On Saturday the 14th at 4AM UTC/GMT we will be upgrading the operating system of our network load balancers to a newer version, one that will allow us to use both CPUs! Nifty, because multiprocessing is nice.

Since we have 2 load balancers, the plan is to upgrade 1 at a time, and there really should be very little impact to our website. Hopefully you won't notice a thing and I'll get to go back to the hotel and watch some wonderful late night infomercials.

We've got a lot of exciting projects coming up for 2010 and we're hoping that we'll be able to deliver them all to you, that you will find it useful/cool/lovely and then you will use the site even more. Behind-the-scenes work like this will give us the capacity to handle the anticipated traffic, so expect a few more maintenance windows especially in the beginning of next year as we've got some neat ideas to improve performance around here! We had the recent 30-45 minute outage yesterday due to one of our logging databases filling up disk space -- not so great design coupled with my human error in handling the initial problem -- and it looks like we're going to finally have some resources to eliminate stuff like that. I can't wait!

As usual, I will be updating status.livejournal.org before and after, just in case you are not able to reach our main website during the work.

I read a fic that touched briefly on this theme the other day, and as it's implied in the books, I wondered if there were any other fics around in which Sirius drinks too much, or too frequently, or to deal with problems etc.? Not necessarily from the OotP era, just in general.

Thanks guys. :)

Does anyone know of any R/S (or even non-R/S...gasp) fics where consent plays a significant part and/or is made sexy?
Thanks.

 Hey everyone =)
This is an absolutely delightful community - I've been lurking and reading fics for the past few months. This is my first request, so please don't throw things if I do something wrong.

I'm looking for some recommendations... 

1. Anything involving one of the boys wearing make-up or cross-dressing.

2. I adore fics when Remus is gay, knows it, and Sirius is the clueless one. Anything along these lines.

3. Fics when one or both realize that they're gay (or bisexual. just not straight xD)

I've read pretty much everything under the tags for these things... and I really dislike AUs, and one-shots are preferred, but multi-parts are absoutely welcome. Thank you so much!

Tags: genre:glam/glitter, kink:cross dressing, remus:gay, sirius:realises he's gay

 Have been looking through the 'kink: watersports' tag, but haven't found much. Anyone know of any good fics? Can involve any type of watersports: desperation, accidental or deliberate wetting etc. 

Thanks!

xx

Tags: kink:watersports

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Hey guys,

I'm looking for a fic I've only heard descriptions about.

It's called "Scenes from the Life of Sirius Black and Remus Lupin" and I found it via an old accio_rs entry (here)

But I can't find it on the internet! Any help would be appreciated!

Here's the description of that story from that entry: 
The first one was a "coming together" fic, possibly multichapter. What I can remember is that the boys realised they love each other, when they were brewing amortentia in Potions class and Slughorn was teaching them. To Remus amortentia smelled like grass and smoke (cigarettes) and it was quite a shock to him when he realised whom he was smelling. After the Potions class the pups went down by the lake to discuss what had happened, and Sirius states at some point "You love me - and I love you".

This was a very lovely fic and felt very realistic - I can't believe I've lost it.

Thanks!
 

Tags: era:hogwarts era, potion:amortentia

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I need some great in denial!Sirius, who gets jealous when Remus is with other people but doesn't want to admit that he's in love with him.

MWPP era preferred, but anything's good.

Thank you!

Tags: mwpp fic
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 I don't know if this is in the tags, but if it is I didn't see it because I'm an asshat.

Anyway, I'm looking for a nonmagical AU in which Remus is some sort of  child prodigy of art. He goes through a mental breakdown?- I think- and he's sickly, so he quits and disappears. Then he gets accepted into a school (I don't know if it was called Hogwarts), and McGonagalls a sculpting teacher and James is a sculptor, and that's about as far into it as I got. I never finished it and, like an idiot, didn't bookmark it. Any help would be appreciated :)

Ooh, and if there are any fics from Sirius' point of view where he's COMPLETELY head-over-heels for Remus and totally knows he's gay would be fab, too. I've been wanting one of those for a while, now.



Thanks! 

Tags: au:non-magic, sirius:gay
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