#(i had some user-error queueing this one)

[fictionadventurer]

Fortnight of Books 2024: Day 4

Favorite author you discovered this year

Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Her Jane Austen-meets-Conan Doyle style is so fun! She's got the perfect blend of domesticity and mystery. Her descriptions are immersive while remaining readable. She's now my third-favorite Victorian author, behind Gaskell and Collins.

Technically, I had read The Christmas Hirelings, but I didn't discover it was by her until this year. Which I think still counts as discovering her.If that doesn't count, some other contenders are:

William Thackeray: I love a man who's having this much fun with his writing. He gets too mean and cynical, but it's because he's an idealist.

Margot Benary-Isbert: I loved the ability to highlight the everyday goodness and human emotions in bleak circumstances.

Margaret Oliphant: She has a compassion toward her characters that reminds me of Gaskell or Goudge.

Charlotte E. English: Unfortunately, her use of magic in Miss Landon and Aubranael goes just a bit beyond what I'm comfortable with, but I loved the storytelling style (especially the second-person interludes that probably inspired some things I wrote this year)

John Henry Newman: His style's too dense for my taste, but I also love his personality, his philosophy, and his sarcasm

Author you read the most in 2024?

Thanks to the Little House reread, it was once again Laura Ingalls Wilder, with seven. (Plus several other books related to the Little House series).

Second place is probably a tie between G.K. Chesterton and Elizabeth Gaskell, with five books each (though one of Gaskell's is a short story within a longer work.

[eimochirou]

➊   ·   F4F   ː please proceed and read to @/shiagrosie's R&R for followback and replies.

➊   ·   REQUESTS   ː request queues may take awhile to be fulfilled, please be patients.

no age on their bio = no tags, requests denied, and will be blocked.

ABOUT THE USER

the user is named SEICHI, a 26 year-old 4th year psychology student who aspires to be a decent writer of any genre. they have been writing since 5th grade and has posted and published few oneshots all around the internet— maining on facebook and x (formerly named twitter). they write different kind of genres from smut to fluff to angst, depending on the contents. be aware that the user only accepts requests that are according to their dos and donts. any request beyond that would be immediately denied.

WHAT I DO WRITE

➊   ·   GENRE   ː the user mostly write fluff, angst, smut, melodrama. basically any genres excluding fantasy, high-fantasy, and cyberpunk. the user has been experimenting on sci-fic and thrillers as of the moment.

➊   ·   PAIRINGS   ː usual paringa consists of a character (fandom) x oc. the user usually writes on this kind of pairing because this is their comfort pairing. they could also write some like character x reader, but on a moderation level. they're still trying to work on their capabalities of 2nd person's point of view.

➊   ·   LANGUAGE   ː all fics are written in english language to accommodate broader and wider spectrum of readers. be aware that english is not the user's 1st language so expect grammar errors and spelling errors ahead.

➊   ·   ADDITIONAL   ː in the future, the user may starts to write taboo topics that may not be suitable for all the readers. proceed with precautions and read at your own risks.

MASTERLIST

— here lies all the posted contents, drabbles, headcanons, and fictions of the user. feel free to click and navigate.

WHAT'S NEW?

BLAZING HEAT

ALPHABET OF EROTICA 2 — bartender todoroki shotou is known to be quiet and reserved despite being popular amongst the club you two is working for, maybe it be with men or women. he'd just smile at them and shrug their obvious flirting with him because the only thing he want to indulge himself is your BLAZING HEAT.

WHO'S SHE?

YCMH PART ONE — baseball pitcher!bakugou katsuki x female reader in which you have been maintaining the distance you and katsuki has. watching him from afar, watching his games from the other side of the field, and secretly rooting for him. until one day katsuki caught your attention, and if destiny's so playful it sent you his friends (your friends) that keeps you pushing closer to him.

ATTENTION

ALPHABET OF EROTICA 1 — it is known that neito monoma has been picking a fight with your class since the first time your class and his had ever encountered each other in high school. it's been 6 years, you are all in college and it seems like he only wanted your ATTENTION.

DO NOT INTERACT IF...

✦﹔ some of my contents are rated 18+. please, before interacting and proceeding into reading the user's blogs, read the tags and warnings first because they will never interact to minor readers when it comes to their smut pieces. MINORS, PLEASE IGNORE THE R18+ POST.

✦﹔ if you are racist, homophobic, biphobic or if you do and support anything against basic human rights

HARD PASS ON THOSE PEOPLE WHO DOESN'T HAVE ANYTHING GOOD TO SAY. THE USER WRITES FOR THEIR OWN ENTERTAINMENT AND NOT TO PLEASE OTHERS. SO YOU ARE TO HATE THEIR SHIPS, THEN BACK OFF.

CREDITS

✦﹔ all pictures that will be used on the future blogs are not the user's property. every pieces will be credited properly to their rightful owners.

✦﹔ the pretty divider used is from @/saradika-graphics. feel free to browse their galleries and give them a follow < 3

a reblog and like from this pinned post will be highly appreciated! thank you so muuuch! < 3

[hydrus]

Version 535

windows

zip

exe

macOS

app

linux

tar.gz

I had a good couple weeks working on better petition-processing workflow for repository janitors. Most users won't see this, so you can ignore most of this release!

full changelog

krita and SVG

Thanks to two different users, hydrus gets Krita (.kra, .krz) and SVG (.svg) support today. Both formats also get thumbnails!

These formats can get quite complicated, so if you have one that won't import right (for Krita, it'll look like a zip; for SVG, probably HTML), please send it in and I'll have a look. Same for if the thumbnails are broken, although there's a limit to how clever we can go there.

Adding SVG also exposed that I don't have a good category/pipeline for handling vector vs raster graphics. Several things like thumbnail size calculations are different with an SVG (which has no true fixed resolution), so I will be doing several waves of background updates in future to handle this and other vectors better.Who knows, we might have beautifully zooming SVG media viewer support with one day.

petitions

Ok, this was almost all of my work this past two weeks. It kind of kicked my ass, but I'm happy it is done. It changes UI that only a handful of users see, so most users can skip over it completely.

For server admins, this new tech needs a server update, and it is not compatible with older clients (nor can newer clients talk to older servers), so please plan to update your server and janitors' clients at roughly the same time. It isn't going to break anything, but the client won't be able to do janitor work and will produce some harmless errors either way.

For janitors, I've made the petition processing page handle multiple petitions at once. There's a new panel, a multi-column list, and when you click the 'fetch petitions' button, it populates with as many petitions as you like. You can see and sort by the action (ADD, DELETE, REPLACE), account id, reason, and total size (e.g. '60 mappings in 12 petitions'), and then double-click any to highlight it in the normal petition UI you are used to.

This is about speed of processing. When you process a petition, it starts uploading in the background and the page moves immediately on to the next one. No more waiting for the server to summon another petition. Also, it gives you a better overview of your queue and even lets you mass-approve/deny a set of petitions when one account or reason keeps making good or bad stuff. You can fire off twenty petitions in one go and quickly move on to the next.

There's also some quality of life improvements. There's a little layout improvement. The current petition type you are working on is now highlighted with a '*' on the respective button. The page also remembers what type of petitions you were looking at, and what you set the 'show this many files' widget to, and the new 'how many petitions to fetch' value.

Now, what works in my small testing environment may struggle at scale, especially the PTR. I dump a good amount of new CPU into selecting this new petition list, so maybe fetching 40 petitions takes too long and you have to turn it down to 10, or maybe this lags out when you get a 100,000 mapping petition, or maybe the queue order is borked somehow. This is just a first version of this new system, so let me know how it works and I'll tune it.

And there is more I already want to do. The new list could do with a right-click menu for copying account id and retrying failures, and some of the widgets (sort-by, num files) could do with some show/hide tech on petition types they don't apply to, and it would be nice to have some shortcuts working. I also think the management panel is too tall now, so maybe I'll fold it somehow into tabs, or allow a double-wide panel, or just have more aggressive show/hide or resizable layout? In any case, I'll keep banging away at this.

next week

I've got a ton of normal small work piled up, so I'm back to that for a while. Thanks for your patience.