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.
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
3 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
draggianuniverse
3 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!
draggianuniverse
3 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...
draggianuniverse
3 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...
draggianuniverse
3 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.)
draggianuniverse
3 weeks 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
3 weeks 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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I'll be back from my holiday trip on January 2nd. Fanfic hub link: https://draggianuniverse.neocities.org/fanfic
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.