THOU HASN'T TIME

The Riven half of the new trophy icons for the Classic PS1 re-release! My favourite world to draw, and super fun getting to draw some alternate universe Gehns for a couple of the bad endings.

(The Myst trophy icons)

The re-release of the Classic PS1 versions of Myst and Riven required new trophies, which required new trophy icons, and so I got permission to get a little weird and illustrative with it—super fun getting to revisit this world with a little bit of Mignola mixed in.

(The Riven trophy icons)

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On Jan 1, 2026 no less I was alerted to a Bluesky post about the potential end of life for Livejournal. This reminded me of the year 2022. Russia was already tinkering with social networks back then so I set about to create an archive tool back then. Hours turned into days then weeks then months. I kept developing & improving it. It became an obsession. It worked really well but LJ was still up. I moved on. Change in administrations and all. The Jan 1st, 2026 post immediately reminded me I might have something relevant to the situation and if you are reading this then this Jan 11th, 2026 post may be relevant to you too.

What is it? What does it do?

Archives Public User Journals and Community Journals

If you are a member, you can sign in and archive member-only posts

Creates a spreadsheet inventory of every post that includes: date, time, post title, user who made the post if a community and total number of comments per post.

Offline html copy of all the posts saved in a generic theme for easy readability

It created offline links so you can navigate the journal using the previous < and next > links locally as if you were online.

We had time so we set about to master archiving Kink Memes. I didn't even know what they were, but I just knew they had lots and lots of comments. Lots. Did I say lots. I was surprised to here it archived over 300k thousand comments.

There is a mode called blender were you can stack a bunch of journals and click a button, and it will bulk archive multiple journals.

Someone asked if we could set up a method of just archiving a few individual pages not a whole journal. We added that too.

It can be found at LJArchivr.com

It does require a little setup which we are glad to help with but once that's done you are just clicking buttons. You need Windows or Parallels on the Mac and Microsoft Excel. Here is what someone said.

Ok, I am starting to feel like a salesman or influencer. I am only writing for those that may interest since this was also mentioned somewhere else here on Tumblr with the Caveat that it cost money. However, not much. Saying a little more about it here might help you determine if it's worth it. There was a lot of time spent developing it with feedback from Livejournal users and it's amazing how we keep seeing ways to make it better. This has now turned into a team project. On the horizon is archiving pics. For now, we recommend PDFing the HTMLs before the image links die (Ok, I think I am getting too technical. I should stop). We can also help you set it up because we want you to spend your time archiving. However, we included user friendly tutorials to do it yourself.

Can you archive my journal or community?

Yes! We know not everyone has Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Excel so if you have 1 or 2 smallish journals, you'd like us to archive let us know. We can put that in the blender and give you some nutritional nostalgia. However, please know if you want locked or private posts it's better you do it yourself using the tool. We don't want you to give us your username and password.

Fandom Archive Team

I did this on my own but with the help of one member of a team dedicated to preserving fandom works. However, there is a team if you are interested in helping with this project. Over 6600 journals have been archived already. You may not even need to archive because what you are looking to archive may have already been archived. This tool is useful for your own local copy of course. If you are interested in joining send an email to [email protected] and indicating that in your email.

Movie Howl is a soulful and quiet. Book Howl is a drama queen and Causing Problems and has a long string of jilted exes and couldn't shut up if you paid him.

Sophie and Howl drive each other up the wall at the beginning and it's really funny. Sophie and Howl are (despite themselves) very much in love by the end and they still drive each other up the wall and it's even funnier.

In the movie, Howl has been ordered by the king to participate in The War, and Howl is avoiding it because he is a brave conscientious objector. In the book, Howl has been ordered by the king to rescue his lost brother from the Witch of the Wastes, and Howl is avoiding it by any means necessary because he is a cowardly weasel who wants to stay as far from the Witch as possible.

In the movie, the Witch cursed Sophie because she was jealous about Howl speaking to Sophie for five minutes. In the book, the Witch cursed Sophie because Sophie had been doing surprisingly powerful magic for years without knowing it and it was actually starting to cut into the Witch's plans. (Sophie does not discover any of this until nearly the end of the book, but the reader can start to pick it up much earlier and the way Sophie's magic works is pretty darn cool.)

In the movie, there's a rumor that Howl eats the hearts of maidens, but this is implied to be nothing but nasty fearmongering. In the book, there's a rumor that Howl eats the hearts of maidens because Howl started the rumor so people would stop asking him to do wizard junk all the time.

The book lightly parodies a couple of tropes from Western fairy tales. In particular Sophie has internalized that, as the eldest of three sisters, her "destiny" is to fail so that her younger sisters will look cooler when they succeed, which is why she's so resigned to the hat shop at the beginning. (Sidebar: Sophie's sisters come up much more in the book and they're great.) There's also a really funny bit where Sophie attempts to operate a pair of seven-league boots.

“A Fragment out of Time”, published in 1974. Kirk / Spock. page 1 page 2

Beginning of spring, captured through the Fuji XT3, no AI

No because this is how every Howl/Sophie interaction plays out in the book

For example, curds in cream is known as "cottage cheese" in English and "fromage cottage" in French, so the bilingual label will often read "fromage cottage cheese".

Predictably, some people jokingly squish this together even further to yield "frottage cheese" – and critically, not everyone who does this is aware that "frottage" is a real word.

They're shatters but it's still you.