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WIPBB - You Should See Me in a Crown (MCU)

Project Title: You Should See Me in a Crown
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/73237241
Summary: The Mark 7 is plan C. Plan B is a little more unusual. But hey, every conqueror needs a consort, right?
Warnings: Seduction, Power Dynamics, Kissing, Neck Kissing, Manipulation, Mind Control, Implied/Referenced Torture, Oral Sex, Magic, Sex Magic, Loki's Clones (Marvel), Cock Rings, Anal Sex, Post-Coital Cuddling, Loki Needs a Hug (Marvel), Not Thor Friendly (Marvel), Bad Parent Odin (Marvel), Civil War Team Iron Man
Characters: Tony Stark, Loki (Marvel), JARVIS the AI (Marvel), Background & Cameo Characters
Pairings: Loki/Tony Stark
When I Started: March 2023

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WIPBB - Code Nimitz (MCU)

Project Title: Code Nimitz
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/73235801
Summary: When a battle goes wrong, Tony and Bucky find themselves back in 2012, at the tail end of the chitauri attack. Will they change the timeline, or leave well enough alone?
Warnings: Time Travel Fix-It, Civil War Team Iron Man, I wouldn't say anyone is bashed specifically, But they're trying to make them fix mistakes so mistakes are pointed out, YMMV, Not SHIELD Friendly (Marvel), But they are still half Hydra at this point so that's kinda a given, Bad Parent Odin (Marvel), Abusive Howard Stark, Mind Control Aftermath & Recovery
Characters: Tony Stark, James "Bucky" Barnes, James "Rhodey" Rhodes, Steve Rogers, Clint Barton, Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Thor (Marvel), Loki (Marvel), Wong (Marvel), JARVIS the AI (Marvel), FRIDAY the AI (Marvel), Bruce Banner, Background & Cameo Characters
Pairings: James "Bucky" Barnes/Tony Stark, Minor or Background Relationship(s)
When I Started: March 2023

Database 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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WIPBB - A Very Different First Week (Teen Wolf)

Project Title: A Very Different First Week
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/70755096/chapters/183927246
Summary: Mischief and Grim are almost attacked by a monster in the woods, and only Mischief's trusty bat saved them. Peter recovers from the attack and puts his slightly saner mind towards his plans for revenge, building a pack, and courting his sweet smelling mate.
Warnings: Major Character Death, Underage and Noncon tags for Kate Argent,
Scott McCall Bashing, Canon-Typical Violence, Hunters & Hunting, Implied Suicidal Ideation
Characters: Peter Hale, Stiles Stilinski, Derek Hale, Sheriff Stilinski, Original Stilinski Character(s)
Pairings: Peter Hale/Stiles Stilinski
When I Started: December 2024

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Bragging Rights: by fight or fate (captive prince)

Posting on behalf of the author!

Project Title: by fight or fate
Fandom: captive prince
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/72888131
Summary: When Laurent runs away from Vere, he finds refuge in an expected place. But the wheel of fate is turning, and Laurent will have his vengeance, no matter what it takes. No matter what it costs him.
Warnings: canon-typical violence, references to canonical abuse
Characters: Damen, Laurent
Pairings: Damen/Laurent
When I Started: I saw a prompt in the captive prince kinkmeme and my brain went brrrrr
How I Lost My Shit: The idea got so much bigger than I intended.
How I Finished My Shit: I signed up for the WIP BB and all of a sudden, having a sense of accountability kicked my ass into gear and I finished it way ahead of schedule lol

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WIPRB - Rosid (Original Works)

Project Title: Rosid
Fandom: OW
Link: Tumblr, AO3
Summary: A blossoming deer.
Warnings: None
Characters: Deer
Pairings:
When I Started: The sketch is from 2011! It was drawn for a SketchFest prompt.
How I Lost My Shit: 2023, it was pretty close to done but I just dropped it
How I Finished My Shit: Just needed some cleaning up!

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ADMIN: Please Do Not Tag Your Fics/Art When You Submit Them!

A friendly reminder once again that we do not want fics and art to be tagged when you submit them. I, Mod Ragna, will do all the tagging once I approve your fic. Please respect my modly wishes because it makes it easier fo me to do it and make sure I do the right tags.

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WIPRB - The Library (Original Works)

Project Title: The Library. (Working title: "In Pursuit of Knowledge")
Fandom: OW
Link: Tumblr, AO3. The story written by my collab author for WIPRB is here, please give it a read! :)
Summary: A rat adventurer is on a dangerous quest for the most priceless thing in the world...
Warnings: None
Characters: Rat Adventurer, Raven Guardian
Pairings: None
When I Started: 2017
How I Lost My Shit: It was a quick digital doodle for a 2017 round of SketchFest (no longer running) and I slapped some colour onto it in 2022. I had gotten worn out with super-detailed rendered fantasy artworks and was drawing a lot of sketches that were kind of on the rough side and trying to integrate them directly into the rendered art without completely redrawing the sketch. It was a nice process that worked much better for my own particular creative stumbling blocks with art. But I drifted away because I was super deep into fanart for a specific fandom at the time and that sucked up all my attention so I have a bunch of unfinished fantasy WIP sketches from that era.
How I Finished My Shit: I slapped more colour onto it!!! Works every time. :P I still had the inking on a separate layer so I did more painting both under and over it to polish it up a bit.

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Bragging Rights - Anonymous (Final Fantasy XIII-2)

Project Title: Anonymous(title)
Fandom: Final Fantasy XIII series
Link: AO3
Summary: Hope has a secret admirer who only leaves presents on Valentine's Day. Never on birthdays or other holidays, and leaving no clue but a gentle red ribbon that ties together the gifts each year.
Warnings: n/a unless you count timey whimey shenanigans
Characters: Hope Estheim, Nora Estheim, Bartholomew Estheim, Kai (Final Fantasy XIII), Elida (Final Fantasy XIII), Alyssa Zaidelle, Rygdea (Final Fantasy XIII), Noel Kreiss
Pairings: Hope Estheim/Noel Kreiss

When I Started: January 2015
How I Lost My Shit: The story just kept getting longer and longer and I couldn't deal, and I grew discouraged until I finally left the fandom. After that, I went through countless other fandoms but always wanted to come back and finished but couldn't muster the love again.
How I Finished My Shit: Tears and grit. Seriously would not have finished if not for WIPBB as I spent the summer desperately trying to remember things about this canon. But more than 10 years later... this story is finished!

AWS outage

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.