#im having a fun time on the wayback machine

[carrieway]

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[silverislander]

changing the reminders to add sources to my creepypasta research assignment from "source" to "sauce". enrichment in my enclosure. free giggles for later

[jakowskis]

torchwood resources

just some stuff i've accumulated during this fixation :) hope it proves handy :D

ianto's-desktop (livejournal) - archived most of the things found on the torchwood website during season 1 and season 2; the only thing missing is the videos. / note: click the headers of the posts to see the full thing, or some stuff with appear incomplete. took me a sec to figure out, lol

speaking of the website...

season 1 website (archive.org)

season 2 website (archive.org) - unlike the s1 website, the bulk of the s2 site's content is pretty inaccessible through the wayback machine (at least for me; maybe i'm doing something wrong), so thank g-d for ianto's desktop

there's also a good amount of rebloggable site content in this person's tumblr tag.

season 1 declassified (youtube)

season 2 declassified (youtube)

season 1 commentaries (mega.nz)

torchwood books (google drive) - gonna be honest, i haven't tried to download any of these myself

border princes audiobook (read by eve) + all of the radio plays (archive.org)

torchwood magazines (beta.reddit) - download links for all of them! p fuckin kewl

torchwood official yearbook (archive.org)

herecomesthedrums (youtube) - account that started posting before the show came out and is chock full of promos, trailers, interviews... some real fun goodies in there

torchwood: up close (youtube) - handful of bts videos with the cast + crew

season 1 unreleased tracks (soundcloud) - the end of days ones hrhghgh

out of time unreleased tracks (soundcloud) - i absolutely adore the music in this ep so i was so happy when i found these

the torchwood fanpop - this has sooooooo much content like i scrolled for a loooooong time and never reached the bottom. lotta stuff i hadn't seen before, too. there's fun hd promo pics, pics of the cast, and a lot of extremely early 2010s edits, graphics, and fanvids. / note: i also had this page bookmarked + it's got different content than the main page so i'll link it

aaand under the cut i'm gonna dump some silly stuff i've collected of the cast. but yeah, there ya go :-)

gally 2015: zip files of someone's pictures of eve, naoko, and burn (livejournal)

gally 2015: someone's account of the torchwood panels + meeting the cast (everyone was there but gareth!) - naoko & burn's solo panels / autograph table chats + barrowman photo-op + the naoko&burn&eve group panel / barrowman solo panel + burn&eve joint panel

dragon con 2013 (flickr) - i found two albums: this one, and this one, which has torchwood cast images on the first and second pages.

burn at chicago tardis 2012 (flickr) - ehehe 2012-2013 burn gorman w his classy little outfits my beloved. this is just hq pictures of that event. burn's in a bunch at the top and some at the end of the second page

the hub 2009 (flickr) - some kind of torchwood event. gareth, burn, eve, kai, and tom are all there. i dunno

hvff 2018: 'insights from the whole cast'

hvff 2018: video of everybody goofing off (twitter)

gareth endorsing owandy teehee (twitter) - this is getting dumped here bc im gay

sigh. (blogspot) - pics from that one fuckin 08 panel where gareth & john made out like 5 times + gareth took his jeans off for some reason. i don't even go here but i feel like this is unfortunately historically relevant. also the fujoshis in the comments are really funny

incomplete but sizable lists of cons gareth's been to and john's been to, in case anyone wants to dig around for photos/footage of any of these. the other cast members (excluding burn, for some reason) all have pages on this site as well, but theirs are super incomplete so i won't bother linking

[certifieduruihater]

a fun fact about the first leo profile page; it’s actually unchanged from the previous entries of it that corresponded with 80s leo/90s media leo, so it also applies to those leos as well. i think you’re able to check on the way back machine? that’s how i came across that page! i think eventually they started to change details on the character bios but im unsure

thanks for telling me! when i went to the wayback machine and entered ninjaturtles.com and navigated to the t-files section, this was the earliest image i saw of leo's page from march 1st 1997 so i guess it does apply to 80s (mirage/og??)/90s leo.

there did seem to be some differences with 2003 leo if i pull up the most recent version of the 03 profile

minor, but 03 leo seems to be an inch taller and 10 pounds heavier. also, apparently 80s/90s leo has no hobbies because he has no time. is he good? then bro says he likes candles 😭 leo...

guess training and reading can't be hobbies since they're not hobbies, they're a lifestyle to him.

the personal profile section does seem to be the same?

in july of 1997, it seems the only thing that changed was bolding the "must" and the "not" in the personal profile section.

in 2003-2004ish, it looks like the website was updated with the 03 turtles. leo's physical characteristics changed to match. initially, 03 leo was also listed as having no hobbies :/ also a nickname was added, "ginsu master," which he apparently does not like instead of "fearless leader," which 80s/90s leo showed apparent distaste for. though even then, the language of "not my favorite!" is pretty mild/polite lol

in around 2010, looks like leo's hobbies were finally updated. not sure why it took so long 😭 maybe his brothers told him to change it

like even splinter had hobbies way before leo according to the wayback machine's earliest capture in january 2000, what is this😭

[yfmconfessions2]

this is such a contrast to my last confession but erm

honestly, wish my yfm phase ended like idk, around the same time most people's yfm phase ended (which was around idfk mid 2023?) cause now its a pretty dead fandom (shoutout to that one twt oomf of mine who let me ramble about yfm to them, ily dude/p) with the possibility of ray cancelling yfm 50/50. i do hope i don't sound like im begging that guy to release songs everyday but my point is, idk man, kinda miss tht kinda short-lasted hype around yfm in 2022-early 2023. like i was so excited because i discovered this dumbass (/lh) band in like 2021 and i was so sad it was retired because i loved their songs so only god could describe my excitement when june 1 came, and to be honest, dont wanna sound like a bitch but some of their gen 2 songs disappointed me but i was happy otherwise. and the talent this fandom has like GOD YOU ALL ARE SO TALENTED (except for some of you, you know what im talking about). i dont even know why it hasn't ended yet, perhaps because yfmblr has cool shit and some of the "lore" you guys found out about puff and your hcs and all made me go "he kinda just like me ??" that and i gotta talk about ray's content too. like yeah, welcome to part 10 of "wow smth i liked is now bad! fuck me!" dude, that guy has sm potential in comedy, loved his old shorts and videos. like who tf told that guy to, idk, make those types of crime videos ??? like im serious, where and how. HE'S EVEN COLLABORATING WITH DHAR MANN GOD HAS TO BE KIDDIGN MEEEE. ray please do you need some life-changing video to convince you to do those shorts again. because i can do it bro please i miss the silly shorts. like does he not realize how his views dropped or how most of us dont like the new content or?? like what prompted this man to do these crime videos with shit ai art anyways thanks for listening to my rant, you, yfm-confessions and featheredcartoonist are my favs on yfmblr, and one of my favs on tumblr. i feel like you guys bring that old feeling of the hellyeahyourfavoritemartian blog :3 i didn't have tumblr that early to read them but based off the wayback machine, it looked really cool and fun actually. like ray noticed it whay the hell. anyways wish both of the admins a great day ! take care <3 - ❄️🎀

I TOTALLY UNDERSTAND!!! i still have a lot of faith in things turning around cuz thats just me being me. if theres a dead fandom, its chance of resurgence is running on my hope LMAO

HONESTLY THE YFM FANDOM KINDA COMES ALIVE AGAIN WITH EVERY NEW SONG THAT'S RELEASED.

AND YEAH. I TRULY GENUINELY HOLE RAY OPENS HIS EYES AND REALIZES THAT COMEDY IS WHAT HE DOES BEST AND WHAT EVERYONE ENJOYS!!!!

also feathered cartoonist whos that

[girlfriendsofthegalaxy]

tuesday again 1/24/2023

new england winter: very cute and picturesque until you actually have to live here

listening

psycada by abstract, the opening track off the album hiking lung. a brief instrumental that sounds like a hazy-cicada-shimmer summer. it is a blisteringly hot day where you don't really have to do anything but even though you're out on the porch swing under the deck with a freezy pop it's not doing much. the vocals remind me very much of The Dandy Warhols once the rest of the album slides into more of a garage/psych rock vibe. a sort of understated fuzzy im-lying-down-right-now quality. i think these vocals would be background instead of lead in a more energetic track.

the album has several good tracks for the "datacore" playlist, which is full of mellow medium-paced instrumentals bc if i am alone with my thoughts while i clean addresses i will die

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reading

i have Bullet Train on hold at the library but tbqh this section is probably going to be me gloating over various crypto crashes for the forseeable future. Molly White of web3isgoinggreat.com reports on the Three Arrows Capital guys setting up a new venture to (checks notes):

Not only that [both partners currently on the run from their creditors], but the exchange plans to focus on claims trading — that is, the trading of claims held by creditors against debtors who are undergoing bankruptcy proceedings, like FTX, Celsius, BlockFi, or Mt. Gox (throwback!). The fact that 3AC was a major catalyst in kicking off the string of bankruptcies we saw throughout 2022 was not lost on observers, with Nic Carter of the Castle Island venture capital firm commenting that the endeavor "is akin to arsonists returning to the scene of the crime and offering to charge their victims for buckets of water".

mwah. very much glass houses since castle island is also on the verge of going under due to its almost total focus on blockchain infrastructure but GOD. what a sentence.

unpaywalled bloomberg article on the wayback machine here.

this is some of the dumbest fucking bullshit ive ever read and im so fucking happy i no longer have to care about this at a professional level.

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watching

Bullet Train (2022, dir. Leitch) asks "what if you put a whole bunch of assassins all on the same high-speed train?"

this is the glass onion of action movies. now i do like a perfect little puzzlebox of a movie made by people who really love movies, but this flavor of film is so fuckin smug about itself. this movie wants you to know it took AP Lit. this movie is a long variation of the whedon effect/"well THAT happened!” effect, where characters react to payoffs with the barest and briefest of setups an hour before in the movie. 

the thing that made me have a good time is this movie was directed by the guy who directed Atomic Blonde, one of my top ten movies and one of the best action movies of the last decade. LOVE an ensemble of goons all introduced with their own setup/backstory scenes. this film is seventy percent tightly choreographed fights with improvised weapons in tight spaces.

i am a simple woman. i like a bloody, disheveled man.

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playing

alternating very fun and very unpleasant times with my big strong boy in wolfenstein: the new order. now, i am a little bit like "wow, you find the nazi prison camp level unpleasant? how shocking!" at myself. i was not really paying attention to the global rise of fascism in 2014 when this game came out bc i was busy dropping out of college and having a mental breakdown, but the nazis in shooters i have played or watched since 2014, especially call of duty: wwii, seem defanged compared to wolfenstein.

i will probably have more and more coherent things to say once i play more of this game, bc i am just about to bust out of prison at about ~9.5 hours of playtime. apparently this is the halfway point? after the first enigma code i looked up what the other ones do, decided i don't care about other game modes, and have not been trying especially hard to be a completionist about each level/unlock all the perks by doing different kills. i am talking to everyone and looking at everything and reading all the posters, and it is interesting how such a fast-paced shooter is adapting so well to me walking around and taking my sweet fucking time at whatever difficulty level is one below the recommended difficulty level.

a note on the plot-bearing moldy concrete. like yeah mold will grow on most things, including concrete, and yeah i guess the moldy concrete will kill you slower than the nazis will, but even though i love how lived in and cozy the kreisau circle hideout feels, it gives me the heebie jeebies. mold is quite bad for you. please prioritize another railing over another couch. also what the fuck math is tekla doing here??? i could not get a clearer shot even on max settings sorry

GOD i loved the london nautilus moon exhibit. yes i WOULD like to dual wield shotguns shooting nazis while running up and around a giant moon model. level perfectly tailored for me. HOWEVER! i would rather be shot in the head quickly and cleanly instead of trying to maneuver an EXPERIMENTAL HELICOPTER through a bunch of tunnels in creepy and wet conditions. being shot in the head would, again, be a much much cleaner and quicker death than any potential helicopter crash over the water. i hate planes to begin with but holy fuck helicopters no FUCKING thanks (ign screenshot)

for such a power fantasy of a game there sure are a hell of a lot of stealth sections. no stealth game is ever going to hold up to dishonored but boy did i really want these sections to feel more like dishonored.

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making

fussing around with a f/allout: new vegas courier six/veronica/christine riff on classic noir film The Big Sleep for femslash feb. it's fun to write six even bitchier than usual

“Did you want to be the detective or the lady?” Six asked.

“Both of them were pretty cold fish.” It was very stupid to wait when she could have this immediately. Veronica flipped the covers back on her way over. 

“Harsh words to throw at a woman, especially when she’s already in your bedroom.” Christine clutched at Six’s silk pajama lapels as she was tipped back up. Six’s other hand dropped to play with her dressing gown tie. 

“Now, baby, a fish is–” They were never ever going to let Six live that one down. 

“You know,” Six said with as much dignity as anyone groping her wife’s ass could have, “being shot in the head — twice! took all the memories of fish from my previous aquatic life as a Shi Town mermaid.”

[starswallowingsea]

since i am trying to bully my friends into playing enstars here are some things u should know

the english translation is not good. some things do not make sense and i dont know who their translators are but they need someone to edit them before posting. you will either get used to it or you wont

you can turn off the mv mode while doing lives if the flashing lights are an issue. you have to do this in settings and you will see a few options for this. i play with mv on which is not great for my battery life but it should just show one of your cards in the background instead. you can also change what the beats look like if u dont like the default

there are some. questionable things in the game. there is a lot of content that they talk about sometimes not in the greatest way. they are trying most of the time but it just doesnt hit very well. if you have looked up a list of content warnings they are not fucking around this game talks about death, cults, suicide, bullying, death of a parent, murder, abuse, immigration/xenophobia (especially adonis character arc and i mean this in the nicest way possible but they really need to get a sensitivity reader for this stuff).

yes there are multiple life changing gay romances in this game yes everyone just casually says i love you. you can interpret that however you want. you can probably find a list of top 10 stories for popular pairings to read somewhere and i need to work through basic stories

oh yeah there was a prequel game that never got an english translation but happy ele still took down the fanlations of them on the wiki. these are preserved in the wayback machine if you know where to look and its how most people read them unless you find another place that has some translations.

and lastly u need to understand that none of the characters are totally "good" or "bad" and everyone has a lot of baggage and stuff to deal with. do not try to characterize a character you dont like as irredeemable bc they are not. nobody in this game is older than 21 they are children. you can dislike a character without making them irredeemable and yes im looking at eichi haters.

okay that's all i have to say i am not tagging this with main tags so have fun ✌️✌️✌️

[onesourceofbadinformation]

You are SO correct about Sparks and Cactoid Jim tho. Canonically Sparks was super into him at first. But then has a whole jealousy thing. God please talk more about Sparks Nevada i am so starved for content in the year of our lord 2023

-uhhhh imma call myself Tintissi (one of the Bhatu :3) (Anon who only talks about sparks Nevada and his pals on mars)

omg your name…sparks nevada deep cut! i had to google tintissi. LOVE the “im from earth day special,” it’s very fun. features one of my favorite thrilling adventure songs ever, “ride along, sparks nevada”

on the topic of music: sparks nevada music (thrilling adventure hour music in general) is so fucking good (thank you eban schletter). i recently discovered you can listen to old tah episodes on the wayback machine and immediately listened to “the piano has been drinking” and it’s so good. “written in the stars” is just…genuinely a very sweet and lovely song. also, “poor me (poor me another)”…annie savage’s voice is so exquisite. i love when i get chills from a space western comedy audio drama. do you have any favorite thrilling adventure hour songs?

agree that the sparks and cactoid jim relationship is so funny, especially the way it transforms from them mutually liking each other -> sparks being insanely jealous of jim while jim is oblivious. one of the best character dynamics imo

please feel free to talk sparks nevada with me any time!!! i love talking to people who know the thrilling adventure hour, it is rare

[skautism]

LOVE how my dad said I have no passions just because my grades are bad and I have depression, like I haven’t been drawing for 5 years, like I don’t want to make my own utau, like I didn’t pirate an old version of flash so I could animate, like I didn’t make up my own pasta sauce recipe, like I don’t love baking, like I don’t know how to program scratch and enough html to make a neocities. Jackass. You don’t ASK about half this shit. You dismissed vocaloid as “weird sounding asian music” one time, you barely showed interest in my animations, you dont care that im so dedicated to old internet shit i scrounge around on the wayback machine, you treat that I used to write fanfiction as a weird thing, you make fun of furries. All you care about is grades and that I can play an instrument for your bands sometimes.

[xumoonhao]

everyone, behold what i made over the last couple of hours 😌 you can make your own here!!! whoever runs the web archive i am kissing on the MOUTH rn. literally

[droidmom]

if fanfiction for this show ever existed it’s gone from the internet now so i guess i have to be the one to write it 

[shaymiens]

inbox town hall: the matt draubma

(like what i did there?)

in case you’re unaware, there’s a lot going on in our fandom rn 👀 hence i’ve received quite a few asks! i’m super open to people voicing their thoughts and getting that discussion going, so i’m compiling all the ones i have about matt here. i will have other posts for other topics as well.

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first off is an ask i received a long while back but i refrained from posting since it felt sorta gossipy... but idk i wanna start this off by stirring the pot a lil 👀:

Did Matt Raub and his wife split up? He hasn’t been wearing a ring lately and neither has posted about the other on Instagram in a while (not that they did before though).

not sure. i haven’t followed them enough to know if anything’s changed on their socials. regardless, it doesn’t look they’ve deleted any pics of each other since they still have a lot of pics of each other up, but i did run matt’s insta through the wayback machine and weirdly enough, he had more posts (983) in november of 2019 than he does now (980), meaning he’s definitely archived/deleted some posts. i scrolled through and checked, though -- looks like the wayback machine autoloads the feed when you scroll, because all the posts matched the ones currently on his feed.

weird thing to check, i admit. still don’t know the truth and i feel sorta bad for prying. but regardless, i mean, i gotta be honest,,,,,, failed relationships tend to reveal smthn about someone’s character!! that’s all i gotta say! 😳

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the rest of these asks are ones i’ve received much more recently:

Matt Raub always rubbed me the wrong way cus he always seems to try exceptionally hard to be a jerk to the cast. Like they play it off as an act

Matt Raub feels like the uncle who makes fun of you at any chance given and as much as you want to talk about it you can’t cus everyone will just say “He’s just joking” but you know he’s not

OOF m*tt r*ub always felt off putting to me but holy shit m'dude

Listen, I’m just saying Joven is sensitive and Matt Raub better not have hurt him. They said on many occasions they were best friends and now all of this shit... Once quarantine is over it’s time to head to the mythical office, I just want to talk.

All this Matt Raub stuff has reminded me there’s a man in my neighborhood that looks exactly like him. I’ve only seen him a couple times driving, but it always felt ominous. Obviously it’s just some guy going about his day, but my brain was just like “Matt Raub?!”

Im thinking about it and idk if Matt and Sohinki were ever just in a channel video together (not summer games) I feel like Matt always got brought in because Sohinki was gone for some reason...

sort of a mixed spread here.

to the people who said they sensed smthn off about him before, i commend you lmao ! i honestly don’t think i’ve paid him enough attention over the years to judge his character but i suppose the strongest memories i have attached to him are all moments that pissed me off lol *flashback to ssg: apocalypse*

and i’ve never really noticed matt’s relationship with joven or sohinki, but all the unfollows on social media and what boze said on stream definitely raises some concern.

[jadedjo]

Hiya, i was wondering where you would reccomend a star wars fan wanting to get into the EU should start, im particularly interested in mara jade, thanks! I love your blog btw x

HI! I see you’re a recent addition to my randomness! Welcome!

The EU/Legends is a bit hit or miss quite frankly. Since you know about Mara I’ll assume you know about Timothy Zahn’s original Thrawn Trilogy, Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising, & The Last Command. If not, start there. 

As for the rest…. the old EU didn’t have a cohesive story group till much later in its life so the authors would pick and choose from other people’s work and usually get other authors OC’s characterizations wrong. 

There are a few interesting books that spring to mind. The Truce at Bakura, Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor, The Courtship of Princess Leia (goes a bit OOC but the worldbuilding is A++), Tatooine’s Ghost (for your Han/Leia feels), Kevin J Anderson’s Jedi Academy Trilogy if you want to read Luke starting up the Jedi Academy on Yavin IV–doesn’t really hold up for me on reread but a first-timer might find it interesting). Do you like x-wing pilots? Do you like Wedge Antilles? The X-Wing Series by Michael A Stackpole and the Wraith Series by Aaron Allston are fun.

Were you left wanting after watching Solo? Try The Young Han Solo Trilogy, The Paradise Snare, Hutt Gambit, & Rebel Dawn. A much more satisfying back story for my favorite smuggler. There is also another trilogy but its just random adventures set between the other books but they were written first and are more space adventure then character building. 

But, as far as wanting to read more Mara, she only appears briefly in a few books (more like cameos). Has a small part in the Corellian Trilogy, Ambush at Corellia, Assult at Selonia, & Showdown at Centerpoint. 

Otherwise, you have to go back to Zahn go get any good Mara stories. She as a few solo stories and comics: Alliances (novel), Choices of One (novel), Mara Jade -  By The Emporer’s Hand (comic), & if you can get your hands on any of the Tales Of books she has a few short stories in Tales from Jabba’s Palance (Sleight of Hand), Tales from The Empire (First Contact - which is more about Talon Karrde then Mara but it is when they meet) and Tales from the New Republic (Jade Solitare).

Then there is the Hand of Thrawn Duology, Specters of the Past & Visions of the Future where those of us who had to wait for each book to come out finally had our patience rewarded with Luke and Mara getting together LINK as you need the wayback machine to find it. And the last of the EU pre-story group era, Survivors Quest which is Zahn again and is all Luke and Mara sharing an adventure together.

Everything past The Duology is Del Rey as they took over the rights from Bantam Spectr. Del Rey’s era can be broken down into 3 main storylines with multiple books in each.

New Jedi Order (NJO)  22 Books/short stories

Legacy of the Force (LOTF) 15 Books/short stories

Fate of the Jedi (FOTJ) 9 Books

Mara appears in NJO and LOTF SPOILER she doesn’t make it out of LOTF

A lot of fans lost interest at NJO but I love them! They added so much more drama and character building to what had become a stagnant world. You can only fight the Empire so long before it gets old. Other authors had tried to bring in new villains but none lasted more than their own books or were quietly pushed aside when they failed to get readers interested. But an extra-galactic invasion with aliens that use biotechnology was interesting and new! Tested the characters in new and interesting ways and gave them new perspectives on morality and the Force.

The LOTF is where even more fans abandoned ship and is where Disney!canon got most of its inspiration for the Sequal Trilogy but the EU did it better.

FOTJ is kinda weird but if you made it all the way to this point you might as well keep going! 

The last EU book to be published was Crucible which was supposed to be a farewell to the old characters (Luke, Han, Leia, Lando) to make way for the next generation. There were even book on the list that would follow this setup but…

And everything was canceled and the EU turned Legends, was retired and Crucible was like the last hurrah instead. 

I never got into the prequel era so I can’t recommend anything from there, but if you want the full list of books try here. A bit of a daunting list but ask around to see if any are worth your time.

Thanks for the ask! I’m always up for sharing my love of Star Wars Legends!