rainbow glitter and photo preservation

[asakiyume]

I thought I'd do a messages-in-bottles writing prompt tomorrow, which meant I needed to collect a bunch of bottles, so after work I just walked the main drag near where I live, and sure enough, turned up PLENTY of little nips bottles.

I cleaned them and covered them with glitter. Fingers crossed that the writing exercise goes okay.



I didn't post that image directly into Dreamwidth. I posted it to Flickr instead and then copied it from there into here. I pay for both my Flickr account and my Dreamwidth account, but Flickr is solely for archiving photos, and it has much more storage available, and this is an issue because in three months I'll cease to have a paid LJ account--I'll still crosspost there (for a while anyway), but there's no point in paying for both it AND Dreamwidth--which means I'll lose access to any photos that are stored there. That turns out to be quite a few photos, so right now I'm engaged in the cumbersome process of taking any images that were stored there and storing them here, instead. Otherwise, come May, bunches of entries will suddenly have little question marks where once they had pictures.

It's a weird process. I'm working backward from the present. As I do, I'm unlocking all my back entries, which somehow, when I poured LJ into Dreamwidth, came over as friends locked. It's kind of melancholy making. I'm only back in 2016, and I've had a journal since 2006.

I wonder what I'm doing, a little. Why does this even matter? ¯\(ツ)/¯

Comments

[ivy]

I wonder what I'm doing, a little.

You are bringing wonder and joy to the world. You are providing hope and magic at a time when the news is full of terrible things and a lot of people are tuning out because they can't even deal. You are fighting the good fight in a way that I think is beautiful. Thanks for that.

[asakiyume]

Thank you for the supportive words! I think I meant more, why am I bothering going back and saving the stuff. If all the links died, maybe that would be the more natural thing. But I guess I do want it to happen not quite yet. I don't know if that's really fighting the good fight or not--I feel like maybe **posting** is a part of fighting the good fight, but I don't know if preserving is. But the preserving gives me, and who knows, maybe others, the option of looking back and remembering, so...

[amaebi]

If half-heads from war memorials remain to puzzle future generations, let your photos also be peering from the sands.

[asakiyume]

I love this idea. "What's your Ozymandius [sp??] going to be?" I'm picturing all sorts of interesting things half buried in sand, now.

[amaebi]

:)