Is there any reason to call the summary of the important takeaways of an informational article a "TLDR" when one could call it an abstract? I think not. https://rentry.co/mandymurders
Hasn't been 24 hours since the last update; 2025 has been added to the yearly recaps page. There's some reflection in here, too, so it isn't just a rehash of my changelog updates. https://draggianuniverse.neocities.org/yearlyrecap
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My file system still needs to be (re)organized before I leave for Toronto on the 23rd, so whether In Which Zane Is Produced and the Mandy Murders / EtF Q&A reports get up by the end of the year is a "we'll see". But Reverse Mode III is finally up. I recommend reading its description on the fanfic page before diving in, since it's much darker than most Dudesverse stories, and less self-contained.
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I'll be back from my holiday trip on January 2nd. Fanfic hub link: https://draggianuniverse.neocities.org/fanfic
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2 weeks ago
Dudesverse 2025 holiday special is coming sometime after IWZIP and the Mandy Murders research report update happen, which might end up being later in January.
good news: I have recovered my files that vanished from the backup drive. thank you, Recova for windows. bad news: https://files.catbox.moe/3d6ruo.mp4
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draggianuniverse
2 weeks ago
site updates will be delayed, including uploading reverse mode iii, because I need to completely reorganize literally tens of thousands of files. recuva does not preserve directories...but it is better than them all being lost for good? (I do not want tech advice. I am getting another backup drive when I am in an actual city and can shop.)
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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
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2 weeks ago
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!
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2 weeks ago
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...
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2 weeks ago
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...
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2 weeks ago
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/
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.)
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2 weeks ago
https://file.garden/ZvBqN3lQEnLVuczj/Reverse_Mode_III.docx > also tons of production lore on the thoughts.page / archive thereof under "site related".
This will have a full bibliography along with screenshots and hyperlinks. I just need to go back to my Discord messages to get those -- there, they're all in one place, and also MySpace was really slow to load on Web Archive so I'd rather not do that again.
This will be uploaded, and the post about the rest of the 2024 Tucson EtF VIP stuff + the last two In Which Zane Is Produced segments will be written, sometime. I leave for my holiday trip tomorrow and won't be back until the new year, so if the 2025 resolution isn't fulfilled until January, you mind your own business.
i also intend to further my personal, intentional and willing, ronnie-ization in the first week of january with two new tattoos, so the sona human ref revamp is postponed until i know what those look like and can draw them accurately