Fallout

[norcumi]

I deleted the tumbl app off my phone today. It’s...interesting, I suppose, how many mixed feelings I have about this purge. On the one hand, there is spite: I will stick around until I get bored with being repeatedly booted, and I have a REMARKABLE amount of patience for stupid games like that.

On the other hand, there’s this sensation permeating everything. It’s not quite grief, it’s not quite fear, it’s not quite exasperated exhaustion. All those are in there, but I don’t know what to call it other than ‘melancholy’ and that’s not quite right either.

I know that online spaces are ephemeral. I spent the last two weeks preparing for a possible deletion, and to be quite honest I was pretty sure that it would happen.

And here it is.

I’m tired in a way that kinda surprises me, but it’s familiar. I keep flipping from a snarky, almost jovial ‘welp, that’s a thing’ and then remembering tumblr specific fic that now is only in my files, followed by an emotion best conveyed as ‘ARGH. I have to do something about that!’

Concordance.

Defiant Refrain.

Commander Kenobi.

Gods, I want to go looking and there is no easy way to search my archive, it’s just all plopped down there, and best I can do is literally skim backwards and hope I remember when things were.

::scrubs face:: I just don’t trust Tumblr to not disappear out from underneath me again. I think what I need to do is an actual, schedule-time-for-this-every-day project where I’m digging back through the archive and migrating everything. Cross-post things, toss as much onto AO3 as I can. Maybe set up some kind of cross-index via spreadsheet or worksheet or something, I don’t know.

If anyone wants me to post any particular things, or for me to search for reblogs of your particular things while I’m doing this, please let me know.  

Comments

[meltc]

Has your Tumblr been deleted? If not I used tumblthree which can back up individual tags.

If it has then that's a shame and I'm sorry.

[norcumi]

Thank you! My account got terminated on the 17th, so I've a "for spite!" account up now at https://norcumii.tumblr.com/ - but I think I won't be trusting it as a main blog.

Meanwhile, I at least have backups, but they're not the easiest to dig through.

[dotspotdashslash]

Yeah, this whole thing sucks all around. :(

[norcumi]

Amen. ::shares many cookies::

[herothief]

Omg, so that's why my dash has felt off the last couple of days, you've been gone ;_;

God, you (and Dogmatix) are the one that got me into Clone Wars (with Star to Steer By) which has now taken over my life and your tumblr was awesome, this is kind of devestating, and that's just from the perspective of being a fan! I can't imagine what its like for you, at least you were able to download it, even if it's not in the most accessible way :/

[norcumi]

::shares cookies:: Well that was bawling I didn't expect to start the day with. That is VERY kind of you, though!

I'm...dealing, there's mostly just frustration and weird 3 am ponderings that I'm not sure what to do with.

If you don't mind me asking, did you as a reader utilize my tumblr much? I guess I figured it was metaphorical 'dvd bonus material' along with a place for me to blather, but I have no actual idea how people DID interact with it, and now I'm wondering if I ought to try making the download accessible (along with all the archiving I will be doing).

[herothief]

I utilized the fuck your of your tumblr, lol. I had had multiple tabs open at any given time just scouring your various tags to see all the one shots and headcanons and stuff you had written, and all the Clone Wars stuff you had reblogged. Those last few days where you were just reblogging every random thing that caught your interest was Delightful as well. I was (and still feel like i am) very new to the fandom and I used your blog to orient myself and figure out how to best go about curating fan content.

If you did make the download accessible I would love that, but like no pressure, idk how difficult that would be.

[norcumi]

::FLAILS::
<33333
Well, I dunno if it's going to be as useful, but I think over the next few days I'm going to see how crazy it is to try and put up the archive on the ancient website I never use anymore. It'd take someone with better CSS skills than I to figure out how to sort it, but at least that'll be doable. *knocks on wood* Thank you very much for the input! (and the feels. I was not expecting to use those feels, and I'm going to be flailing over that for awhile <3333)

[herothief]

Well i look forward to being able to download the archive! And if you ever need more feels to flail over, I'm always free to chat! My Discord is herothief#3430