#but SAVE A BACKUP

[zukkaoru]

don't delete your fics without saving a backup of them. i'm being so serious.

#14-16 year old you might want to erase all evidence of the fics that 11-13 year old you wrote #but 21 year old you will wish you had at least bothered to save them in the notes app of your ipod 4 #yes my old fics were awful. no i would not want anyone to read them. #but i really wish i still had them just for myself #if you want your old fics off the internet so other people can't read them anymore that's your choice #but SAVE A BACKUP #paste the whole thing into a google doc. paste it into a word document. save it to your notes app on your phone #email it to yourself. do Something so you don't lose it forever #this is brought to you by the fics i deleted from ffn that i wish i still had access to lol #hello grace here

[raavenb2619]

I’m not sure when exactly this happened, but I think it’s clear that the aro community really is a community, now.

For the longest time I’ve felt like we were still in stasis, not quite there; a proto-community, yes, but not quite a community. But we have more history now to lean back on, more of each other to talk to and laugh with and cry with and learn from. More people that’ll go forward and make a part of modern aro history. More people that believe us, believe in us, will stand with us if we ask them.

I wouldn’t consider myself an aro elder yet, though each year I’m surprised at how long aromanticism has been a part of my life, how long I’ve been free of doubt or insecurity about my aromanticism, how far we’ve come since I was questioning. Then again, when I was questioning, some of the people I looked up to for guidance were probably close to the age I am now, so I might be there sooner than I think.

And, I’m so so hopeful for all aros, young or old, new or not, because we’ve come so far. Day by day, progress is slow (and yes, it’s unfair, it should be so much faster), but looking back it feels fast. We are our own role models, the people we look up to for guidance. We carve our own path through life, making things up as we go. I used to find that terrifying, because I had no idea what the future would bring. But it’s actually amazing, because I can ignore all these silly “rules” and guidelines about what my life should be, and instead ask, “what do I want my life to be?”

Younger me, you have no idea how awesome your future is gonna be. I’m sorry about the pain and hardship you’ll go through first; it won’t be fair and you shouldn’t have to deal with it. But you’ll make it through, and one day you’ll be me. I can’t wait for you to get here.

#aromantic #aro #aspec #queer #lgbtq #original #text #can't believe i was busy on a day when aromantic got super trending #also on the topic of history: history is super important and we should make sure we're good custodians of it! #make backups of your tumblr blogs/wordpress sites/fanfiction/analytical essays/whatever! #save links into the internet archive/wayback machine! #future aros will thank us for every thing we save from link rot #current aros will thank us for keeping our resources alive and accessible

[wispscribbles]

❄️ Remember to bring blankets for your recon mission ❄️

#ghostsoap #soapghost #ghoap #simon ghost riley #john soap mactavish #cod fanart #my art #soap x ghost #ghostsoap fanart #fic fanart #gun tw #call of duty #this drawing has an explanation that I’ll put in a reblog 🫡 #me writing ‘dogs of the military’: hahah what if ghost brought knitted blankets?? heheh that’s funny and cute I’m adding that #me now having to learn how to draw a fucking knitted blanket: I will travel back in time and beat yo ass. how dare I do this to me #also drew rifles despite having no experience drawing guns because I hate having fun :) #this drawing was cursed fr #the program crashed FIVE TIMES #and then my computer started acting super funky and my backup stopped working #I had to save my stuff on a flash drive and it took a whole dang day #on the plus side I might post a bunch of old sketches soon since I’m rediscovering them all and there’s a lot

[unpretty]

why are so many of you not saving the backup codes they give you when you set up two-factor authentication

#original #i print mine out and also save them in the notes section of my password manager #also you should use an authenticator app and not sms whenever possible bc sms is susceptible to sim spoofing #but people not knowing that is not as mindblowing to me #as the thought of seeing 'here are your backup codes' and not frantically saving it in multiple places

[spicymotte]

saw some writing advice today that said "please please pleaseeee use Google Docs, it's so good and sooo convenient" and while that is true, google docs is convenient, for the love of all that is holy MAKE A LOCALLY SAVED COPY OF YOUR BOOK/MANUSCRIPT/FANFICTION. save it as a pdf, word document, whatever, but SAVE IT. twice or even three times, just to be sure. never ever everrr trust in cloud services. especially if it's google holy shit

#everyone put your thinking caps on please #personally I have my books saved on 1. Google Docs 2. as a Word document on my computer 3. on a second cloud service 4. on a NAS server #at my dad's place that saves my files automatically so I always have a backup

[daisytarget]

I am so dumb and stupi dplease ao3 give me one more chance to learn from my mistakes

#so maybe i saved it only on ao3 #and don't have. a backup #ao3 #ao3 is down #archive of our own

[rui-drawsbox]

Comm for @differenteagletragedy! Baxter hoarding the spotlight why not

#rui draw smth #our life: beginnings & always #our life #olba #baxter ward #derek suarez #cove holden #olba xavier #we gotta make a decent tag for xavier #this is the drawing that i saved from the backup files lol #i need Xavier's last name rm #art commisions #commission #xavier valenti

[loupy-mongoose]

Last night, despite getting done with a week-long subbing stint at work and finally arriving at that sweet SWEET weekend... I lost my drawing drive. X3

So, I decided to play some Pokemon.

And I went on a Lati spree.

I brought up that Jamie knows a Latias and Latios on her blog. I've had the LatiAs in question for a few years now, but as far as the LatiOs... I had nothing to work with. XD

So, I started an Omega Ruby (accidentally started Alpha Sapphire first, thankfully realized my mistake early on) and binge played to the point that I could get the boi~

And now that I have him... I thought I'd dive into their characters and some small Lati lore!

And my current idea for how I'd draw them~

Playingaroundwiththeirnameshehe~

Mention of death and injury ahead, but nothing graphic.

Areth and Thusa are siblings--Older sister and younger brother. I'm leaning toward having Latis be laid in twin pairs. However, due to unfortunate circumstances, these two both lost their respective twins, and they come from separate clutches.

Their parents were also lost when Thusa was young, so Areth took up the role of raising her little brother.

One day, Areth was attacked and badly wounded by Sharpedos, so her devoted little brother went to find help. That help was in the form of Jamie's eventual sister-in-law, Rose, who was in the midst of her own trainer journey through Hoenn. Rose took Areth to the Pokemon Center and provided comfort for Thusa as she recovered. Although wary of her, Areth came to trust the human and became a loyal member of her team. Thusa himself never battled, but tagged along and had a jolly old time~

In Scarlet, Areth is a good sight larger than normal, while Thusa is a little bit smaller. I was kinda hoping he'd be smaller than that, but I adore the dynamic I have going with these two! ^w^

#art #I don't know if this'll start a Lati phase for me or not lol #I do love the Latis a lot and have for as long as I've know about them. #And in my world the do scream like in the movie~ #Also I realized after getting and transferring Thusa up that I have one caught in a Dive ball in Shining Pearl that could've been him. #Oh well. XD #At least I have a save backup in case I ever decided to shiny hunt it.

[kizukiti]

hey hi hello!! fun fact I'm actually obsessed with CSD and it gives me so so so much brain rot

he's been plaguing my mind for weeks

Celestial Sundown au by @pillowspace !!! pspsps go check it out if you haven't yet!!!

#I had so many issues with this along the way #my pc came unplugged TWICE #and I thought it deleted everything #because I hadn't saved it yet #but it didn't!! #I had my backup thing set to every 5 minutes #but then towards the end #I realized he was very crooked #curse of forgetting to flip the canvas #the colors were super messed up #and the CLOUDS #I love making them #but they put me through hell #guys i think he cursed me #celestial sundown au #celestial sundown sun #dca au #fnaf dca #fnaf sun #fnaf au #csd #celestial sundown

[lavenoon]

Couple of DCA sponsored self care stickers - feel free to use, credit appreciated but yknow. it's discord lmao. Have fun, wrangle each other into self care <3

#post let luce #fnaf sb #fnaf sun #fnaf moon #my art #yes sun is hiding a fizzy faz #u can have soda as hydration but water would be better so its there as backup #these were just quick things for server but I figured why not share #as emojis theyre all too small #and ik without boosts you can only have 5 custom stickers #so. uh. ig feel free to just save them and send them around #yeah have fun i gotta go work now <3

[getvalentined]

A super fun commission I've been working on for the past several weeks! This is the piece that I lost multiple hours of work on due to power outages enough times to give me a full-on emotional breakdown, and I hope seeing it indicates why that was the case.

This is @poeticphoenix's take on postcanon Genesis, which turns out is almost identical to my take on postcanon Genesis, so this was a super fun project to work on.

Okay one of his legs was bugging me so please reblog this one actually.

#genesis rhapsodos #final fantasy 7 #FF7 #crisis core #crisis core reunion #CCFF7R #art tag #this was so much fun man #once I stopped losing all my work #over and over #that sucked! #a lot!! #but it's fine now #my sister saved me #we have my computer plugged into a battery backup now #so it won't lose power again #great client tbh #super patient with my town reenacting the most famous scene from Frankenstein #with the lightning #only it killed things #instead of bringing them to life #final fantasy vii #FFVII

[kelocitta]

Theres been a number of weirdly fearmonger-y posts about tumblrs imminent collapse based pretty much on conjure. Frankly I doubt they hold any real water and certainly not of the "dying overnight" variety. With that said, if you're concerned- You can find me under the same username on both twitter and bluesky. I will not be going anywhere and they'll have to claw me off the husk of this site if they want me out

^ look at this thang instead

#t.extpost #seriously as far as people can tell their maybe dialing back the team that deals mostly in updates and other non-essentials #which is largely fine. a smaller team just means things will likely be slower in terms of various stuff #at most just make sure you save things you like and backup things

[syb-la-tortue]

merry christmas to me.........

welp looks like my main tumblr got nuked again. for real this time? who knows, I've sent support a message about it but I'm not holding too much hope...

this side tumblr was kept In Case Of Disaster so I guess that's relevant now

the reason was allegedly the explicit art, even though I've been censoring the explicit bits since the first purge :/

anyway I'm still posting on twitter, and still have my patreon if you want to support me and see more art sooner, and there's bluesky too now, as an extra

#I also have an account on Cohost but haven't actually used it yet #maybe if there's demand for it? #ugh this sucks though #I couldn't even make a backup #of my sideblogs too!! #the one where I saved all the nice thing people made inspired by my art ;A; #no way to find those anymore damn #I did send support a message but they don't have a good track record in answering me

[imaginationblur]

Will I see you in my dreams?

#out of WIP HELL LETS FUCKING GOOOOOO #NiGHTS #nights into dreams #nights journey of dreams #nights jod #reala #nights into dreams reala #i gave up coloring it. its colored. but like it looks sooooo empty #backup beleievrrrrs we love a greyscale #ahhhhh shit i should have added half tones to the dark greys OH WELL #i love wrighting the names tho im getting the handle on writing on new tablet #sega #sonic team #sonic #nights sega #sega nights #IGNORE THE MISSING HALFTONES IN THE NIGHTS PORTAIPN I didn’t save and I realized I misspelled his names ma duhhhh it was cool person moment

[blue-tailed-artist]

#rottmnt #rottmnt fanart #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #save rise of the tmnt #rottmnt donnie #rise donnie #inktober day 15 #sceince normally doesnt fail but it never hurts to have a backup plan

[comradeboyhalo]

also can someone start a new vod channel for bad......the only one we have is inactive help

#ik bad saves his vods on twitch now but itd be nice to have another backup