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The Battle Against Enshittification

dw_dev: AI and Dreamwidth.
Great post from

mark about exactly how DW could use AI (potentially spam filtering), and how it will never use it (feeding your posts into the maw).

404 Media: 'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back.
Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

The Verge: Grammarly is using our identities without permission.
When users select the 'expert review' button in the Grammarly sidebar, it analyzes their writing and surfaces AI-generated suggestions 'inspired by' related experts. Those 'industry-relevant perspectives' include the likes of Stephen King, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Carl Sagan, among many others.

Wired: Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI 'Expert Review' Feature.
I'm sure everyone enjoys getting sued by Stephen King.

The Flytrap: Sex Workers Versus the Algorithm.
Mostly about payment processors, but also about filtering: the endless dance around content bans requires constantly coming up with new ways to craft video titles and content that are frustrating not only for adult performers, but also their customers.

The Guardian: The world wants to ban children from social media, but there will be grave consequences for us all.
Age-verification systems require collecting sensitive data to support the biometric information. In no time, the internet will become a fully surveilled digital panopticon.

Canadian Politics
(I'm actually saving fewer links about this, because it's mostly pretty disheartening. And I can't deal.)

TheBreach: Pierre Poilievre is misleading the public about refugee healthcare (Video: 3 minutes).
Desmond Cole fact checks his misinformation and explains how blaming the most vulnerable distracts us from fighting for good health care for all.

The Tyee: Advocates Hope a Ruling Will Change RCMP Treatment of Indigenous Witnesses.
But critics say the Canadian rights tribunal didn’t go far enough after finding police discrimination.
Nominally good news, but so much about this case pisses me off. $7k each? Seriously? Reminder that the one person who got state protection in all of this, the guy who (allegedly) abused all those people, is John Furlong. Fuck that guy.

The Breach: A notorious RCMP unit shaped B.C. universities’ reaction to Palestine encampments.
From Fairy Creek to university campuses, CRU-BC is positioning itself as the go-to police force for repressing dissent.
Category: jackbooted thugs.

Kind of Cool, Actually:

HeatherCoxRichardson: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter | Reckoning with Jason Herbert Podcast (Video: 1:43 hours).
Words cannot express how validating this was. Lo! How many long years have I said that AL:VH is the most historically accurate Lincoln movie? HCR agrees.

The Tyee: What Can You Do with Used Plastic and 3D Printers? Meet Two Pros.
Not sure how scalable this is, but it's a cool project.

The Narwhal : In northeast B.C., fresh food is scarce. This First Nation hopes geothermal energy could change that.
Cool project to restore food security after Site C fucked it up, hopefully they can get funding.

NorthernBallet: Northern Ballet's Gentleman Jack | Costumes (Video: 2 minutes).
I've really been enjoying the promo clips for this new ballet. I hope there's some way to watch it online.

tozka

A knitted cover which goes over the top of a round red mailbox common in the UK. The cover has a dark green base with a riot of 3D flowers of different types and colors on top.

I love finding post box toppers!

📍 Chichester, United Kingdom - March 2026

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Case: Netchoice v Wilson, 3:26-cv-00543, (D.S.C.)

Netchoice's litigation page: Netchoice v Wilson

Netchoice filed the motion for preliminary injunction on March 9. It isn't available on the docket in RECAP yet (and I'm over my threshold for PACER fees that will get refunded for the quarter, or else I'd put it there!) but it is available on Netchoice's litigation page: Motion for Preliminary Injunction. They haven't included the declarations, but here's Dreamwidth's declaration as filed, authored by yours truly. Because of the wild incoherence of so many of the provisions of this law, many of which were new because a lot of states have switched to using different model legislation, I had to write almost all of our declaration for this one from scratch (while recovering from a lumbar puncture, lying flat on my back in bed: never let it be said I am not completely extra about the lengths to which I will go to fight against this bullshit), so much less of it will look familiar than usual, but boy was I mad.

We'll let you know when the judge makes a ruling on the PI! And three cheers as always for the Netchoice team and for the outside litigation counsel team, who is Lehotsky Keller Cohn for this one and who put in massively heroic effort to get this filed as fast as possible thanks to the law taking immediate effect.

kalloway

Apparently last week was just a week of Doing Things, because along with setting up Saint All-fi (works most of the time well enough, thus far), I also made my first Suruga-ya order for the year. It arrived yesterday, and didn't get dinged for tariffs because it was all books. (One gunpla server is waiting to see how the tariffs are now and where the break-even point is for sales/fees, dollar-wise.) Two Gundam books, two Fire Emblem books. One replaces a weirdly damaged book from some years back, one I've never actually seen in stock before, two others just very good prices.

Premium Bandai did varying price points of Gundam Kit Fukubukuro this year, and just put up a few more sets. I snagged one earlier in the year and thought it okay and after some dithering, picked up another. They've all been very good deals, as far as MSRP goes. Since the one I just ordered is still a mystery to everyone, I'm going to try to keep it a surprise til I open it. This is difficult because plenty of people will receive theirs first and post to discords/reddit.

I am still mired in various projects, so my poll is still open for just a smidge longer.

Also,

taichara and I had talked about Final Fantasy for weeks (months? years?) and what to play and I finally said 'roll for it' and we're playing Final Fantasy VII. I'm playing the Switch version, and trying out the various cheats for lulz. I am about to go into the Shinra building.

I also started playing Arknights again, kinda. I downloaded it onto a tablet so I could uninstall it from my phone (still there despite not playing in a year) and whoops, no guilt and a bunch of goodies, along with some nice QoL. Doubt I'll stick with it for more than a few weeks, but I did kinda miss everyone.

james_davis_nicoll

John Brown's body lies a-moldering in a very different grave in a very different North America.

Fire on the Mountain by Terry Bisson

jjhunter

I asked a women named Sonnet
director of a poet's palm conservancy
what it was like to be in asynchronous conversation
with someone who was no longer there
the poet had risen each day to meditate in silence
and wanted silence for his mornings planting palms
now many unpublished manuscripts were being found
(as were many loving post-its from his wife Paula
working around his need for morning silence)
and his late-life handwriting was slowly, painstakingly
being decoded and transcribed
was it like finding seeds waiting like time capsules
for someday growing in the forest floor
or was it like being haunted

She spoke of the hundreds of books needing care
after decades' nurturing in that humid house
opening a book of eastern philosophy almost beyond saving
riddled with holes from book beetles' eatings
and finding on the next page a note in the margins from the poet
addressed tenderly to the beetles, saying
'you can have the binding, but please leave me the pages'

The palms he spent his life planting
and the poems he spent his life planting
and the pages of all those silent mornings seeding words
we are eager to hear now
may they continue growing in their season
may William and Paula Merwin's names stay living on our tongues

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

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We're excited to announce the opening of applications for:

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We have included more information on each role below. Open roles and applications will always be available at the volunteering page. If you don't see a role that fits with your skills and interests now, keep an eye on the listings. We plan to put up new applications every few weeks, and we will also publicize new roles as they become available.

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While translators do the actual text translation and editing, volunteer managers support them by keeping track of priorities, deadlines, and pending tasks; assigning work; talking to and working with other committees to coordinate the translation of their content; uploading translated documents; documenting volunteer training, procedures, and workflows; checking in and actioning translators' feedback; and many other tasks involved in managing a wide, diverse and very active volunteer pool.

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A lot has been going on at the Archive of Our Own (AO3) lately! In January, we celebrated 10 million registered users on AO3. February was all about International Fanworks Day, which we celebrated with several events, culminating in our 30-hour chat and games party over on Discord. And now, we've hit another milestone: 17 million fanworks on AO3!

With this many amazing fanworks, it can be difficult, if not impossible, to remember your favorites. This is why we have bookmarks on AO3! Bookmarks are a useful tool to save fanworks for re-reading whenever the mood strikes, or to recommend a work to other users.

And did you know that not only can you bookmark works posted on AO3, but also external fanworks you want to remember? To bookmark an external work, go to your Dashboard, and then to the "Bookmarks" section. In the upper right corner, there should be a button called "Bookmark External Work". For more information on bookmarks, check out our Bookmarks FAQ!

As always, we are beyond grateful for each and every one of you who contributes their free time, love, and effort to AO3, and helps us grow and flourish! We're excited to see what other achievements we'll celebrate together this year.

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I. INTERNATIONAL FANWORKS DAY

On February 15, Communications coordinated many International Fanworks Day (IFD) activities, including a Feedback Fest highlighting fanwork recommendations, an editing challenge in conjunction with Fanlore, and an IFD Discord server with games and chatting. Additionally, Translation helped make IFD materials available in 22 languages. Thank you to everyone who joined us in celebrating!

II. ARCHIVE OF OUR OWN

In February, we celebrated AO3 reaching 10 million registered users! \o/

Accessibility, Design & Technology (AD&T) focused on some important upgrades and bug fixes, including upgrading to Ruby on Rails 8 and improving the collection revealing process. They also published release notes for December's code changes.

AO3 Documentation began their biannual review of user-facing documentation.

In the past month, Open Doors signed five new agreements with moderators to import their archives to AO3! Fandoms include Highlander, The Magnificent Seven, My Chemical Romance, and others. They also completed the import of Slashknot, a Slipknot (band) fanfiction and fanart archive.

In January, Support received 3,811 tickets, while Policy & Abuse (PAC) received 7,972 tickets. User Response Translation completed 12 requests from PAC and 37 requests from Support. PAC continues to work closely with AD&T and Systems to combat spam that users have been experiencing across the site.

Tag Wrangling announced 28 new "No Fandom" canonical tags for February. In January, they wrangled over 648,000 tags, or around 1,400 tags per wrangling volunteer.

III. ELSEWHERE AT THE OTW

Fanlore ran a Femslash February monthly editing challenge! Systems also helped upgrade Fanlore to a new version of MediaWiki.

In February, Legal had one of their volunteers participate in a briefing for staffers in the U.S. Legislature to gain a deeper understanding of copyright fair use. Elsewhere, Legal answered a number of questions internally and from users.

TWC is preparing their March 2026 issue on "Gaming Fandom" for publication. They also completed an update of TWC's editorial board as part of their ongoing work to expand TWC's scope, diversify their discipline in terms of historically marginalized fans and scholars, make the journal more international in scope, and increase multimodal approaches.

IV. GOVERNANCE

Board has concluded all Board-committee check-ins and is reviewing key themes across the organization. They also voted to approve an interpretative rule of one bylaw to better accommodate any future Board members with hearing disabilities.

Board Assistants Team continued work on various projects, including revamping the OTW Board Discord and researching projects on volunteer retention, public meeting best practices, and volunteer mental health.

Organizational Culture Roadmap continued work on the OTW Code of Conduct update project by finishing a summary of internal survey results and adjusting Code of Conduct drafts based on recommendations from an external HR firm. The OTW Crisis Management Plan has been finalised and approved by the Board.

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In February, Volunteers & Recruiting ran recruitment for seven roles across four committees and one workgroup.

From January 23 to February 21, Volunteers & Recruiting received 182 new requests and completed 295, leaving them with 61 open requests (including induction and removal tasks listed below). As of February 21, 2026, the OTW has 985 volunteers. \o/ Recent personnel movements are listed below.

New Communications Volunteers: 3 Social Media Moderators
New Translation Volunteers: 1 Volunteer Manager and 1 Translator
New Volunteers & Recruiting Volunteers: corr and peaandsea (Chair Assistants) and 1 Volunteer

Departing Committee Chairs/Leads: Elizabeth Wiltshire (Organizational Culture Roadmap Head) and 1 Elections Chair
Departing AO3 Documentation Volunteers: 1 Editor
Departing Communications Volunteers: Abby (Social Media Moderator) and 2 Weibo Moderators
Departing Elections Volunteers: 1 Voting Process Architect
Departing Open Doors Volunteers: Mei and 2 other Import Assistants, and 1 Chair Assistant
Departing Support Volunteers: Mily and RRHand (Volunteers)
Departing Tag Wrangling Volunteers: Indes, lifeisyetfair, PinkBrain, plantpun, and 14 other Tag Wrangling Volunteers
Departing Translation Volunteers: Idiosincrasy (Volunteer Manager and Translator), 3 Volunteer Managers, and 1 Translator
Departing Volunteers & Recruiting Volunteers: corr, peaandsea, and 1 other Senior Volunteer; and 2 Volunteers

For more information about our committees and their regular activities, you can refer to the committee pages on our website.

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Credit to the idea of a new earth version of Duke as Cassbat's Robin goes to cleromancy. It really set the tone to a lot of my headcanons for him in this timeline.

Title: dance of the little swans.
Fandom: DC comics (post-crisis future fic).
Character/Pairing: Cassandra Cain & Duke Thomas.
Rating/Warnings: M, none.
Summary: Cass Cain Week, Day VI: Past | Future.
Word count: 600.

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Cassandra Cain met Duke Thomas in dance class.

It started as one of Tim’s initiatives, the last before promptly quitting because “one more day, and next time I fall off that ugly tower, it’ll be on purpose.” A handful of buildings were remodeled in areas alternately labelled “impoverished” or “working class” by the press, offering subsidized after-school activities for children.

Tim asked her to coach a few, as a favor. It confused her; what she did, she just… did. Cass, remembering those disastrous sparring sessions with Steph, had little confidence in her ability to teach.

Bit by bit, she got the hang of it, taking a strange sort of pride in slowly building a skill. Years later, although jobs or bank accounts still felt, at their core, superfluous, the volunteer gig became a nearly regular thing, alternating between neighborhoods as it struck her fancy.

Once, Cass was told teachers shouldn’t have favorites; a nonsensical notion: everyone had favorites, and Duke was one of hers.

He often arrived early, carrying a book of puzzle games, like crosswords. Cass was ludicrously bad at them, but whenever they made each other company before the others arrived, she amused him with… creative alternatives.

Duke was quite sharp; kind, and just a bit of a troublemaker, in a way that made other kids gravitate towards him. His coordination absolutely sucked at first; he got some special prescription glasses, and steadily improved since.

He was just a normal kid who smiled brightly when his step-dad arrived to take him home at the end of each lesson.

And one day, he stopped coming.

The Bat met Robin –the Robins – in the middle of another attack.

She knew of them. They started stopping petty crimes shortly after Damian shed the colors and left for Blüdhaven. Tim wrote a report, and Helena called her once to ask “are these yours” in a deadpan, judgemental tone, after an encounter that involved a nasty encounter with the Ratcatcher. Downright sweet, next to the recorded message Jason hacked into the batcomputer (“Keep an eye on this, will you? No need to follow the old man’s steps in everything, if you know what I mean”).

Cass was not Bruce. She hadn’t agreed to watch over a bunch of untrained vigilantes bound to get themselves killed. Especially not then. For weeks, people gaining strange powers, seemingly from the same source, had started sowing chaos around the city. Cass couldn’t see the pattern. Tim would’ve; Bruce would’ve. But Gotham was hers, now. She resented the idea of asking for their expertise.

Whatever it was, it was certainly out of those kids’ league. She might bring out the good ol’ jaw pinch to safely take them out of the way, after dealing with the attacker.

But when she took the lead Robin by the scruff, she almost dropped him out of shock.

The dollar-store mask, the hood, the red jacket with the hand-sewed “R” on it… immaterial. She recognized the slope of those shoulders, the arch of that frown, the bow-like curve of those legs.

“Duke?!”

A bright light blinded her, and when she finally regained her senses, all the kids were gone.

Cass and Duke talked much, much later.

“It’s my father. My biological father,” he clarified. “He’s why I do… this.”

With one gesture, he submerged both of them into a sea of darkness.

“I can stop him. I know I can! I must.”

Cass listened to the despair of his voice, observed the conviction of his gaze. She’d hear about that day in the circus. Was this how Bruce felt then?

“Okay, Robin.”

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A/N (c&p): In one future-canon series I plan to write... eventually, I borrow more stuff from Duke's canon backstory (like Joker's venom), and Cass is still a long way from this role when that happens, so I took the opportunity to make something different here, something I'd thought about before, with Duke's bio-father taking a significant role as his original villain. Something for him and Cass to bond over, as you will.

The title is from one of the pieces in Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, which Duke and his friends (maybe also future Robins...) should totally perform.

Current Mood: chipper
Current Music: Arcano - Fiesta Pagana

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The Fandom Brand Guarantee

When a fan goes into a bookstore, they can point at many books where even just by looking at the cover, they can tell that the author or the work in particular came from fandom. It might be that while the names were changed to file off the serial numbers, the cover artist kept the visual resemblance of the leads. Or, as Malone shows when talking about manga creators, the author’s name is the giveaway.

Notably, when artists are contracted to the three major publishers, they tend overwhelmingly to be credited only under their real name; by contrast, artists who publish with smaller presses almost always make use of their online nicknames or usernames (…) This practice not only refers back to the original online presence of both author and work, as brokered by Animexx.de, but also maintains a sense of community among the artists. At the same time, however, it cannot be overlooked that the exposure of these artists’ cultural capital under their nicknames on the Website and in their published work serves well to create a kind of “branding” or name recognition that can easily be turned to the generation of economic capital as well, while also maintaining the artists’ “civilian identities” for other projects, since most of the manga artists described here clearly want to have artistic careers beyond a specialty in boys’ love or even in manga in general.

Malone, Paul M. 2010. “From BRAVO to Animexx.de to Export: Capitalizing on German Boys Love Fandom, Culturally, Socially and Economically.” In Boys Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre, edited by Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry, and Dru Pagliassotti, 36. Jefferson, NC: McFarland.

Even with the serial numbers off, a work like that might still attract not only fans of that specific fic, but of that canon, but even moreso, participants in fandom. Because we also know of published works that were not inspired by a specific canon, we even know about works that started as original and the author at one point attempted or even did convert it to fanfic. For sure, we know that there is something more to be gained from fandom than just canon. It is also clear that a good publicist can help the author gain a lot from revealing the fandom origins.

Do we feel safer trusting these authors, knowing they won’t bait us? Do we expect them to write differently and are they? Is it a different genre or a different mode of producing?

Malone specifies that these creators kept their fannish signifiers only when publishing with the smaller presses, and says elsewhere:

(…) several newer and even smaller specialized publishers have now arisen to cater exclusively to the boys’ love market: both Fireangels Verlag and The Wild Side Verlag license and import material from abroad – chiefly the U.S., France and Italy- but they also publish home-grown German-language boys’ love manga. All of the German artists currently publishing with Fireangels and The Wild Side also have a presence on the Animexx.de Website, so that the initial chapters of both Martina “Chiron-san” Peters’ boys’ love science-fiction thriller, K-A-E 29th Secret and Makiko “Zombiesmile” Ponczeck’s sexually less explicit but more violent Lost and Found, for example, were once available on their respective personal dojinshi pages. (…) Peters and Ponczeck are art directors at the Fireangels and The WIld Side respectively.

There is a fic writer guarantee in a recognisable pseudonym. But is there a recognisable gatekeeper or recognisable production decisions that can provide the fandom guarantee?

Poster: Szabó Dorottya

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A lot of the sites that post multimedia scholarship, videographic criticism, or scholarship pertaining to the moving image (TV/film/video etc) are also broadly interested in fandom and fanworks, primarily as a form of media criticism. The below sites are worth checking out both for the fannish work they already host and as potential venues for new fan studies work.

In Media Res: A MediaCommons Project - https://mediacommons.org/imr

In Media Res is dedicated to experimenting with collaborative, multi-modal forms of online scholarship. Our goal is to promote an online dialogue amongst scholars and the public about contemporary approaches to studying media.

Sample work:Lauren Rouse, “‘Don’t Ask Me About My Agenda’ or the Silencing Discussions of Racism in Reactionary and Transformative Fandoms,” September 28, 2023.

Videographic Books, by Lever Press - https://www.leverpress.org/videographicbooks

Combining the possibilities of digital scholarship with the long-standing strengths of the print monograph, this series strives to publish works that convey ideas and expand knowledge via the digital rhetoric of videographic criticism. Videographic Books will resemble traditional print books as accessed via an online e-reader, but use embedded video and audio to convey ideas through the distinct form of videographic criticism.

Sample work:Jason Mittell, The Chemistry of Character in Breaking Bad: A Videographic Book

[in]Transition - https://intransition.openlibhums.org

[in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies, the official peer-reviewed videographic publication of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, is the first peer-reviewed academic journal of videographic film and moving image studies, and is fully open access with no fees to publish or read.

Sample work:
Louisa Stein, On the Art of Affective Repetition: Fan Video & The Untamed

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vriddy

Community Thursday challenge: every Thursday, try to make an effort to engage with a community on Dreamwidth, whether that's posting, commenting, promoting, etc.

Over the last week...

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bnha_fans.

Hahaha omg such a short one. I have Plans To Catch Up this week so, maybe more next time :D

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https://xkcd.com/3218/

Aww, the oceanic crust and the continental crust are getting married!

https://xkcd.com/3218/

lovelyangel

Once or twice a week I take a Randomness Break and click on Kagi Small Web for a while. Like I need more rabbit holes to fall into.

Anyway, today Small Web led me to Pawel Grzybek’s blog post: My Defaults 2026 – which was really interesting (to me).

I know that my own defaults are currently messed up, and the plan is to rethink things – but it’s a low-priority task. However, I can at least start with a list for assessment purposes.

Know in advance that I’m really weird, and defaults aren’t the same for all devices. You’ll need a key. Belldandy = Mac Studio M4 Max. Fern = M3 MacBook Air. Holo = M4 iPad Pro. Meiko = iPhone 13 mini.

Mail Client: Microsoft Outlook (Belldandy), Apple Mail (Fern, Holo, Meiko)
Notes: Apple Notes. Also, Google Docs
To-Do: Google Docs
Calendar: BusyCal (Belldandy), Fantastical (Meiko), Apple Calendar: (Fern, Holo)
Cloud File Storage: iCloud Drive. Also: Google Drive, Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive
RSS: none
Contacts: Apple Contacts
Chat: Apple Messages
Browser: Google Chrome (yeah, I know)(Belldandy, Fern); Apple Safari (Holo, Meiko)(alt: Belldandy, Fern)
Bookmarks: Google Chrome (Belldandy, Fern); Apple Safari (Holo, Meiko)
Read It Later: Google Docs
Word Processing: Write 2 (Belldandy, Fern); Apple Pages (Holo, Meiko)(alt: Belldandy, Fern); Microsoft Word (alt: Belldandy, Fern)
Text Editor: BBEdit
Page Layout: Affinity (Publisher, now Studio) (Belldandy)
Code/HTML Editor: Panic Nova (Belldandy)
Technical Graphics: OmniGraffle (Belldandy)
Spreadsheets: Microsoft Excel (Belldandy, Fern)(alt: Holo, Meiko). Also: Apple Numbers (all devices)
Presentations: Microsoft Powerpoint (Belldandy, Fern)
Photo Editing/Library: Adobe Lightroom (Belldandy, Fern). Also: Apple Photos (all devices)
Image Editing: Adobe Photoshop (Belldandy). Also: Affinity (Photo, now Studio) (Belldandy)
Video Editing: Apple Final Cut Pro X (Belldandy)
PDF Editing: PDFPenPro (now absorbed by Nitro) (Belldandy)
PDF Reading: Adobe Acrobat Reader (Belldandy, Fern); Apple Preview (Holo, Meiko)(alt: Belldandy, Fern)
Document Scanning: VueScan (Belldandy); Apple Notes (Meiko)
Calculator: PCalc
Shopping Lists: Clear (Meiko)
Meal Planning: none
Budgeting and Personal Finance: Microsoft Excel (Belldandy)
News: Apple News. Also: Google News
Music Streaming: none (but have access to YouTube Music)
Music Listening: Apple Music
Password Management: 1Password
Podcasts: none

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characters20in20 Round 21

characters20in20 Round 21

Returning + New Pitch Hits

Supernatural: Gabriel's Big Bang

links list (the Internet may be getting worse)

photo: ready for spring

Update, Netchoice v Wilson (South Carolina): motion for preliminary injunction filed

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Fire on the Mountain by Terry Bisson

Poem: "Memories of Merwin"

The OTW is Recruiting for News Post Moderators, User Response Translation Translators, and Translati

News Post Moderator

User Response Translation Translator

Translation Volunteer Manager

AO3 Celebrates 17 Million Fanworks

February 2026 Newsletter, Volume 208

I. INTERNATIONAL FANWORKS DAY

II. ARCHIVE OF OUR OWN

III. ELSEWHERE AT THE OTW

IV. GOVERNANCE

V. OUR VOLUNTEERS

FANFIC: dance of the little swans (DC comics / post-crisis future fic)

The Fandom Brand Guarantee

Some Great Resources for Aca-Fannish Work–Part IV: Moving Image Scholarship

Community Thursday

Subduction Retrieval

My Tech Defaults 2026

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