New Vampire Haven update
Apr. 15th, 2026 11:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dannye_chase
My newsletter just came out with another Vampire Haven sneak peak! (NSFW) The Vampire Haven is a 6-novella M/M erotic romance series of vampires falling in love.
Read it in my free newsletter (NSFW)
In 1960 California, a dignified, old-money vampire and a flashy, new-money vampire get along fantastically in the bedroom, and absolutely nowhere else.
❤️ Old money/New money
🧡 Bickerflirting
💛 It’s requited, they’re just stupid
💚 Vampire bite kink
💙 1960’s surfer culture
💜 Found family
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The Summer of Scifi and Fantasy, Volume 5
Apr. 14th, 2026 11:16 amdannye_chaseY'all, the kickstarter is live for The Summer of Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Volume 5 from Worldstone Publishing! Launch is May 1.
My story is The Burning Basement Sky: A traumatized Capitol Hill intern suspects the government scientists who invented time travel are planning an unthinkable crime.
The littlest things, Sue thought, fidgeting in her vintage mittens in the Boston cold. The littlest things, like an unscrewed lightbulb killing five hundred people.
Sue’s breath clouded the air as black cars with lantern headlights passed on Piedmont Street, slowing near the entrance to the Cocoanut Grove nightclub. Ladies in winter coats and boxy heels stepped spritely in the winter wind that scudded along the sidewalk. Music swirled out to the street as the revolving door slowly spun patrons into the club. Few came back out. On this night, many never would.
Based on the real Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire in 1942.
Check out the anthology for tons of great stories!
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The case of the missing notifications
Apr. 11th, 2026 11:58 pm![[staff profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user_staff.png){kind=small}
denise posting in ![[site community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/comm_staff.png){kind=small}
dw_maintenanceI keep forgetting to post about this: we've been troubleshooting the "missing notifications" problem for the past few days. (Well, I say "we", really I mean Mark and Robby; I'm just the amanuensis.) It's been one of those annoying loops of "find a logical explanation for what could be causing the problem, fix that thing, observe that the problem gets better for some people but doesn't go away completely, go back to step one and start again", sigh.
Mark is hauling out the heavy debugging ordinance to try to find the root cause. Once he's done building all the extra logging tools he needs, he'll comment to this entry. After he does, if you find a comment that should have gone to your inbox and sent an email notification but didn't, leave him a link to the comment that should have sent the notification, as long as the comment itself was made after Mark says he's collecting them. (I'd wait and post this after he gets the debug code in but I need to go to sleep and he's not sure how long it will take!)
We're sorry about the hassle! Irregular/sporadic issues like this are really hard to troubleshoot because it's impossible to know if they're fixed or if they're just not happening while you're looking. With luck, this will give us enough information to figure out the root cause for real this time.
Dear Fandom5k Creator
Apr. 11th, 2026 09:49 pmtrobadoraDear ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
fandom5k writer,
thank you so much for writing a story for me! I've requested and received all of these fandoms before - some for many, many years, and often with the same prompts, because when I really enjoy something, I immediately want fifty more takes on the same thing. *g* So if that's what we matched on, don't worry about repeating things! I'll be absolutely thrilled about anything you can create about the relationships I requested.
Everything important is in the requests themselves, but if you'd like even more info, general likes etc., here you go.
My AO3 account is![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p2.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
Trobadora, and it's set to welcome treats.
General Preferences
( Likes & Dislikes/DNWs )
Fandoms and relationships
In somewhat alphabetical order - note that some sections are expanded compared to the sign-up form:
Jump directly to:
( 镇魂 | Guardian (TV): Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan, Ya Qing/Zhu Hong, Shen Wei & Ya Qing )
( Grimm/Guardian crossovers: Nick Burkhardt & Sean Renard & Shen Wei & Zhao Yunlan, Sean Renard & Shen Wei & Zhao Yunlan, Juliette Silverton & Shen Wei & Zhao Yunlan, Juliette Silverton & Shen Wei, Sean Renard & Shen Wei, Sean Renard & Ya Qing, Sean Renard/Ya Qing )
( Nantucket Trilogy - S.M. Stirling: Kashtiliash & Raupasha )
( Sherlock (BBC): Jim Moriarty/Sherlock Holmes )
( 山河令 | Word of Honor: Wen Kexing/Zhou Zishu )
fandom5k writer,thank you so much for writing a story for me! I've requested and received all of these fandoms before - some for many, many years, and often with the same prompts, because when I really enjoy something, I immediately want fifty more takes on the same thing. *g* So if that's what we matched on, don't worry about repeating things! I'll be absolutely thrilled about anything you can create about the relationships I requested.
Everything important is in the requests themselves, but if you'd like even more info, general likes etc., here you go.
My AO3 account is
General Preferences
( Likes & Dislikes/DNWs )
Fandoms and relationships
In somewhat alphabetical order - note that some sections are expanded compared to the sign-up form:
Jump directly to:
- Grimm: Nick/Renard/Juliette
- 镇魂 | Guardian (TV): Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan, Ya Qing/Zhu Hong, Shen Wei & Ya Qing
- Grimm/镇魂 | Guardian (TV) crossovers: Shen Wei & Zhao Yunlan & Sean Renard & Nick Burkhardt, Shen Wei & Zhao Yunlan & Sean Renard, Shen Wei & Zhao Yunlan & Juliette Silverton, Shen Wei & Sean Renard, Shen Wei & Juliette Silverton, Sean Renard & Ya Qing, Sean Renard/Ya Qing
- Nantucket Trilogy - S.M. Stirling: Kashtiliash & Raupasha
- Sherlock (BBC): Sherlock/Moriarty
- 山河令 | Word of Honor: Wen Kexing/Zhou Zishu
( 镇魂 | Guardian (TV): Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan, Ya Qing/Zhu Hong, Shen Wei & Ya Qing )
( Grimm/Guardian crossovers: Nick Burkhardt & Sean Renard & Shen Wei & Zhao Yunlan, Sean Renard & Shen Wei & Zhao Yunlan, Juliette Silverton & Shen Wei & Zhao Yunlan, Juliette Silverton & Shen Wei, Sean Renard & Shen Wei, Sean Renard & Ya Qing, Sean Renard/Ya Qing )
( Nantucket Trilogy - S.M. Stirling: Kashtiliash & Raupasha )
( Sherlock (BBC): Jim Moriarty/Sherlock Holmes )
( 山河令 | Word of Honor: Wen Kexing/Zhou Zishu )
Graveyard Guardians
Apr. 8th, 2026 11:34 amdannye_chase Hey, y’all, it’s Weird Wednesday! Where on some Wednesdays, I blog about weird stuff and give writing prompts.
Today: Graveyard Guardians
Welcome to Weird Wednesday! Today we’re strolling through a graveyard looking for guardians made of stone.
From angels to crosses to lambs, grief and art combine in fascinating ways in cemeteries. Today we’re going to talk about a subset of memorial statues that are said to represent guardians of the deceased (though interpretations of course vary).
Lions
Whether the type you’d see in a zoo, or Chinese lion/dog hybrids, lion statues are often used as greeters and guardians, tasked with protecting both the living and the dead. The Chinese lions are often a male and female pair.
Angels
Angels are ubiquitous in cemeteries. When we’re talking about guardian angels specifically, we mean those holding a sword and/or pointing up. The sword gives quite a clear message, while an angel pointing up indicates they’re the guard of a soul on the way to heaven. The gaze of guardian angels may also point up to their destination, or down at the grave.
Read the rest of this post on my blog and get writing prompts, such as:
Watch our sleeping, guard our waking. Having a guardian in a graveyard begs the question: who or what are they guarding against? What enemy does the soldier or angel face? As a speculative writer, the question is wide open to anything that might creep into a graveyard: monsters, vampires, zombies, the devil, ghosts of the other deceased. But just what could those creatures do to a soul that’s already passed on, or the body they left behind? Obviously, there are various types of monsters made of reanimated bodies. Could a graveyard statue somehow protect against a zombie plague?
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