time for my thrice-yearly laptop-to-seagate-hdd backup. hopefully my laptop will find the backup disk eventually
right as i posted this the light on the hdd died. is that good
nevermind its on and spinning again. we're so back

opinions my own and objectively correct. i frequently edit posts in the first 10-or-so minutes of their life as i remember other things i wanted to say
time for my thrice-yearly laptop-to-seagate-hdd backup. hopefully my laptop will find the backup disk eventually
right as i posted this the light on the hdd died. is that good
nevermind its on and spinning again. we're so back
time for my thrice-yearly laptop-to-seagate-hdd backup. hopefully my laptop will find the backup disk eventually
right as i posted this the light on the hdd died. is that good
time for my thrice-yearly laptop-to-seagate-hdd backup. hopefully my laptop will find the backup disk eventually
i used to be big on autobio in comics, and i still am in many ways (i do hourly comics day, some of my favourite comics are autobio like gray folie & co's folie a dupe or kate beaton's ducks or ira prince's mental health-related comics, i used to do daily diary comics, shaggy dog story started as thinly-veiled autobio about being forced by circumstance to grow out my hair + coping with dog grooming vids, etc) but for the past, i wanna say 3-4 years if not longer, i keep feeling a kneejerk "no that's cringe and narcisisstic, you're not THAT important or interesting" reaction whenever i think about trying to put my own experiences or feelings down into an explicitly autobio comic.
rechosting this again bc i was poking around Indie Comics Bluesky now that bluesky is open to public viewing and saw someone had read rotten which i bring up in this post. them + their followers' response to it seemed to be "i liked this comic, but it felt preachy and patronizing and projecting their own bad experiences onto others, i was a gorehound as a kid and i turned out fine1" which i feel ties back into my points in the above bloge post re: artists and writers in my general prospective-arts-area having a negative reaction to anything they find trite or "puritan", especially autobio.
but also, because it feels like these people are having a kneejerk reaction to something they percieve as moralizing and projecting, assuming that its message is "i almost ruined my life by being a gorehound and you should avoid it because you could ruin your own life with it too", when the actal conclusion of the comic that i took away from it was "the thing that made me snap out of my gorehound phase was the realization that the stuff i was looking at was a profound, existential, and exceedingly final violation of the autonomy and dignity of the people who've died and their loved ones by putting their final moments out into the world to be used as a pissing contest of who can consume worse and worse gore content which has a tangible effect on the empathy of the people most invested in keeping it around"
the jump from "this kind of content tangibly hurts/is derived from the literal murder of other people and is violating to even let exist let alone consume" to "wah wah i'm being told by an internet rando that i'm hurting myself with the content i consume! they're just projecting/moralising!" is a fascinating microcosm of a lot of online discourse lmao
20-hour-later edit: i just realized that the complaints about this comic “moralizing” are even funnier once you consider the fact that the author in question has drawn/written thousands of pages of a comic series of/about gore, murder, sexual assault, torturing people from outright neo-nazis to guys who are mildly annoying, and more, and literally in gorehound talks about how his time in the Gore Site Trenches has affected his horror writing and art. my [redacted] in christ you are complaining about someone who is the Epitome of Weird Freak Shit that you so claim to love. perhaps look inward
lol, lmao even