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zoanzon · 9 months

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Yeah, so, for the last most-of-a-year I've had a particular project I've been working on to back up all my electronic writing - from the half-dozen places it's been scattered, content going back to early 2016 - into a single fucking repository.

I'm not done yet - still got over 500 sticky notes of stuff to import from my phone - but as of today...

I broke the million-word mark.

It wasn't a New Year's resolution last year to do anything like this, but yeah if you want to set yourself a resolution for this year to do something like, oh I don't know, 'back up a copy of everything 'I' (ie you) have written so it doesn't get lost to the void one day'...

Consider this you sign it's a goal you can pull off.

#or at least to within 99.7% retention rates which is still pretty fucking fantastic #but...yeah! not expecting people to really notice this but i'm glad for myself!!!#(and before anyone asks: yes I'm ALSO backing this up to an external drive so my progress isn't lost if my computer eats shit lol)#i'm using scrivener since its search function can cover the whole fucking doc and does so QUICKLY; and the tagging capability is NICE #but yeah god i just needed to brag about this since i've been joking with a friend for a few months now about breaking a million words...#AND I DID IT! 🍻#the monkey speaks #life of me #building walls to keep the waves back (an ode to the archivists)#he says 'its like all my birthdays have come at once'#triple redundancy is barely sufficient #the archive mirroring undertaking (and logs thereof)

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zoanzon · 2 years

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Just was shown the latest Defunctland - about the question of who wrote the Disney Channel tune? - and by god this video came into my house and shot me dead.

#immensely more emotional than i ever could've expected #the monkey speaks #defunctland #building walls to keep the waves back (an ode to the archivists)

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zoanzon · 7 months

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Extremely fucking terrified at how I've apparently managed to back up a bit over a million and a half words of personal writing in a year? Like, I went through my diary and confirmed I first started deep-dive archiving my old stuff (and cross-archiving anything written after that point) last March.

And I still have more to go???

#this isn't some humblebrag i'm genuinely 😵 and baffled #for context archiving dates back to january 2016 so technically its a bit over 8 years worth of time to have written all that #...but A) still me @ me wtf for writing that much? and B) me @ me WTF FOR MANAGING TO ARCHIVE THAT MUCH SHIT IN A YEAR? THE FUCK?#and i've still probably got another year if not longer i'm going to be at this 😵#like. when i'm done and able to easily word/phrase/tag search 99.97% of my collective writing i'm gonna be one happy fucker #but also UHHHH #genuinely curious at what sort of insane lifeform i'll have devolved into by next march crooning over the archive as 'my precious'#(and yes i'm backing this up as i go...by which i mean i need to update my backup its more than a month back but i AM doing backups)#(hell i plan to have two separate backups of this; i'll just bundle it with my wider 'backup of computer' files)#(...yes i'm THIS flavor of historian-writer lol)#the monkey speaks #life of me #building walls to keep the waves back (an ode to the archivists)

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zoanzon · 3 years

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Maybe you've got someone from Yemen or Dijibouti that can tell you exactly what the fuck happened there instead of my layman's piss-poor guesses from the deck of a cruise ship. I was sloshed, trying to have a vacation and forget my mess of a life. But just in case I'm one of the only ones left that knows, I thought I'd write you and make sure you have at least this fragment. I figure, what the hell, at least it will level me up in my History-Keeping stats.

“Sleep Over: An Oral History of the Apocalypse” by H.G. Bells, page 187

#quote #h.g. bells #excerpts from a monkey's readings #building walls to keep the waves back (an ode to the archivists)

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