@mercining and i have a little message in regards of so much of livejournal's history straight up disappearing:
in the wake of ai slop taking over the web and pillars of internet history disappearing without rhyme or reason, please take a minute to archive what you love locally (a reliable hard drive) as well as onto the Internet Archive (Wayback Machine). we're actively losing human-made forums, posts, art, and much more to make room for fucking ai.
so download the movie, the video, the game, the fanfic, the tumblr post, the news article, etc... with the unstoppable rise of corporate greed, the only thing you can trust is yourself.
and if you can afford to, you should donate to the Internet Archive to help them carry on their vital work.
They're an entirely free-to-use, wonderful resource that we cannot lose.
Also burn CDs! A good CD can last upwards of fifty years when stored decently, DVD and Blu-Ray only get about 25 but hard drives are not good cold backup material. Optical media good!
YES YES YES burn your own stuff!!!! physical media is awesome!!!!!
