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Day 1 Reveals 2025

Aug. 28th, 2025 07:31 am
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Beneath the Weight [text, audio] (Star Wars: Rebels)
written by [archiveofourown.org profile] wanderingjedihistorian, performed by [archiveofourown.org profile] Flowerparrish
Summary: There was a group of Wookiees being moved to Kessel and Hera Syndulla desperately wanted to find them.
More, it was imperative that…mission happen exactly as it had. Without everything that happened during that operation, Kallus didn’t know if Ezra would choose to join the Ghost crew and let Kanan train him. Above all else, that needed to happen.

D's bring about change (One Piece (Anime & Manga))
written by [archiveofourown.org profile] Lerya, performed by [archiveofourown.org profile] GodOfLaundryBaskets
Summary: Law never knew what the will of D meant. He suspects he doesn't have it as much as others do.
Then he meets Monkey D. Luffy and knows for a fact that this man does have it. There is no other reason why he would go around punching Celestial Dragons and declaring war on the World Government. It's entertaining as hell though.
Sticking around, he's with Luffy when Kuma sends him and his crew away, leading to an extra ally in Marineford which will bring about another change.

A Matter of Blood (The Maze Runner (Movies), The Maze Runner Series - James Dashner)
written by [archiveofourown.org profile] Lalaith_Quetzalli, performed by [archiveofourown.org profile] farkenshnoffingottom
Summary: They make it to the Safe Haven. Against all expectations and seemingly insurmountable odds, they do. At first all they can do is rest, recover, grow used to being truly free. But once the fear has truly passed, once they begin to settle. That’s when the time comes for the questions, and some answers none of them ever saw coming…

Our Place (Magic Kaito)
written by [archiveofourown.org profile] Dokuhan, performed by [archiveofourown.org profile] Nymphie_Wolf
Summary: Sometimes, the smallest comforts can help the largest emotional hurts.
In their childhood, Aoko has a bad day and Kaito does what he can to help. Years later, Aoko returns the favor.

Two Sides of a Trick Coin (One Piece (Live Action TV 2023))
written by [archiveofourown.org profile] estelraca, performed by [archiveofourown.org profile] GodOfLaundryBaskets
Summary: Everyone assumes Zoro and Luffy have a psychic connection.
They don't, and they really hate it when they finally do.
Sometimes all you need to do is see another person to know them.

the company job (Leverage (US TV 2008))
written by [archiveofourown.org profile] BubblesKat, performed by [archiveofourown.org profile] ShakespeareStoleMyURL and [archiveofourown.org profile] BubblesKat
Summary: The Leverage team gets a new client. The marks own a theatre. The only logical solution is to do a long con production of the musical Company.

The House That Waited [text, audio] (Stranger Things (TV 2016))
written by [archiveofourown.org profile] patientanxiety, performed by [archiveofourown.org profile] Jet_pods
Summary: They meant it to be a routine check. One last run-through of Hawkins' dark landmarks, just to be sure. No more Upside Down. No more gates. Just overgrown lots and burnt-out memories. But the Creel House still stood, its silhouette jagged and resentful against the evening sky.
Eddie and Steve soon find out that a routine check on the Creel House turns into a fight for their lives.

Between Worlds [text, audio] (Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Andromeda (TV))
written by [archiveofourown.org profile] Nicky_Gabriel, performed by [archiveofourown.org profile] 429_CarCrash
Summary: Yue and Bato’s life changing conversation about life, the universe and everything. As they are trapped in the fourth dimension, facing the evilest being that ever existed, the answer is not always 42. Fortunately, they are the luckiest people in the Universe.

The Inheritance of Dreams (One Piece (Live Action TV 2023))
written by [archiveofourown.org profile] estelraca, performed by [archiveofourown.org profile] kaisicle-podfics
Summary: At first Garp doesn't believe that Red-Leg Zeff might actually be trying to settle down and open a restaurant, but as the two exchange letters, he starts to believe maybe it's possible for a pirate to change his stripes.

So Long and Lost (The Devil Wears Prada (2006))
written by [archiveofourown.org profile] schwanenkoenigin, performed by [archiveofourown.org profile] wilfriede0815
Summary: Miranda writes a letter to her late wife, Andrea.

Put up with the rain (Ultraman Arc (TV))
written by [archiveofourown.org profile] alchemicink, performed by [archiveofourown.org profile] bluedreaming
Summary:

"Looks like the storm ought to blow over quickly."
"That's good."
Shu is about to just go back up to the office to wait, but then Yuma plops down on the top step, which is still shielded from the rain by the overhang above. He glances upwards towards Shu with a friendly smile that pierces right through his dreary mood.
"You can wait with me if you want, Mr. Ishido."

Five rainy days Shu experiences in Hoshimoto City

write to me, in time [text, audio] (9-1-1 (TV))
written by [archiveofourown.org profile] coffee_and_cardamom, performed by [archiveofourown.org profile] 42donotpanic
Summary: Buck and Eddie write letters across time. Or: The Lakehouse AU.

I'm sorry, did I stutter when I said to shut up or? (Batman - All Media Types, Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010))
written by [archiveofourown.org profile] Yuurei and [archiveofourown.org profile] kbirb, performed by [archiveofourown.org profile] kbirb
Summary: Breaking News: Trans Crimelord Hates Transphobes!

Good things + fall sign-ups

Aug. 27th, 2025 05:45 pm
scintilla10: eagle flying over the sea against a golden sunset (stock - eagle over sea)
[personal profile] scintilla10
Things that are making me happy:

  • Change Gamer, the surprise secret finale of Game Changer! It was so fun and so full of heart, I loved it (and loved this whole season!).

  • Wading in the ocean along a beautifully shallow, sandy beach, so cool and refreshing on a blisteringly hot day.

  • This gorgeous animated pixel art, made entirely in MS Excel 2007 (how even!!): Aspen Red Forest by [tumblr.com profile] anasabdin [moving gif]

  • The upcoming long weekend, omg, it can't come soon enough!


I'm planning to sign up for much-beloved exchange [community profile] ficinabox (sign-ups open until Aug 31; late nominations accepted until Aug 30!) Very excited for swaps and fun mediums!

And also [community profile] fandomgiftbasket is back, yay! I'm planning to sign up for this one, too. (Sign-ups open until Sept 5.)

2025 Posting Schedule

Aug. 26th, 2025 09:57 pm
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[personal profile] shmaylor posting in [community profile] pod_together
Here is the 2025 Posting Schedule! The mods will reveal the work on AO3 on your posting day; participants should plan to update the posting date on their work so it'll show up on fandom RSS feeds and at the top of the fandom tag when sorted by date. Unfortunately, AO3 won't let you list a posting date in the future so you'll have to manually change it on your reveal date. (We'll send you an email reminder about this on the day of your reveal.)

For now, the links on this schedule will just take you to unrevealed posts, but once each day is revealed, the links will take you to the projects and this post will double as a masterlist for all our 2025 projects!

  • Reminder #1: Party Favors are due September 6th, and will be revealed September 7th. To submit a Party Favor, simply publish it to the Pod_Together 2025 AO3 collection

  • Reminder #2: To those participants with extensions, please remember that your due date is our agreed-upon extension date, not your posting date. However, if you would like to turn in a complete, postable version at your deadline and then update it between then and your posting date with changes, you may.

  • Reminder #3: Don't forget to give your partner(s) some appreciation for the awesome creations you made together!


2025 Posting Schedule )

Please leave a comment here, or email the mods, if there are any conflicts or issues with your posting dates or if any info on this posting schedule is incorrect and needs to be fixed.

We're so excited to reveal all of your projects!

Fic in a Box 2025 letter

Aug. 25th, 2025 10:47 pm
scintilla10: Variety of red berries spilling across a white surface (stock - berries)
[personal profile] scintilla10
Hello! Thank you so much for creating something for me for [community profile] ficinabox! I’m very easy to please, so please feel free to ignore the prompts below if they aren’t helpful or inspiring - or mix and match them. I’m looking forward to whatever you create!

If you’re inclined, I welcome treats.

On AO3, I'm [archiveofourown.org profile] scintilla10.

General Likes and Do Not Wants )

Medium Opt Ins )

DC's Arrowverse [Legends of Tomorrow] )

Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves )

Macdonald Hall - Gordon Korman )

Original Works )

Pitch )

Singin' in the Rain )

Stranger Things )

We Are Lady Parts )

Phew, thank you! Good luck! I can't wait to check out whatever amazing thing you create! ♥

Music Monday

Aug. 25th, 2025 10:04 pm
muccamukk: Orville Peck in a red Nudie suit, singing and playing guitar, while a pink and white musical score swirl behind him. (Music: Orville Peck)
[personal profile] muccamukk

Obsessed with the guitar here, for real.
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[staff profile] denise posting in [site community profile] dw_news

I'll start with the tl;dr summary to make sure everyone sees it and then explain further: As of September 1, we will temporarily be forced to block access to Dreamwidth from all IP addresses that geolocate to Mississippi for legal reasons. This block will need to continue until we either win the legal case entirely, or the district court issues another injunction preventing Mississippi from enforcing their social media age verification and parental consent law against us.

Mississippi residents, we are so, so sorry. We really don't want to do this, but the legal fight we and Netchoice have been fighting for you had a temporary setback last week. We genuinely and honestly believe that we're going to win it in the end, but the Fifth Circuit appellate court said that the district judge was wrong to issue the preliminary injunction back in June that would have maintained the status quo and prevented the state from enforcing the law requiring any social media website (which is very broadly defined, and which we definitely qualify as) to deanonymize and age-verify all users and obtain parental permission from the parent of anyone under 18 who wants to open an account.

Netchoice took that appellate ruling up to the Supreme Court, who declined to overrule the Fifth Circuit with no explanation -- except for Justice Kavanaugh agreeing that we are likely to win the fight in the end, but saying that it's no big deal to let the state enforce the law in the meantime.

Needless to say, it's a big deal to let the state enforce the law in the meantime. The Mississippi law is a breathtaking state overreach: it forces us to verify the identity and age of every person who accesses Dreamwidth from the state of Mississippi and determine who's under the age of 18 by collecting identity documents, to save that highly personal and sensitive information, and then to obtain a permission slip from those users' parents to allow them to finish creating an account. It also forces us to change our moderation policies and stop anyone under 18 from accessing a wide variety of legal and beneficial speech because the state of Mississippi doesn't like it -- which, given the way Dreamwidth works, would mean blocking people from talking about those things at all. (And if you think you know exactly what kind of content the state of Mississippi doesn't like, you're absolutely right.)

Needless to say, we don't want to do that, either. Even if we wanted to, though, we can't: the resources it would take for us to build the systems that would let us do it are well beyond our capacity. You can read the sworn declaration I provided to the court for some examples of how unworkable these requirements are in practice. (That isn't even everything! The lawyers gave me a page limit!)

Unfortunately, the penalties for failing to comply with the Mississippi law are incredibly steep: fines of $10,000 per user from Mississippi who we don't have identity documents verifying age for, per incident -- which means every time someone from Mississippi loaded Dreamwidth, we'd potentially owe Mississippi $10,000. Even a single $10,000 fine would be rough for us, but the per-user, per-incident nature of the actual fine structure is an existential threat. And because we're part of the organization suing Mississippi over it, and were explicitly named in the now-overturned preliminary injunction, we think the risk of the state deciding to engage in retaliatory prosecution while the full legal challenge continues to work its way through the courts is a lot higher than we're comfortable with. Mississippi has been itching to issue those fines for a while, and while normally we wouldn't worry much because we're a small and obscure site, the fact that we've been yelling at them in court about the law being unconstitutional means the chance of them lumping us in with the big social media giants and trying to fine us is just too high for us to want to risk it. (The excellent lawyers we've been working with are Netchoice's lawyers, not ours!)

All of this means we've made the extremely painful decision that our only possible option for the time being is to block Mississippi IP addresses from accessing Dreamwidth, until we win the case. (And I repeat: I am absolutely incredibly confident we'll win the case. And apparently Justice Kavanaugh agrees!) I repeat: I am so, so sorry. This is the last thing we wanted to do, and I've been fighting my ass off for the last three years to prevent it. But, as everyone who follows the legal system knows, the Fifth Circuit is gonna do what it's gonna do, whether or not what they want to do has any relationship to the actual law.

We don't collect geolocation information ourselves, and we have no idea which of our users are residents of Mississippi. (We also don't want to know that, unless you choose to tell us.) Because of that, and because access to highly accurate geolocation databases is extremely expensive, our only option is to use our network provider's geolocation-based blocking to prevent connections from IP addresses they identify as being from Mississippi from even reaching Dreamwidth in the first place. I have no idea how accurate their geolocation is, and it's possible that some people not in Mississippi might also be affected by this block. (The inaccuracy of geolocation is only, like, the 27th most important reason on the list of "why this law is practically impossible for any site to comply with, much less a tiny site like us".)

If your IP address is identified as coming from Mississippi, beginning on September 1, you'll see a shorter, simpler version of this message and be unable to proceed to the site itself. If you would otherwise be affected, but you have a VPN or proxy service that masks your IP address and changes where your connection appears to come from, you won't get the block message, and you can keep using Dreamwidth the way you usually would.

On a completely unrelated note while I have you all here, have I mentioned lately that I really like ProtonVPN's service, privacy practices, and pricing? They also have a free tier available that, although limited to one device, has no ads or data caps and doesn't log your activity, unlike most of the free VPN services out there. VPNs are an excellent privacy and security tool that every user of the internet should be familiar with! We aren't affiliated with Proton and we don't get any kickbacks if you sign up with them, but I'm a satisfied customer and I wanted to take this chance to let you know that.

Again, we're so incredibly sorry to have to make this announcement, and I personally promise you that I will continue to fight this law, and all of the others like it that various states are passing, with every inch of the New Jersey-bred stubborn fightiness you've come to know and love over the last 16 years. The instant we think it's less legally risky for us to allow connections from Mississippi IP addresses, we'll undo the block and let you know.

Japanese Citizenship/Passport Query

Aug. 25th, 2025 06:10 pm
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[personal profile] glinda posting in [community profile] little_details
A rather more contemporary citizenship question here. I’m looking for a resource for Japanese passport and citizenship rules - do they have birthright citizenship, if a citizen emigrates can they retain dual citizenship, is it different if they emigrated as a child etc.

The Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ website is very helpful on the subject of visas and emigration for citizens of other countries so I guess I’m looking for a similar kind of FAQ to this - https://www.mofa.go.jp/j_info/visit/visa/ - but for, I guess you’d call it re-emigration? Moving back to the country of your birth as an adult?

Any help, gratefully received!

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