Fanfiction website Archive of our Own went down last week for maintenance and will be staying down for up to a month, reportedly due to a “security incident.” I’m hoping that’s not their way of saying “we waited too long to patch PHP, the site is now incredibly compromised (as are the backups), and it’ll take weeks to dig out all the malicious code someone injected into it.”
In the meantime, while AO3 is down, I’ve been mirroring some of my fanfiction onto my own website. This isn’t a permanent move from AO3, as I intend to keep using the site if/when it comes back up, but this incident has demonstrated once again that it’s a terrible idea to have all your work archived on just one platform.
Not June, Still Gay! Pride Market
I’ve got a table at Safe Haven‘s November market this weekend! I’ll be there selling minibooks of the Casefile of Jay Moriarty series, plus both collected editions.
Market hours are from 10 AM to 4 PM on November 7th and 8th. Come on down, get a free bookmark, and maybe buy some gay crime books.
Podcast Appearance: I Will Fight You
In this episode of I Will Fight You, writer and game designer Claire Mulkerin joins us to discuss the Insidious movie series. I have only watched one of these, but fortunately it was the one that focuses almost entirely on Lin Shaye.
Serializing Now: “The Safecrackers’ Take”
“The Safecrackers’ Take” is now serializing on the Casefile of Jay Moriarty website! The first three chapters are available now, and subsequent chapters will be posted weekly on Mondays.
This Week’s Links
As Rocky, Project Hail Mary’s James Ortiz Helped Save the Universe — and Hollywood
“My own queerness being present in what I did with Rocky was not something that I necessarily was actively trying to insert,” Ortiz says. “It’s just who I am.”
‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre
“We had wolves coming into the village because all the wild animals moved out of the forest.”
Macmillan Staff Say the Publisher Threw a Party for a Workplace AI Assistant That Was Later Killed
One Macmillan employee remembers a Chaptr representative reassuring workers during an early in-person training session that Chaptr understood publishers were dealing with something very important—content. “And here I thought we were publishing literature,” the employee says.
If the AO3 outage has left you without anything to read, here’s your reminder that most of my writing is available on my website for free.
-K
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