Fandom Miscellany

the sequels do none of these for kyle ron

“oh so you’re saying in fiction all evil has to be punished???” absolutely not. anakin won, remember? he went on to build an empire, like he said he was going to. but the story forces us as the audience to contend that he was evil, whatever his Tragic Backstory was.

the sequels do not do that for kyle ron.

“First to Wake” ~Rebecaptain Secret Santa for @ohstardustgirl  Prompt: Sharing a Bed Trope (one of my favorites TBH)

I was just semi-complaining that I was still looking for a decent way to backup my +6k posts without having to use paid services or even just wordpress (which has an import from tumblr tool that asks for permission to access your blog and also make posts), when I decided to actually put some effort into my google search. 

Results were positive: I have successfully backed up my blog* 

*By which I mean: everything that I have ever posted.  Not included: drafts, queue, likes, followers, following, comments, notes, chat. 

I followed this method (word by word), and now have a 450 MB folder on my computer with the name of my blog on it containing: 

1. Folder “Archive” (contains .html files listed by month) 2. Folder “Media” (contains gifs and images, mine has +1k files in it; might contain also audios but I have no way of confirming that because I’ve never reblogged an audio post from this blog) 3. Folder “Posts” (contains single .html files, each one a post; I have +4k files in it) 4. Folder “Theme” (contains only my avatar, but it might be a matter of if you have personalized themes or not) 5. .html file “Index” (by opening it it will give you the archive of your blog organized by month; clicking on a month will open up the archive for that month, and you’ll be able to read all the posts for that month as if you were on your blog**, except sans your theme graphic, with each page containing 50 posts)

**I can see gifs, links, embedded videos, tags, number of notes (but I can’t open up the notes, clearly), text is also correctly formatted. 

So yeah, in case anyone wants a very quick way to back up their blog, it took me less than 10 minutes. 

There are a couple of things to keep in mind, however:

1) If your Command Prompt comes back with the error: “python is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program, or batch file”, this solution worked for me.

2) The above instructions do not include audio and video files. The instructions included with the tumblr_backup.py script tell you how to do it, but the instructions aren’t exactly the most clear, so check below the cut for instructions on installing the additional script you need to enable you to have the tumblr_backup.py script save your audio and video files: