#archival stuff

I've been... Uh...... Same old same old I guess? I can't really remember where I was last time I was here so idk where I am in comparison lol

It seems like it's only been 2 months but feels like longer, in that time I decided that I do want to go ahead and try cutting out all social media long term rather than just migrating from twitter to bluesky and doing the same exhausting yet addicting social media shit there, unfortunately maybe a week ago I thought about how I'd maybe like to get back into the tumblr routine as I feel that I probably like this place best out of any site, but then I read an article trying to realistically judge the risks that trump will have to online trans people/spaces and decided not to get hooked on social media again if the companies are seemingly likely to outright ban trans people for fear that the government cracks down on them hosting what it will try to redefine as grooming material

It was a depressing but fascinating and important to read article btw

I also recommend reading this if you have the spoons, fair warning though that it's 24,000 words and if you download it as a pdf like it suggests then it spans across 88 pages total if you include stuff like table of contents

I did read a bit of it, specifically a bit about creating a trans micro library, as it was linked from this article

So yea now I'm interested in building a trans micro library

If anyone has any suggestions for stuff to add (links would be especially helpful but not strictly necessary if you don't have it off the top of your head) just let me know, I'd be interested in books, pdfs, zines, music, art, games, porn, whatever, also bonus points if it's transfeminine

I haven't started building it yet but off the top of my head there are a few things I plan to add:

- fucking trans women zine that I have favourited on the internet archive

- hardcoded, a transfem visual novel style porn game where you play as a transfem robot

- mp3 and flac formats of black dresses discography, along with ada rooks discography from when the album's were free to download on bandcamp last(?) winter

- some trans porn I have saved (I haven't looked in awhile but I assume I have some downloaded)

Now that I list it I realize how shit my memory is cause I swear there was more I had floating around up there but whatever I'll remember it later

Skinny/main story look

Glass Cannon/pre-story

Chubby/post-story

- Celia Brayfield, 'They are an Unlikely Couple but... LINDA AND PAUL McCARTNEY ARE STILL MADLY IN LOVE', Cosmopolitan magazine, January 1973

I’ve begun archiving all the work I’ve posted on here: headcanons & scenarios, onto Archive of Our Own. There’s like 1000 Neji ones so haven’t finished posting all of them on there yet but I’ll finish later on today. Here is the Link  in case you want it. 

Just remember that some of the scenarios I’ve already posted in the past are under their own stories/links so they may not be in that particular work but are under that profile. I will continue working from Tumblr and get back to requests here this is all just for backup and archival purposes! 

So, I just wanted to drop a few more links that I’ve picked up from archives Twitter, for those who have interest:  

How Not to Build a Digital Archive: Lessons from the Dark Side of the Force, from Preservica

(this basically ends with a plug for Preservica’s digital preservation services, lol -- they’re a vendor that support preservation at various archives -- but their points are extremely sound ones)

Let’s Geek Out Over All the Fascinating Technology Used In Rogue One, by Jason Torchinsky