Anyway, it's solved now but it felt like I spent yesterday trying to revive a dead pet, then packing all the pet's stuff away in preparation for grieving, only to have my pet respawn from under the couch.

This weekend I will be adding a time capsule back up to my writing because new fear unlocked.

I still have to open Hypothesis to make sure it's all there and RIP me if it's fucked up.

Until Conjunx managed to find a single file updated up to 2023 that was almost at 500k words.

So I might have lost some stuff, but the bulk is there, and I do not have to grieve then move onto the acceptance phase that I have to try to write it all again.

I packed up my office. Took pictures off my walls. Emptied my bookshelf and realized just how many books I had read for research for Division, and it was slowly dawning on me that I didn't know if I'd be able to replicate it good enough from memory, and if I'd have to spend years doing it again.

At first I tried to treat it as a blessing in disguise. It freed me from all my attempts to finish it, dead directions I haven't sorted and deleted yet.

I was in shock and turning off my emotions for survival mode. When even Conjunx (a techie) even couldn't find anything or figure out what happened

“If the porn bots can find us,” Optimus said gravely, “then so can Soundwave.”

Frantically typing it in very rough notes then shoving it back because I am learning how to work on multiple projects while respecting the phase they are in and it is not in the finish phase.

I like the idea that mechs in the Pits of Kaon, or influenced by the civil war, developed the reverse of this part you shared: "the European etiquette wanted that men walked through a door before a woman to check if the place was safe"

Let others walk through first to see if it's not safe. XD

I took the photo of the empty glass (I think three years ago) for this composition, and have only now reached a point where drawing their helms at this angle didn't end up all lopsided 😅

My Pillowfort feed has gotten so much more hornier in the past 5 days. Nature is migrating.

I'm so happy to hear it landed! It was so devastating to write the lead up. Prowl has tried so hard.