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solradguy · 9 months

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GUILTY GEAR VASTEDGE XT - FULL ARCHIVE

Yeah. The canon pachislot machine. Here's everything we have for it at the moment, including a bunch of files ripped from the Android port, concept art, and a Japanese transcript of the game's dialog.

ARCHIVE.ORG

=== FOLDER CONTENTS ===

VXT CONCEPT ART - Character model sheets

FIXED COLORS - Color-corrected model sheets

VXT DIALOG TRANSCRIPTS - Transcript of the Japanese text, partial English translation

VXT MESHES + SOUNDS + TEXTURES - Assets from the game itself (graphics, etc)

MESHES

SOUNDS

TEXTURES

VXT MOBILE APP RIPPED FILES - 2 .OBB and 1 .APK files ripped from the Android port

VXT VIDEOS - Footage of the gameplay and of the physical machine in action (there were some cool moving bits, like an animatronic Junkyard Dog MK.II)

VXT ANIMATED GAME ASSETS - Anything from the game that moved (cutscenes, UI assets, etc)

CREDITS + INFO.TXT - Informational text file. Also including the credits and additional info in that file here below the cut:

=== CONCEPT ART CREDITS ===

Mister Guest (via e-hentai) Volcanic Fighter (Twitter: nincopyjasb; Tumblr: @nincopyjasb) Shmuel (Twitter: shmuelbrain; Tumblr @shmuelbrain) Renexuz (Twitter: renexuz1; Tumblr: @renexuz)

=== DIALOG MANUSCRIPT COMPILATION & PARTIAL TRANSLATION ===

Volcanic Fighter (Twitter: nincopyjasb; Tumblr: @nincopyjasb) Dialog script original host (defunct): http://priban.gozaru.jp/ggv.html

=== MOBILE .APK & .OBB FILE RIPS ===

Lux (Twitter: xaeldritch) Nainsoo (Twitter: na_insoo)

=== ANIMATED & GRAPHICAL ASSETS, MUSIC, AND MESH RIPS ===

Tillman (Twitter: validtine; Tumblr: @tillman)

=== RESTORED & REMASTERED OPENING ANIMATION ===

Shmuel (Twitter: shmuelbrain; Tumblr: @shmuelbrain)

Original video hosts:

Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-Vj8wymN3Q

Twitter: twitter.com/ShmuelBrain/status/1650153182725636098

=== ADDITIONAL THANKS ===

Shmuel (Twitter: shmuelbrain; Tumblr: @shmuelbrain) Renexuz (Twitter: renexuz1; Tumblr: @renexuz) The GG Lore Rev server

=== ARCHIVE COMPILATION ===

Sol Radguy

=== ADDITIONAL NOTES ===

About the archive - The files here were previously scattered across multiple websites and cloud storage services, making them difficult to acquire to those outside the small Guilty Gear archival group. I did my best to gather them all in one place. Please contact me if more files are discovered and I will add them to the archive upload on Archive.org.

The ripped mobile port files - The mobile version of Vastedge XT was only online and available to even download for around a year before the servers shut down. The two .OBB and one .APK file were ripped from the Android port of the game and are what Tillman ripped the animated assets, meshes, sounds, and textures from. A lot could not be ripped because it was stored on the game's servers. The encryption also makes ripping files from these difficult. It's possible there's more on them that was not able to be ripped.

Japanese file names - The original name of the .APK was ﾊﾟﾁｽﾛ GG_com.dtechno.slotguilty.apk and had to be renamed to be compressed into a .ZIP folder. If the file runs into errors during launch/cracking attempts, try reverting the name. Likewise, the Japanese names of the videos could not be compressed and were also translated. There is a separate .TXT file within VXT VIDEOS that includes their original Japanese file names.

Duplicate concept art images - There were two archives of the concept art. One was hosted on e-hentai by Mister Guest and contained the full, uncropped, images. The second was from a folder that Volcanic had compiled. Volcanic's files were a higher resolution, but were cropped and missing some information Mister Guest's files had. I've included them both here as well as the files from a third archive where an anonymous user on Imgur had restored the colors on the character models to match how they look in the game itself.

Neon colors on the concept art - The neon sections on these character model sheets are temporary/placeholder colors and not how they appeared within the Vastedge XT game. Their true colors can be seen in the videos within the VXT VIDEOS folder or in the FIXED COLORS folder within VXT CONCEPT ART.

Dialog transcripts - What we know of Vastedge's story came from official story summaries posted by Arc System Works on the Guilty Gear websites. The dialog is exactly that: character dialog. There may be lines missing, that are inaccurate (due to typos), or other written/spoken parts of VXT not included. It may be possible to get this missing information from the videos in VXT VIDEOS or from other VXT video sources online.

#guilty gear #guilty gear vastedge #vastedge #guilty gear vastedge xt #from the archives #photopost #long post #I hope I didn't get anything wrong/forget anything major lol #It takes Archive like an actual hour to upload the files #This took like a solid actual 24 hours of digging + compiling + organizing + uploading to get together argh

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angelhotchner · 11 months

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roze & twine

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Style: Multi-part Fic Pairing: Aaron Hotchner x [named] Fem!Reader [non-descriptive OC] Timeline: Post ep100 Fic Content: Pining, eventual friends to lovers, smut Chapter Warnings: None

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Prologue

Everyone had their own outlet. Morgan loved to renovate houses - he was on his sixth property now, each one different from the others but all built with the same fervour: every wall holding secrets of the sight of the agent breaking down, letting his anger leave him, allowing hope to enter his soul once again. Garcia had literally everything. Knitting, ukulele, clay models - you name it, Penelope had tried it and created something adorably loud and vibrant, then displayed it in her cave if she could. The goodness of the world penetrated the disgust and heartbreak that she saw on her screens every day and it kept her outlook fresh. Reid was similar to Garcia...his interests were seemingly endless, but specific. As long as it was knowledge that he hadn’t gained yet, he was interested in it. Magic seemed to be his number one though - if it had been a particularly bad week, he’d arrive on Monday morning with a set of new tricks he’d learned. Prentiss...she had weekends away. No-one really knew what she was doing, although JJ had the best idea, but she always came back refreshed and focused. Her outlet usually landed her in Atlanta for two days - that’s all she’d ever given away to the team. JJ had her family - most importantly, Henry’s Sunday soccer games. Watching her son run around the field, dribbling the ball between his feet with his little face scrunched in concentration warmed her heart so much that she could forget the week she’d just had and the week that was waiting for her the next day.

Hotch shared the same outlet - his son was the light of his life and the only thing that really kept him going. Raising his son in the shadow of his passed wife was a hard feat, but when the little guy said something so pure and innocent it touched Hotch’s heart deeper than he’d let on, pulling the dark clouds in his mind away for a little while. Rossi had company. Whether it was hosting a dinner party for old time friends or enjoying himself at another charity banquet, he found solace in the people around him and their stories. Meeting new faces, listening to their own wisdom - it granted him a better outlook on life, a more peppered perspective on the world. The team teased that his outlet was finding another wife, but they knew that Rossi had almost given up hope on marrying again. Harris had bracelets. Seriously. Ever since third grade queen Lola Grey had taught her how to braid tiny strings of wool and what the best colour combinations for beads were, Harris was obsessed...even when Lola rejected the bracelet that she’d spent hours creating for her. When Lola’s friends threw it into the muddy puddles on the playground and laughed, Harris saw that as a challenge to do better. That kind of thinking followed her as she grew up, straight into the FBI Academy and into the hands of the Behavioural Analysis Unit. Never quit, do better.

It was no surprise that this case had taken a toll on her. The unsub had suffered the same upbringing as her - the only difference was their responses to it. Harris had channeled all of her hurt and frustration into making her life better, the unsub had channeled his into ending other lives. She had been the one to know the most, to understand him the best, and ultimately tackle him into an arrest with just a small scratch on the side of her cheek. Now, she sat quietly at the back of the plane, her hands twirling and knotting the burgundy yarn until it began to take shape. She didn’t need to look down and concentrate, the muscle memory of her fingers took over as she gazed out of the window. Hotch glanced over. He studied her face for a few seconds, ready to focus his attention back to the file in front of him but his eyes drifted down to her hands, catching the movement. He watched with curious amusement, flickering his gaze between her face and her hands, noticing how her eyes seemed to droop a little further with every twist of the wool. Her shoulders were beginning to relax, her mind becoming easy. He smiled gently, although he wasn’t sure why, and turned his attention back to the paperwork. “Aaron Hotchner, did you just smile?” Hotch’s cheeks felt flushed as he dipped his head slightly, realising he’d been caught out. Of course he had. Harris never missed anything. He raised his head and looked at her, finding her still twirling the wool but looking directly at him. Her cheeks were lifted with a small smirk, her eyes shining with devilment. She seemed cool and mischievous, but Harris’ mind was freaking out like a teenage girl. Hotch just smiled at you, she thought. For no reason. He never smiles. He smiled at you. He cares...no, no. Hotch doesn’t care about you like that. Maybe it wasn’t a good smile. Maybe he was laughing at you. The bracelets. He thinks you’re childish. He- “It happens,” He shrugged, knocking Harris from being locked in a battle of her own thoughts. “Your work on this case was exemplary, Roze,” She felt giddy with hearing the praise, but maintained her cool expression. “Thanks, Hotchy,” The nickname awarded her with another small smile. Hotch wasn’t sure when she started calling him that, but he welcomed the playful nature. He knew he shouldn’t be revelling in the fact that she hadn’t given any of the other team members a nickname, it probably didn’t even much to her, but he savoured the idea of being someone that stood out more than anyone else to her. She nodded at him and turned back towards the window, her brain dangerously close to overdrive. God damn praise kink. ══ ⋆☆⋆ ══════ ⋆★⋆ ══════ ⋆☆⋆ ══

#aaron hotchner #aaron hotchner x you #aaron hotchner x fem!reader #Aaron Hotch Hotchner #aaron hotchner x female reader #aaron hotchner fic #criminal minds #criminal minds fic #criminal minds fanfiction #hotch x you #hotch x female reader #hotch x fem!reader

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copperbadge · 2 years

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Recently I went into the files for all the books I’ve published, in order to get wordcounts to add to my author website and selfpub platform. Both my files and my selfpub-platform Lulu’s entire deal are the very definition of Hot Mess, but at least both seem to be a semi-solvable hot mess. Half my books don’t have ISBNs or consistent formatting, but I do have copies of everything I’d need to redo them. ISBNs can be purchased, covers redesigned, prices can be standardized. It’d be work, but doable.

I also looked into alternatives to Lulu, since it takes a large cut of revenue and might not be the smoothest operation. It’s hard to find unbiased information about selfpub because the industry is full of scam artists and predators, but I’m a researcher, so I did my due diligence and finally dug into some reasonably accurate data. That only annoyed me further because I think Lulu might actually be the best of a bad lot of options for me.

The most cost-effective option is KDP, but KDP is Amazon’s selfpub arm and I would rather chew nails. You can’t live on the internet without Amazon, even if you don’t shop there half the internet is hosted on their cloud, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to make them my primary platform. They still haven’t unfucked my author page, either.

The gold standard for self-publishing, pre-pandemic at least, was IngramSpark, but I disqualified them years ago because they require a $49 per-book “setup” fee. What are they setting up? Nothing, that’s the point of selfpub, you do it all yourself. I sell enough books that I could pay the fee, but I struggle to justify paying $50 simply for access to their distribution network, especially since they are also reportedly user-hostile, with poor customer service, and lately with poor print quality. Reports on that vary, but it seems to be that you really roll the dice with IngramSpark these days over whether your book will be printed with any kind of speed and if it is, whether the pages will fall out.

Two that I had never encountered are BookBaby and Blurb, but Bookbaby requires you to purchase 25 copies of your book on top of a FOUR HUNDRED DOLLAR setup fee, which strikes me as genuinely somewhere on the scam spectrum. Like, Lulu tries to sell you a lot of nonsense when you publish a book, editing services and design services and ad packages and whatnot, but at least they only make you buy a proof copy. Meanwhile, Blurb seems...fine, it goes through IngramSpark for distribution, and while they don’t charge the $50 “setup” fee, they do take a larger cut to make up for it. Again, whatever, but it pretty much equalizes them with Lulu. There are also a million tiny companies that are all visibly just reskinned IngramSpark and do similar, but none of them have quite the prominence yet that Blurb and Lulu do. So...might as well stick with Lulu, at least for now.

I mean, in a way it’s a good thing. I already keep all my stuff at Lulu, so not changing my publishing platform at least makes life easier in that sense. But man, it’s a bummer that Lulu is the best thing going, at least in my particular position.

#self-publishing #novels #publishing

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istumpysk · 1 year

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Operation Stumpy Re-Read

ADWD: Jon XII (Chapter 58)

That night he dreamt of wildlings howling from the woods, advancing to the moan of warhorns and the roll of drums. Boom DOOM boom DOOM boom DOOM came the sound, a thousand hearts with a single beat. Some had spears and some had bows and some had axes. Others rode on chariots made of bones, drawn by teams of dogs as big as ponies. Giants lumbered amongst them, forty feet tall, with mauls the size of oak trees.

I don't think it's anything, but massive dogs carrying chariots come up again later in the chapter, and it's weird.

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"Stand fast," Jon Snow called. "Throw them back." He stood atop the Wall, alone. "Flame," he cried, "feed them flame," but there was no one to pay heed.

They are all gone. They have abandoned me.

If my memory serves me, I believe you sent them all away.

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Burning shafts hissed upward, trailing tongues of fire. Scarecrow brothers tumbled down, black cloaks ablaze. "Snow," an eagle cried, as foemen scuttled up the ice like spiders. Jon was armored in black ice, but his blade burned red in his fist. As the dead men reached the top of the Wall he sent them down to die again. He slew a greybeard and a beardless boy, a giant, a gaunt man with filed teeth, a girl with thick red hair. Too late he recognized Ygritte. She was gone as quick as she'd appeared.

During my research of this chapter, I did not find a single person who pieced together that Daenerys is the opposition.

That night she dreamt that she was Rhaegar, riding to the Trident. But she was mounted on a dragon, not a horse. When she saw the Usurper's rebel host across the river they were armored all in ice, but she bathed them in dragonfire and they melted away like dew and turned the Trident into a torrent. - Daenerys III, ASOS

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Jon was armored in black ice, but his blade burned red in his fist.

George is such a troll.

Jon is not Azor Ahai.

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The world dissolved into a red mist. Jon stabbed and slashed and cut. He hacked down Donal Noye and gutted Deaf Dick Follard. Qhorin Halfhand stumbled to his knees, trying in vain to staunch the flow of blood from his neck. "I am the Lord of Winterfell," Jon screamed. It was Robb before him now, his hair wet with melting snow. Longclaw took his head off. Then a gnarled hand seized Jon roughly by the shoulder. He whirled …

Hm.

Bran? Trees are often described as gnarled.

Arya? You know, that whole hand thing.

"I am the Lord of Winterfell," Jon screamed.

I believe you mean king.

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… and woke with a raven pecking at his chest. "Snow," the bird cried. Jon swatted at it. The raven shrieked its displeasure and flapped up to a bedpost to glare down balefully at him through the predawn gloom.

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He rose and dressed in darkness, as Mormont's raven muttered across the room. "Corn," the bird said, and, "King," and, "Snow, Jon Snow, Jon Snow." That was queer. The bird had never said his full name before, as best Jon could recall.

See? King.

That's a Bran raven, not a blood raven.

The night was windless, the snow drifting straight down out of a cold black sky, yet the leaves of the heart tree were rustling his name. "Theon," they seemed to whisper, "Theon." - A Ghost in Winterfell, ADWD

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"Remember," Jon said, "Tormund's people are hungry, cold, and fearful. Some of them hate us as much as some of you hate them. We are dancing on rotten ice here, them and us. One crack, and we all drown.

Like a Frey!

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"How do you [Dolorous Edd] find serving under Iron Emmett?" Jon asked.

"Mostly it's Black Maris serving under him, m'lord. Me, I have the mules. Nettles claims we're kin. It's true we have the same long face, but I'm not near as stubborn. Anyway I never knew their mothers, on my honor."

No reaction.

Did Jon fully grasp that? Lol.

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Out in the yard, the eastern sky had just begun to lighten. There was not a wisp of cloud in sight. "We have a good day for this, it would seem," Jon said. "A bright day, warm and sunny."

It's time for weather symbolism.

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Satin had his horse saddled and bridled and waiting for him, a fiery grey courser with a mane as black and shiny as maester's ink. He was not the sort of mount that Jon would have chosen for a ranging, but on this morning all that mattered was that he look impressive, and for that the stallion was a perfect choice.

Look who's doing a Waymar Royce again.

Ser Waymar Royce came next, his great black destrier snorting impatiently. The warhorse was the wrong mount for ranging, but try and tell that to the lordling. - Prologue, AGOT

Thank you, @astradrifting!

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"You brought more men than I did."

"So I did. Come here by me, lad. I want my folk to see you. I got thousands ne'er saw a lord commander, grown men who were told as boys that your rangers would eat them if they didn't behave. They need to see you plain, a long-faced lad in an old black cloak. They need to learn that the Night's Watch is naught t'be feared."

That is a lesson I would sooner they never learned. Jon peeled the glove off his burned hand, put two fingers in his mouth, and whistled. Ghost came racing from the gate. Tormund's horse shied so hard that the wildling almost lost his saddle. "Naught to be feared?" Jon said. "Ghost, stay."

He may not enjoy the trappings of power, but the boy is never shy about playing the wolf card.

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"You are a black-hearted bastard, Lord Crow." Tormund Horn-Blower lifted his own warhorn to his lips. The sound of it echoed off the ice like rolling thunder, and the first of the free folk began to stream toward the gate.

Strange.

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Of special note were the sons of men of renown. Tormund took care to point them out as they went by.

"The boy there is the son of Soren Shieldbreaker," he said of one tall lad. "Him with the red hair, he's Gerrick Kingsblood's get. Comes o' the line o' Raymun Redbeard, to hear him tell it. The line o' Redbeard's little brother, you want it true." Two boys looked enough alike to be twins, but Tormund insisted they were cousins, born a year apart. "One was sired by Harle the Huntsman, t'other by Harle the Handsome, both on the same woman. Fathers hate each other. I was you, I'd send one to Eastwatch and t'other to your Shadow Tower."

It's possible that's a super subtle reference to Jon and Arya, given what's coming.

I might be forgetting a more obvious parallel.

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Three hostages were sons of Alfyn Crowkiller, an infamous raider slain by Qhorin Halfhand. Or so Tormund insisted. "They do not look like brothers," Jon observed.

"Half-brothers, born o' different mothers. Alfyn's member was a wee thing, even smaller than yours, but he was never shy with where he stuck it. Had a son in every village, that one."

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Two of the boys were girls in disguise. When Jon saw them, he dispatched Rory and Big Liddle to bring them to him. One came meekly enough, the other kicking and biting. This could end badly.

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"I'll need two boys to take their places."

"How's that?" Tormund scratched his beard. "A hostage is a hostage, seems to me. That big sharp sword o' yours can snick a girl's head off as easy as a boy's. A father loves his daughters too. Well, most fathers."

It is not their fathers who concern me. "Did Mance ever sing of Brave Danny Flint?"

"Not as I recall. Who was he?"

"A girl who dressed up like a boy to take the black. Her song is sad and pretty. What happened to her wasn't." In some versions of the song, her ghost still walked the Nightfort. "I'll send the girls to Long Barrow."

Why is this happening? Why is this here?

Not clear whether Mance knows the tune.

"Give us 'The Night That Ended,' singer," he bellowed. "The bride will like that one, I know. Or sing to us of brave young Danny Flint and make us weep." To look at him, you would have thought that he was the one newly wed. - The Prince of Winterfell, ADWD

I don't have much to say about this, but I thought I should include it, because I continue to find it deeply unsettling.

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Red-bearded Gerrick Kingsblood brought three daughters. "They will make fine wives, and give their husbands strong sons of royal blood," he boasted. "Like their father, they are descended from Raymun Redbeard, who was King-Beyond-the-Wall."

Blood meant little and less amongst the free folk, Jon knew. Ygritte had taught him that. Gerrick's daughters shared her same flame-red hair, though hers had been a tangle of curls and theirs hung long and straight. Kissed by fire. "Three princesses, each lovelier than the last," he told their father. "I will see that they are presented to the queen." Selyse Baratheon would take to these three better than she had to Val, he suspected; they were younger and considerably more cowed. Sweet enough to look at them, though their father seems a fool.

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He saw tall boys and short boys, brown-haired boys and black-haired boys, honey blonds and strawberry blonds and redheads kissed by fire, like Ygritte.

There were spearwives with them, long hair streaming. Jon could not look at them without remembering Ygritte: the gleam of fire in her hair, the look on her face when she'd disrobed for him in the grotto, the sound of her voice. "You know nothing, Jon Snow," she'd told him a hundred times.

Gerrick's daughters shared her same flame-red hair, though hers had been a tangle of curls and theirs hung long and straight. Kissed by fire.

Lots of red hair right before the final Jon chapter.

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The warrior witch Morna removed her weirwood mask just long enough to kiss his gloved hand and swear to be his man or his woman, whichever he preferred.

Lol.

What's a weirwood mask?

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The dogs that drew the chariots were fearsome beasts, as big as direwolves.

There they are.

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Within was a mead so potent it made Jon's eyes water and sent tendrils of fire snaking through his chest. He drank deep. "You're a good man, Tormund Giantsbabe. For a wildling."

One of the funnier errors to make it past the editor.

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"Too bloody slow this way. Like sucking the Milkwater through a reed. Har. Would that I had the Horn of Joramun. I'd give it a nice toot and we'd climb through the rubble."

"Melisandre burned the Horn of Joramun."

"Did she?" Tormund slapped his thigh and hooted. "She burned that fine big horn, aye. A bloody sin, I call it. A thousand years old, that was. We found it in a giant's grave, and no man o' us had ever seen a horn so big. That must have been why Mance got the notion to tell you it were Joramun's. He wanted you crows to think he had it in his power to blow your bloody Wall down about your knees. But we never found the true horn, not for all our digging. If we had, every kneeler in your Seven Kingdoms would have chunks o' ice to cool his wine all summer."

Jon turned in his saddle, frowning. And Joramun blew the Horn of Winter and woke giants from the earth. That huge horn with its bands of old gold, incised with ancient runes … had Mance Rayder lied to him, or was Tormund lying now? If Mance's horn was just a feint, where is the true horn?

Is it in the crypts beneath Winterfell? Is it sitting in the Citadel with Sam? Does it even matter?

Tune in next time to find out.

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By afternoon the sun had gone, and the day turned grey and gusty. "A snow sky," Tormund announced grimly.

Others had seen the same omen in those flat white clouds. It seemed to spur them on to haste. Tempers began to fray. One man was stabbed when he tried to slip in ahead of others who had been hours in the column. Toregg wrenched the knife away from his attacker, dragged both men from the press, and sent them back to the wildling camp to start again.

Weather's shifting.

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"Did they trouble you on your way south?"

"They never came in force, if that's your meaning, but they were with us all the same, nibbling at our edges. We lost more outriders than I care to think about, and it was worth your life to fall behind or wander off. Every nightfall we'd ring our camps with fire. They don't like fire much, and no mistake. When the snows came, though … snow and sleet and freezing rain, it's bloody hard to find dry wood or get your kindling lit, and the cold … some nights our fires just seemed to shrivel up and die. Nights like that, you always find some dead come the morning. 'Less they find you first. The night that Torwynd … my boy, he …' Tormund turned his face away.

The author baiting you to believe a dragon must be the answer.

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"I know," said Jon Snow.

Tormund turned back. "You know nothing. You killed a dead man, aye, I heard. Mance killed a hundred. A man can fight the dead, but when their masters come, when the white mists rise up … how do you fight a mist, crow? Shadows with teeth … air so cold it hurts to breathe, like a knife inside your chest … you do not know, you cannot know … can your sword cut cold?"

Well.

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We will see, Jon thought, remembering the things that Sam had told him, the things he'd found in his old books. Longclaw had been forged in the fires of old Valyria, forged in dragonflame and set with spells. Dragonsteel, Sam called it. Stronger than any common steel, lighter, harder, sharper … But words in a book were one thing. The true test came in battle.

Don't forget what Samwell said about those books!

The oldest histories we have were written after the Andals came to Westeros. The First Men only left us runes on rocks, so everything we think we know about the Age of Heroes and the Dawn Age and the Long Night comes from accounts set down by septons thousands of years later. There are archmaesters at the Citadel who question all of it. - Samwell I, AFFC

Jon is not Azor Ahai. Longclaw is not Lightbringer.

The first Long Night predated the invention of Valyrian steel by thousands of years. The swords are a red herring.

A sword or final battle will never be the resolution.

One existential threat (fire) defeating the other existential threat (ice) is not the fucking climax of the series.

It's Bran's assignment. This is not a Targaryen-centric issue.

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On and on the wildlings came. The day grew darker, just as Tormund said. Clouds covered the sky from horizon to horizon, and warmth fled. There was more shoving at the gate, as men and goats and bullocks jostled each other out of the way. It is more than impatience, Jon realized. They are afraid. Warriors, spearwives, raiders, they are frightened of those woods, of shadows moving through the trees. They want to put the Wall between them before the night descends.

A snowflake danced upon the air. Then another. Dance with me, Jon Snow, he thought. You'll dance with me anon.

Hey, that's not what she said, ya goof. Why are you changing it up?

"You could dance with me, you know. It would be only courteous. You danced with me anon." - Jon X, ADWD

Also, more Waymar!

Ser Waymar met him bravely. "Dance with me then." - Prologue, AGOT

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"Your best men."

"Or my worst. Every man o' them has killed a crow."

Amongst the riders came one man afoot, with some big beast trotting at his heels. A boar, Jon saw. A monstrous boar. Twice the size of Ghost, the creature was covered with coarse black hair, with tusks as long as a man's arm. Jon had never seen a boar so huge or ugly. The man beside him was no beauty either; hulking, black-browed, he had a flat nose, heavy jowls dark with stubble, small black close-set eyes.

"Borroq." Tormund turned his head and spat.

"A skinchanger." It was not a question. Somehow he knew.

One skinchanger can always sense another. - Prologue, ADWD

Twice the size of Ghost? Ghost is suicidal.

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Ghost turned his head. The falling snow had masked the boar's scent, but now the white wolf had the smell. He padded out in front of Jon, his teeth bared in a silent snarl.

"No!" Jon snapped. "Ghost, down. Stay. Stay!"

"Boars and wolves," said Tormund. "Best keep that beast o' yours locked up tonight. I'll see that Borroq does the same with his pig." He glanced up at the darkening sky.

Yeah, definitely make it a priority to separate them at all times.

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The skinchanger stopped ten yards away. His monster pawed at the mud, snuffling. A light powdering of snow covered the boar's humped black back. He gave a snort and lowered his head, and for half a heartbeat Jon thought he was about to charge. To either side of him, his men lowered their spears.

"Brother," Borroq said.

"You'd best go on. We are about to close the gate."

"You do that," Borroq said. "You close it good and tight. They're coming, crow." He smiled as ugly a smile as Jon had ever seen and made his way to the gate. The boar stalked after him. The falling snow covered up their tracks behind them.

Calling him brother is creepy.

Barroq is getting painted as pretty sketch, watch him be a good guy.

+.+.+

"That's done, then," Rory said when they were gone.

No, thought Jon Snow, it has only just begun.

Haven't done one of these in awhile.

"And now it begins," said Ser Arthur Dayne, the Sword of the Morning. He unsheathed Dawn and held it with both hands. The blade was pale as milkglass, alive with light.

"No," Ned said with sadness in his voice. "Now it ends." - Eddard X, AGOT

"Is it over, Mother?" the Lord of the Eyrie asked.

No, Catelyn wanted to tell him, it's only now beginning. - Catelyn VII, AGOT

+.+.+

Bowen Marsh was waiting for him south of the Wall, with a tablet full of numbers. "Three thousand one hundred and nineteen wildlings passed through the gate today," the Lord Steward told him. "Sixty of your hostages were sent off to Eastwatch and the Shadow Tower after they'd been fed. Edd Tollett took six wagons of women back to Long Barrow. The rest remain with us."

"Not for long," Jon promised him. "Tormund means to lead his own folk to Oakenshield within a day or two. The rest will follow, as soon as we sort where to put them."

"As you say, Lord Snow." The words were stiff. The tone suggested that Bowen Marsh knew where he would put them.

Didn't Mance march with one hundred thousand wildlings? Yikes.

Still boggles the mind he hasn't mentioned the loan.

+.+.+

Strange voices echoed down the yards, and free folk were coming and going along icy paths that had only known the black boots of crows for years. Outside the old Flint Barracks, he came across a dozen men pelting one another with snow. Playing, Jon thought in astonishment, grown men playing like children, throwing snowballs the way Bran and Arya once did, and Robb and me before them.

Oopsie daisy, one of them has forgotten a sibling again. Lol

+.+.+

Clydas entered pink and blinking, the parchment clutched in one soft hand. "Beg pardon, Lord Commander. I know you must be weary, but I thought you would want to see this at once."

"You did well." Jon read:

At Hardhome, with six ships. Wild seas. Blackbird lost with all hands, two Lyseni ships driven aground on Skane, Talon taking water. Very bad here. Wildlings eating their own dead. Dead things in the woods. Braavosi captains will only take women, children on their ships. Witch women call us slavers. Attempt to take Storm Crow defeated, six crew dead, many wildlings. Eight ravens left. Dead things in the water. Send help by land, seas wracked by storms. From Talon, by hand of Maester Harmune.

Cotter Pyke had made his angry mark below.

"Is it grievous, my lord?" asked Clydas.

"Grievous enough." Dead things in the wood. Dead things in the water. Six ships left, of the eleven that set sail. Jon Snow rolled up the parchment, frowning. Night falls, he thought, and now my war begins.

If you ever meet a fan who hates the later seasons because they're not book-accurate, ask them what their favourite episode is.

At least 50% of the time they'll say Hardhome.

Final thoughts:

Ser Waymar Royce was the youngest son of an ancient house with too many heirs.

[...]

He was a handsome youth of eighteen, grey-eyed and graceful and slender as a knife.

[...]

Royce's body lay facedown in the snow, one arm out-flung. The thick sable cloak had been slashed in a dozen places. Lying dead like that, you saw how young he was. A boy.

[...]

Will rose. Ser Waymar Royce stood over him.

His fine clothes were a tatter, his face a ruin. A shard from his sword transfixed the blind white pupil of his left eye. - Prologue, AGOT

She had fallen wildly in love with Ser Waymar, she remembered dimly, but that was a lifetime ago, when she was a stupid little girl. - Alayne I, AFFC

PLEASE.

Shows up randomly in the middle of A Feast for Crows for no reason. It will never not be hilarious.

-> return to menu <-

#operation stumpy re-read #adwd #jon xii

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Shyan Shipping Society Fic Promo - November 2022 - January 2023

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holiday parties and the new year, the perfect excuse for some shyan fic! check out everything our members wrote from november 2022 to january 2023! and if you’re interested, check out our new years fic exchange masterpost!

november

Who You Gonna Call? by Golden4278 | G, 2K, on-going

Ghost Busters! AU

Simple Math by TheMouthKing & tripwirealarm | E, 118K, complete

While filming Ghost Files, a joke goes off the rails and lights a long-ignored fuse between its two co-hosts, but what’s initially just some fun fooling around under specific parameters leads to increasingly complicated feelings, and when a situation brings those feelings under a microscope, a choice has to be made.

Icarus Falling by teresa_agasgi | T, 1K, complete

When Shane flies too close to the sun he needs something to fall back to.

aka Ryan comforts Shane

Something Unholy by PlatinumPussycat208 | E, 2K, complete

“I’m glad you’re taking this investigation very seriously.” “I just want the ghosties to come and fuck around with me!” - Shane and Ryan encounter a ghostly presence at St Ignatius, just not in the way they expected.

Anti-Heroes by Golden4278 | G, 800, on-going

What if the hero and villain were secretly best friends?

Ryan and Shane are broke students at New York University, studying photography and journalism respectively. When they each stumble upon the other's secret, the boys come up with the brilliant idea to make some cash reporting on their own escapades.

Don’t Ever Change by ouijaboy | T, 1K, complete

“Look at how clear the night turned out! There’s not a cloud in sight!”

Ryan shifts grumpily again, and tucks his hands into his armpits. “Or a flying saucer. You’ve made your point, man.”

[Ryan takes Shane UFO-watching. It goes about as well as expected.]

December

Curios and Curiouser by live_from_new_york | T, 3K, complete

“Nothing in this store is haunted. Because ghosts aren’t real.”

“Oh,” Ryan said, “That’s where you’re wrong, buddy. Ghosts are real. There are several documented paranormal encounters, even just here in LA!”

Shane runs an antique store and struggles to take Ryan seriously.

Button up your Overcoat by PhyllisDietrichson | E, 7K, complete

Don’t ever get into the P.I. business with a head full of ideals and a whole briefcase full of compunctions. It’s bad for the profit margins.

A Very Little Christmas by denimwrapped | G, 3K, complete

Shane's a witch. Ryan doesn't know this. At least, not until he stumbles upon Shane's enchanted grimoire, which hits him with a curse - and on the day before Christmas, no less. Luckily, Shane's already on his way to see his family, who should be able to undo this magical mishap.

Of course, the witch thing isn't the only secret Shane's been holding onto.

And you still owe me by Haroldmay | M, 1K, on-going

Can you ever really move on?

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With quick steps he moved forward and his gaze shifted around. The room was filled with all sorts of curiosities, big and small and most of them dusty. Several candles were the only light sources and he tried squint.

“Greetings!” He said, trying to be polite. “I come to you because I need a favor. A murder to be precise.”

"You come to me for this, on the day of my daughter's wedding?" Replied a voice out of the dark.

~~~

Disclaimer: This is just a little joke. More Meme than Fic. It's about the characters Shane Madej and Ryan Bergara and has nothing to do with the real people behind them: Brad Pistachio and Brian Cramblish.

Chain 4 U by ouijaboy | T, 3K, complete

"You know you’re supposed to keep your voice down in the library, right?"

Steven's just trying to get through his shift with Shane, but his friends are being super weird with each other. And each other's girlfriends. (Huh.) SMaShR, Steven POV.

January

I Could Lift You Up by ouijaboy | T, 5K, complete

WWW-inspired. Five times Shane made a big ol’ romantic gesture, and one time Ryan returned the sentiment. (Plus a little bit of ‘clearing the air’ in the middle. They’re trying their best, damn it!)

How to Befriend the Monster in Your Closet by Golden4278 | G, 143K, on-going

Ryan: Hi God, it’s me again. I just moved to LA and I’m really lonely. I need someone to be my friend, someone who understands me. Maybe… you could send me an angel? Yeah! The nicest angel you have.

Demon Shane: *LAUGHS MANIACALLY*

open the yawning grave by PhyllisDietrichson | T, 2K, complete

This close, Shane can see Ryan’s eyes are welling with unshed tears. But he’s smiling—he’s smiling so big and his voice is sure, and he sits right there on the ground, where there’s tree roots and tufts of grass and he tugs Shane against him and gently, gently, he works a firm hand under Shane’s jaw and kisses his chapped lips and Shane feels—something glow in his chest—and for the first time he draws breath without the stinging reproof of pain.

Haunting Hometowns by MmeBabs | E, 34K, on-going

“Just keep reading,” she says. Her face is undecipherable, so he continues. As soon as he reaches his band’s name drop in the article, his eyes shoot back up to hers. There’s a certain sparkle in her eye. “You haven’t gotten to the best part yet.”

“Did he – Did he call me Dave Grohl and then immediately shit on my music? I think I have emotional whiplash from this. I have so many questions.”

***

Ryan is the frontman of the popular band 'Ryan and the Phantoms'.

'Hunters and Gatherers' is Shane's one-man indie band from Illinois.

Their paths cross while out on tour.

Baby, I'm yours by tasty_littl_snack | NR, 500, complete

Ryan has to be doing this on purpose.

if you want to read some more fics, you can always check out our ao3 collection! see you soon! ♡

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WIP ask game

RULES: post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

Here I am, working hard on the last zine art piece I have in my tasklist, and then my dear friend who’s supposed to be working on one fic tags me for this and also quotes me at the same time. XDD

I knew you were gonna do it, Sanity, but lmao.

To also quote me, BOLD to assume that I have a dedicated WIP folder. Does anyone have a dedicated WIP folder, that they put files in and then move elsewhere once they’ve finished it?????? I sort things by file type, and my art files by year, so I have a whole host of abandoned pieces, wips, completed stuff, and it’s all mixed together. And also in like eight different places because I’m a gremlin.

So, for art:

Ever After AU

Paralyzer

Christian and Cedric for chase

Room where it happened animatic thumbs

Apollo phone wp

pacrim Shiro

omen SPN au

You ever get moody about a silly AU idea

Sleepy water cave

Yourplayersaidwhat tags

Frisk ukagaka

Verse commission

A Yuffie just because

The lil skykid princeling

Ignis is the best banuk

Herlock ukagaka

And for writing:

Ace!Cloud thing from like 6~8 years ago

Aeris vs the Turks

Child of Light

Banuk Ignis meets some Galahds

The Arduous Task of Living (working title)

Mamma Mia! But FFXV

Masquerade

FFXV Omens (SPN AU)

A Primer of the World

Susato Mikotoba - a bolt of lightning

I’m sure I have more floating around, not counting my big slow idling project of a Pokémon Silver Nuzlocke comic, and various ongoing or dead RP threads, and anything further back than this decade, and whatever actual WIPs are in my sketchbooks (because I have a personal project going on with one sketchbook but I haven’t scanned anything yet).

And I am definitely not tagging as many people as I have wips, bc I am not tagging anyone. If you wanna do it, then you should feel free! I don’t have the spoons to do tagging hahaha

#askbox meme #Tega’s art #wip #arts #fandom #Final Fantasy VII #Final Fantasy XV #Pokemon #Horizon Zero Dawn #Wind Waker #Undertale #Sky Children of the Light #Ace Attorney #Dai Gyakuten Saiban #VLD #pacific rim #SPN #HP Everyone Lives #damn one of these I had IDEAS for and I forgot to write them down so I can’t remember them #shiiiiiiit #Welp it’ll come back to me #good luck figuring my brain out #There’s one I didn’t list actually but it’s supposed to be finished by now and I’m nearly done #so it’ll be finished by the time this gets posted #man we’re lucky I’m procrastinating otherwise I wouldn’t fill this out #it takes SO MUCH for me to do these and I don’t get asks anyway #the spoons are unreal for these games #you’ll never guess which one of these files I made right before making this post #oh shit I remembered the IDEAS for one of them that I forgot while rambling in the tags #thanks tumblr

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For Christmas this year, I treated myself to a new external hard drive. It's 5 TB, which is pretty much the most storage space I can get before the hard drive gets too physically big to fit on the back of my laptop where it lives like a parasite. It's great, I am so pleased with the purchase. I was able to consolidate so much stuff from other, smaller hard drives. And I left the stuff on those other hard drives too, so now those act as backups in case something goes wrong with one hard drive. I have a few of the most important things backed up in the cloud as well, but I like having a physical media collection with physical backups.

Instead of having my comedy stuff spread across several different places, I now have one big comedy folder (currently 1.54 TB) with lots of sub-folders for different comedians, where I have their stand-up and TV shows they've made and radio shows and audiobooks and ebooks and whatever else I have downloaded by that person, all in one place. It's so convenient. There's a whole system for things like mixed-bill gigs where I have the same file copied to the folders of each individual person on the bill. Or if it's not just one file but a big folder, I use shortcuts. My folder with every No More Jockeys episode is in the Mark Watson sub-folder but a shortcut is in the Tim Key one. I have a lot of systems for that sort of thing.

So I can generally - not always as a perfect measurement, but generally - tell how big a fan I am of a comedian by how much stuff is in their comedy sub-folder. It's especially telling if their folder starts getting its own sub-folders. If there's so much in there that I have to separate it into stand-up shows, TV shows, books, etc.

I know I'm really going too far down a comedian rabbit hole if they get a sub-folder just for their guest appearances on other things. Mainly I use their folder for their own stuff - things where they were the writer, presenter, and/or star actor. But in some rare cases, I'll collate episodes of a variety of shows that are hosted by other people, in which this comedian was a guest. I don't do that often, there are a lot of comedians whom I'd count among my favourites who do not have sub-folders like that. So if someone does have one, it's a major sign that I've been rabbit hole digging.

I've updated one particular folder in the last few days, and:

It's fine. I happened, today, to be going through my posts from a year ago because someone asked for a link to one. While doing this, I happened to find a post I made almost exactly a year ago, from which I'd like to copy-paste an excerpt:

John Robins is dangerous. Not in general or anything - just to me, right now. It is, as I’ve said, the fastest I’ve ever turned around on liking something like this. My opinion on him for quite a while was… “Well I don’t have a really good reason to dislike him, but he’s just sort of annoying, right? Every time he’s a guest on something I wish he weren’t. I don’t even know how to explain it, he just reminds me a little of Phil from The Thick of It?” Then I watched The Darkness of Robins and listened to A Robin Amongst the Pigeons, and learned that not only was I wrong, I was the exact opposite of right. He perfectly appeals to everything I like best in a comedian, I just judged him on that one Mock the Week appearance even though Sara Pascoe was also being a dick in that episode, and I didn’t hold it against her because I already liked her. Anyway, he’s become dangerous now because any time I hear him do anything, I’m reminded more of how much he appeals to every single thing I like in a comedian, and I want to hear more of him. Which is bad, because there’s large rabbit hole that I could fall down, but I have shit to do. It isn’t the lockdowns of 2021 anymore, so unlike back then, I can’t just sit down and listen to over a hundred hours of a radio show featuring some guy who spent 2006 in one particular house in Bristol. I’m sorry Robins, I only have so much capacity to do that, and I spent it all on Jon Richardson and Russell Howard. No, I didn’t know at that time that Russell Howard was going to turn into a Jordan Peterson advocate; if I’d known that, maybe I’d have given you more of a chance. But we can’t go back now, can we?

I was right, it was dangerous. I'm pleased to say I managed to hold out for almost a whole year before taking a hard fall down the rabbit hole.

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Hey Sol! I remember quite a while ago, someone asked you about how to get into archiving stuff and you answered with a little guide of sorts of useful programs/websites/etc.

Do you still have that guide up? Is there somewhere I can learn more in-depth about how to begin archiving too?

Tumblr search is failing me and I can't find that post now... So! I'll type it again. Lately I've been thinking about writing some kind of "archivist's manifesto" type thing for my Neocities in an effort to hype people up about archiving and to guide them on how to do it. When I write that up I'll post it here too.

Here's a big post I wrote on how to scan books and where to upload them (this is also linked in the big GG masterpost that's in my pinned): https://solradguy.tumblr.com/post/722512206034501632/sol-radguy-scanning-guide

That guide also has some tips on photo editing that may be useful for non-book scanning stuff, like some free program alternatives.

I've tried finding professional guides on how to archive media but most of them are written for people looking to archive family photos/things and not web media or physical books. None of them have been very helpful, honestly. One thing they recommend doing that I think IS helpful though is the rule of 3: Keep 3 copies of an archive somewhere. A physical hard drive, cloud storage, a second hard drive stored separately from the first (in case of accidents/hardware failure), uploaded to separate file hosts, and printing new physical copies are some. Doing any 3 of those is highly recommended. I do the two hard drives and cloud storage/file hosts ones. My hosts are generally Archive.org, Neocities, and Google Drive.

Be very careful about trusting image hosting sites with valuable scan data because they come and go like the wind. Photobucket, Tinypic, Imageshack... They're either dead or require a premium to host files now, which doesn't help hobby archivists at all. Imgur's demise is on the horizon. It's just the way it goes with these due to how expensive and space-consuming image hosting is.

Absolutely 1000% do not ever use just Discord for archiving/hosting things. Nothing on that platform can be backed up easily or with automation, and the guys that run it have already made weird choices the community didn't want while also putting more and more things behind the Nitro paywall. I suspect they're going to kneecap image and file hosting some day soon, too.

For archiving someone else's files, something that helps greatly (if it can be done) is either including the source of the file in the file's name or writing a separate document with the sources and whatever other additional information there is.

Here's a basic example of some Sol images from my Sol folder:

The first two are from the Counterside collab event and then the second two are official art but the file names are descriptive and it saves time sourcing them for things later. For archiving fan art/fiction, the filename is a good place to put the artist credit. Something like [Artwork Title]-[Artist Name]-[Original File Creation Date].format ("Sol Badguy Missing Link - Daisuke Ishiwatari - May 14 1998.jpg," or however you wanna organize the folder) works good.

Windows 11 didn't like working with Japanese text in file names for some of the Vastedge stuff I archived and I had to translate/romanize them. If you can't read Japanese/source's language, just do your best (number them instead?) and include the native language text in a .TXT file if possible.

A more complex example from the Vastedge .TXT doc:

The Vastedge materials archive is pretty dense and had a lot of contributors so the first half of the .TXT document's just credits for who did what. This is useful for if something gets lost because we'll know who to go bother about it. Among other things.

The next section is a long stack of details about the files themselves. I won't paste the whole thing here, it's pretty long. It covers how the archive came to be, issues with some of the files, how the files were obtained, and some other stuff:

The last half of the .TXT doc is a listing of the folder contents. I included this for quick reference and because sometimes archives get fractured by people only reuploading certain parts of it. Future archivists or anyone else going through this archive now have a list of what should be in there and will know if something is missing.

Archive.org/Wayback Machine has a browser extension for quickly archiving webpages. I have that and WebP / Avif Image Converter by Nullbrains (Chrome, might be on Firefox?) installed to quickly archive pages and convert image files as I save them.

In summary:

Upload/store things in multiple places

Include credits wherever you can, however is easiest for you

Try to keep files in the most widely compatible formats (jpg, gif, bmp, png, tiff, mp3, mp4, txt, pdf, flac, etc). Google's .DOC, Clip Studio Paint's .CLIP, and similar file formats meant for a specific piece of software may not be supported in the future.

A bad/incomplete archive is better than no archive at all. Consider how exciting Sappho poetry fragments are compared to what it would be like if we didn't have anything. Don't worry about making it "perfect."

Hope that helps some!! I'll try to write the manifesto for my NC soon

#asks #long post #archiving

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Unless I'm wildly misinterpeting you, Evernote + Pinboard should get you 95% of the way there, and you can probably cook up something completely self-hosted and open source too. That said, just start putting shit in a plain text file. Verbal brain noise -> ASCII is the most critical and ultimately most useful aspect, get that down first.

on some cloud services??? so i can't work at all if the network goes down or i'm outside??? gross and bad. seriously, i've been burned by those enough back when i used google reader. i'd rather not have the functioning of my tools dependent on either some corporation somewhere continuing to prioritize the maintenance of some service or the presumed longevity of individual tech startups.

and it's 75% at best; including pdfs or djvus or epubs of entire books in any of these either (for pinboard) is probably impossible without like, setting up a secret server or something (for money), or (for evernote) seems to require me to pay them money once i get past a fairly low size, which i'd rather not. also running a booru locally gets me a different 75% there, tbh, with the advantage that it's open source so getting a bit further is more possible, and there's a significantly more direct connection between the tagging system and the wiki system rather than having to use two entirely separate services.

(well, strictly, it'd require me to learn ruby, which i don't want to, so i'm sticking to my own plan)

anyways. sorry, i'm feeling a bit cranky. i'm sticking to paper/text files/org mode/latex/whatever for now.

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Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop (MAVD) is a cloud-based desktop solution that allows users to access their applications and data from anywhere, on any device. MAVD is built on Microsoft Azure, which provides a secure, reliable, and scalable platform for virtual desktop deployments.

How does Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop work?

MVD works by providing users with a virtual desktop that is hosted in the cloud. MVD uses Microsoft Azure to host the virtual desktop and allows users to connect to their virtual desktop from any device.

To use MVD, businesses must create a Windows Virtual Desktop image. This image can be created using the Microsoft Azure portal or a third-party tool. Once the virtual desktop image is created, businesses must deploy it to the Azure cloud.

Once the Azure Virtual Desktop is deployed, businesses can add users and applications to their virtual desktops. Users can then connect to their virtual desktop from any device.

Why use Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop?

There are many reasons why using the Windows Virtual Desktop Cloud solution is best for your business.

Here are just a few of them:

1. Increased productivity

MVD allows users to be more productive by accessing their applications and files from any location.

2. Reduced IT costs

MVD can help businesses reduce their IT costs because they do not need to maintain a physical infrastructure for their virtual desktop solution.

3. Increased security

MVD provides businesses with increased security because all data is stored in the cloud. Businesses do not need to worry about data breaches or losing data if their physical infrastructure is damaged.

4. Flexibility

MVD is a flexible solution that can be customized to meet the specific needs of your business.

How Much Does Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop Cost?

The cost of MVD depends on the number of users and the number of virtual desktops deployed. MVD is a pay-as-you-go service, so businesses only need to pay for the resources they use.

Microsoft Azure offers a free trial for MVD. This free trial allows businesses to try MVD without incurring any costs. After the free trial, businesses can pay for Azure Windows Virtual Desktop Licensing and subscription charges through the Azure portal.

Is Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop Right For My Business?

MVD is a great solution for businesses that want to provide their employees with the ability to work remotely.

MVD is also a great solution for businesses that have employees that need to access business applications from different locations.

Endnote:

If you are considering MVD for your business, we recommend that you contact a Microsoft Azure partner to get started.

Microsoft Azure partners are experts in deploying and managing MVD solutions. They can help you determine if MVD is right for your business and help you get started with MVD.

Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop is your solution whether you are looking to improve your productivity or work flexibly. With its many benefits, MVD is the future of computing.

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