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Jul. 4th, 2025 01:05 pmLook, on one hand, I get it. I get why people delete their art/writing/etc, I get why they private or archive it, I get why they might not want to have it public anymore. I get it! I understand it! I respect it!
But man, sometimes it sucks to dig through half-dead pages, sections with unarchived images, etc. just hoping that maybe, MAYBE I'll find something cool. It feels like there's a big chunk of fandom that's been taken out back and murdered, a whole collection of things I'll never get to see, and there's nothing I can do about it. I've mentioned this elsewhere before, but it's sad is what it is-- every dead website, everything buried deep in webrings or dead links, every project that never left someone's hard drive, every idea that never got finished. Could I have found a new favourite piece of art on a blog that was deleted ten years ago? How much will I never get to know?
But man, sometimes it sucks to dig through half-dead pages, sections with unarchived images, etc. just hoping that maybe, MAYBE I'll find something cool. It feels like there's a big chunk of fandom that's been taken out back and murdered, a whole collection of things I'll never get to see, and there's nothing I can do about it. I've mentioned this elsewhere before, but it's sad is what it is-- every dead website, everything buried deep in webrings or dead links, every project that never left someone's hard drive, every idea that never got finished. Could I have found a new favourite piece of art on a blog that was deleted ten years ago? How much will I never get to know?
