As Tumblr goes down the gurglr...
Okay, I am getting a very solid lesson in the vanity of earthly data this week.
First up, the 3TB external hard drive I've been using to store my data for the past few years (turns out it's since about October 2018) has been getting senile and sulky and not wanting to work properly. I purchased a 2TB SSD to replace it, but it turns out the one I got shipped is apparently defective, so I have to take it back and replace that first. But in the meantime, I'm currently working off a backup copy of my data I snagged down to my C: drive over the weekend, and making duplicates of everything to there and to my regular save location.
Now we're getting the happy noises about Tumblr going down the gurglr. Yay.
So, I'm probably going to be pulling all my odd bits and pieces for the past … eleven years (I started posting here in September 2012) off Tumblr, and putting them onto my Dreamwidth blog (I'm megpie71 over there) as well as pulling a backup copy to store on my hard drive so I can stuff it onto the new data drive I'm going to get when I replace the existing one. Fortunately, I am not a visual person, so I mainly blog text. Which means if I pull my original stuff off, it's going to fit on the Dreamwidth page without too much hassle.
At the moment, my main emotion about the whole mess is something like "darn it! I just got my dash looking the way I wanted." I'll probably be cranky about this for a few months at least. But in the meantime, I'm going to be slowly migrating my original stuff over to Dreamwidth so it's still somewhere at least.