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So, there has been some weird shit going on with my Tumblr blogs recently. My old blog got deleted by Tumblr for no apparent reason; in between writing to Tumblr team and running around screaming, I created another one dedicated to Lovecraft alone. Now the old blog got resurrected just as suddently as it got deleted and I really don't know what to do next:

1) keep the new blog for Lovecraft posts and post about other fandoms in the old one
2) keep my old blog for all posts and delete the new one
3) post about Lovecraft in both blogs which probably would increase both the amount of chaos and order in the world

In any case, I'm really happy to see the old blog return - it had almost 1000 posts! There are some differences between my new blog and old one, and I probably won't abandon either of them, but I need to think what to do and reorganize some things if necessary.

So, my oldest Tumblr account got deleted yesterday and I have no idea why. I contacted the mods but got no answer so far. I can't come up with any reasons that aren't paranoid - was it because the account was registered on the .ru email? Nah, then there would be complains from other users who met the same fate and it would make it into the news. Was it because of the subject matter? The blog was dedicated mostly to all the things Lovecraft and maybe someone took offence with that and used some bullshit reason to send a complaint to the mods? Also unlikely - Lovecraft's reputation has been in the gutter in the recent years but not enough to be a reason for a ban.
Well, thankfully I also posted a lot of my texts from Tumblr on my Deviantart page and so they didn't get lost. I already made a new Tumblr blog which of course is also Lovecraft-themed, but I'm a bit afraid to inform my few lost followers about that - what if it was someone of them who got me banned? Can't trust anyone these days, tsk, tsk. Pity about the deleted blog - it had about 600+ posts and reposts about The Phantom of the Opera and the similar amount of these about Lovecraft. On the other hand, the new blog is tied to the same email that my Blake's 7 Tumblr, which makes it much easier to switch from one to another (I didn't know that you could do that when I created a new account for B7 posts). I also started reposting my texts on Twitter, in case something happens to my Deviantart account too.

I've finally finished this list which I started compiling in 2015. It's more a draft, because I'm planning to add things like publication/release dates, links to the stuff that is awailable online, collections for the short stories, and credit the authors of those descriptions that are not mine. Unfortunately, a lot of information here is taken from a thread on some forum that I can't find now, or even several of them (one was apparently a post in Silvia Moreno-Garcia's blog which may be not online now).

( the list )

I never planned to, but it seems that my interest in this website reached the critical point. I'm surprised how much I like writing for an internet encyclopedia - it seems that it has just the right mix of collective and individual contribution, of anonomity and visibility that I found suitable for myself. For now I'm writing and editing articles for Blake's 7 (being an older media fandom, it's one of the most extensively recorded at Fanlore), but I'm also thinking about writing about the Phantom of the Opera, which isn't that well-recorded there. The problem, of course, is that while I'm enthusiastic to explore Blake's 7 fandom at any point of its history, I don't want to even come close to large portions of the old POTO fandom archieves, which limits me to the 2010s and maybe the descriptions of the "time before that" that I heard from modern fans.

My Fanlore profile is here. I have a lot of plans, but not sure if I'll be able to carry them out.

I never could force myself to keep a stable diary. Perhaps I don't have much a need to share my thoughts with others, or perhaps I constrained myself too much with believing in that "if you can't say something interesting, don't say anything". So I ended up leaving behind several diaries and blogs, on paper and digital, always with not much content. It didn't bother me much, but recently I've found myself sharing quite a lot of my everyday life details on Discord servers and in conversations with other people in the Internet, going as far as almost using those forums as blogging platforms that I update when something interesting happens, and then I noticed that I like expressing myself this way and thought: why bother people when I have an empty personal blog? Besides, I've seen the post on Tumblr encouraging people to write about what's going on now, because we are living in the historical moment that will be studied a lot in the future (hopefully not by aliens exploring the dead civilization), so it gave me some additional motivation. Perhaps this blog will be active, with musings, reviews, memories and so on. Perhaps it won't be. Time will tell.

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