#waybackmachine

[amethysts-angel214]

So I found 2 canceled Popee stories from the old PopDeath website throught the wayback machine...

"Tightrope"

Popee tries to walk on a tightrope with a net strung high in the air. Kedamono tries to stop it, but Popee, who was full of earthquakes, shows a fist pump and climbs the pole in high spirits. Popee starts walking on the rope without a balance rod in his hands. However, even though he started walking with a smile on his face, he simply lost his footing and fell after taking just a few steps.

Popee starts falling while rotating slowly in slow motion. Kedamono hurriedly brings the sofa to the spot where Popee fell. However, he suddenly thought about it and decided to turn that sofa into a cactus. Popee fell into the cactus. The pain of the cactus's needles causes it to rise vertically again. (The cactus broke)

"Just do it!" Popee said as he returned to the rope. He rub his butt and continue walking the tightrope with teary eyes. Kedamono looks up from below and claps. However, just a few seconds later, Popee is fanned by the wind and falls. Once again, it falls while spinning in slow motion. Kedamono hurriedly takes out a tennis racket and waits at the drop point.

He swings his racket at the same time Popee is falling, but misreads the point where it will fall and misses the mark. Popee crashes to the ground right next to Kedamono. Kedamomo walks up to it and launches Popee with all its might with its racket.

Popee returns to the net again with his nose bleeding. He seems to be in a daze. He can't see in his point of view, but he won't stop walking the tightrope. Kedamono starts clapping. However, Popee sometimes seems to lose his footing. Gathering animals, sofas, cushions, etc., he diligently arranged them on the ground so that they would be ready in case he'd fall at any moment. Once Kedamono was ready, he starts swinging the racket.

"Yeah. This is fine!" When he looked at Popee, he had his neck caught in the rope and his bag was hanging down. He was hanging, and his face was pale blue. Kedamono was stunned for a while. He climbs the pole to rescue Popee. First, he tries to cut the rope with scissors, but the scissors break because it is a wire cable.

He had no choice but to approach the hanging Popee while walking on a tightrope. It is eerie that the severed head was caught and turned blue-purple. Kedamono leans back and tries to remove Popee's neck while being frightened. However, a crow suddenly lands on his back, causing him to lose his balance. Kedamono falls headlong to the ground. As he struggles through his pain, he looks up to see crows starting to flock to Popee he hangs from.

Surprised, Kedamono hurriedly throws a stone to chase the crow away, but instead of hitting the crow, it hit Popee in the forehead. Popee regains consciousness due to the stone's blow, and is shaking as blood oozes from his forehead. The reaction causes his head to come loose from the rope and fall.

Kedamono turned a blind eye to Popee's fall, but Popee falls onto the couch and desk (which was piled up by Kedamono). The sofa lifts up into the air due to the recoil, and the desk pushes Popee up due to the recoil of the sofa falling, creating a seesaw effect that sends Popee flying onto the tightrope once again.

Popee lands at the end of the tightrope. When he looked back with a vague expression, he realized that his current point was the goal. Popee does a fist pump while bleeding from his nose and forehead. (His face was still a little blue) Kedamono clapped while smiling bitterly.

"Unicycle"

Popee was casually riding around on a unicycle. It's circling around Kedamono. Kedamono was clapping his hands as he watched the scene. Popee grabbed Kedamono and put him on his shoulder. It's a unicycle ride. The two of them happily twirl around the square. Kedamono and Popee look at each other with smiles. The two of them hold hands, forming a diagonal V shape. Kedamono goes straight ahead, grabs Kaeru on the ground and places it on his head. Kedamono's on Popee's shoulders, and Kaeru's on Kedamono's head. The three were having fun spinning around, but Kaeru hops off Kedamono's head and ends up in front of the unicycle. Popee and Kedamono's surprised expressions turn into crying faces (slow motion)

Kaeru's lying on the ground, and there are marks from the wheel of a unicycle on its back...Kaeru doesn't move. The two of them watched silently. Poepe and Kedamono build a grave (shaped like a cross) for Kaeru. Kedamono was crouching down and crying, and Popee pats him on the shoulder. Calmly pointing at the sunset. A blazing sunset. An illusion that can be seen on the other side. Popee and Kedamono are riding a unicycle to the cheers of the audience. Kedamono nods silently as he watches the illusion of a sunset.

The next day, the two were riding unicycles again under the blue sky. They happily twirl around the square. When he looked, he saw a monkey on the wall. Kedamono catches the monkey like he did with Kaeru. He put it on top of his head and it spun around happily for a while, but then the monkey jumped off Kedamono's head. They were surprised. The unicycle wheel approaches the monkey (slow motion) Popee and Kedamono build the monkey's grave. Kedamono was crouching down and crying. Popee patted him on the shoulder. Calmly pointing at the sunset. Kedamono nods silently as he watches the sunset.

Even the next day, Popee and Kedamono were riding the unicycle once again. Surprisingly, there's an elephant sitting on top of Kedamono. An elephant happily raising and lowering its trunk. Kedamono's about to get crushed by the weight. Popee also has a blue face. Popee's riding the unicycle, Kedamono's on his shoulder, and an elephant is on top of him. It was a great song. But in the end, the elephant fell down. A unicycle wheel approaches an elephant (slow motion) as Popee and Kedamono's surprised expressions change to crying faces (slow motion)

Popee and Kedamono build a grave for the elephant. Elephants are so large that their trunks stick out from the ground. The two of them watched the sunset in silence. There you can see an overlapping view of the circus, but the square is full of graves. There are countless graves. Some of the objects protruding from the ground in front of the graves include the legs of an antelope, the neck of a flamingo, and the heels of a human.

Kedamono's mask is hung there. Popee's placing flowers on the grave. He looks at the sunset in the distance, he can see Kedamono receding into the distance and disappearing. Popee rides the unicycle silently. The shadows of the grave markers extend over the area, making it look like a dream-like painting by De Chirico. The shadow of the running unicycle is also growing. Popee runs away from the unicycle with ease, but trips over the elephant's trunk and becomes stiff. The unicycle moves forward without its master on board, but it hits Kedamono's grave and runs backwards towards Popee.

Popee panics and tries to run away, but the unicycle heads straight for Popee (slow motion) and Popee looks like she's about to be run over. It is now a light in front of the wind. Popee's face turns to fear and sadness (slow motion) However, the next moment, the unicycle hits one of Popee's legs and collapses. (An extremely normal phenomenon.) "Huh?" Popee looks at the fallen unicycle. The rattling wheels come to a quiet stop. Popee makes a unicycle grave, then he bursts out laughing like a madman.

[microsoftslime]

カンブリアンQTS ～化石になっても～

[kuuderekun]

The InternetArchive is very important to Media Preservation.

It shouldn't be the only means we use to archive stuff, but it important to have as many back ups as possible.

So any supposed Leftist Content Creators saying they don't consent to their stuff being Archived there is absolutely disgraceful.

The Left should be agaisnt Copyright Laws as a concept, plain and simple, Intellectual Property is the least valid Property Right.

[allombradime]

Ho ritrovato il mio blog su splinder

Come ho detto in precedenza, mi sono riaperto Tumblr perché sentivo nostalgia del mio blog su Splinder. Poi mi sono ricordato una cosa: esiste un sito, chiamato Internet Archive - Wayback Machine, che conserva un archivio temporale di praticamente tutto il web.

Così ho ricercato l'indirizzo del mio blog e l'ho ritrovato. Eccovi uno "spezzone" preso da Ottobre 2006:

[aiexpressway]

Access The Internet Archive & BILLIONS of Free Resources

[canadianstud]

THE INTERNET ARCHIVE WAYBACK MACHINE - GOING BACK IN TIME

[3416]

finally completed my first crochet blanket❣️❣️❣️ (minus the tedious task of weaving in the ends... forgive me)

thank you to everyone for the love along the way :') there's somewhere around 95ish hours in it so far, but i think it's turned out so nice. that's a queen size bed for ref, and the pattern can be found here if interested!!

[amethysts-angel214]

Ahh, yes. LEFTOVERS. Take note that those are cosplayers.

The main trio themselves in their creepiest form. Like I said before, they pulled off the creepiness of the show VERY ACCURATELY.

What an open crowd.

Goofballs, lol

Another thing I should redraw at this point. Also, it's pretty horrifying.

Haha. Well. That's it, everyone. From what I've heard, this was for some Expo Convention thing, so that makes sense with the cosplay and the crowd. Eh. Close enough. Bye bye, people! :)

[sweetbottletops]

Sumiko's first-ever English interview is with Anime News Network.

(full interview below in case the link dies)

Rockin' Out With Sumiko Arai, The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't a Guy at All Manga Creator by Lynzee Loveridge, May 16th 2025

When Sumiko Arai launched The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't a Guy at All on her Twitter account in 2021, she couldn't have predicted its meteoric rise in popularity. From social media to pixiv Comic, the four-page serialization quickly grabbed attention for its striking green accent color. Since its debut The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't a Guy at All won best web manga at the 2023 Next Manga Awards, ranked #2 in the 2023 Kono Manga ga Sugoi! listings for female readers, and ranked in the top 10 on BookScan's graphic novels list for February 2025.

Readership continued to grow as fans watched the gyaru Aya crush on the cool and collected music shop employee, Mitsuki. The discovery that Mitsuki was actually her female classmate added a twist to the story, as both girls' feelings evolved from a friendship into something more, fueled by a shared love for Western rock music.

Anime News Network sat down with Arai-san for her first-ever English interview to talk about her characters, lesbian love stories, what music she has in rotation, and that anime adaptation that everyone is so excited about.

Can you discuss designing the lead characters, Aya and Mitsuki? When it came to capturing Mitsuki's coolness, who or what might have been your inspiration?

Sumiko Arai: I took the most extroverted side of myself and kind of amplified it and put it into Aya, and then took the most introverted side of myself and put it into Mitsuki. I think that's the two very different sides of myself turned into characters, and I think I understand them that way the best. I really have loved polar-opposite kind of pairings in any story, and that's just always been something I wanted to write.

Are there other fictional couples that represent a similar hot-cold to you, even if they don't directly inspire Aya and Mitsuki?

Sumiko Arai: Okay. Well, I mean, obviously, this is in a completely different setting, but I loved Shelby and Toni from The Wilds. That was something that I was watching when I created these characters, but it's completely different. I just like their dynamic a lot.

Can you share your artistic journey with us? When did you first begin drawing, and what appealed to you about telling stories through the comic book medium?

Sumiko Arai: I started drawing at a younger age, but I always grew up with manga. I didn't really think that I would be doing this in the future. I just really liked the art and the pretty things in there, and I just tried to copy it and get better at it. So that was kind of my journey with art, and I think with comics, you know, a lot of Japanese kids aspire to be something like that. It's really, it's a really cool job. But I think what's really appealing about comics, in general, is that you feel more personal with all the characters because there's a visual attached to it. And that's how I felt.

I can retain information better. I feel like I can relate to the characters better because I see them visually, and I see their expressions; it kind of helps me out. I'm not a big book reader, you know? Even the most mundane kind of dialogue can be made into a very impactful scene just by it being paired with this expression of a character. That's what makes it beautiful.

Some moments are just completely different when you can see the reactions on the characters' faces compared to what you may envision if you're reading it in book form. That art really sticks with you. And there are certain visual images in manga and comic books that I think have almost become pop culture images that we all associate with.

Sumiko Arai: Oh yeah, for sure. Yeah. That's so cool.

Your manga has a unique publishing format, and each chapter is released in about four pages, which I think is how it originally debuted on social media. Is this format challenging for the storytelling that you come up with because you're restricted within four pages?

Sumiko Arai: So personally, I think that longer formats would be more intimidating for me now. I feel like I'm more used to the short format. I think it's kind of hard to put out four pages and be like, “Oh, please be sufficed by this.” Everyone wants to read a little more every week, but the challenge is that I have to cut a lot of dialogue or little details that I would put in there if it were longer. I have to make sure that it's short and concise and has a rhythm of its own, I guess, so that everyone can get the information and message they need from the chapter. But I think I like the format. I think even though it's kind of frustrating sometimes, to keep it short.

There are dramatic beats that the characters hit at various points. Is the format harder for that, or is it because it has its own rhythm already, and you're so accustomed to it that it works?

Sumiko Arai: Yeah, it works now. I think it was harder before, but I'm definitely more satisfied with it now.

Western music plays an important role in connecting Aya and Mitsuki. Is there a Western music album that played an important role in your life in a similar way? And is there an album you think you've listened to the most?

Sumiko Arai: So I grew up with a lot of foreign music because of my dad when I was little. He introduced me to Beck when I was a kid. And I really loved Beck's album Guero. It's the album with the white, red, and black cover. But it's really cool. I think that's the album that's my lifetime favorite.

But for music or albums that I've listened to a lot, like, front to back, I have a couple. Not necessarily rock, you know, I feel like I listen to other genres, too. Can I list them all?

Sure!

Sumiko Arai: I've always listened to the Beatles a lot, and Revolver is a big one, and Deftones. Around the Fur is a really good album. I think in my teen years, I listened to a lot of Half Moon Run, so Dark Eyes is a really good album. And a lot of Clairo. A lot.

Those aren't all rock bands, are they?

Sumiko Arai: I think some may be folk, kind of folky. I think Half Moon Run is a little more pop-folk. I mean, I'm kind of all over the place a little bit.

In your opinion, how can music benefit people who relate to Mitsuki? People who have a "different rhythm?"

Sumiko Arai: I think that when you're feeling a certain way, you feel like you can relate to this piece of music that someone you don't know wrote and have a shoulder to lean on a little bit. It's like a friend that you don't really have who understands it completely. I think in that way, it really does benefit you. But also, one song is all it takes for you to find a community that really likes the type of stuff that you like and can relate to. I think that's how music can be really beneficial.

It's a great way to connect people.

Sumiko Arai: Yeah, yeah. To find a community, you know, and see that you aren't really alone in this world at all.

Were you already a fan of yuri stories before you started The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't a Guy at All? What do you think makes yuri manga special?

Sumiko Arai: So I like yuri, but I was like always scouring the internet for any type of queer, like woman-loving-woman series or movies, because there really aren't much to watch. I've always been searching for something that I can relate to; I was a fan. I definitely saw a lack [of options] in it, so I wanted to make something to contribute, maybe. But just woman-loving-woman [media] in general is unique and special as it is, and I think that's what I love about it.

What were your feelings when it was announced that your manga would get an anime adaptation? Can you share if the color green might play an important role in the anime's visuals?

Sumiko Arai: I was very excited. Very excited. I really wanted to get the information out there to the readers because I had been seeing some people talk about it as something they wished would happen, and it's hard to know that information and not be able to say anything.

People are tweeting, “Oh, I hope this becomes anime,” and you know it will.

Sumiko Arai: Yeah, I was really pumped to get it out and to see everyone's reaction. It was very warm. That was great. Unfortunately, I can't say anything about the visuals at the moment, but I'm really hoping I can share some things soon.

Is there any importance to the specific songs that Aya and Mitsuki listen to together throughout the series? Do they represent a progression in their relationship?

Sumiko Arai: Yeah, I think some of them do. Some of them are just, you know, songs that they're listening to at that time and want to share with other people. But I think a lot of the time, I think about their headspace and what they're feeling at that moment, and try to find a song that fits them. Sometimes, stories come to me through listening to that song, and I think that's what's really special about this comic.

I saw they ended up making an official playlist for the series.

Sumiko Arai: It's on Spotify, Apple Music, and everything. That is the official playlist that I picked out the music for the series, but the premise is that the characters picked it, and I think that's what makes it kind of personal.

My last question is, what five music artists or songs are currently in your playlist?

Sumiko Arai: Okay, let's see. I am currently listening to Bloc Party and The Hives. I am also listening to Cream; I'm kind of all over the place.

Cream, Like Eric Clapton Cream?

Sumiko Arai: Yeah. And what else do I have? I have always loved Car Seat Headrest. They're gonna put their new album out soon, so I'm kind of pumped for that. And one more, The Cure.

The Cure is on permanent rotation, I think, right?

Sumiko Arai: Yeah, always, always.

The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't a Guy at All manga is available in English from Yen Press. Yen Press will release the third volume on October 25, 2025.

Disclosure: Kadokawa World Entertainment (KWE), a wholly owned subsidiary of Kadokawa Corporation, is the majority owner of Anime News Network, LLC. Yen Press, BookWalker Global, and J-Novel Club are subsidiaries of KWE.

[eighthwholove]

Eight + Cloister Room, Part One

Inspired by @silverfoxstole 's posts last week!

[patsvicr]

how do you find deleted fics?

i had a detailed post about this but i cant find it 😭 but essentially i use yandex which is a browser that allows you to see cached versions of urls (so you can see old versions of links and that way you can see fics that are gone); waybackmachine; or i check the folder of fics i downloaded myself

[aholefilledwithtwigs]

I hate that most people’s perception of data longevity on the internet is porn and tweets, because those are extreme outliers.

Yes it is incredibly hard to make a nude photo disappear after getting on a porn site— that data is backed up torrented and distributed like no other.

Twitter (or xxxTwitteRxxx) is still around, so stupid tweets from a decade ago still come up.

That weird flash site you remember spending hours on? Gone. The goofy page you made in highschool? Gone. That local bands first few demo tracks? Gone.

People keep pointing to the few things that do stick around, and distracts from how much is being lost constantly

[mrghostrat]

What is "litany in which certain things are crossed out" about? I've read some of Ayes' work for other fandoms and am v v curious 👀

sob idk why it hits me so hard in the gut!! but it's beautiful!! it's about aziraphale moving to a small town to start life over as a baker, and running into crowley EVERYWHERE. like he's asleep at the pub. he's coaching student basketball games. he's volunteering at the animal shelter. he's big brothering adam to prom. turns out that bitch got community service'd

he and aziraphale get closer but there's this feeling of impending doom as he approaches the end of his mandated community service hours, since it's p obvious he hates it there and is gunning to get back to london. it's also riddled with richard silken quotes and holy shit the whole thing is so beautiful it makes me whimper and i need to reread it asap

[quecksilvereyes]

one of my favourite crochet pattern makers just completely nuked her entire blog... cypresstextiles no pls come back...

[ilkkawhat]

this is killing me....so close.........yet so far

[uhhhhmanda]

couldn't find the artist but had to share this