Treat anything on Discord as media that will be lost

Do not use Discord to host your files. Do not rely on Discord to preserve your text. DO NOT RELY ON DISCORD FOR ANY KIND OF PRESERVATION OR HOSTING!!

It CAN be lost, it WILL be lost! You must consider Discord as a part of the Core Internet, controlled by one company that hosts the servers.

I thought it was impressive at first that it replaced IRC, but now I am horrified. If the company behind Discord went under today, how many friends would you lose?

How many relationships? How much writing?

You may think this won't happen, but I remember when AIM went down and along with it, entire novels worth of interaction with my oldest friend.

IT CAN HAPPEN TO YOU. IT WILL HAPPEN AGAIN. NO COMPANY IS INFALLIBLE.

Back up your files! Download anything you've saved to Discord NOW, before the API changes go into effect! And DO NOT RELY ON THEM FOR HOLDING IMPORTANT FILES!

Here is a program that lets you download any and all of your discord DMs, your servers, everything. You can set the format (raw text, html (dark and light), and others. You can even download the uploaded files not just the text, though that may be just for the command-line version not the GUI window version.

Please back up your conversations, your stories. I have a backup of everything I care about that runs once a week, with full attachment backups every several months. I write stories on discord, and would be devastated if someone happened to them. You have to have your own local copies of every file you care about.

actually your characters should be pure wish fulfillment and your writing should be entirely self indulgent and it should all be very, incredibly, undeniably horny.

(i Will go back to everlasting haitus if that GFM slows down too much btw, seeing it to its goal ASAP is my primary focus right now)

every once in a while you just gotta go "This Reality Is Not Acceptable" and put yourself all in on one cause and not let up on it until it is done, to make sure at least one fact of that unacceptable reality, changes. at least one more tragedy avoided.

that is what i have chosen to do here.

i'll admit i'm not especially good at drawing more realistic portraits/people, but i took a crack at it for this. in the back of mind, is the thought: i want to be able to draw a proper family portrait for them a year from now, if they'd like one, and have nobody suddenly be missing from it.

donate, boost, share the GFM yourself on any platforms you may have/on websites i'm not on, in your community servers, anywhere sympathy and action can be found. please.

As of this update, April 11th, the GFM is at 42k out of 60k, but traffic has starting slowing down the past 48 hours, so I’m nudging more again with that status! Please let’s get this the rest of the way to the goal ASAP!

they don’t just need out, the whole family, including the kids, need prompt medical care! I urge anyone reading these words to help however they can, please, peace, and thank you 🕊️ 🍉

As of this update, April 14th, the GFM is at 46k out of 60k 🕊️ 🍉

As of this update, April 17th, the GFM is at 51k out of 60k, almost there, home stretch! let's get it, please! 🕊️ 🍉

As of this update, April 19th, the GFM is at 52.7 out of 60k 🕊️ 🍉

As of this update, April 22nd, the GFM is at 54.2 out of 60k 🕊️ 🍉 Is there a chance we can get it to the goal by the end of this week (or sooner, if something wild but wonderful happens)? I do hope so

As of this update, April 25th, the GFM is at 57.1 out of 60k 🕊️ 🍉 less than 3k away! please help/be part of getting it to the goal at last, you guys will have collectively done it!

They are almost to the last 1K!

OUR BNW BABES what else to say

Furry Midna Strikes again

For real I think a lot of people say they like, make their characters suffer and put them in tough situations but it's 99% external forces. You need to make those cunts mess up. You need to make them embarrass themselves. You need to have them be impulsive and mean and too uncomfortable to apologize. You need to stop your impulse to excuse them or redeem them at every turn. And most importantly you need to let them suck at things so badly it's uncomfortable to watch.

compiling all the posts I've tagged as peter hammill

im cleaning out my camera roll so im just gonna be dropping random pham photodumps

ok final part. you've been hammilled

Baby girl you are so scary

Listening to van der graaf generator i wish there was a way to fuck music

that little freak needs to stop singing so good it's frankly having a deleterious effect on me

Gonna start describing my autism this way

tma is funny cause season 5 sucks. it sucks all of the cool things out of it. i love jon because i am a slut for sad british men. it prepped me for getting into vdgg which is what tma wishes it could be. edwin is based off of a design i had for jon that i turned into its own thing.

i love the horror vibes and the characters. ending sucks. realized i liked horror a lot through it. will never listen to a podcast again. i think more british people should be audibly tortured, thats fun

that episode where martin gets into the Lonely territory and starts forgetting the people around him is literally just diet A Louse Is Not a Home.

the lonely's avatar is a seaman.... A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers.

Pioneers over C, the episode about being lonely in space. again. VDGG did it first.

but i'll still say that peter hammill is the most Lonely Avatar any human being could be, because sometimes categorizing things is fun.

this man could narrate the magnus archives and it would be insane.

tma is funny cause season 5 sucks. it sucks all of the cool things out of it. i love jon because i am a slut for sad british men. it prepped me for getting into vdgg which is what tma wishes it could be. edwin is based off of a design i had for jon that i turned into its own thing.

i love the horror vibes and the characters. ending sucks. realized i liked horror a lot through it. will never listen to a podcast again. i think more british people should be audibly tortured, thats fun

that episode where martin gets into the Lonely territory and starts forgetting the people around him is literally just diet A Louse Is Not a Home.

the lonely's avatar is a seaman.... A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers.

Pioneers over C, the episode about being lonely in space. again. VDGG did it first.

but i'll still say that peter hammill is the most Lonely Avatar any human being could be, because sometimes categorizing things is fun.