Scifirenegade's Trash Can

The Internet Archive was forced to delete half a million books due to that lawsuit. It's still ongoing. We live in the darkest timeline.

The Internet Archive is a godsend, it helped me immensely throughout my uni life. My local libraries don't always have the books I need (and for those not in the know, I've been living a nightmare related to interlibrary loans). It's not just an essential tool, it's an essential place, a library; albeit not a physical one.

Copywright must die. It destroys the preservation and availability of media. It's because of it that a whole bunch of film restorations never see the light of day besides special screenings.

Of note, I'm a youngster (hypothetically close to a quarter of a century, let's see how the universe treats me).

I used to spend some of my time scouring defunct newsgroups and LiveJournal blogs / communities. On my Wii. Interesting times, those were. Cannot complain, I discovered Teaspoon! And a few of my favourite writers too!

On one of the communities I poked around in (dedicated to two certain teachers ;) ), there was a fanfiction masterlist. Here it is, if you're interested.

There was a name on there I recognised (someone I follow on Twitter, a big Barbara fan; I didn't go on Twitter much, and now I certainly won't touch it!). Turns out, he wrote a long, long story about Barbara post-The Chase. As a Barbara fan (could you tell), I had to read it. I read everything on that list, but not that one.

But as is the nature of the internet, she giveth and then taketh away, and the website was gone. The Wayback Machine could only archive four chapters or so. I mentioned it to the author and asked if, maybe, he was interested in reposting it somewhere. Nothing came of it, he has his own original projects.

This was a few years ago. I won't lie, I kinda lost hope.

And then, poking around the Wayback Machine, and the_chestertons community, and some of the blogs of the regular posters there... I found another link to the same fic. All chapters archived.

I posted a rec for it on tardis_library. It's good.

It shall forever live in EPUB form on both my phone and my computer (even if I cannot read a full book on a computer, but you know, backup your stuff and all that).

Now, getting off-topic but keeping on topic at the same time: why didn't I save that one fic posted on tumblr dot com and tumblr dot com only that had Ian playing with some alien kids who were intrigued by the concept of hair. And Barbara thought it was adorable! Didn't I learn anything from the Angels mishap? Now the blog deactivated, the posts are lost...

Again, the internet giveth and taketh away.

Hello. I'm gonna be talking about my projects even though no one cares about them.
Finished the script for Lost Music (finally) i just need to record audio and edit the video itself.
The script of the first episode of about the history of animation is in revision. I noticed there's a lot of videos on YT about animation, but none go into detail.
The problem is lately i've been very self concious of how my voice sounds like (there's been some misgendering and even mockery), but the videos won't work without narration. And i already showed my voice to the world in playthroughs and other videos, or else i would be using some voice changer software. Sigh.

Backing up an entire channel full of old kids' shows because for some reason he refuses to upload to archive.org. Ugh. Why can't people just use archive.org for their stuff. That's what I try to do.

Anyways, I'm backing it up. He may come for me and my arse on a platter, but I don't care. Media preservation is important, and has to be done proper.

I'm about halfway through. Several GBs have been downloaded. Several hours have passed to upload the videos. Painful, but in the end, satisfying.

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I'm loosing my mind to this one uni essay. I still have no idea what I'm supposed to do. Every info I was given was either vague or contraditory. Painful, just painful.

All imageboards and textboards I find are:

a) elitist bastards

b) really shitty people

c) full of the not good kind of “cheese pizza”

There are some that are like “Oh 8chan is bad we are better” then they make fun of someone saying their pronouns??

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The stupid old ladies’ programme on TV right now: OMG THEY MISTREATING THE POLICE!!!

The cops deserve it. The cops will randomly kill people. They’re power hungry. They deserve that people get out on the streets and want them defunded.