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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
is-there-chekov
balalaijka

“return to old trek,” but it’s the return of 20+ episode seasons, of bringing contemporary scifi writers to write episodes, of doing social commentary so acute it blasts the “it’s just escapism” argument to bloody bits, and most important, the return of silly costumes and camp

is-there-chekov

There is not Chekov?❌️❓️

balalaijka

Chekov is present in the sense that his inclusion as a russian character during the political tensions of the cold war further cements the star trek universe as a direct and optimistic response to real world circumstances 😊

is-there-chekov

There is Chekov✅️

is-there-chekov
balalaijka

“return to old trek,” but it’s the return of 20+ episode seasons, of bringing contemporary scifi writers to write episodes, of doing social commentary so acute it blasts the “it’s just escapism” argument to bloody bits, and most important, the return of silly costumes and camp

is-there-chekov

There is not Chekov?❌️❓️

balalaijka

Chekov is present in the sense that his inclusion as a russian character during the political tensions of the cold war further cements the star trek universe as a direct and optimistic response to real world circumstances 😊

but also omg a gimmick blog in my reblogs i feel blessed star trek

torn between “a star trek au would fundamentally alter the foundation of devourer-eaten, mistress-serf, immortal-forever dead of harrow and gideon’s social stations as defined by jod’s empire, thus placing them on a very different path” and “they are horrible (affectionate) to each other in every universe, and harrow WILL find a way to make gideon get attacked by a skeleton no matter the science fiction rules in place”

tlt the locked tomb griddlehark star trek au gideon nav harrow the ninth
excavatinglizard
jv

Folks, backup your Tumblrs, for real this time

jv

To be clear, I don't have any news about any impending doom. But I've heard a bit more about what's going on with staff after the layoff of last week, and there are even less people than I thought still working here.

I don't think even the current staff know what's going to happen, but honestly, I don't see how the high ups could even pretend to intend to keep this place open while virtually unstaffed.

jv

And of course, if the most despicable thing happens, you can find me at @javi@goblin.band from any fediverse platform 🤷

plaidos

for reference, OP is a former employee of Tumblr who tries to keep up to date with tumblr’s inner workings. please back your blogs up.

butchlinkle

In your blog settings you have the ability to initiate a blog export, and this will generate a backup for your blog.

Fair warning though, if you've been on the platform for a long time this archive is likely to be quite hefty in file size. This blog I have had for 5 years with 22k posts, and the export from tumblr came to be 48GB. My previous blog I made in 2011 and has 95k posts, so needless to say I did not use tumblr's built in export to back that one up.

If you want more control over exactly what you back up from your blog, I recommend that you use tumblr-utils instead. It allows you to backup specific tags, post types, and to ignore posts that you did not create (reblogs where you've added a comment count as a post you created, to be clear).

To use it:

  1. download and install python 2.7
  2. download tumblr-utils
  3. create an application on tumblr to get an api key
  4. extract the tumblr-utils zip and open the tumblr_backup.py file in notepad
  5. search for "API" and paste in your OAuth consumer key
  6. then go back to the folder where you extracted tumblr-utils and choose open folder in terminal / command prompt, or type cmd.exe in the address bar while inside the folder
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now in the window that opens it should show the current path, and you can type "py -2 .\tumblr_backup.py [your options] [your blog name]" and hit enter. Example:

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Backing up just my original posts from this blog with this command came to 632MB rather than 48GB, and also gave me the option to save my posts in JSON format which will be useful for converting my posts to a new format for self hosting.

On that note I'm currently looking into figuring out a simple (and ideally free) way of self hosting a static site blog that utilises activitypub, and also converting my old posts to re-host on said blog.

This post series by maho.dev on implementing activitypub with any static site is my primary source of guidance atm if you also want to try figure that out yourself, as well as having an explanation for why you'd even want to do this if you don't already know

but if tumblr goes down before I get things sorted and write up a post about it then i'll be reporting back on it via my bsky, mastodon, and toyhouse accounts

if you dont have an account on any of these I'll also be sharing an update via my personal site's RSS feed, link of which includes an explanation of what RSS is and some feed readers you can use, I highly recommend checking it out as getting a feed reader is going to be the best way you can stay connected with people if they scatter across the internet!

tldr: download tumblr-utils to backup your blog more efficiently, introduce yourself to RSS and get a feed reader to stay connected with people, consider saving mine so you can find out how to self host your blog later if tumblr goes down

will do this also if any shit happens i have a discord now so if anyone wants a way to reach me outside of this hellsite you can reach out)

writing a literary analysis essay quickly

  • break down the prompt into bullet points as a guidelines for what you should be paying attention to
  • while reading, take notes as quotes with the page number and a few notes, such as general theme and/or literary devices used. as literary analyses presume the reader is familiar with the work, look less for quotes simply stating the situation and more for those illustrating specific detail
  • look at repeating ideas in what you’ve written down, look for patterns, contrasts, developments, pick a small number (usually three), try to summarize the general pattern, and then formulate what is the general effect, and from this you have a thesis that can be defended by textual evidence
  • look back at the prompt, fit the thesis and evidence within the framework, extension and format that has been indicated
  • introduction should state the work’s name, the author and the thesis, with my general format being work + author at start, fluff acting as groundwork to say “these are some things that the book talks about” in the middle and the thesis as “the author uses those themes to say this” at the end
  • body paragraphs to explain the evidence you chose, where you dump the stuff you wrote under the quotes and expand on it in great detail
  • out-tro paragraph as aftercare for all the dense analysis in the above, draw the reader back into the big picture of the general impression, tack on something along the lines of “this is significant because…” and
  • proofread, check extension and other parameters again, then chuck into desired font and style, read it again, then send it off
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