (337 mb) with all the anthology podfics in mp3 format

A spreadsheet with direct audio links or links to the AO3 pages where you can download individual anthology podfics and leave feedback

Links to the text of the fics, where you can go to leave kudos and comments for the wonderful authors, can be found in the "comments" section in the metadata of each mp3 file as well as in the spreadsheet. Thank you to

deathtongue,

Flowerparrish,

godoflaundrybaskets,

wilfriede0815, and

wjgravity for technical beta. We also thank the 4 contextual content betas who lent their time and knowledge to this anthology.

The bonus collection for podfics longer than the maximum for the CCPA and/or extra submissions can be found here.

You can find the full AO3 collection for this year here. Please feel free to leave feedback/comments on this post! You can also follow the podficcers to their individual AO3 accounts to find more of their work:

AppleSapling,

blackglass,

Cailynwrites,

cheesecake3,

deepestbluesky,

DevilWithABirdDress,

FaerieFey13,

flamingwell,

flowerparrish,

J0305,

kbirb,

LittleRedRobinHood,