Thanks everyone for your confirmations. I'll keep the workaround in mind in case this doesn't get solved soon, and can confirm it worked for me before.

Agreed. When I saw the timing of the new Canto I thought to myself that doing an April Fools right in the middle of that would be awkward on all levels, and while last year's joke was without exaggeration the most fun I ever had with an April Fools I'm glad that Project Moon decided to not spread themselves thin nor break the mood they've worked to set up.

The roundup! I knew I was forgetting something yesterday =D

Yes, I'm still juggling way too many plates at once compared to the spoons I have. Meh. That being said, Finish What You Started began yesterday, so I exhumed an old and dusty WIP to work on. It's Star Wars, reader insert, and it was supposed to be PWP but uh... OK I'm nailing the "no plot" but when you get over a certain amount of angst and psychological analysis it doesn't exactly make the transition to smut easy either x') Time will tell if I manage...

Also earlier this week I had a stupid doctor appointment to renew meds that should be renewed automatically if things made sense, but my point is: waiting room. Doctors' waiting rooms are a space out of reality where I find myself reading books even though I've been basically unable to for years. So I've read Straight by Chuck Tingle. It's not the kind of book that'll spawn fandomy things for me, but if you like horror (or even if you're not particularly interested in horror but are not repulsed either) I warmly recommend it =)

Well, maybe this event would be more to your taste then, given it's a low engagement, "do what you can when you can" event ^^ There's no sign-up, no objective set in stone, it's really more of a way for people to cheer on each other for a common goal of finishing stuff. Some people do word sprints, some ask for an accountability buddy, some post todo lists... but also some just hang out and clap when someone finishes something. The admin makes posts with tips and/or motivation stuff. It's very chill unless you personally asked for it not to be =)

Good to know you had a nice weekend ♥

Congrats on existing! That's already plenty badass in the current chaos. Sending strength both for your creative projects and for your Pillowfort fixing. It's really a shame that tumblr can't stay out of the "let's break everything" party.

And no problem for sharing the event, it helped me so now I want it to also help others =)

Urg, this end of 2023/beginning of 2024 really was harsh to everyone, uh? I hope life gets better for you!

It's super impressive that you still managed to create! Congrats on the breakthrough for the comic, and congrats on pioneering fandoms! I never wrote a first for a fandom but I regularly write the first fic for a relationship tag and there's a nice feeling to it for me? Something like "maybe this will inspire others, and I like when creativity spreads"? So I imagine that opening a fandom must feel exciting!

I hope you can find the right challenge for you! Given what you're saying, the fanprompts could fit, but if they don't I'll keep an eye out for low energy challenges!

I'm a NaNoWriMo veteran, I've punched perfection and sanity in the face x') (Seriously, finding my lamp hilarious because of how much I had written in one sitting was an experience I will never forget xD) Thank you for the encouragements, it's appreciated ♥

All of this seems harsh! Congrats for managing to keep writing through the Life Being An Annoyance, even if you hoped to accomplish more that's already super badass! I hope life stops being an annoyance and you can get some rest.

I discussed it on mastodon with someone a bit more experienced with kbin than I am, and apparently it's a known problem that mastodon and kbin/lemmy do not play well together yet, but people hope that it'll get better because kbin and lemmy are still young compared to mastodon so of course they have less working features.

They fact that different instances of kbin and/or lemmy are also having a hard time synchronizing posts is still puzzling though. I know sometimes I need to comment on a post I make to have it appear on kbin, but I don't know why these posts and why it works...

I don't think I've ever written for something where I saw plot holes, but as a reader I love it when authors build on the hole to explain that in fact there was never a hole with their own spin to the worldbuilding/plot! I tend to call that "Timothy Zahn-ing" because my first exposure to that kind of stuff was through his Star Wars (official) novels, but I've seen fanfic authors do that too and it's really pleasant ♥

Good luck with the contest! Hoping you're having lots of fun in the meantime =)

*groans in Federation* Why has this post not shown on my side...?

So! I'm not doing NaNo but I'm determined to cheer on everyone tackling this challenge, so have a little "you can do it" dance ♥

As for me: right now I'm trying to finish a fic for a kinkmeme. My inability to focus would be impressive if it wasn't so annoying x') For later this month, I opened prompts in a community to try to liven it up and will choose the prompt I'll write on the 8th. (I already know what it'll be because there's only one prompt and at this point I'm pretty sure no one else will even acknowledge the existence of my post. Well, I wanted to see if people there wanted fanfic, I have my answer.) And for a more long-term project, there's a fic I've wanted to finish for years to post for a friend's birthday in January, and I decided (again) that this year I would finish it dammit. So I have two months for that. We'll see if I do better than all the previous years x')

Now, time to stop procrastinating and go write this damn kinkmeme fic... *glares at open doc*

I can't remember in which community I saw the link to this article, so I'll add it there just in case given it's very relevant: How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) (TL;DR: it already happened several times, by having the big corpo enter the network as the first step)

I'm personally in favour of defederating from/blocking everything owned/operated by Meta.