Back up your LJs!

I know this post is for a very small audience here on Tumblr but some of my oldest friends I met on LiveJournal are still here, so I'm making it anyway just in case.

But there have been some changes at LJ recently that do not bode well at all. Rahaeli made a thread about it on bsky with some more worrying details. For a bit of background on this, LJ is surprisingly big in Russia. Like way more than on the western side, and it's been owned by a Russian company for a long time now (it wasn't always - there was a big controversy when LJ got sold to the Russians back in the day).

The Russian side of LJ dropped a very big change on Dec 29th without warning on their users, essentially making it so they'd have to register their ID or bank info with LJ to post or comment. Any posts from people outside of Russia, or without Cyrillic services turned on, are invisible and can't be interacted with by people inside Russia. It's nearly impossible to turn Cyrillic services on if you're not in Russia either, so there's a big wall now between both sets of users. Rahaeli speculates that this could mean the Russian company that owns LJ could be considering selling off or just shutting down the western side of LJ soon, thus why they're sectioning it off. There's been no mention of this on the western LJ news comms or anything which is also worrying.

Fandom's moved on from LJ now, but that doesn't mean that a large chunk of old fandom didn't take place there before, and if LJ does go down then tons of fic, fanart, meta, communities, kinkmemes, discussions, rp, goes down with it. Everything up in smoke! I think people underestimate sometimes just how much stuff went on there. LJ being dead is much different than LJ being gone... the thought of it really disappearing after all this time breaks my heart. I've spent so much of my life there, even after everyone else left. ;_;

But how to do your backups? Dreamwidth is an easy answer as an LJ clone, with an automated importer that'll snag all your stuff and move it over for you. Another tool I've been using is ljArchive, specifically this fork of it which will also save comments and communities, although it won't get userpics. There's also LJ Archivr, although that one costs money, and I think some others are mentioned in the bsky thread. Whatever you pick, I'd do it sooner than later.

🍀Komaegi Week 2023🍀 Day 1: Green/Clover

Decided to do both because why not. Let the bois have their fashion moment.

So I've got this idea to make a series of connecting charms/keychains! The idea is that each one would have a hole/clasp on the top and hole on the bottom so you can connect them to each other and make a chain! You can just get the ones you're interested in and hook them up in whatever way you want! I just went with my main crew so far but these are fun to do, haha. I'm looking into getting these made but I haven't decided on anything yet... depending on how it works out, maybe I'll do some other ones if there's a demand for them. Tempted to make some for some of my OTPs...

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happy bday nagito i forgot to draw u something so have this real old wip from 2022 i think

I would like to note that contrary to popular belief, tuxedo cats are not little businessmen!

tuxedo is formal party attire, if you wore one at a business function, you would be inappropriately dressed!

tuxedo cats are, instead, lil fancy guys, darling socialites, even

Further, some authors may never even find out the lawsuit is happening. The court's suggested notification scheme "would require class claimants to themselves notify other potential rightsholders," groups said, overlooking the fact that it cost Google $34.5 million "to set up a 'Books Rights Registry' to identify owners for payouts under the proposed settlement" in one of the largest cases involving book authors prior to the AI avalanche of lawsuits.

If you're an author, please use this database to see if you could qualify for that sweet GenAI lawsuit money.

I have never ever ever in my life asked someone to blaze my posts.

But if you want to throw me some pennies blaze this. I want ALL OF THE AUTHORS to know that they have the opportunities to get some sweet sweet GenAI lawsuit money.

Like to charge. Reblog to cast that Anthropic will have to pay out the ass.

-fae

Ohhhh but Brusk, Smoker started playing guitar when she was still
dating JuanShhhh in this Au, which I totally didn't just make up to
justify that. She met Smoker much earlier, shhhh.

I really hope you like this little video with its rough editing lol. Ahhh,
I'm also grateful to the pirated copy of Filmora, which probably
messed up my laptop, but it really didn't disappoint.

It took me three weeks! Haha, I really didn't think it would take so
long, but that's okay, it was a fun project! It was the first time I had
drawn the ladies so often! I'll definitely do it more, I love them so
much! And I love every story you write, you don't know how much
your stories have saved me, you really deserve the cake you ate for
your birthday (again, sorry for the delay, I underestimated my
abilities, lol).

I hope you're having a nice day/night, you really deserve it.

Happy birthday again!
@zarla-s

Close ups of some of the frames!

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truly from the bottom of my heart i hate the level of enshittification etsy has reached because it's still the best place to buy patterns for my hobby and every time i go scrolling through endless ai-generated bullshit to finally dig up a human-designed pattern i like, i'm hit with a deluge of 'popular!! 563 people are looking at this right now!! it's in 134632 baskets!! you must buy immediately!!!' it's a pdf file. it's a fucking pdf file. do you get off on trying to give people fomo over a fucking pdf file. fuck off. get diarrhea forever.

drops the finished fem!komaegi wip and runs

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Everyone: Please please please don't write your books in Google Docs. Frankly don't use Google Drive for personal stuff.

Their terms of service say they take down stuff like content related to terrorism and trafficking, but this Google Sheet was literally a list of movies I'd watched this year and books I'd read.