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credit to bread for the cultural celebration gift post idea!

while we're celebrating colors halloween (come get green candies, by the way), there's also another holiday coming up--día de los muertos!

día de los muertos is a celebration of life and death, where we remember our loved ones who have passed on and share food and drinks that they enjoyed in life with them. the spirit of the holiday is about sharing and community, so take some snacks and i'll share some cards and crayons with you! either ten random cards or five random crayons, depending on which you pick.

pan de muerto: a soft sweet bread lightly flavored with anise, cinnamon, and orange zest. the pattern represents crossed bones to remind us of our own mortality! lately i've even seen some filled with cajeta (caramel made with goat milk), chocolate, or mazapan (a candy made from peanuts and sugar). it goes great with champurrado (hot chocolate but better)!

corundas michoacanas: if you prefer something savory! masa (a type of corn flour used also for things like tortillas and tamales) shaped into triangles and steamed, and then topped with a sauce made of tomatoes and chile de árbol. they're a traditional dish from the region of mexico my family's from, and dates back to pre-hispanic times!

you have until november 2nd (the last day of día de los muertos) to make your choice (and if you'd want to try them/have tried them before heheh)! also, please tell me about any cultural foods you like that remind you of home and family!

feel free to offer trades here as well (click my banner below!), or just pick your dish and yap about food with me

Database maintenance

Oct. 25th, 2025 08:42 am
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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!

AWS outage

Oct. 20th, 2025 10:11 am
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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.

October Release Slots

Oct. 18th, 2025 10:02 pm
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Hello there, I'm back from vacation and have a four regular slots up from October release for grabs. Feel free to request any card(s) from the release without trading =)

These decks cannot be requested as they're already taken:

SPECIAL [1/1]
murayama05

REGULAR [6/10]
inferno03
kimisaki05
lastdefense11
megalovania09
secondlast06
turret03

ORANGE [3/3]
returns01
returns06
returns09

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