#the careful balance of leaving things alone before transforming werewolf-style into stingy from lazytown

[rubiatinctorum]

I do understand that there are many reasons a piece of formerly public media would be lost or unavailable. Personally, I have pulled projects before to edit them and make them better, and then put them back out into the world again. But, I'm not immune to the desire to want to find a lost or recalled project, especially works of fiction that sound very, very interesting.

Sometimes I think lost media people do all too much, when it comes to things that were never meant to be public in the first place, or when it comes to a project a creator or creative team no longer wishes to be out in the world. In that case especially, it lacks decorum to go searching so obviously for it.

Yet, I understand the feeling that drives it. My desire for the discontinued goes beyond yarn colourways and old ring styles. There are stories I know I will never read — and perhaps should never read — because for all intents and purposes, they're not supposed to exist anymore.

I should take these broken links like the vivid warning sign outside of an electrical facility. I'm not supposed to go in there, and this is my chance to turn back. I do not wish to become focused on yet another piece of lost media to the point of restlessness; I hoped for Ulterior Motives to be found, and fortunately it was, and I still long to see the APPP JJBA Phantom Blood movie (even though I could literally go watch DavidPro's PB episodes anytime and never cared to watch the APPP Stardust Crusaders, the thrill of lost JoJo animation excites me). I do not need to set my sights on something that will surely never turn up, and if it did, would be likely more of a burden than anything else on the creators.