#you know like the wand shop guy in h*rry p*tter

[13eyond13]

I'm very grateful that you reblog your own posts when you reference them because I was ready to go on an hour long search to find that light / Patrick bateman comparison and seeing that its from 2018, I don't think I ever would have found it. I don't know how you do it, but its amazing how you can scavenge up a five year old post so easily

😅 I'm glad it's helpful! There are definitely times where I doubt it would be easy for anybody except myself to know the quickest route to digging up one of my old posts here. I'll give you the general way I went about it:

I was like "I know I always tag 'American Psycho' on posts from that movie, so I'll search that tag on my blog."

Then I searched it and fairly soon after found a VERSION of this post, but not the exact one I wanted. The one I found had some Breaking Bad additions. Normally I would just click on the reblog with the American Psycho addition only to get that version, but the blogger had deactivated their url so it wasn't possible to do that anymore. NONETHELESS I carried on!

I saw that the Breaking Bad addition post was from sometime last year, and I knew that the post had only blown up a few months before that. So I had a general timeline in mind for where on my blog I should be searching for it.

I went to my blog archive on a browser and set the filter to posts tagged "p," which are the posts I make myself/add my own additions on instead of just reblogs. I then set the date to the month in 2022 that the Breaking Bad addition post was posted and scrolled to posts before that to find the ones I made when the post first started blowing up, because I knew that I talked about it when it was happening at the time. LO AND BEHOLD in April 2022 I spotted Light's cranky little face glaring at me from a thumbnail and knew that I had finally struck gold! BUT THEN when I clicked on it it wasn't the right version of the post either, but a version where I was snarking at somebody for thinking I was being sincere about wanting a man to look at me like Light does! 😄 I knew I had made the snarky post quite soon after it first started gaining tons of notes though, so I knew that I was getting very warm.

SO THEN I set my archive search to ALL POSTS from April 2022 instead of just the ones I tagged "p" and hunted back until I found more with the same cranky Light thumbnail, and clicked on them until I finally found the proper one to reblog.

I am not expecting this to be an easily replicated type of thinking for anybody searching for specific posts here, but at the same time I'm not going to pretend I don't also love to be that weird old shopkeeper who helps you hunt through the overwhelming stacks of junk in their store to hunt down that one special thing hahaha