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As an FYI Pocket (aka/formerly ReadItLater) is being shut down. Apparently you can export your saves up until October 8th but then all user data will be deleted. I haven't used my account in years but when I saw the news I got it in my head I needed to go through the links and see what, if anything, was salvageable. I think I last really looked at it mid-2018 when I started compiling my useful links masterposts but I know I had done a *lot* with it early in my fandom career and had transferred a tons of saved links over when del.ic.ious went under (sighhhhh, remember delicious? That was such a great site.) and the account was from 2007 or 2008 or something so....

Oh my fucking god I have so many links there. Thousands upon thousands. Why I have it in my head I have to go through them all I do not know, but brain says what brain says. Hundreds of links to dead recipe blogs, hundreds more to deleted livejournals, tons of deleted ff.net and ao3 fics, lots of genealogy sites and other random research things that have gone *poof* but still. Hours upon hours spent clicking links so far and so many left to check/decide about.

And of course I am left with the... where to store these links now? There have been rumors swirling about tumblr dying (for years now, but recently they seem more serious) so I had been vaguely trying to get though favorited posts with links there in case it went under so obviously I'm not going to just transfer ReadItLater stuff there. I had moved a bunch of tumblr stuff to discord but there's been some grumblings that *that* isn't terribly long-term stable either so I should probably move stuff off there too but. Ugh and Grrrr.

For now I've been tossing stuff in a locked-to-me dreamwidth post. Eventually I'll have a good dozen or two new links to add to my useful things masterposts and I also did find some recipes to try and some comment-fic fills I might clean up and post so it hasn't been a complete waste of time but still. Not how I've planned to spend all my free time for a week+ with however many hours of it left to go.

I think I mentioned moths getting into some stored linens, well I finished my first rug with the resulting fabric strips:

35.5” by 23” give or take, green/blue plaid flannel sheet rug

I somehow managed to find some tumblr art to rec for recthething the last two weeks but I now have nothing stored up and no real thoughts so I'm kind of assuming my long streak of reccing there weekly is about to be over. Sigh. But here's art for Discword, Dracula, Hogan's Heroes, MDZS/The Untamed, SPN, Under the Skin, X-Files:

Discworld
- They did the job they didn’t have to do, and they died doing it (Animatic to Les Mis' Drink With Me)
- a take on how this priceless dialog happened on the old cemetery of Ankh Morpork one glorious 25th of May (really like the subtle emphasis on Vetinari's flower here)
- All The Little Angels Liber Chorum's take on the discworld song, along with sketches from Night Guard

Dracula
- I’ve been reading Dracula for the first time, im about halfway through, here’s my take on it so far: The polycule learns about monster hunting (hilarious comic)

Hogan's Heroes
- The Boys (amazing sketch of all of the allied characters)

MDZS/The Untamed
- Modern mdzs series - Wei Ying (Cute Modern AU version)
- On this Easter I would like to honour my favourite resurrected savour of man. (every so delightfully creepy)

SPN
- The Fallen Angel (gorgeous Cas)

Under the Skin | 猎罪图鉴
- Happy 520 from our favourite police crew (Everyone's so happy! I love it)
- If Shen Yi was portrayed as the real artist he is (this made me laugh, it's just too true)

X-Files
- if they looked at me like that I think I’d disintegrate on the spot (perfect expressions for Mulder and Scully here)