Hejsan!

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Yup.

I assume the post you saw was linking to Denise's thread. Your options are to import to DW (if it's your own LJ account or a community you own) or to buy ViddersAdmin's program, which sounds like it can grab coms, including all of a kinkmeme's comment threads. It doesn't sound like it can grab locked posts, but I'm not sure.

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I hope this lights a fire under people's asses to save things. Personally, I got very tired after nobody gave two shits about yahoo groups.

They need URLs

Things to know if you decide to go that route:

It costs $20. Considering the amount of work Vid and his team have put into it and doing constant support over the last week I feel that that's fair.

You will need Excel. LibreOffice will not work for this purpose. You can currently get Office 2021 here for less than $35 and that works just fine for this purpose. (I have needed an installation of Excel for work purposes so this was pretty much free for me. I can get reimbursed.)

You will need Chrome for this. You don't need to log in to a Google account for anything, but the tool basically uses Chrome to automate the month by month archiving process on LJ.

I strongly recommend watching the entire video in the powerpoint that comes with the purchase of the tool before doing anything else. He guides you step by step through the entire setup and installation process. It's not difficult, but there are some things you need to do that are not intuitive or obvious.

You'll need to email Vid so he can give you a license key for the software.

Vid and his team are also willing to back up your journal for you if you only need a couple of journals dealt with and don't want to deal with an installation.

For my purposes (about ten locked RP comms some of which had hundreds of entries and thousands of comments) it made sense to spend the money and do it myself and Vid was very responsive and courteous throughout the parts where communication was necessary.

hi anon,

those are both incorrect understandings of toxic shock syndrome. toxic shock syndrome is caused by overgrowth of specific types of bacteria commonly found in and on the body, which will in turn release toxins. the version affiliated with tampons, which is probably what toxic shock syndrome is most well-known for, happens because tampons provide a great place for that bacteria to grow.

leaving tampons in longer increases the risk of bacteria growing and releasing toxins, which is why it's recommended to change them frequently. the same is true of anything placed in the vagina for extended periods (no pun intended) of time, including other menstrual collection items such a menstrual cups or disks or forms of birth control such as the sponge or diaphragm, both of which have become less popular with the availability of hormonal birth control.

okay this is going to sound nitpicky, but menstrual cups do not cause toxic shock syndrome. toxins released by excessive growth of Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus pyogenes cause toxic shock syndrome. that can happen whether you use a menstrual cup or not, whether you menstruate or not, in a vagina or not. you are in fact more likely to develop toxic shock syndrome in an infected wound than from a menstrual device.

hey, that's a really good practice! a lot of health and wellness grifters get by using terms that sound scary without being able to back them up at all (or even define them), and it's smart to look out for that.

I'm happy to report that the toxins affiliated with toxic shock syndrome are literally just called toxic shock syndrome toxin-1

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The “this is real” scene is insanely important for Jax’s arc, and here’s why.

Jax’s Dissociation from Reality

The reason Jax says “this is real” when he hears Kinger become coherent and explain the creation of Caine isn’t because he’s shocked that this isn’t a video game afterall. Jax says himself in episode 5 that he only later convinced himself all they were is cartoon characters.

The key phrase being, “I thought we were [people] at first.” He knew the circus was real when he first showed up, but as he remained trapped there and time went on, he told himself that everyone was just archetypes, including himself, that no one was real at all. He was lying to himself, but this goes a lot deeper than just denial.

Jax is dissociating, to some agree, at all times.

We can see specific moments he blocks everything out when he physically shuts down— all those scenes where his eyes get huge and he mentally clocks out.

But deeper than these spells of blocking out the world, Jax is dissociating on a much larger scale. He’s not just in denial— he’s experiencing derealization and depersonalization.

Derealization: the perception that the world is not real. Depersonalization: the perception that the self is not real.

Jax isn’t just in a state of denial; his perception of reality is warped, not because he actually thought they were in a video game the whole time, but because his surroundings were so terrible he was unable to confront reality and he retreated into the back of his mind.

This is obvious with the way Jax reacts to Kinger telling them about the lore. The moment Kinger becomes coherant, Jax is immediately distressed.

In the last episode, Abel’s adventure wasn’t real. Even if Jax himself bought it in the end, once it was over, it was fairly obvious how Caine pulled the strings. But Kinger becoming stable and spilling insane secrets was something Jax never saw coming. And most importantly, it was a huge deviation from Kinger’s archetype.

Jax can’t deny the situation anymore. This is the moment the illusion starts to break, and he is pushed from the dissociation, pushed from his safe place, all at once.

He wasn’t overreacting— he had been living in a state of foggy emptiness for years, and he was forced to face real life all at once.

And for Jax, there is nothing more terrifying than reality.

To the extent that in episode 7, he would rather continue to play pretend in the circus than go back to the real world. Because this is easier. Shutting off his attachment to everything around him is easier than seeing himself as a person. In episode 8, when reality sets in, Jax is forced to face not just his actions, not just his life, not just the circus, but he is forced to confront that *he* is real. There are only ever so many layers of masks that can keep him safely hidden inside, and now they’ve all been peeled back.

Jax has been totally emotionally and mentally gutted. He is a Jax that, for the first time, is processing the fact that he and his pain actually exist in any way that means anything.

And how is Jax supposed to face himself?