what the fuck is up, I have now lost basically every digital file I have made since 2021. made a backup to my external drive. deleted old backups to save space bc I thought the system utility would work. did not move external and it worked yesterday. plugged in drive after reinstall...and files were not there. what the fuck
Reverse Mode III is done and will be HTML-ified tomorrow, because I kinda wrote 8,000 words today by accident. I started and was unable to stop. So, the only WIP backlog story remaining is In Which Zane Is Produced, and the only thing on my 2025 new years list is finally making the EtF Q&A post from what I did last winter break! (sona ref upd8 is being delayed until I can get my moving-commemoration werewolf tattoo.)
draggianuniverse
2 days ago
https://file.garden/ZvBqN3lQEnLVuczj/Reverse_Mode_III.docx > also tons of production lore on the thoughts.page / archive thereof under "site related".
Scene assessments / SAASP will be postponed even longer than they already were (I still need to debloat my library) because FreeTube has stopped working on my Mint partition. I literally can't open it without my entire system crashing. Other apps have had this problem too, so I'm wondering if this laptop is just about to die, but I'd rather it not over winter break because I have nothing else to do...
draggianuniverse
2 days ago
If my boy does die, then I'm going to be asking for phone-drawn commissions / Ko-Fi / tips for more than just my hosting fees, because I literally can't do my creative stuff on the work computer; it is a basic bare bones laptop without enough USB ports or space.
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New miscellanea blog post ranting about behavior I've seen on both Neocities and in my postbac -- TLDR, the concept of "brainrot" is just cringe culture with a new coat of paint; let the kids have fun. https://draggianuniverse.neocities.org/miscellanea/brainrot
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Hey, so I enabled tips. This doesn't change anything about what I'm going to post here or when; I will post what I want when I want because this is something I do for fun. That being said, I do spend money on this for hosting and am not currently employed because of legal delays. (turns out the SIN office doesn't understand nonbinary folks.) So, if you like what I do, tips are appreciated but not expected.
draggianuniverse
3 days ago
Also set up a Ko-Fi if you prefer that, which will be linked on the homepage as well: https://ko-fi.com/enforcer_draggianuniverse
draggianuniverse
3 days ago
If you want me to draw you something specific, then my commission info is here. https://draggianuniverse.neocities.org/commissions
draggianuniverse
3 days ago
I'm on winter break this coming month and have literally nothing better to do, so if you wanted to commission me, this is the best time to do it.
Ronnie's Awakening is finished, it somehow ended up being 30,000 words long, and it will be put onsite tomorrow. (it's one of my older 4thewords drafts so it saved oddly with weird word wrapping. I had to reformat the HTML output even beyond the prettifier / indent remover and now my hands hurt). I'm quite proud of it.
draggianuniverse
3 days ago
I think I can say with confidence that I write the highest quality and most lore-accurate Ronnie Radke fanfic in existence. This is mostly due to all Falling In Reverse fans being awful and not having reading comprehension, and it isn't a very competitive field in 2025, but it's nice knowing that I'm the best at SOMETHING.
cool and sexy new art piece on the rrverse art + general art page. it's a concept for a tattoo I'm planning to get later this month or in January, which is definitely why I haven't finished my sona's ref revamp yet (dubious - discuss). also here: https://draggianuniverse.neocities.org/fanfic/art/rrverse/emowerewolf.png
When I make and copy a backup folder to an external drive (because I did not have the partition space to have two copies of everything) with the system backup utility, I expect it to BE THERE when I plug in that drive after reinstalling! Because that's how backups work!
good news is that all my most important creative stuff is on here and I have my work computer for KeePass and my required school and work files, but I just lost all personal creative work and photos that didn't go onto the site. not that I looked at them but...
good news is that the story I wrote last night is on 4thewords and file garden, and I think my windows partition is OK so my sona ref revamp clip file should persist. so this shouldn't disrupt site operations...
Hopefully I can finally fucking open FreeTube again without it crashing. that's all I wanted. I don't understand how an issue with my graphics driver even turned into being unable to successfully boot in the first place and how it got to this point. https://xkcd.com/349/