Categories Blog Health Hiatus Personal

Back From ER – I’m On Hiatus

I just got back from the ER where I had to go early this morning because of the migraine. They managed to knock it down back a lot – not completely to get rid of it, that never happpens at anytime – and I’m currently feeling better. But it kinda feels like it might flare up again in hours/days because the sunny, hot weather will continue at least for the weekend and so there’s just too many triggers. So in an effort to avoid it going bad enough for another ER visit to become necessary, I’m going on hiatus.

I might do some Tubmlr edits or wallpaper stuff if I feel like it, but no fansites will get updates until I’m feeling I’m out of the immediate danger of it flaring badly.

Categories Blog Hiatus Personal Star Trek

Maybe A Hiatus For My Fansites?

Looks like the next 10 days are going into kill me already and be done with it territory with temperatures between 26-31 Celcius. This past weekend already nearly did me in. I’ll propably be on hiatus as far as all my sites go, until this stupid heat is over, however long that takes – two weeks, two months… who knows! I hope my fan keeps working, it’s six years old now and I worry it’ll break down just when I need it the most!

In breaking news, Jeri Ryan has apparently signed on Star Trek: Picard 😀 Here’s hoping it’s a meaty role, not just a cameo!

Categories Fansite news Information

Closing The Vampire Diaries Site

I’ve made the decision – I will close https://www.thevampirediaries.info on July 10, 2019 when the domain expires. See the previous post for reasons why.

I’m giving blanket permission to upload the stuff at https://www.thevampirediaries.info to other sites, on the condition that you credit Ariane of so-obsessed.com as the source.

Details for reasons why are in a previous post:

Maybe Closing Down The Vampire Diaries Site

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Server Problem With A Few Sites

EDIT – this is fixed!

Some sites are experiences 500 Internal Server Error:

My host posted on Twitter that there was a short downtime not 30 minutes ago, and that the server didn’t recover/restart automatically. I’m going to wait a bit and see if the issue is fixed; if not, I’ll open a support ticket. I’ll update this post when everything’s working again.

Categories Fansite news Information

Maybe Closing Down The Vampire Diaries Site

I might be closing my The Vampire Diaries site when the domain expires on July 10, 2019. I’m seriously leaning in that direction.

It’s a big site, takes up a lot of my mental energy due to having to worry about it due to sheer size – and I do know already that if there’s another server and/or host disaster in which I might lose some/all content, or have to transfer my sites to yet another host… I no longer have the will or the energy to do all that work yet again with this particular site.

I haven’t yet made the final decision. I still like having this site (even if I don’t love it anymore) so it’s a hard one to make. I also kind of hate the thought of closing the site down so soon after completing the gallery 🙁 So I’m also considering the option of renewing the domain for one more year and then closing down in a year if I still feel like that.

Anyway, that what’s going on with me. Wanted to give you a heads-up just in case I end up not renewing, so you’d have as much time as possible to download everything you from here.

 

I’d also be open to adoption – if you want to adopt my TVD site, I’d be happy to give it to you along with the domain name. Just get in touch with me at intotheshadows@gmail.com and we’ll talk.

Star Trek TNG Bluray Screencapping Complete
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Star Trek TNG Bluray Screencapping Complete

I finished screencapping Star Trek: The Next Generation from Bluray a few days ago! Including all seven seasons and all four TNG movies. Frankly I didn’t actually think this day would ever come! It was such a daunting task, which was made hugely easier when last year I upgraded my internet connection to a better one that came with a significant upstream upgrade too! 😀 Since that upgrade, uploading one episode’s worth of screencaps only takes about 5-10 minutes 😀 Contrast that to an hour  which it always took before from about 2010 onwards, and two to three hours the decade before that. Gotta love advance in technology!

Anyway, I always felt/thought/kept hoping that by the time I finished (if I ever finish) capping TNG, DS9 and maybe even VOY would be remastered in HD and out on Bluray and that I’d just continue on with DS9 Blurays. BUT, and I can’t believe this, but neither DS9 nor VOY have been remastered in HD! There aren’t even rumours!

I can’t believe it. What are TPTB thinking?! I think that DS9 and VOY will be totally forgotten if they aren’t released in HD – people aren’t going to be wanting to see anything in SD anymore in the future, I know I already don’t if there’s an HD option. Except maybe the hard core, mostly already existing Star Trek fans, who’ll bitterly make do with SD and DVDs. There’ll be no new viewers because even if the shows are on Netflix etc. quality will be so low compared to remastered in HD Star Trek and currrent, modern shows that I don’t believe casual viewers, who could turn into fans, are willing to give SD-only shows a chance. I just really think they’re are in danger of wasting a huge chunk of the Star Trek property by not remastering DS9 and VOY in HD.

Also, the Jeri Ryan fan in me wants to see 7of9 really, really badly in HD. It’d be glorious.

Reminder – Crystal Fires Gallery Shuts Down!
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Reminder – Crystal Fires Gallery Shuts Down!

Just a quick reminder – https://gallery.crystalfires.net will shut down in a coupleof days on May 11th when the domain expires! I imported my magazine and photoscans here, but all the screencaps will be gone once the domain expires. So make sure to get anything you want now! And if you want to upload any of the screencaps on your site, you have my permission – just credit me, and if possible, I’d love a note where they are up so I can direct people that way! But that’s not mandatory, only crediting me is mandatory.