Pour one for the WIPs, forever gone

[kat_lair]

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Yeah. Computer shop called. They only managed to save a 'handful of photos'. All my documents including any WIPs of fic or poetry from the last ~4 years (older ones I have copies of) are gone. As are most of my photos, including all the fannish ones, any WIP graphics, all my textures and resources, memes and notes of stuff I've watched that I wanted to post, fanvids...

Rending garments, smearing self with ashes, bawling into my drink.

Sigh. This certainly is one way to clear off the decks, if not my favourite one.

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In other news, pushkin666 and I baked muffins. Well she did. I did the shopping and dishes part. And then I made tuna lasagne for dinner.

Anyway.

Chorizo and red pepper muffins




Peanutbutter and chocolate chip muffins




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Comments

[naye]

Oh noooo I am so terribly sorry for your loss of all those documents! D:

[kat_lair]

Thank you :( Should've backed up stuff more regularly but... Sigh.

[yantantether]

That's so frustrating and crappy, I'm sorry! (Those muffins look *delicious*, I hope they were a very minor consolation.)

[kat_lair]

Thank you. I had a cry over it all but... I guess I'm okay right now? I think once I need/want something and then realise it was lost in the future it'll hit me again.

Muffins were delicious and were some consolation yes.

[trobadora]

Oh no, I'm so sorry for all your lost files! It's really terrible to lose WIPs that way. :(

[kat_lair]

Thank you... Some of the older ones I have backed up but some of the newer ones... nope. There weren't many, but still. Sad and despondent. Trying to distract self by writing other new things.

[trobadora]

That sounds like a good distraction! *cheers you on*

(I lost WIPs in a computer crash once, and I ended up just ... not writing for ages. Looks like you're doing better dealing with the loss - I hope that continues!)

[wpadmirer]

Oh, that sucks so much. This is why I have dropbox for my own work. I'm terrified of my computer crapping out on me and leaving me with nothing. (sigh)

[kat_lair]

Yeah, I had some of it in dropbox but not all... Sigh.

[shadowhive]

Oh no! That’s so awful, I’m sorry you’ve lost so much :(

Ohh yay muffins!

[kat_lair]

Very, very unhappy about it. Trying to distract myself by writing new things but...

Currently most annoyed about losing the doc I had of thoughts on having watched some series (like ST:Discovery) that I wanted to post. But nope, gone now.

[shadowhive]

Oh yeah, of course! I had a similar thing happen last year so I know your pain (and before that too). It’s always so awful though

*hugs* oh no!

[mekare]

GAH that‘s terrible! I really should back up my stuff... and those muffins are making me hungry.

[kat_lair]

Back up your stuff! I tell this to my students but didn't do it myself often enough when it came to personal things (all the work stuff on university servers so...)

[adafrog]

Oh no! {{{hugs}}}

[kat_lair]

Thank you, it sucks.

[moth2fic]

Oh nooooo!!! At least most of your fic output is on AO3. But your photos.... Some of them might be on DW/LJ? (*looks hopeful*) What about work stuff???

[kat_lair]

Yeah, some of the photos are on LJ/DW so there is that. I've lost some WIPs I'd quite like to have but nothing truly catastrophic... At least I don't think so at the moment, I do predict a lot of 'oh fuck' moments in the future when I suddenly miss something.

[moth2fic]

Total empathy/sympathy. It's like the stuff I lost in the fire - sometimes I don't realise until I want it! I do hope there isn't anything really important lost.

[spikedluv]

Fuuuck! I'm so sorry to hear that you lost almost everything! I've had that happen (and I still don't back up as frequently as I should), and it sucks huge donkey balls. *pours you another drink*

Tuna lasagna sounds similar to what we call tuna noodle casserole. (Tuna, egg noodles, cream of mushroom soup, milk, peas.) Any similarity?

Those peanut butter/choc chip muffins look soooo good!

[kat_lair]

Yeah... Have lots of old stuff on the external drive but not backed up anything for too long. Think will come across a lot of 'oh fuck' moments in the future when I want something and can't have it. Right now I'm not sure what I'm missing exactly...

Hmm, not quite on the tuna lasagne, though that version sounds delicious too. I make it just like a normal lasagne but instead meat sauce, I make it with tinned tuna. So tuna, onion, garlic and bell pepper in tomato sauce. Also layered in some spinach for greenery. And white cheese sauce and lots of cheese on top.

[spikedluv]

That sounds interesting. Aside from tuna salad (for sandwiches) I've only added tuna to the casserole or to my macaroni salad. I would never have even thought to add it to tomato sauce. I hope it was yummy!

[kat_lair]

It was, if you like tuna :D

[wendelah1]

Well, shit. That's a huge loss.

We all need to back up everything more often.

[kat_lair]

Yeah, not happy. But got a lot of the older stuff backed up and luckily didn't have any major WIPs on the go, like none that were for exchanges or challenges or anything like that.

[corvidology]

That's a lot of muffins!

Someone had to say it...

Sorry for the loss of your writing. :(

[kat_lair]

Heh yes, it has taken most of the week to eat the muffins and pushkin666 took half home with her as well.

Thank you. Coping...