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AWS outage

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.

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Whumptober: failed rescue attempt

Loosely on the theme of failed rescue attempts, or at least rescue attempts that the rescuer believes to be a failure, a Looks Back missing scene for today's Whumptober.

No. 15: “You can take a break, if you just tell me that it hurts.”
Failed Rescue Attempt | Body Part in the Mail | Live-Streamed Torture

( Looks Back ficlet, gen, 900 words )

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Whumptober: there's nothing you can do, nothing you can say

This one is part of the Marie/Erich married-with-children AU I wrote last year for FIAB. And I apologise for doing this, but the trouble is I wrote the story in the wrong order and this was part of it in my head before I wrote the scene where Leo was born. So now it's extra horrible, but here it is.

( double drabble, WW2 and child death warning )