Along the iconic East Street in the neighbourhood of Camp in Pune, there is an old heritage stone building which has been recently turned into an art gallery.
Vesavar Art Gallery was founded by Kavita Bhandari and artist Pranali Harpude with the aim of creating an environment to showcase contemporary Indian art. The founders identified this heritage building which is more than a hundred years old and recognized its potential as a space for establishing such an art hub. The restoration of the building was meticulously carried out in great detail by architect Sandeep Shah. The architectural elements of the building such as the wooden staircase and the ceiling were carefully preserved to maintain the building’s old world charm and vintage essence.
The walls have been kept white so as to offer a clean and simple backdrop to highlight the displayed artwork. The artistic wooden trussed roof of the gallery is like a step back in time. The gallery has blended the old with the new and has created an art space which celebrates the rich cultural heritage of the city. The art gallery aims to create a supportive environment for artists to showcase their talents.
Since my sudden mania for film shows no signs of slowing, I've created a Letterboxd account. I don't really plan to use it for much besides tracking what I've watched and what I plan to watch, but add me if you're a user and I'll heart your reviews when I see them. :)
Anyway it has been A Week and I've been too tired by the end of each day to do ANYTHING other than vegetate in front of the TV, and specifically to vegetate in front of something scary and tense enough to prevent my otherwise inevitable zoning-out. The upside of which is yay, more horror movies!
Hell House LLC (2015): A documentary crew investigates a haunted house attraction that went gruesomely wrong on its opening night, leading to more than a dozen fatalities under baffling circumstances which the authorities have hushed up. When snickfic recced this movie to me, I said I would not watch it because clowns gross me out. But the haunted house + found footage conceit was calling to me enough that I decided I could probably handle the clowns - and hey, I was right! This is not especially clowny clown horror by my highly arbitrary personal standards that mostly boil down to "there are no gross clown smiles" and "there are no even grosser clown laughs". Maybe this is a gateway for me? Maybe someday I'll be sufficiently desensitised to clowns that I can catch up to the rest of the world and watch It? Whatever the case, I had fun with this movie. I admired the filmmakers' decision to leave so many questions unanswered and I think that uncertainty is scarier than any explicit answers they could have devised. (For that reason, I'm going to go right on ahead and ignore the fact that there are sequels. Not EVERYTHING has to be a franchise, damn. The movie stands alone just fine.)
On a minor note, I REALLY liked the piano-and-violin piece in the soundtrack. Beautifully simple, beautifully discordant.
Carrie (1976): I am once again standing in awe of the incredibly broad palate of flavours that get lumped together under the "horror" label. This movie is not a scare so much as an anguished distillation of the cruelties of high school. Carrie suffers horrific religious abuse at home and extreme bullying at school; after falling victim to a very public and sadistic "prank" during senior prom, she unleashes her budding telekinetic powers on the watching crowd with murderous results. But her rampage is - well, not an afterthought per se, but it happens right at the end of the film in a dizzying blitz; the vast majority of the screentime (and the most visceral source of horror, for me at least) is the long, slow lead-up to the prank, as tension mounts between the glow-up narrative Carrie thinks she's living and the humiliation we know she's about to suffer.
I am not enough of a Film Buff(TM) to comment on the weird split-screen thing they were doing during the climax, or whatever the fuck was happening at the start with that borderline pornographic locker room shower scene. Both of them threw me out a bit but neither was enough of a hiccup to spoil what was otherwise a really gripping story.
The Old Dark House (1932): I watched this because it stars Boris Karloff, and while it may not be one of his most iconic roles, it was the one my library happened to have on offer at the moment I found myself thinking, 'Hey, I should watch some Boris Karloff!' So on those qualifications, I bring you this old-school spooky cult classic about two small groups of travellers who are forced by a violent storm to go begging for shelter at an isolated old house in the Welsh countryside, whose eccentric inhabitants turn out to be harbouring a deadly family secret. Karloff's physical acting is impressive: his character, Morgan the butler, is completely mute but has an immense screen presence (literally as well as metaphorically) despite the lack of dialogue. He's a hulking mass of danger whose sullen subservience turns to violent, lust-addled malice when he drinks, as of course he does on the stormy night in question. There's also a romance between a feckless WWI vet and a chorus girl who is only technically not the sugar baby of one of the other houseguests, which aside from being endearing in its own right was a lot more risqué than I expected of a movie from the 30s. Evidently the "pre-Code" label is more than just a historical technicality!
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Rubynye was wonderful, one of my absolute favorite people in fandom since the 2000s, we recently found ourselves reblogging each other on Tumblr. I'm gutted that she's gone, I miss her already. The world in general and fandom in particular are poorer without her.
My favorite story of hers is Ascending Terrane, is set in Minoan Crete, the worldbuilding is amazing, a beautiful matriarchal egalitarian society. The time-traveling characters -- White Collar's Peter, Elizabeth and Neal -- are strong and interesting, and the story has just enough conflict to make it not schmoop.
Tucked into the quiet cemetery of Castiglione della Pescaia, overlooking the Tuscan coastline, lies the grave of Italo Calvino—an author whose imagination ranged far beyond the visible world. Unlike monumental tombs dedicated to literary giants, Calvino’s resting place is strikingly modest, almost deliberately so, echoing his lifelong resistance to grandiosity and rigid labels.
Calvino spent many of his later years in this coastal town, drawn to its light, its sea, and its balance between nature and human order—concerns that recur throughout his work, from Invisible Cities to Mr. Palomar. The cemetery itself feels less like a city of the dead than a contemplative garden, where the horizon opens outward, mirroring Calvino’s own literary obsession with perspectives, structures, and unseen connections.
Visitors often remark on the quiet irony of the setting: a writer fascinated by labyrinths, cosmic distances, and imaginary architectures laid to rest in a place defined by simplicity and calm. Yet it is precisely this contrast that makes the grave meaningful. Here, imagination does not demand spectacle; it rests lightly on the earth, like one of Calvino’s “lightness” virtues, inviting reflection rather than reverence.
For readers, pilgrims, and wanderers, Calvino’s grave is less an endpoint than a pause—an understated marker reminding visitors that the most expansive worlds can emerge from the most unassuming places.
Prime Video has dropped the full trailer for the fifth and final season of The Boys, teeing up the final confrontation between Antony Starr's Homelander and Karl Urban's Butcher—one seeking the original V compound that will make him immortal, the other seeking to commit Supe-genocide with the release of a Supe-specific virus that will kill them all.
As previously reported, things were not looking good for our antiheroes after the S4 finale. They managed to thwart the assassination of newly elected US President Robert Singer, but new Vought CEO/evil supe Sister Sage (Susan Heyward) essentially overthrew the election and installed Senator Steve Calhoun (David Andrews) as president. Calhoun declared martial law, and naturally, Homelander swore loyalty as his chief enforcer. Butcher and Annie (Erin Moriarty) escaped, but the rest of The Boys were rounded up and placed in re-education—er, “Freedom”—camps.
The second season of spinoff series Gen V was set after those events, and the finale concluded with Annie recruiting the main cast members to join the fight against Homelander and the Supes. Season 5 of The Boys picks up where the Gen V finale left off. Per the official premise:
On Wednesday, the Trump administration announced that a large collection of tech companies had signed on to what it's calling the Ratepayer Protection Pledge. By agreeing, the initial signatories—Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Oracle, and xAI—are saying they will pay for the new generation and transmission capacities needed for any additional data centers they build. But the agreement has no enforcement mechanism, and it will likely run into issues with hardware supplies. It also ignores basic economics.
Other than that, it seems like a great idea.
What's being agreed to
The agreement is quite simple, laying out five points. The key ones are the first three: that the companies building data centers pledge to pay for new generating capacity, either building it themselves or paying for it as part of a new or expanded power plant. They'll also pay for any transmission infrastructure needed to connect their data centers and the new supply to the grid and will cover these costs whether or not the power ultimately gets used by their facilities.
Later this evening—Friday morning local time—the new 1.6 L V6 engines that power this year's crop of Formula 1 machinery will roar into life as practice for the first race of the year gets underway in Melbourne, Australia. After several years in which the teams' performances converged so much that the sport was determined by finer margins than ever, 2026 sees a comprehensive reset.
The cars are smaller and lighter, and they have different aerodynamic configurations for the corners and the straights. The hybrid systems are more powerful, and each runs on its own bespoke sustainable fuel. There's even a new way to watch as F1 makes a $750 million move from ESPN to Apple. Over the offseason, throughout the preseason shakedown in Barcelona, and then two three-day tests in Bahrain, plenty of questions have arisen: Are the new technical regulations a mistake? Can we still watch F1TV? And just what the heck is going on, Aston Martin?
400 kW + 350 kW = headaches?
After more than a decade with the same power units—and the same few manufacturers—the sport wanted to attract some new blood. Drawing in more car companies, which have boards and shareholders to answer to, required acknowledging road relevance and some commitment to sustainability and decarbonization. Since OEMs are all about electrification, that meant a greater emphasis on the hybrid side of the power units. And the veneer of environmental responsibility arrives in the form of heavily audited, fully sustainable fuels.
James Gunn and Peter Safran injected a much-needed shot of levity into the DC Universe when they took over the franchise and launched their "Gods and Monsters" chapter. But they're getting a bit more serious with the latest installment: Lanterns, an eight-episode series that reimagines the Green Lantern mythology as a gritty prestige crime drama/spy thriller in the vein of True Detective and Slow Horses.
The logline says the show will focus on two versions of the Green Lantern who find themselves "drawn into a dark, Earth-based mystery as they investigate a murder in the American Heartland" (i.e., Nebraska). Will it work? We'll see. This series was barely on my radar before, but the extended teaser that dropped last night is tonally unique for the DCU and so well done that the show now has a place on my must-watch TV list for 2026.
Kyle Chandler plays Hal Jordan, a former test pilot who is nearing his retirement from the Green Lantern Corps. He's training a new recruit, John Stewart Jr. (Aaron Pierre), to replace him. Nathan Fillion reprises his Superman role as the obnoxious Guy Gardner. The cast also includes Kelly McDonald as Kerry, a small-town family-oriented sheriff; Jason Ritter as Billy Macon, Kerry's husband; Garret Dillahunt as William Macon, Kerry's cowboy father-in-law; Poorna Jagannathan as a woman named Zoe; Ulrich Thomsen as Sinestro, a former Corps member who's gone rogue; and Paul Ben-Victor as an extraterrestrial called Antaan.
Two months ago, a key staffer for Sen. Ted Cruz said in a public meeting that she was "begging" NASA to release a document that would kick off the second round of a competition among private companies to develop replacements for the International Space Station.
There has been no movement since then, as NASA has yet to release this "request for proposals." So this week, Cruz stepped up the pressure on the space agency with a NASA Authorization bill that passed his committee on Wednesday.
Regarding NASA's support for the development of commercial space stations, the bill mandates the following, within specified periods, of passage of the law:
I spent a delightful day working from home with the sunlight streaming in through all available (open!) windows, watching birds frolic around our new bird feeder. This latest batch of links has a similarly spring-like feeling — not all are cheerful and light-hearted, but there is a common theme of emerging into light and life.
The first three are all Ukrainian, sparked by the complicated emotions around the four anniversary of Russia's fullscale invasion, on 24th February:
The Kyiv Independent team — journalists, videographers, adminstrative staff and more — took readers behind the scenes to show the ingenuity and determination it took to survive this winter's Russian-inflicted energy crisis and carry on bringing their reporting to the world.
Via tozka, the Persephone Letter, which, to quote tozka, They're subtle marketing, more about vibes, focused on sharing things similar to Persephone Books/the people who enjoy them then about blasting sales info or whatever. If I must be marketed to, I'd rather receive it in this manner: rambly, meandering newsletters or blog posts sprinkled with links to interesting things that give a fuller picture of the person or organisation behind it, rather than just a list of things to buy now.
(Incidentally, the Antarctica link came from a similar newsletter, this one from the Vanderlyle restaurant, which takes a similar approach.)
Today is cloudy, mild, and wet. It rained on and off yesterday, then stormed last night. Everything is still soaked.
I fed the birds. I've seen a small mixed flock of sparrows and house finches.
I put out water for the birds.
More crocuses are blooming -- lavender, purple, white, and pale yellow. :D The grass, which in recent years has retained bits of green through the winter, is suddenly much more green with growing tips visible.
EDIT 3/5/26 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.
After I got so tired yesterday I scheduled today to be Just Resting but it is still not fun to be tiredness level feelings weeble wobble.
I listened to some more of Big Finish's Dalek Universe. Is okay. I think the ingredients, 10 getting drawn back before the Time War and meeting another Time Lord, are pretty good stuff, but I also think I Am Tired today so Is Okay.
I have been contemplating how to rearrange my bookshelves. There are shelves below bed level that simply never get read, and a lot of authors shelved in weird inaccessible places simply due to alphabetical order. I have forgotten who is down there really. The ideal solution is to move somewhere with enough horizontal space I can get at both sides of the room, or indeed to be a person who doesn't fall out of a single bed so the bed gets thinner, but since neither of those are doable, I contemplate which books to banish below read level.
I think it'll probably be mostly inherited ones. It's not that the classics of science fiction are bad, it's just that I don't think I've read them all even once, and the ones I have read I don't spend much time thinking about. Keeping Huff and Duane and McGuire and Bujold and Cherryh up where I can read them is key, I've reread all of those recently and I still buy their new work. Asimov may just have to deal with the floor height view. But then I feel like that's unfair and I should really reread things I'm sending Below? Just to be sure? But there are so many.
I also moved a bunch of things to make room for the work and that means noticing they exist again, and in some cases wondering why I still have those. But doing anything to not have items is More Work. So at the moment they're all stacked up in unusual places.
I wonder if anywhere still wants VHS tapes.
I'm sorry I'm not very interactive, just, got tired.
With any luck the work with the power tools and testing the fire alarms multiple times a day will be Over and I can sleeps whenever. That'll be nice.
I've learned what I can from the heavily modified slipover that I knitted and re-knitted all through the past two months. Because the recent absence of a subcutaneous pain-mesh layer has coincided with thermoregulation's partial return to service, I no longer want a personally sized blanket layer in sport-weight wool/alpaca. I've bound it off, both to keep as a measurement reference and because the yarn wouldn't survive further reuse.
Thinking through some incidents has been aided considerably by working with yarn bought when my skin first felt oddly cold. I've used it recently as a memory prop, then undone the deliberately false start and restarted the project with different yarn. As part of the process, I've finally recovered the skeins that were reused to become about half of a Little Wave cardigan, then abandoned when I realized that the pattern's proportions and mine would never agree. Instead, I'm meditating upon Capsa.
Thanks, long-ago clearance-discounted yarn, oddly too heavy for past me to crochet, for taking good care of me.
I've tried the first few rows of a swatch for New Terrain in Lavold Hempathy yarn---old, if not as old as the yarn meant first for the blanket I couldn't crochet. Perhaps my 2019 hands could've managed it, but my current hands will need a bit of wool in the yarn blend to keep those slipped stitches even. Hempathy is cotton/hemp/rayon, with no bounce/spring to it.
Yamagara's New Terrain interests me because its shoulder-yoke is constructed similarly to that of the Sundial tee, except that Yamagara is actually competent at designing patterns with carefully considered details---all the finishing touches that Sundial's designer (Wool and Pine) tends to skip. As a fallback, I could make a version of New Terrain without the terrain, plain across the torso, if the slipped stitches and my hands can't agree at all.
Fandom: The Protomen Pairings/Characters: Protoman & Megaman, Protoman & Dr. Thomas Light, Protoman & Dr. Albert Wily Rating: Unrated, estimated to be Teen and Up Length: 3,178 Creator Links:ricefu on Ao3 Theme: Siblings, Science Fiction, Apocalypse/Dystopia, Robots, Androids and AI, Trauma & Recovery, (Not Really) Character Death, Old Fandoms Summary: You have heard me tell this story many times before you sleep... This time listen carefully. Reccer's Notes: A beautiful and sad character study of Protoman, the older sibling of two tragic brothers in the Protomen universe. It connects his backstory and dives into psyche throughout the canon storyline, including his relationship with his younger brother, his father, and the main antagonist. Although I'm tagging the Not Really Character Death theme for a reason, this is a tragedy, so tread carefully.
On Thursdays, I play volleyball, pick up and deliver the Timber Ridge Times and give myself a shot. All before 9. But today there is no Timber Ridge Times so my schedule is already fubared. But, now I'm caught up.
Yesterday I spent the day inside my apartment seeing no one after we got home from the vet's. Probably today I will do the same. I did get the sleeves on my new jacket shortened and I started a new yarn project which I may or may not continue. And I started a new book by a favorite author which is so far a disappointment.
The cats' water fountain quit fountaining. I'm ready for a new/different one anyway so it works out fine.
I got offered a job. Legit pay job. The company that makes the financial software I use, wants to hire me. Part time for kind of customer service. I appreciate the offer but I just can't squeeze it into my schedule. My finances are now so dirt simple, I really only use their software to collect the data which, honestly, I could do manually nearly as easily.
I just cut off all my fingernails. It always makes me feel like I should donate them to some forensic endeavor. Probably I'm just watching too much crime TV or reading too many crime books.
Somehow my kitchen has gotten itself into a mess. So first I'm going to get dressed and then I'm going to clean it up. And then I'm going to ... ahhhh the joy of retirement.
The monastery in Bzovík was founded between 1127 and 1131, it's charter being issued in 1135. Originally a Benedictine monastery (dedicated to the first Hungarian king, St. Stephen), around 1180 it fell under the influence of a religious order called the Premonstratensians. This new leadership expanded monastic teaching to include new economics and agriculture.
Monastic strongholds were often the subject of attack during the 15th century, and as such the building was burned down several times, immediately repaired and rebuilt only to be razed again. In 1530 it was even rebuilt into a vast fortified manor house by a Slovakian oligarch Zigmund Balasa, adding dwellings for soldiers and farming. It was again burned down in 1620, re-established as a church only to be conquered in 1678.
The complex finally fell into a permanent state of deterioration in the early 19th century with habitation ceasing after World War I. Archaeological and architectural study of the site began in the 1930s, though Pevnosť Bzovík suffered under both world wars. Today the fortifications are under general reconstruction, though the church related structures at its center are completely crumbled. But this wonderful ruin remains freely open to the public. Its extensive history can be easily researched online.
A large, rusted spherical pressure vessel set in the woods behind an old, closed down schoolhouse built to store liquefied gas or other materials under high pressure.
A "Horton Sphere" (or Hortonsphere) is a relic from Connecticut's industrial past, looking something like a vintage lunar lander from the golden age of science fiction.
The sphere sits in a fenced off lot (with some breaches in the fencing) behind the defunct Laurel Hill School along with two other crumbled structures. It stands as a local landmark that once held various substances for industrial use. Research tells of other Horace Horton spheres similar to this 37.5' giant in Milford CT and Danbury CT, however those have been swallowed up by time.
"Horton Sphere" is a trademarked name for spherical pressure vessels, invented by the Chicago Bridge & Iron Company after its founder, Horace Ebenezer Horton (1843-1912).
I see its second half, Legacy, which completes the tetralogy's first arc and should be read with it, is only $4.99 at the moment, so, excellent idea to pick them both up together.
A quick check finds it at regular price at other vendors at the moment, so this may just be a Kindle thing.
Près de 9 ans après la sortie du premier épisode, le jeu ayant grandement popularisé le genre du deckbuilding revient avec une suite particulièrement attendue. La question est de savoir si elle aura le même impact.
Seulement trois ans après la sortie du premier épisode, Planet of Lana est de retour avec une nouvelle aventure dans laquelle on retrouvera le duo qui devra faire face à de nouveaux dangers.
I feel 2 sensations right now. My cracked tooth experience & the pain associated with it is Lovecraftian horror.
However the attentive care of my dentist was wonderful - got me in at 7:50am - before they officially opened & X-ray'd the tooth. It was a very old crown [25+ years] that cracked off at the gum line. ...And they referred me to the dental surgeon 2 miles away who also got me in immediately - the tooth out & a screw inserted, since the jaw bone is sound. After healing - on June 5 - an implant will be set in place. I was finished by 10am!!
I am in rather a lot of pain now, with soft-tissue swelling in the area - but the tooth/root/jaw is only mildly uncomfortable. But 100% love ❤️ for both dentist & oral surgeon.
Elon Musk has acknowledged that the tweet at the center of a multibillion-dollar lawsuit over his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter “may not have been my wisest” as the world’s richest man defends himself from allegations of market manipulation in court.
He told a San Francisco jury on Wednesday that his post was not intended to manipulate Twitter’s stock price in the midst of the takeover battle.
A group of Twitter investors has alleged they lost money after Musk threatened to walk away from the deal to gain leverage during takeover talks, despite being aware he would be legally forced to complete the $44 billion buyout.
As part of Apple's flurry of Mac announcements earlier this week, the company announced the new M5 Pro and M5 Max processors. And those chips are shaking up the way that Apple designs and talks about its processor cores: What would have been called "performance" CPU cores are now "super" cores. "Efficiency" cores are still called efficiency cores. And there's a new, third type of CPU core in between that is labeled a "performance" core.
Apple said earlier this week that the "super" name change would retroactively apply to the regular-old Apple M5's performance cores, too. And the macOS Tahoe 26.3.1 update released yesterday officially made the name change, changing the labeling in both the System Information app and the Activity Monitor.
The Activity Monitor in macOS 26.3.1 updates your "performance" cores to "super" cores.
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Andrew Cunningham
Activity Monitor on the M5 MacBook Pro in macOS 26.3, before the name change was announced.
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Andrew Cunningham
The System Information app also now refers to M5's high-performance cores as "super."
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Andrew Cunningham
System Information in macOS 26.3, when the big cores were still called "performance" cores.
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Andrew Cunningham
This "upgrade" should only apply to the M5 MacBook Pro, the sole M5-family Mac released before the name change was announced. It should go without saying that this is just a name change; you shouldn't actually expect different behavior or performance from your Mac after installing the update. The new MacBook Airs and Pros with M5, M5 Pro, and M5 Max chips will likely already be using the new names out of the box.
Do unnecessary quotation marks make your eye twitch?
Have you ever left a comment on a friend's Facebook status explaining why it's "couldn't care less," not "could care less?"
Do you fix the spelling mistakes in other people's tweets before retweeting them?
Are you required by forces beyond your control to whip out a pen and correct misspelled store signage?
Must...cross out...apostrophe...
(And then...fix...capitals...)
(And then...add...exclamation marks...)
And finally, do you not only know what the Oxford comma is, but have a passionate stance on its usage?
If the answer to any of those is yes then you, my friend, are a fellow grammar geek. And today is our day. That's right; it's National Grammar Day! WAHOO!
Finally - FINALLY - we can pick apart spelling and grammar errors without fear of judgment from the text-speak-writing language butchers who keep"loosing" their minds! Today we are NOT the nit-picking jerks of the comment section; today we are HEROES. HEROES, I SAY!!
AHAHAHAHAAA!!
So let's get right to it:
Ah, yes. [pushing up glasses] You see, "whose" is an interrogative possessive pronoun, while "who's" is the contraction for "who is." In this context, someone is apparently asking for the identity of the owner of something euphemistically known as "40."
Haha! Isn't that a SCREAM?!
I honestly don't know why I'm not invited to more parties, you guys.
Maybe I should have started with something a little more common, though:
Now, see, there's an easy way to avoid this situation in the future:
Condoms.
And remember, it's "I before E except after C and when you're trying to write the word 'having.'"
Also those little dots are called an ellipsis, and there should only be three of them.
YES I REALLY AM THAT PERSON.
Not to mention the way that's written makes it look like someone is "haveing" a weird scrolly symbol. (Maybe the artist formerly known as Prince invented a new species?)
Hey, do you guys watch Sherlock?
What am I saying? You read this blog and therefore have EXCELLENT taste in entertainment, so of course you watch Sherlock.
Anyway, remember the beginning of that episode where Holmes is interviewing a murderer, and he keeps correcting the thug's grammar?
That was awesome.
Now where was I?
Ah yes, the importance of punctuation and discerning between "will" and "we'll."
It also appears this person isn't entirely certain that Dee Dee will miss me, which is hard to believe. I mean, in case you haven't noticed, I AM DELIGHTFUL.
And finally, allow me to share a quick word on foreign punctuation marks:
Gesundheit.
Thanks to Mary F., Mab R., Catherine B., David S., Bella P., Todd, and Zoë P., who have always known I'm a pro-Oxford-comma kinda gal.
*****
P.S. I found you some cute pens for correcting random signage in the break room. (I know that's oddly specific, but I stand by it, because I know you people.)
Every Thursday, we have a community post, just like this one, where you can drop a rec or five in the comments.
This works great if you only have one rec and don't want to make a whole post for it, or if you don't have a DW account, or if you're shy. ;)
(But don't forget: you can deffo make posts of your own seven days a week. ;D!)
So what cool fanart/fics/fanvids/fancrafts/other kinds of fanworks/podfics have we discovered this week? Drop it in the comments below. Anon comment is enabled.
BTW, AI fanworks are not eligible for reccing at recthething. If you aware that a fanwork is AI-generated, please do not rec it here.
crepitate (KREP-i-tayt) - v., to make a crackling or popping sound.
In medical contexts, this can be used specifically of, for example, arthritic joints or breathing during certain respiratory diseases. Taken in 1623 from Latin crepitātus, perfect passive participle of crepitare, to creak/rattle/clatter/crackle, frequentive of crepāre, to creak/crash/break with a noise.
The Secret Garden has re-opened after the winter, and I paid my first visit of the year. Outside the garden, a typical March day: hazy sunshine not making much of an impression against the cold east wind. Within the walls, the sunshine was winning, and bumblebees were visiting the Almond and Cherry Plum blossom, and the blue Rosemary flowers. Ragged-winged Red Admiral and Peacock butterflies were newly out of hibernation.
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!
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.
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.
V. OUR VOLUNTEERS
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.
The Organization for Transformative Works is the non-profit parent organization of multiple projects including Archive of Our Own, Fanlore, Open Doors, OTW Legal Advocacy, and Transformative Works and Cultures. We are a fan-run, donor-supported organization staffed by volunteers. Find out more about us on our website.
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