Monthly Projects: October 2026
Pillowfort's closing announcement and its effects on the community permeate every corner of this month's update. As usual, these posts have been useful to ground myself and make peace with its eventual loss.
Web Weaving (earliest -> latest)
Website updates
- New webring widgets on main site (haven't joined them all yet): Glaze webring (Namiverse fans), ADHD Me, OC Webring, Virtual Star Embryology (Utena fans), Melanated (POC).
- New fanlisting on main site: Kirkyuu Nanami from Revolutionary Girl Utena.
- Archived Snowflake Challenge 2026 and Songs of Joy and Resistance entries.
- Updated Fannish 50 2026 masterlist.
- Fixed mobile nav not linking to Writing section.
- Added a couple personal websites to Links and some userboxes in Graphics Hoard.
Linkhub update
- Added three new accounts (treefort, itch.io, and Pixel Cat's End).
- Fixed URL to my 18+ site.
ArimaMary Wiki
- This is an offline personal wiki I'm mirroring from a Notion workspace I created last year. Now that Notion is super slow, limits offline viewing, and has AI, I need another version to use as reference for the character profiles I was to share on my sites. As of writing, it's still in progress.
@arimamary_writing personal Dreamwidth community
- As I was posting most of my writing-related updates on Pillowfort, I went ahead and created a personal comm to switch to. While I'm pretty nervous of relying more and more on Dreamwidth because so many sites have been closing this year, it's the platform that gives me the most control over who can see my stuff.
- Everyone is welcome to subscribe and moots are encouraged to request membership. I post some stuff that are members-only (equivalent of logged-in and followers/mutuals only on Pillowfort).
Namiverse Forum
- This is a work in progress Namiverse mothcolada and I are working on. Slow but steady progress. Edit: The forum it's online now. Took me that long to get this post out.
So. Many. Dreamwidth journal edits...
- While I was trying to add an equivalent for my Pillowfort sidebar, mostly due to someone saying it wasn't a feature on DW and I (mentally) went "bet." While it's not a one to one clone, I now have a little sidebar intro! Added some "I was on" buttons for Cohost and Pillowfort (creators have the respective buttons on the linked pages).
- Not long after, someone shared the collection of Pillowfort badges so I added them as well. I have seen this in a couple of
fortsI mean journals (omg) now and I would like to see it on more others (｡･∀･)ﾉﾞ. Edit: Heck I haven't published this blog post and I'm even writing a tutorial on this thing! - Edited my introduction post. My Following Policy needs some editing tho. Added a section for access groups which I have to move to its own locked post, and added more communities. Also moved the graphics and links to other sites to the custom sidebar (because I can).
- On another sticky, I linked posts to stuff I'm considering and a Laundry Day Checklist. These are actively updated so they are not available on my blogs.
Microblog buttons
- As I was decorating my custom sidebar, I added some graphics to my microblog's homepage and its about page. I still feel like merging the micro page with the landing page. It's just faster to access.
Mastodon Archival
- Pillowfort's shutdown made a lot of folks post about site alternatives, and while Dreamwidth has been the most popular and I'm an active user, I couldn't help being swept by the mood and look into these alternatives. I ended up looking at my Mastodon account and feeling like I wanted to start over. Thus I archived a bunch of posts on my DW personal communities and set up the automatic post deletion for toots older than six months. Nevertheless, I don't feel any more willing to use it so maybe I will switch to a Sharkey instance after publishing these blog posts...
Pillowfort Archival
The term of endearment the community now calls the last day of the site being up, December 4th. The pillowcases and blankets need to be put down to be sent to the laundrymat and be washed, forever (bawls).
- Just a few of days ago, I found the willpower to download my fort with Tassel, a community script thing that brings a lot of cool features to Pillowfort. Fortunately, I had no issues from installing a script managed to Tassel to downloading my fort. I'm grateful for this luck.
- Because reblogs aren't included in this export, I manually went through all of them and copied external links and recommendations for various things. Look forward to a HUGE update of my main site's Links page. (and maybe one for my 18+ site). Someday... The page is gonna be redesigned as well. I'm leaning towards Kalechip's no JS tabs cuz the update is about 3k words long...
Writing (earliest -> latest-ish)
Guess that's a nice little segue for my writing section. I did more non-fiction than I thought because of Laundry Day. Ahhh, PILLOWFORT wahh...
- Kinktober 2026
- Timber Love (18+; 216 words) - This is the month where I repeated themes between fics. This one is an rated M fic with an alternative self attraction thing lmao. It's a fanfic set in the Namiverse, a crossover with Slate and Twigs doing things to Timber. Sexy things (￣y▽,￣)╭ .
- Selfcest (184 words) - I really couldn't think of a better name and I believe it mischaracterizes the contents. It's not sexually explicit, just one bi/pan character meeting their genderbender form and getting teased because they both find each other attractive. It's really tame I promise!
- Marriage (18+; WIP; 2523 + 0 words) - Another misleading name. It should be called Makeup Sex at least XD. I didn't touch this fic at all!
- Fake Cheating (18+; WIP, 2.2k + 500 words) - The final word count makes a bit daunting to edit now. Hopefully I can post it next month (writing during said next month).
- Stranded (WIP; 185 words) - short fic based on @snowedinalonetogether. More of a vent fic.
- Omegaverse (18+; WIP; 496 words) - scene based on the Omegavere story I'll touch one day.
- Strap-on (18+; WIP; 156 words) - After writing about KeiKiyo lesbians, my mind was consumed. This one is an actual official Kinktober prompt.
- Katekyo Hitman Reborn Rarepair Week
- Day 1: Forced Proximity (1,096 words; final) - after so many months, I finished editing my first KHR fic! It's a GokuTsuna one sided crush fic set during Season 1. I wanted to channel the mood of the Daily Life episodes with wild stuff happening that gets fixed at the end. I really enjoy this relationship! Not sure how to add the word count as this was mostly editing and it ended up shorter than the first draft.
- Day 2: Forbidden Love AU (WIP) - I haven't touched this fic so the word count should be the same as last month's.
- For the Freedom to Love Act II (1,8k~w + 900w = 2,7k~ words) - I had so much fun writing! Went straight to act III due to the ending. Bad dog Keima!
- For the Freedom to Love Act III (WIP; 245 words) - I got the moral bug and am worried whether I should be looking for a beta for Act I and II so I haven't continued. I should just keep writing! Getting the script done feels like a priority! I really want to finish it!!!!
- Pillowfort Alternatives - Ceets was asking for personal opinions on Pifo alts and I wrote enough for it to be its on post (because I join sites every other month). Unfortunately having comments open meant people thought I was open to hearing their opinions so I froze them for the first time ever. It's an opinionated masterlist and I delivered.
- Laundry Day Prep #3
- Sakurajima.org: Online Safe Spaces for Japanese Media/Culture Fans
- Laundry Day Prep #4
- Code Snippets for Adding Images
- Laundry Day Prep #5 and #6
- Dreamwidth Blogging Ideas: This one is a crosspost from my Mastodon account.
- Dreamwidth Communities Masterlist (access-only)
Total fic word count: 2,882~ words (shorter fics in larger quantities so it's okay)
Community
I shared a ton of links on Laundry Day Prep #5 and #6 so I don't want to repeat them. There are even more amazing resources on Pillowfort and our little refuge on Dreamwdith, the @pillowfolks community.
- Pillowfort.social will cease to function on December 4th. Lots of users are sharing recommendations, their other sites/accounts, suggestions, and helping each other get settled in other platforms. It's been amazing to see the proactiveness in light of such devastating news. This place was truly special and I was so lucky to be part of it.
- Pillowfort Archival Initiative Discord Server is the place where users and external archivists are gathering to move troves of information and help users settle on other platforms.
- Applied Dreamwidth access filters due to the influx of new users. More than anything, it helps keep my reading list organized.
- Mastodon account cleanup
- As I mentioned in the first section, I have been looking into another platforms and communities (very open minded):
- WAFRN through the Problemeowtic server. It's run by someone who's rather active on Pillowfort and has original emotes. Meow!
- None Website for Left Smut - a catalogue of erotica writers run by Rambling_Chantrix. I'm still pretty nervous about being part of it!!! Further thoughts will probably be in a locked journal entry haha.
- To my chagrin, I joined several Discord servers (emergency measure):
- Erotically Inclined Discord Server
- Namiverse Discord server
- KHR Discord Server
- IE Discord Server (invite-only).
This... has been... a month. As of writing I feel in a much better place mentally. I will keep checking Pillowfort and Dreamwidth to share information where I can. This migration has helped me get more familiar with some of Dreamwidth features and find talented Pillowforters that I want to follow on other websites. It feels like a real migration for lack of a better word.
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