#I deleted folders that I didn't need but they're still there

[lab-gr0wn-lambs]

Lol I just deleted a shit ton of my art. Like. Hundreds of old pieces. I was just cleaning out my onedrive and it deleted them off my computer, gone forever I guess 🙃

[front-facing-pokemon]

[spacechild-glitchypix]

How to position facial features for the Our Life sprites

Idk how many people need this tutorial (especially since I kinda sat on it for like a month...whoops) but I noticed people were starting to make more sprite edits and videos using the in-game sprites and I thought having this tutorial might help for those of you who don't know exactly how to place the expression layers for the sprite.

Part 1: What am I talking about?

Ok so some of you may be reading the post title and thinking "what the hell does that mean?". For those who are unaware, if you decompile OL1 and OL2, you can find the sprites used for the characters in the game. These files are generally in character folders that contain all the bits for each sprite as well as several versions of the sprite itself in different outfits. All these base sprites files look a little like this

You may have noticed the glaringly obvious detail that Qiu here is missing most of their face. That's because there are several seperate images used for their eyebrows, eyes and mouth. The reason they're all seperated like this is to give more creative freedom over expressions than what would be allowed if there were just already a set number of sprites with set expressions

However, if you want to make a spite edit video, that means you have to piece all the expression layers over the sprite and, since the expression layers don't have the same canvas size as the sprite, you have to actually place them on the face yourself. This can lead to stuff like this.

If you're looking at this and thinking it doesn't look quite right, you're correct. This is the issue you're noticing

This is generally what happens when you try placing expression layers by eye, you end up sort of assuming you've got the right spot when you're actually slightly wrong. And this is gif just shows the facial features in the wrong spot vertically

So, I've explained the problem, now how do you fix it? It's simple actually.

Part 2: The actual tutorial part

What you'll need:

The sprites and expression layers you need (this tutorial assumes you already have the game decompiled. If you don't and have no idea how to do so, here's a tutorial for just that)

An editing software that has a tranform tool such as Photopea, Photoshop, GIMP, etc.

Step 1: Open up the sprite you want to use in your image editing software of choice and import in all the expression layers you want to use

Step 2: Open up the transform tool on your editing software. Where this is may vary, on Photopea and Photoshop you can open up either through the shortcut alt+control+t or clicking on edit in the top bar and selecting Free Transform from the menu. If you don't know where the transform tool is in your software, I'd suggest looking it up

(A showcase of where the tranform tool is in Photopea and Photoshop)

(What the transform box should look like

Step 2.5 (This might be photopea specific, idk if other software does this): If your transformation tool box looks like this, cancel out of the tool (using the little x button on the top bar) and then open the transformation tool back up again. Make sure you're not selecting multiple layers and also make sure you didn't open the tool with the transformation controls tick box from the top bar. If none of that works, just delete the layer and grab it from your folder again and try again

Step 3: With the transform tool still open on your desired layer, move the layer so that it snaps against the corner of your canvas. Your image editing software should automatically have layer snapping enabled but, if not, I suggest looking up how to turn it on. If it doesn't have this, the best suggestion I have would just be to make sure the corner of the transform tool's box and the corner of the canvas allign. Zoom in if need be. You then repeat this process for the other expression layers (and any other layers that aren't automatically allighned like the blush layers or the tear layers)

(Notice the red lines that show up when it snaps against the corner)

Step 4: Export your sprite file because that's it, you did it! Now you have a sprite with the layers placed in the right spots! Isn't that great!

...(maybe I should've chosed a happier expression for this...)

Anyways, I hope this helps!

[redacteddoesstuff]

II S2 Ep 17 Spoilers

I'll be talking about what I got right from my previous theory post and some newer ones too.

Theory 1: The contestants aren't gone forever

This didn't happen. However I do think it will. I am one of the people who think there will be an act 3. Mostly because there are a lot of loose ends and plot points that they brought up (even just in this episode).

I am now more sure then ever that this is how their going to bring the contestants back. Or at least it will be an important part.

The fact that they continue to focus on soaps phone kinda proves that to me. Why bring so much attention to something meaningless.

Theory 2 (well not really a theory, more of a question): What about bow and dough?

Bow and dough are indeed created by Mephone. Which also means that Mephone can create soul-like-substitutes. Which is wild.

Theory 3: Mephone didn't know he created the contestants.

I was right with this one! Yippee! Kinda. While he didn't remember creating them, he did assign them personalities and quirks. What Cobs really did here was make Mephone put 2 and 2 together.

What I believe happened was after Mephone escaped he was like "Time to start a reality show! Wait... I need people for that" and his subconscious was like "haha, wait a minute, we already did that" and spawned in the contestants. Seeing as he had an interview with suitcase, a season 2 contestant, we can assume that the rest of season 2 and 3 contestants were all subconsciously spawned in, then held an interview with Mephone.

The picture below is just to highlight that even the season 3 contestants where characterized by Mephone.

Also I haven't seen enough people talk about how genuinely awful and disgusting what Cobs did here. It actually makes me kinda ill.

Theory 3: Mephone is part Prime Shimmer

I was also right with this one! I am on a roll! Mephone being a Shimmer just makes sense narrative wise.

Now, onto the theories/observations I have after this episode.

I don't think Mephone knew he could freeze everyone. Besides the fact that he didn't know he created them an therefore wouldn't think that was something that he was capable of, just look at him.

He has no idea what's happening around him. He's far more focused on the season 3 folder then his surroundings.

I also don't think Mephone created the island. He may have terraformed it but I don't believe he can straight up created an entire island.

And like I said earlier, I really don't think that this is the end.

Reason 1: the loose ends/plot points

It feels weird to me if they brought up important information just for it not to be used. Like Bow's tail story/coming back from the dead, Soap's phone, and the Prime Shimmers. Not to mention all the people who would still be there, like Mepad, Bow, Dough, Bot, Baxter, and the Prime Shimmers (and maybe toilet too? But that is a huge maybe in my books). Or even The Unvitational Committee. What do they feel about everything that's happened. What are they gonna do now everyone's gone.

Reason 2: common act structures.

While this is admittedly one of the weaker points, as they're allowed to do whatever they want, I think it's important to bring up. "Act" is a very specific word choice, and most stories follow a three act structure.

Reason 3: The themes.

II has a really prominent theme through the entire show, you don't have to be what others think of you. It can be seen within most character arcs. This episode is kinda the antithesis to that theme. Even the title "Through No Choice of Your Own" highlights that.

Reason 5: Brian said that there will be 2 special guest voice actors and we haven't gotten that yet.

Reason 6: He also specifically said "multi-part." People don't tend to say multi-part for 2 episodes, optioning to say two-parter instead.

Reason 7: Adam deleted his account shortly after he made(?) it. He also died from Mephone X. However this could just be nothing more then a fun way to leave and I'm looking to far into things. I thought it was important to bring up anyway.

Reason 8: General vibes.

While II has had lots of sad moments before, they usually have some kind of happy/bittersweet/hopeful ending. This is just depressing, with little to no upside.

Look man. I'm gonna be honest. This is mostly me sipping copium. I genuinely can't fathom there being no act 3. Like, that's not even an option. This ending is so genuinely horrible (emotionally) it's unreal. I might make another post just about how awful this all is for Mephone specifically. Like, it's the worst possible outcome from him. Anyways, post is ending here. I had some more ideas but I forgot them.

[sychik]

ANCIENT ROMAN NECESSITIES. PART 2.5: FIXES

mostly QoL fixes for the things I missed. the links in the posts have been changed, new ones are included here as well, please re-download.

first of all, footstep sounds for EVERYTHING were changed to normal shoes (generic and not annoying). as it turns out, I hate the sandals sound and they're also not that floppy. and some of them I just plainly missed (heel sounds on most of the f tunics). well, won't happen again!

second, I know the game doesn't like many separate files (and stola is the worst offender), so I have made the merged recolors files. separate recolors are also still an option.

bigger fixes are listed below along with the links to sfs folders. in the folders, there is a MESH package file (you need this in any case), package files for MERGED recolors and a zip archive for SEPARATE recolors - you should choose either package files or the contents of the archive. choose the former if you want to save your time, choose the latter if you want to pick and choose or just to be able to delete the swatches separately.

cm tunic

cf longer tunic

mesh weights fixed (hem was distorting too much while walking, didn't notice somehow) - not perfect, but better

cf shorter tunic

um tunic w/ calcei/shoes

um tunic w/ sandals

uf short tunic

uf low-waist tunic

the more I look at the shoes, the less I like them. they're ugly, or at least, the color is, so I changed that. now they are dyed yellow and are a bit less ugly (yes, on all textures). I also fixed the uv/mesh a little bit around that area. now the underside assumes the color of the main tunic (not very logical sometimes but looks cleaner)

uf stola

same changes as for the tunic above

[bardoo]

Bardø's Camera Rig

For some time I enjoyed taking screenshots in Sims 4 more than actually playing the game, but something that always bothered me, was that there is no real photo mode like in other games. Sure you can get far with the cinematic cam, but even the cinematic cam is limited (can't rotate the camera and thus not take 'vertical' or tilted screenshots) and sometimes its just buggy (messing up rotations, clipping objects while moving the camera). I was looking for mods, that would add a better camera or an object that would work as camera, but I had no luck. So some day I found out, that you could set camera points while being in first person mode and it would save everything I could ask for. So instead of mods or objects, I figuered out, that sims would be the perfect camera and after messing around for some time I created a rig for blender, that is 95% accurate and now I want to share this rig, to help this community to create even better screenshots, than it already does.

Download (Google Drive - No Ads)

In blender:

In game:

Download (Google Drive - No Ads)

So how does this work?

You need:

- Blender

- Sims 4 Studio

- Basic knowledge of creating poses and exporting/importing poses from/into posepacks.

- Download the rig and extract it from the zip and move the files of the tray folder to your own tray folder.

- Open up a pose in blender, delete the already existing camera and append the camera_rig + camera into the scene. If the rig looks like on the first thumbnail, then you did it right.

- Move the camera_rig so, that it wouldnt be in the shot later.

- Now move the camera by moving the 'b_neck' bone of the camera_rig.

- If you want, you can rotate the 'b_neck' bone, to rotate the camera

- To get a preview of the shot, just press 0 on the numpad and then alt+F10. If you're playing Sims 4 fullscreen, press alt+F11 aswell. Make sure you don't see the rectangle of the camera by zooming in, but stop zooming in as soon you don't see the rectangle anymore.

- If you have 'b_neck' still selected, you can move and rotate the camera, while being in preview. Press 0 to leave the camera, press alt+F10 to get back the interface and press alt+F11 to leave fullscreen mode.

- As soon you are happy with your shot, LocRot the camera_rig, just like you would with every other rig and save.

- Make sure every rig is saved separately and import them into your posepack. I always put a 'CAM' behind the name of the pose with the camera_rig.

- Get into the game. Open your gallery items and add the sim "CAMERA RIG" to your household (enable custom content). The sim CAMERA RIG will act as camera.

- Let the camera-sim pose the 'CAM'-pose. Depending on how much the 'b_neck' bone was moved/rotated around, the camera-sim might look completely messed up, thats totally fine.

- Now get into the first person mode (shift+tab), don't move around with your mouse or zoom in ( if you did, just press ctrl or re-enter the first person mode).

- You should see that the view is kinda like the preview in blender, but the FOV is not right. Don't worry you did nothing wrong.

- Now you have to set a camera point by pressing ctrl+5/6/7/8.

- Leave the first person mode and move the camera-sim away or make the camera-sim pose, if the sim is supposed to.

- If every sim is posing like they're suppose to, get into the cinematic cam by pressing tab and press shift+5/6/7/8.

- If you did everything right, you should now (almost) see the same shot, you saw in blender.

- Take screenshot.

Download (Google Drive - No Ads)

I hope this rig will help you guys to create the screenshots you always envisioned.

To get an even better result, set the resolution of your scene in Blender to the same resolution of your game. You do this here:

I hope, I didn't mess up this tutorial, if so please forgive me, it was 5 a.m when I started this.

[moonmeg]

I have seen one of your recent answers and

1. I would love to see that comic where Catherine and Caleb argue about what marriage is

2. About that, it could be said that Caleb expected Catherine to be submissive and obedient to him?? 😭😭

This is a bit ooc for Caleb (another reason I cut it) but here you go

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Cat: What was that all about?!

C: I protected you from some creep! You're welcome!

Cat: That "creep" was a friend I haven't seen in almost 10 years! And even if it as a stranger who makes me uncomfortable, I am able to protect myself. I don't need you for that!

C (after a small pause): You are not talking to him again.

Cat: Excuse me?

C: ?

Cat: How dare you?

C: I- What are you upset about?

Cat: Who do you think you are to tell me what to do?

C: Who I am to tell you what to do? I'm your husband! You are my wife!

Cat: Yes, your wife. Not your servant.

C: I don't think you understand me here.

Cat: Be a dear and enlighten me, then.

C (hesitant): As my wife it is your responsibility to, well, serve me. I provide for you and in return you obey me. You belong to me now and so you do what I say.

Cat: What? Is that your concept of marriage?

C: Well... yes.

Cat: Alright, let me make myself clear: I married you and am now your wife because I love you and I want to spend the rest of my life with you. I did not marry you to be treated like a maid or some subject to a king. My husband or not, you are not my superior and never will be. In this marriage there is no hierachy. I am your equal. I'm not your possesion, I'm not your servant, I'm not going to mindlessly obey you and I certainly am not going to be submissive to you - not unless I myself want to be so.

I am your wife and I am still my own person and you are going to treat me as such. You are going to treat me as a person and not like some accessoire. I know this roots in the human realm and you can't just let that go... which is why I will be patient with you on this. But if you can't let that go... this marriage will not work.

[They're both silent for a while, avoiding the other's face]

Cat: Perhaps I can help a bit. What about me is different from you? Aside from the human and witch thing. What does a human woman differenciate from a human man? And do those differences really mean I - or any other woman for that matter - am of less value and do not deserve to be treated the way you expect to be treated by me? Do those differences really mean I cannot have the freedoms and a voice in this marriage as you expect to have them? Why should I obey you? Why not the other way around? Think about it, Caleb.

[Cat leaves]

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I only wrote this far before throwing it in the "deleted scenes" folder. Like I said it didn't move anything along and would've just taken up more time.

They resolved this the typical Caline fashion. I would've ended the comic on a hug or kiss.

Depending on my silliness, I would've written out a fic where Caleb would ask what she meant with "not being obedient or submissive to him unless she herself wants to be so" to which Cat just smirks and replies "Do you want to try it out?" and well, they do ;)

[alders-simblr]

CC MasterList - Pose Packs and Photography

A brief break from the CAS content. Mostly because I looked at the giant pile of hair, clothes and shoes and realized I need to organize it before I even try to list it all. So, I thought I'd do something a little lighter and talk about the pose packs, mods and props that I find essential.

Must Have Mods

Before I get into the pose packs, there are two mods that are critical for taking photos and using pose packs.

Scumbumbo's Teleport Any Sim

(Andrew took over the mod so the updated version is on his Creator Studio but most places will still reference it as Scumbumbo's mod)

It's really easy to use. It's in your Decorations/Misc Buy Catalog though I always find it by typing 'Teleport' and then clicking to search for the text as its faster. I have a lot of misc decorations in there.

Once you put it exactly where you want the sim to be, use it to teleport a sim if they're on the lot, or summon a sim from a different lot.

Andrew's Pose Player

This will let you click on the active sim to select the pose you want to use from whatever you've loaded into your mods folder. The only real trouble I have with this mod is the icons on the pose pack are so small on my UI that it can be hard to remember which is the one I'm looking for. It's an action with no end so you can safely activate live mode and know they're not going to drop the pose until you cancel the action.

Additional Mods and Cheats

Because I use re-shade blooms, the highlight effect when you mouse over sims can be super annoying bright. Even without bloom effects, it can break emersion when you're trying to take photographs.

There is a cheat command for it -> hovereffects off but I prefer to have a mod remove it entirely.

Foggity's Hidden Highlight

That still leaves the plumbob and other tags. You can disable ALL tags but it will hide everything, including other sim names, etc. Hover info will vanish as will thought bubbles. After typing:

testingcheats true

You want to use:

headlineeffects off

That will hide all the emersion breaking hover effects while you're trying to take photos. It just makes the game harder to play if you leave them off.

A Note on Reshade

If you're using ReShade, you can set up a key command to take a full screenshot and give it a target folder to dump all of those. Most of my screenshots I take, I use that method. I have the screenshot folder on my desktop and every so often, I clear it out and delete the ones I didn't like. It's built into the ReShade program and functions seamlessly.

Pose Pack Creators

Chewy Butterfly -> Patreon | Tumblr

Katverse -> Patreon | Tumblr

Pink Baddie -> Patreon | Tumblr

Rebouk -> Patreon | Tumblr

SamsStudio -> Patreon | Tumblr

Spacecase -> Patreon | Tumblr

StarrySimsie -> Patreon | Tumblr

Errata

To get Nifty In-Game Photos to use on my walls, and for decor, etc, I use Ravasheen's frames and this camera for the in-game photos as it means less fighting with the game's camera controls.

I also have swapped out the maxis textures on background buildings for Miiko's Pastel World Mod which you can find here.

[pan-magi]

I'm doing end of the year cleanup on my computer as one does. At least, I do, lmao.

I thought to myself. Damn, I have a lot of Magi shit on my computer.

To understand why I have so much I need to explain that I tend to keep the screenshots I take for gifs, for some reason. They're PNG files so they're massive. I want the best quality so when they're compressed down to gif all the quality isn't shot to hell. After I edit them I load them up and make them a gif in one program or another. It used to be Photoshop but fuck Adobe's subscription model. Now, I use a few different programs.

With me? How about I tell you that me not bothering to delete original screenshots I have a grand total of 30+ GB of Magi content saved on my computer. For another reference, personal photos I've uploaded to computers for over a decade (compared for Magi I've only been making stuff on and off since 2017) is only about 10GB. I don't take many photos in real life but still. Over 3x the amount, lmao.

(Image: a screencap of some file data. The location is marked out. The size is 31.9 GB or 34,296,431,659 bytes. A total of 12,133 files and 148 folders.)

That and considering the series itself (minus Sinbad no Bouken since I still can't get ahold of it), at about 78GB, I have over a hundred gigs on my computer dedicated to Magi. I had no idea it got so out of control.

Anyway, so I should just delete old screenshots because the saved gifs themselves are only about 1/3-1/2 GB. My computer is getting overstuffed and I should admit I have a problem.

While cleaning, I thought about my first Magi gif I did.

My style has chamged. My humor hasn't really lol.

(I'm so sorry about the stretchy. I didn't size stand-alone images right. Shit if you make images exactly 300 in width like I do. Don't remember when the change came in but I hate it XD.)

[thepnwvarmints]

Head's up...

My @boydholbrookfanpage is missing a lot of gifs and reblogs from other content creators that I did over the last year. Including close friends that I talked to about it, and they haven't soft-blocked or removed my fan page, so the reblogs I did from them should still be there, but they're not.

Does anyone know if there's some sort of limit or restriction on how many times you can reblog from someone? Or if they started deleting reblogs after they've been on your profile for a while? I sure as Hell hope not.

Also, I've seen a lot of blogs suddenly getting removed from my list of followers, both here and on the BHFP. It's sayin' that I've stopped following people who did not soft-block me or unfollow from their end, that I didn't unfollow or soft-block from my end. Not sure what's up with that, though.

If anyone sees that I am missing content that should be on my Boyd Holbrook Fan Page, pleeease, please feel free to nudge me in DM's about it!

For example: The Corinthian sitting cross-legged on a table while flipping through a folder. This gif set is no longer on my page and I KNOW I reblogged that one a couple of times from a couple of different creators.

You can always show me a post via anon asks that you think I should have or am missing, so that I can attempt to reblog it when I get a minute. If the creator did, in fact, soft-block or unfollow me, then so be it. I won't make a fuss. But for those that didn't, I don't want their work to not get recognition, or for anyone's feelings to be hurt! That's my main concern here. I don't want fellow creators to think that I just suddenly removed their work, because I swear, that's not the case.

Thanks for your time. I hope this gets fixed soon. I'm trying to update tags and mobile links on a lot of things from the BHFP, which is how I noticed stuff was missing. *shrugs and sighs* Fuckin' Dumblr, man. I swear, they really need to fix this wonky shite.

-Dax

[booleanean]

I've heard various reports that this was an issue where the spam filter malfunctioned and flagged their account unintentionally, or that the document was reported by a disgruntled beta reader. That might also have been two different people that had similar things happen to them. I've also heard people say they got access back after a manual review. These situations suck for the person going through them, and they're very scary to everyone. The details don't really matter for the lesson we should all learn from things like this happening.

That lesson is:

One is None. Two is One.

This is an adage from the IT world (and other places), meaning that anything that you only keep one copy of is effectively already deleted. It doesn't matter if that copy is online or offline, a single copy is never enough to keep your stuff safe.

If you write offline

Keep a backup. Hard drives fail, usb sticks get lost, laptops get stolen, phones fall in the river. Best bet is to pay for a backup service if you can afford them (order of magnitude $5/month).

Second best option is to write in a folder that's synced with an online drive service like Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive, or Proton Drive. They're free, and unless you spend 16 hours a day writing for the rest of your life, there's no way you're going to fill them up with just your writing.

Corin Tellado is arguably the most prolific author in the world, writing over 4,000 romance novels in her lifetime. An article I found claimed she churned out a novella (20k words) a week from age 19 to her death at age 81. That's actually an underestimation by about 800 novellas if the first number is accurate. 4,000 novellas at 20k words each would put her at 80 million words written over her lifetime.

The least generous popular online storage service, dropbox, offers 2GB of free storage. That's the equivalent of ~285 million words. Corin could've shared her dropbox with two equally prolific colleagues and still have had 40million words breathing room.

If you write online

Keep a backup. Accounts get hacked, accounts get locked for no (good) reason, services go down unexpectedly. Best bet is to automate it however you want and make it something you don't have to remember to do at all. Just put a reminder in your calendar to occasionally check that it's still working. If that doesn't work for you, you can of course download copies manually. If your writing tool of choice doesn't offer a regular download option for folders at a time, most of them are legally required to provide you with a dump of the data they have on you. It's sometimes a bit of a process to request, and it can take a couple of hours waiting before you get your download, but it'll give you a snapshot so you don't lose everything when you do lose access for whatever reason.

There's also online services that can sync a google drive with onedrive or dropbox or protonmail, though I have no experience with them.

If you write NSFW works

It's worth splitting it out into a separate account, especially if you rely on your google account for other things. It reduces the risk if you lose access. I've got a proton mail/drive account for all my NSFW stuff, and while it would suck to lose access to it, it's not going to lock my phone or the gmail address I've had since you still needed invites to join gmail. (Bet lots of y'all didn't know that was even a thing, huh?).

If any of the automated solutions don't work for you, put a reminder in your phone to make backups manually at least once a month, if not every week. Try to get in the habit of making them when you stop writing for the day if you can.

Hey, you want to hear something horrific? Well, there you go anyway!

“You no longer have permission to view this document,��� said the pop-up message. “If you believe this is an error, contact the document owner.”

This was how Renee experienced a moment that most of us have heart-pounding 3 am stress nightmares about. All 10 of her works in progress—some 222,000 words across multiple files and folders—were frozen. Not just frozen, but inaccessible on her phone and tablet. When her husband fetched her laptop, Renee logged into Docs and tried sharing the documents again. Then she received her own message from Google.

“Can’t share item,” was the header. “You cannot share this item because it has been flagged as inappropriate,” read the body text.

Stop using Google Docs. And ALWAYS keep local copies of your work.

[manateeteaparty]

This week started out so great. Monday was great. Monday night though- I was looking through Google Photos to see what pumpkin carving patterns I had saved to my phone over the past few years. The app automatically creates folders for you- categories of people, places and things- to make it easier to access. When I clicked on my collections and was swiping through, I saw a photo of Matt. I was surprised. I thought that I had deleted all of my photos of him. I clicked on the photo, and it took me to the folder it had of him. There were still quite a few. Then I remembered. I did delete a lot of the photos I had of him- most of them in fact- but there were some I just couldn't bear to part with. Some that were too special to me at the time, a couple of months ago.

Seeing them again hurt so much. Seeing his face. I have almost forgotten what it looked like- when I think of him in my mind, I see his outline, and his face is blurry. But those photos- photos of him laughing. Candid photos. A photo of us together, him in my lap. Both of us smiling. Me smiling one of the biggest smiles I've ever seen on me before. I looked so freaking happy in that picture. It broke my heart seeing it again. Remembering how I felt in those moments- so completely opposite from how I've felt for so long- I feel shame and remorse looking back at them. I feel sorrow and despair knowing that the happiness I felt in those moments was all fake, and never existed in the first place- at least on his part. I feel so much hurt. I feel so unbelievably broken.

I deleted every photo. I also realized that I still had him as a contact in my phone, and remembered how he had deleted me a long time ago- and as a friend on snapchat. I deleted our messages from my phone, and his number. Something I should have done months ago, when I realized he had done the same for me. I stopped using snapchat months ago- it hurt too much, it just reminded me of all the time I spent messaging him. I did go back on about a month ago to start my account again, in hopes that it would give me the boost of confidence I needed to start being social again- but that quickly faded in about a day. Yesterday was the first time on since then. Even though he's not listed as a friend, our conversation was still there. I never liked re-reading old messages- it always hurt too much- but I decided to do that before I deleted him for good.

Reading through the messages also made me realize how much he contradicted himself. How much he would say something to me, then say the complete opposite soon after. I was so fucking blind. I was so naive. I wish I could go back and shake myself and say "Wake the fuck up. This person doesn't love you. They're using you. They don't want to be your friend. They're lying to you. You believe them because they're saying nice things and it feels nice."

"Emily I'm so sorry I've hurt you so much these pass few months I never meant too"

"And Emily even if it isn't romantic love the way you need. I will always love you as a person and I will continue to be your friend if you allow me too."

"But I can't stand the idea of not having you a part of my life even if it's just a little bit here and there. I want us to be good friends emily and I also want to support you as well I don't want to just dump you and move on I care about you too much for that to happen."

"doesn't mean I won't speak to you or something extreme like that"

"And also emily I still love you maybe not romantically but I still even now want you in my life"

"And I wanna forget about why we didn't work out and learn how we can work as friends for the future"

"I don't want you to go away Emily not at all"

What a fucking joke. Lie after lie after lie. Holy shit, what do you take me for? Right to my fucking face. You don't want me to go away, but you're actively pushing me away? You want to learn how we can work as friends, yet you're purposely not speaking to me, and not making any effort to see me? You'll continue to be my friend if I allow you to- like I am right now- though you're the one who's not allowing it? You can't stand the idea of not having me as a part of your life? You want to support me??? Oh, my favorite one- you won't just dump me and move on, you care about me too much for that to happen. Oh my god. Holy shit. What is this bullshit. Reading all this last night, it was such a slap in the face. I had to take a break and go throw up. What kind of person says this shit only to immediately go and do it? A fucking psychopath. An absolute psycopath. Someone who has absolutely no regard for others at all. Just a narcissistic fuckboy who uses others to get what he wants, and discards them like a piece of garbage when he stops getting the attention he wants. After he broke up with me, he said (in regards to me always being on edge/paranoid about the thought of him leaving me or hurting me in some way)-"It really hurt tbh like I'd never want to do any of that but you felt that I would and it just devalued all the stuff I had done with you over the last 4 years. And I know you weren't accusing me of anything but just the thought that you couldn't ever truly trust me in that regard really hurt". And that just proves once again how I should always trust my gut instinct. For months I was feeling like something wasn't right, an he would just deny it- but then in the end, he was saying how for months he was feeling like he should break up with me but didn't want to, so kept going in hopes his feelings would change. In other words, my instinct was right, and I should have trusted it. The alarm bells were going off inside of my head, screaming that I was going to get hurt, and I should have listened.

He got so fucking upset at the thought that I could ever accuse him of hurting me- and I never once accused him of it. I told him I have an innate fear of being hurt, because I have in the past, and I didn't want him to ever hurt me. Not just physically- but mentally. Emotionally. I would beg him- whatever your feelings are, be truthful with me. Don't lie to me. Please, don't fucking lie to me. If you ever loved me- be honest and respect me. And above all else, please, please don't abandon me. If you ever want to leave, tell me. He would always say how he would never, EVER do anything like that, and then even had the balls to say one of the reasons he broke up with me was because I had a hard time trusting him in the end? When it turns out that lack of trust was for good reason?! Hey, guess what, I really hate to break it to you. Silent treatment is a form of emotional abuse. It communicates: if you do something I don't like, I will act like you don't exist. Mental abuse isn't just screaming and calling a person names. It's also ignoring them, invalidating them. It is neglecting and not considering their feelings, treating them like they don't count. Witholding intimacy is a toxic form of emotional abuse. Purposely denying sex, affection, or any type or physical connection with your partner is emotional abuse. It is just as damaging as physical abuse, if not more. You did all of those things. For MONTHS on end. In the end, you became the exact thing you said you'd never be. You did fucking hurt me. You did abandon me. You did abuse me. Maybe not physically, but certainly mentally and emotionally. Congratulations. I hope it all was worth it.

I wonder, when you heard my voicemail- the one where I was crying- did you react at all? Did you laugh, thinking how pathetic I was? Or did you just delete it. Any time I messaged you, did you sigh out loud, or swear to yourself, because I was just a burden that you didn't want to deal with? A little annoyance who was getting in your way?

He talked so much about wanting to stay friends after we broke up. Even when we were on our "break", he said the purpose of that was to strengthen our friendship and and start back at square one. In so many messages he would say things like "I still love you, it's just not the romantic love I used to have". But then every single time he would message me over the summer, he would insist the only time he see me is if I felt no love for him at all. That he doesn't want me to see him until my feelings for him are gone. Ok, so you want to be friends with me, but you don't want me to have feelings for you? So what do you want, for me to hate you? Make up your fucking mind. Maybe you do things different with your friends- but I love all of mine deeply. I don't bother to form friendships unless I care for someone in one way or another. Love doesn't have to be romantic. Romantic love is great, but it's sullied by sexual desire. By cheating, lying, pain, jealousy. Familial love is filled with obligations and duties, and in some cases (my case) resentment. Platonic love- at least in my opinion- is the strongest form of love. To see a person, get to know them. To choose to walk together in life not because you have to, not because you desire each other, but because you truly admire them to the core of their being. I have never felt more seen, more loved, than when I am with my dearest friends. We always tell each other we love each other, and it's never awkward, or weird. I felt so much platonic admiration for you, and wanted to show it- and you said you wanted that too- but clearly that's not the case. And I've realized, that's truly what hurts the most. Not losing you as a partner, not losing you as lover, but losing you as a friend- because you made the very conscious effort to cut me out of your life, after telling me for so long that you would never do something like that.

Also,

"it's been really hard to feel love for you when you were away".

I was so emotionally overwhelmed at the time, I didn't absorb a lot of what he was saying back in July. Reading this again is fucking devastating. You don't feel anything for me unless you're physically in my presence? It's been really hard for you to feel that? Do you understand how shitty that makes me feel? That I'm only worth loving if I'm in the room with you? So basically you're saying "Out of sight, out of mind". Which would explain why you were able to move on so quickly. Why you were able to completely forget I exist. Because when I'm not around, I literally don't exist to him. I wonder if that made it easier to look for other people? Because he also claimed he never cheated on me. "1) I have never cheated on you". Yet, he also said, "But I had moments of weakness where I went looking but never found anyone worth my time". That is cheating. It may not be physical cheating, but it is emotional cheating. Which is still fucking cheating. And lol, "never found anyone worth my time"? Are you saying that if you did find someone worth your time, you would've dumped me a long time ago- that you were just hanging onto me because you went looking and couldn't find anyone "worth your time" so you just kept me around as a backup plan? Is that supposed to make me feel better? What the fuck. What was I to you. Just a toy?Something to use? Just something to distract you from your "lonely" feelings? I'M A FUCKING PERSON YOU PSCYHOTIC FUCK.

"Tbh I should've ended it that night you claim that I'm out here looking around behind your back trying to get laid when we were "dating" if you ever called it that. But I legitimately was told yours truly that you went to go fuck someone else and it wasn't good so you came back to me" Okay, great. So why didn't you end it that night? You're right. If you wanted to so bad, you should have. It would have saved us a lot of trouble, for sure. As for the whole "dating" thing- I knew from the beginning that I loved him. I wanted him to be my boyfriend. We would always talk in his truck about our ideas on dating, being with other people, etc. I would try to act cool and not seem like I was in love with him. I would ask him what his thoughts on dating were. I specifically remember him saying, "I like what we have now, meeting up like we do, but I don't want to tie myself down to one person". He would also talk about hooking up with other girls. I assumed he was doing that- and it hurt- but what the fuck was I going to do about it? Nothing. This whole Cam/parking lot bullshit happened on August 23, 2022. Matt and I met in 2020. I stopped seeing other people in September of 2021 cause I was so fucking enamored with him, I thought his personality was so great, he was so funny- I didn't want to fuck anyone else. Also, I just genuinely enjoyed hanging out with him, I wanted to dedicate what little free time I had into getting to know him better. I legitimately thought that he wasn't coming to the spot to see me that night. I was sure that he had ditched me. I was so fucking hurt. I didn't plan anything with Charlie. He started texting me while I was waiting there for Matt. He asked if I wanted to hangout. I had told him the previous year that I wasn't interested in hooking up anymore, but we still got together to go eat sometimes and go Geocaching. I told him I was meeting up with Matt- I had told him about Matt, and that I liked him a lot- and that I would see him some other time. He said cool. As time went on, and I was still waiting, I felt so upset. I thought 'Ok, if Matt really wanted to see me, he would definitely be checking the time. Or his phone. Or even feeling his phone vibrate in his pocket? He said he was just going to drop weed off at Cams, not hang out." I legitimately thought that it was going to be a 5 minute drop off. I had no idea he was going to be hanging out. And no he didn't tell me to go to the spot to wait for him when I did- I went there because I was so fucking excited to see him. Again, I didn't think I would be waiting for so long. So after an hour and fifteen minutes went by, I drove off. I called Charlie. I was crying, and I told him let's meet up. We did.

My intention wasn't to fuck him that night. I just wanted to do something fun to distract myself from how awful I was feeling. I was 100% convinced that I had been "Dumped". That Matt wanted nothing to do with me and was just ghosting me. Charlie and I did end up having sex- and I really regret it- and when I opened snapchat and saw the messages from Matt, I felt awful. And the thing is, Charlie continued reaching out to me- even through this year- and I always told him off. In May of 2023 he asked to meet- I told him that Matt and I were now officially in a relationship, and I had no interest in changing that. In December of 2023 he reached out again, and I told him the same- I said even if we hang out as friends, I wouldn't feel comfortable, knowing that it would be wrong to meet with someone who my boyfriend felt uncomfortable with me being around. And I didn't want to hurt my relationship. Even in August of this year, after Matt had broke up with me, Charlie messaged me- he said he was sorry to hear that I was sad, and that he missed me, and he wanted to get a room for us to spend the night... he wanted to help me forget about Matt, and feel special again. I was so pissed. The last thing on my mind was sex. I didn't want to have sex with anyone, at all, let alone Charlie. Even if I wasn't fucking traumatized, I wouldn't want to get a room with him. Even after being broken up with, I wanted to respect Matt. I immediately blocked Charlie and deleted him as a contact.

And I didn't come back to Matt because "it wasn't good so I came back to him"- what the fuck- I came back to him cause I was in love with him and wanted to be with him. I wanted to be his girlfriend, I wanted to hug him, I wanted to apologize. I felt genuine remorse. I was ashamed because I had these huge feelings for this person I thought was so amazing and so special, someone who I thought was just interested in me sexually and not romantically ,and I was so worried that those feelings were unreciprocated. I didn't want to scare him away by letting him know how I really felt- that I wanted to be more than just friends, more than just a fuck buddy- that I thought about him all the time, and wanted to be able to call him my boyfriend. But I thought he didn't want that, and I didn't want to push him away.

It's absolutely insane to me how he spent so much time convincing me he was different. He saw the pain in my eyes, he heard my suffering, listened to me cry and tell him about how so many people had broken my trust and me as a person. And he told me that he was different, that I finally found the one that was different, that he's the one I can finally trust. So I let my walls down with him, became vulnerable, opened up and told him every single thing and every single occurrence that has crushed me because I finally thought- I finally believed- I could be safe with somebody. But then he turns around and crushes me and shatters my trust in the exact same way that everyone else I told him about also did. For months I had the feeling that something wasn't right in our relationship and he was holding something back from me. He would always deny it, and get so defensive and upset. I stopped trying to ask. I gave him the benefit of the doubt, but it made me more and more depressed. And when he said he wanted to take a break from being physical- from being intimate- that killed me. I pleaded with him and told him this is just going to make my mental health so much worse. I remember saying something along the lines of "I'm trying to tell you how important it is that you acknowledge me this way, and I'm really afraid that by the time you decide you actually want to, I'm going to be so far gone mentally, I'm not going to want anything to do with you". And he just ignored me and said "Well this is what I want right now, and if you love me, you'll accept that, or we'lljust have to break up now". And I did love him, so I did. (Once again- refusing to acknowledge your partner or their needs is fucking emotional abuse- and saying "Well if you don't do as I say, then you'll be punished" is a threat that abusers use all the goddamn time to get what they want- but no, he would never do that). But I was right. The lack of being close to him, the lack of everything, my mental health took such a huge turn. I was dying on the inside and trying to hide it. I was desperately trying to tell myself everything was okay. In the back of my mind I knew something was wrong, and I didn't want to face it. Mentally, I wasn't ready to. I knew that he was already checked out of the relationship, and I didn't want to admit it to myself.

As much as he pinned our end on me- and I know I did a lot wrong, and I am by no means perfect- I've come to realize over the past month that he wanted this, he fought for us to end, and he got what he wanted. If he truly wanted us to stay together, we still would be. He gave up on us, on me. He said he just felt so lonely, so miserable, so alone without me. That when we were together it was wonderful. It was like everything was happy again, and he could finally relax. But when we were apart- it was unbearable for him. Really- how the fuck do you think I felt? You think you were the only one feeling that? You think you were the only miserable one in the relationship, the only one who went home and felt like shit? Feeling like I was trapped inside my own house with nowhere to go, with no privacy, nowhere to be myself, constantly being berated by an adult manchild, being the sole adult and voice of reason and responsibility to two children, trying to keep my head above water and not lose my mind while I juggled my work life, mom life, bills, stress, emotions, while feeling and watching my physical health deteriorate and my love life be out of reach? Having to try and keep it all together while I was literally falling apart, while all the while I would go to work every day and force myself to smile and pretend that everything was okay, knowing that everyone around me was depending on me? That I couldn't fuck it up. That I had to pretend to be strong. That in reality, I had nobody to rely on. Feeling just as alone as you, if not more. Just as sad. Just as goddamn empty. I don't know how many times I would cry myself to sleep at night wishing I could just reach out and hold you, that we were together, feeling so goddamn depressed that I only got to see you a few hours a week. Feeling so pathetic and useless, so helpless, knowing that you were sad and wanting to just let you know how much I loved you and how much you meant to me and I would never give up on you.

Feeling so completely torn between wanting to run away with you- which would mean giving up my house, taking my daughter out of school, uprooting her from her place of reliance/safety, giving up everything in my life- just to what, move into a tiny apartment with you? To make you happy. When you wouldn't even entertain moving out of your parents house. Where you get to stay for free! What the actual fuck! You don't even have to worry about the responsibility of paying bills, and you tried to shame me for not moving out to live with you? You would always make me feel so guilty about not wanting to move out of MY house, the house that I fucking own, just to live with you. And the thing is, I would actually feel bad about that. I loved you so much and wanted to do anything to make you happy, I would feel guilty about that. I started to tell myself that I was a bad person for not moving out. For not wanting to take Maggie out of school and move her to a new place. That I should be willing to do ANYTHING if it meant make you happy- at least we would be together, and that's all that mattered. Holy shit, what a fucking idiot I was. Of course that wouldn't be right! My daughter is my priority no matter what! But you made me feel so guilty, so awful, for not wanting to do that for you- and I never thought for a second, Why wouldn't he do it for me? And you could only think about yourself- you never stopped to wonder how miserable I was. How fucking lonely I was. How being apart from you was killing me. You just used it as an one of your excuses to break up with me. I never thought it was a reason for us to breakup- I truly loved you- and I thought that as long as we loved each other, that was all that mattered. I guess that would be true, if I wasn't the only one who felt love. Despite all the times you would say how much being apart from me was killing you- and I would agree- you would refuse to meet with me to talk about things. Looking back over these messages, I realize how many times I'd try to explain to you how much I hate talking over text- how I wish we could just meet in person- and you would refuse. Yet somehow, at the end, you pinned everything on me and how I didn't want to meet you on that Sunday. Everything was suddenly my fault. Because of a miscommunication, on both of our parts. But to you, it was all my fault, and you absolutely refused to see or hear my side of things. Even the days after, when you asked me if I thought you had made the right decision, and I told you I fucking hate talking over text- let's just meet in person and talk things over- you refused. But still you kept saying how everything is complicated over text and you wish I just would have given you the chance to meet in person- what??! That was literally what I was doing. I was telling you I wanted that- I was asking you for that- and you kept refusing it! Yet you kept saying "I just wanted us to meet and talk" Yeah, me too! What the fuck? Also, you want to talk in person? Great, why didn't you any time I asked if you would back in July, back when we were on good terms? Once again- make up your mind. You do/You don't. Which is it? I think you just wanted another excuse to break up. Actually, looking back at how you breadcrumbed me all summer without any intention of actually meeting up or seeing me again- I know for certain that's what your goal was.

"My question is why are you looking on sexual Reddit threads? Are you seriously over me already?"

No, I wasn't- not by a longshot- but apparently you seriously were. You were over me a long time ago, and were just trying to guilt trip me for realizing something you didn't want me to.

I was so afraid of losing you, until I realized you never belonged to me in the first place. Because even though my heart was with you, yours was with everyone and everything else. So instead of losing you, I sat back and slowly watched you lose me, without even realizing it. I chose you over everyone else, and you went and chose everyone else over me. And I realize now that I did get the closure I needed from you: The lack of empathy was the closure. The lack of respect was the closure. That's all you were ever capable of giving. Back in August I wrote that I wish I never met you, but I took it back. I felt guilty writing that. After reading over all these messages again, I realize it's true.

I would have done anything for you. I more than loved you- I adored you. And I can't really describe it- but sometimes I felt you were my partner, sometimes my lover. Other times I loved you like I would an old friend, and sometimes I felt like you were a younger brother figure who I loved as family. Occasionally I felt so maternal and loved you like a mother who just wanted to protect you and keep you safe, and make sure you were always happy, to tuck you in, to kiss your forehead, to sing you to sleep. Always, I cared for you. Every morning I woke up and wished that you would have the best day- every night when I went to sleep, I hoped that you were sleeping well. I got into the habit of staying up until midnight every year the day before your birthday just so I could watch the clock turn over to midnight and send you a Happy Birthday the first second I could. I wanted you to know how special you were. I got so much joy just hearing you talk about your friends, your interests, the things that made you laugh. When you were sick, I would have done anything in my power to make it better- and always asked you if you wanted me to have anything delivered to your house (you never took me up on that offer). When you were sad, I felt miserable. I genuinely was so happy and excited for you every time something good happened for you. Even this summer- even when I was falling apart- I was still caring about you, long after you stopped caring about me. In August I still stayed up for your birthday, and when the clock beeped midnight, I whispered Happy Birthday to you out loud. In my heart, it still mattered. I didn't want you to ever feel alone, not even from a distance. I hope one day you look back and realize that my intentions were always pure, and all I wanted to do was to love you and remind you that even though you may feel alone, you never really are. I would always be your friend- or I would have been. That I wasn't afraid to take the risk for you, because you were the last big risk I was willing to take. I only wanted your happiness, and would have done anything in the world to see you smile. I hope one day you realize that you completely broke the one person who only ever truly wanted to watch you succeed.

[goron-king-darunia]

Annon-Guy: Weekly Reminder - Do you still have the BBTAG RWBY Interactions?

I think so! I just haven't gotten the chance to go through everything lately. The posts that end up coming off my queue aren't even most of the posts I see every day. My drafts folder gets bigger and bigger. Too many thoughts for too much neat stuff. It's difficult to manage so much social media, honestly. And I'm only on Tumblr. I literally could not manage more than this, and I already try to blast through this to get to real life stuff. I spent the weekend mostly hanging out with mom, cooking, knitting. And it took me 4 hours yesterday to catch up with all the Tumblr stuff that I didn't look at for 2 days. 4 hours of doing nothing else. And even then, I several interesting posts I saw got added to my drafts because they were too long for me to read in one sitting. I never delete any asks I get unless I answer them (or they're hate mail which basically never happens.) So I probably have it somewhere, but I have a lot of asks from you so I just need time to get to them, that's all. Also some of them are buried in my drafts and I'm so sorry. I have 30,000 drafts. No I am not joking. I am doing my best and fighting for my life. I will try to get to everything soon, I promise. 😭

[minyare2906]

[RELEASE] FUTSU NI KOISHITE FULL VOLUME

Title: Futsu ni koishite | Ordinary Romance | 普通に恋して

Author/Artist: Terashima Rating: +18

Summary: Even when he was in school, everyone told Fukawa how banal and ordinary he was. As a temporary employee, he’s been working hard to obtain a full-time post. Suddenly one day, the most prominent employee of the company, Subada, urges him to come work for a new business he’s going to launch. It surprises Fukawa, but, in the end, he decides to accept the offer hoping to change himself. Only after that, Fukawa learns Subada is in fact an “exceptional” man who somehow gets an unusual quantity of affection from anyone around him.

An ordinary life…  It was what Fukawa was supposed to have.  But as he knows more about Subada, Fukawa’s life, and eventually his feelings, begin to change…

Chapter 01A Read online: Gdrive

Chapter 01B Read online: Gdrive

Chapter 02 Read online: Gdrive

Chapter 03 Read online: Gdrive

Chapter 04 Read online: Gdrive

Chapter 05 Read online: Gdrive

Chapter extra Read online: Gdrive

Volume 1 Download: Mega

Note: Hi there? Good morning! How are you? I really hope you’re all well in those difficult times.

First,I wanna thank each and every one of you for the diffusion of the “ask” I did regarding Hanakoi. Thanks to that (and the bunch of messages I sent looking desperately for chapter 50), we have 3 chapters that I’ll have cleaned as soon as I can and I can gladly leave my anxiety aside for a while.

Okay, on to the project that we have for you today. I was surprised when I saw that this cute project was not taken by any group, considering how cute it is. Well, surprised and happy because that meant that we could do it. I love clueless dorks, and this manga has quite a bit of that. It’s in our usual cute line, no big dramas, nice drawing… I hope you’ll like it as much as we do!!

I have to create a button to gather all of our projects, like we have with Hanakoi, to make it easier for all of you to find them. Plus, I've decided what to do about Mangadex, chapters will be available there a month after our official release, to try and stop having the chapters uploaded to aggregator sites the day after I upload the link here. Keep in mind that if it brings trouble, I'll stop uploading to Mangadex again, sorry. So please, don't upload to aggregator sites, that may bring us legal problems and may lead to us going private or stop scanlating completely.

Idiot as I am, I had a countdown downloaded from the mangaka’s twitter (@terashima_), but I forgot to do it… So you’ll have it as an extra page at the end of the volume, as curiosity ;)

I’d like to say that I won’t take requests for the time being. I have loads to clean and will have loads to typeset so I won’t have time to take another project sorry T_T

I’d like to thank @gwarp for letting us use her raws, really easy to work with them, thanks so much. To Adamay for her wonderful translation, let’s send her lots of energy and love, she needs it all this days. And to Toshirodragon for her patience when dealing with me, for dealing with my pushiness, and for reading every chapter over and over to make it the best version possible.

And to all of you for your continued support!

Enjoy, see you soon ;)

@cm-scans

EDIT: There was a problem with chapter 1, so I've changed the drive link and updated the mega link, because I noticed that the presentation page was in Japanese, I didn't do it right. I still don't know what was the problem with chapter 1, all the files were in the drive but when I opened it without being logged in, not all the pages were showing. I've checked again and they're all there, but if any of you still have problems, please contact me ;)

EDIT 2: Okay, the problem with chapter 1 still persisted in mobile devices, so I've deleted the folder and divided chapter 1 in 2 folders, to see if by putting the pages that didn't show up in another folder, the problem is solved for everyone (fingers crossed). Again, I checked and the pages are all there, both in my tablet and my laptop, but if you can't read there, contact me, I'll try and find another solution ;)

[acidxcorrodes]

so i tried what @nicolemaiines suggested but in the folder, instead of giving me a separate folder with the gif files or just listing them right there, it generated a .DOWNLOAD file ???? which i cannot read, i tried. i tried to save the page using the same method but with internet explorer (i refuse to use its new name) and same thing; with firefox it did give me the actual image files but in the clunkiest way possible and using .webp as an extension (which apparently means i only had the first frame) for most of the gifs. not sure why.

BUT

i just found a roundabout way to do it, for now. my main issue with what @uservicky suggested is that while yes i know where the gif urls are, they're hidden in tumblr's really clunky json formatting due to NPF, so it's there but it still was gonna take too long

today i stumbled on tumblr mirror sites such as tumbex, and i tried playing with that for a bit and found out that you can open the mirrored post even if tumblr has hidden it due to content rules so long as you have the post number and the post still exists. so then i tried opening that and when i downloaded it, what nicolemaiines suggested does in fact work as it should, BUT ALSO the page source is itself readable and it's formatted in an html-friendly way, meaning i can do what i originally wanted to do which is to copy-paste the html into my own tumblr post in my gif hunt dump blog so i can keep that

granted, tumblr now has an image limit per post i believe, iirc it's 30? and that means approx 10 to 20 posts per gif hunt i'm trying to save, but it's a LOT easier

so step by step (in purple what changes according to your post you wanna save):

yoink the post permalink - the one that's like tumblr.com/blogurl/bunchofnumbers/post-title

format the original url you just copied so it's tumbex.com/blogurl.tumblr/post/bunchofnumbers

go nuts i guess lol

if you go into the page source, you gotta scroll down a bit (the post technically appears in the <head></head> section but i don't know if the entire post is there or not, didn't check that closely - that's not the actual body of the webpage)

you'll find the post in what looks like the yellow square above (it's preceded by blog info about who posted it, so like their url, description, pfp, etc.) and then the actual gifs are what's in the red square

if you select the text in that red square, it's got some escape characters you wanna delete, marked in red here

{"url":"https:\/\/64.media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_mbid64mx4d1rt6nee.gif","height":375,"width":500,"type":"image"},

and some information you don't need, so just delete everything marked in red here:

{"url":"https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbid64mx4d1rt6nee.gif","height":375,"width":500,"type":"image"},

so it's just this:

https://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbid64mx4d1rt6nee.gif

and you get a proper gif that you can either open in a new tab or post on tumblr by pasting the url itself:

and that's it :)

does anyone know how to download large gif hunts? there's a specific set of gif hunts that i used to use a lot and the blog that posted them seems to have been abandoned, so i'm hoping to save those gifs before it gets deleted (if it does, i hope it doesn't)

the problem is each post has 100+ gifs so downloading them one by one manually is a process and i just don't have the patience for that x10

the other problem is that the blog has been flagged as nsfw meaning i can't actually open the gif hunt in the url dot tumblr dot com page, making it functionally a dash-only blog even though i know it isn't

i've already tried to open the post in its own tab and save the webpage but it's just not giving me the gifs that way. i can access them via the inspect element console but it won't let me download them from there, which ???? i feel like it should. i can download the html-only source for the page but then i'm having a Time figuring out how to get just the gif urls from that, and then how to like actually download them instead of going one by one. this feels like there's some sort of macro that could be written or some easier way i am somehow missing

help????? this is The andy biersack gif repository set of posts and i dunno what to do lol

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.... tumblr's doing the thing again where it deletes or reloads the page in the middle of an ask. I just wanted to say I got your ask (and Laura's, hi!) and I definitely didn't cry about it, no! And I need to go to sleep now (or yk, an hour ago) but have some random distractions before you get your results (which will be FINE of course! 😌🍀🦝💖)

Good night, sleep well, your results will be fine I'm sure ✨🍀💖🦝🌈💗💜💙

I—did you just dump your whole meme folder into my askbox? Amazing. This is delightful. I didn't expect this at all, you're the best 💕💞💗

Losing it at the owl that's too fat to fly 😭 And the terrible rhyme! Also love how the comic you sent me is a Ruthe comic, i.e. originally in German, but for whatever reason you sent me the Russian translation and I understood it. Reading Cyrillic my beLOATHED. I feel it though, kitty is a priority ✨

Meanwhile, WTF is that chicken doing? What is that thing it's holding? Why did the chicken cross the road??? I need answers!

THE TRUCK OMG I'm showing that pic to my dad STAT. The Asterix comics were my childhood (along with Tintin), thanks for the memory. My dad and I are constantly quoting them at each other, he's gonna love this! (The license plate though—)

The cat! Story time! Let me tell you something! So I don't know if you know this but I used to have two cats for some years as a kid. One of them was a former stray that refused to be kept inside. The other was an Idiot (affectionate) and during the Christmas season, guess what he did? Climb. The. Damn. Tree. Constantly. Miraculously he never knocked it over, mostly because we had a string of bells on the tree so every time we heard the jangle-jangle-jangle I sprinted over at Mach 5 yelling "TIGER! GET DOWN THERE!" and picking him off like an overripe fruit. For some reason he still kept doing it because…cats, I guess?

(Fun fact: that same idiot also always stole some ornaments from the lower branches and played with them like they were cat toys. We kept finding random straw ornaments scattered around the place until like…June.)

And then the BC pics! Love how they're all sweet and adorable, then there's that One (1) blurry screencap of Little Gremlin sneaking the pizza. Very relatable. Although I'm not sure if the Joonas-and-dog pic is cute or slightly concerning, they both look pretty tired…

(Pot, kettle, much?)

Thank you! All of these really did cheer me up and made me laugh and smile, thanks, I needed this ❤️ Glad to hear my ask moved you too! And now we both sleep. Good night, you weird little raccoon, sweet dreams and may tomorrow be a good day for both of us!