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raisedbymooglesNew fic begins today! Based on this 3SF fill that's been taking over my brain ever since. We'll see how this goes.
Lost Sparks of Darkmount (on AO3, account needed)
Lost Sparks of Darkmount (on AO3, account needed)
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yvannairieWatching the new Crimes New Roman video, where it discusses irony poisoning and how irony is kind of just a polite way of communicating contempt without exposing yourself, and this suddenly explains a lot about why high-masking "mentally ill not neurospicy" neurodivergent people end up being so hideously ableist and relying so much on a shared normalcy of behaviour and thought.
They're just pissed off. They're just angry that they've lived their lives in a box trying not to let anyone see what is wrong with them, and the rest of us who don't have the option to pass and thus have never tried are somehow... IDK. They just look at us and feel angry, and then they lecture us about empathy without ever showing even a little bit of compassion towards people who fundamentally are just like them, and are in fact going through their own fucking hell dimension of constantly being excluded on the basis of not being like those other people.
In other thoughts, I need to read more David Foster Wallace apparently.
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We've now, lucky us, reached the point where the "logged out, have never visited the site before" path is just flooded all the time, and the "logged out but have visited the site before" path is suffering some of the overflow. We've made some changes to the routing to try to improve things for logged out users who have visited the site before and keep it at "it may be a little bit slow, but at least it works" instead of "it keeps timing out", and we've seen some improvements, but if you're accustomed to browsing the site while logged out, I'm really sorry but it may continue to be a little miserable.
You will get the fastest page loads and the best performance by browsing the site logged in. If you are having trouble loading the front page to log in, bookmark the direct login page. We can't route the front page to the "more power" server pool, because it's a common target for garbage traffic, but we've switched /login over to "more power" and we'll try to keep it there as long as we can unless it starts getting slammed, too.
