When I was little, I did a bunch of stopmotion and photos on an old phone my mom gave me. Little bro factory reset the phone by thinking the pattern was cool to mess up (it was swipe patter and the dots lit up whenever you swiped) so all of my first stopmotion is forever lost. How about you?Any personal media you've lost to the sans of time?
Professional highschooler, aspiring artist. Made a website recently. millab.neocities.org/
My old diaries and art. My family moved a lot and it was hard to hold onto a lot of stuff (my parent would also "make" things disappear sadly). Tons of art-again, if parent didn't like it, it "disappeared" while I was out at school. Some sample anime DVDs I had from magazines-I used to sneak them when my parent wasn't home, some anime handouts. I hid as best I could but parent eventually found those too. Also this really cool "animal dictionary" thing I made with fancy magazine clippings. I was quite animal crazy as a kid and even wanted to be a "archeologist" or "paleontologist," misspelled since I was like 6 of course. Finally, some Seuss themed book called like "All About Me" or something like that. Similar to my diaries.
My old diaries and art. My family moved a lot and it was hard to hold onto a lot of stuff (my parent would also "make" things disappear sadly). Tons of art-again, if parent didn't like it, it "disappeared" while I was out at school. Some sample anime DVDs I had from magazines-I used to sneak them when my parent wasn't home, some anime handouts. I hid as best I could but parent eventually found those too. Also this really cool "animal dictionary" thing I made with fancy magazine clippings. I was quite animal crazy as a kid and even wanted to be a "archeologist" or "paleontologist," misspelled since I was like 6 of course. Finally, some Seuss themed book called like "All About Me" or something like that. Similar to my diaries.
Oh, that's horrible!
Professional highschooler, aspiring artist. Made a website recently. millab.neocities.org/
When I was little, I did a bunch of stopmotion and photos on an old phone my mom gave me. Little bro factory reset the phone by thinking the pattern was cool to mess up (it was swipe patter and the dots lit up whenever you swiped) so all of my first stopmotion is forever lost. How about you?Any personal media you've lost to the sans of time?
Well there was a lot of weird videos that I did over the years on my devices that I couldn’t save or deleted for reasons
My old diaries and art. My family moved a lot and it was hard to hold onto a lot of stuff (my parent would also "make" things disappear sadly). Tons of art-again, if parent didn't like it, it "disappeared" while I was out at school. Some sample anime DVDs I had from magazines-I used to sneak them when my parent wasn't home, some anime handouts. I hid as best I could but parent eventually found those too. Also this really cool "animal dictionary" thing I made with fancy magazine clippings. I was quite animal crazy as a kid and even wanted to be a "archeologist" or "paleontologist," misspelled since I was like 6 of course. Finally, some Seuss themed book called like "All About Me" or something like that. Similar to my diaries.
Jesus I’ve seen you mentioning how horrible your parents were and I just would like to say that I’m really sorry that you had to go through that
My old diaries and art. My family moved a lot and it was hard to hold onto a lot of stuff (my parent would also "make" things disappear sadly). Tons of art-again, if parent didn't like it, it "disappeared" while I was out at school. Some sample anime DVDs I had from magazines-I used to sneak them when my parent wasn't home, some anime handouts. I hid as best I could but parent eventually found those too. Also this really cool "animal dictionary" thing I made with fancy magazine clippings. I was quite animal crazy as a kid and even wanted to be a "archeologist" or "paleontologist," misspelled since I was like 6 of course. Finally, some Seuss themed book called like "All About Me" or something like that. Similar to my diaries.
Wow that really sucks, as bad as my dad could be he never personally went after any of my stuff(probably cause he knew if he did i'd mess with his stuff too out of spite and he had a lot of dangerous stuff like guns and chemicals that wasn't meant for kids to be around and if I did mess with it mom would've been pissed at both of us) and i'm very grateful that i've never once had to move and i'm still living in the same house I was born in(same bedroom too).
My old diaries and art. My family moved a lot and it was hard to hold onto a lot of stuff (my parent would also "make" things disappear sadly). Tons of art-again, if parent didn't like it, it "disappeared" while I was out at school. Some sample anime DVDs I had from magazines-I used to sneak them when my parent wasn't home, some anime handouts. I hid as best I could but parent eventually found those too. Also this really cool "animal dictionary" thing I made with fancy magazine clippings. I was quite animal crazy as a kid and even wanted to be a "archeologist" or "paleontologist," misspelled since I was like 6 of course. Finally, some Seuss themed book called like "All About Me" or something like that. Similar to my diaries.
Wow that really sucks, as bad as my dad could be he never personally went after any of my stuff(probably cause he knew if he did i'd mess with his stuff too out of spite and he had a lot of dangerous stuff like guns and chemicals that wasn't meant for kids to be around and if I did mess with it mom would've been pissed at both of us) and i'm very grateful that i've never once had to move and i'm still living in the same house I was born in(same bedroom too).
Yeah it really hurt, not that I would hung onto a lot of it anyway (I donated a LOT of old nerd magazines on my own later, I had read them so many times and didn't have room). People forget that "nerd chic" (or at least, a toleration or even affinity for nerdy interests) is fairly a modern phenomenon, and people didn't really "get it" when I was primarily growing up.
It seems strangely wistful and personal, but the old text messages/emails between my first "major boyfriend" and me. It was an older phone, I didn't back anything up (and I'm pretty sure he didn't) and we've been no contact for over 10 years now. I was just thinking of the fun long distance conversations we would have. No, I'm not stuck on him, I'm not pining for him, I'm not hoping to rekindle anything, I'm not still "missing him" or anything like that, I just got a certain vibe from our interactions and it would be fun to see what we rascals were up to then. Ain't never being found though.
I had a HALO notebook from 7th grade that I used for a couple of months. I left it at school and this lead to a series of unfortunate events that I would rather not talk about. Note that I wrote a dark story in there and it led to a misunderstanding so that's all you need to know. Last time I saw it was on Zoom as a photo in January 2023. I rather it stay Lost and hopefully destroyed.
I have some my first 3D renders of the Blender donut tutorial I was doing somewhere on the various hard drives in my house. I feel I should keep them as a keepsake.
A couple voice acting auditions I made last month for an upcoming object show. They were both a little over a minute long, with the first one being lines given to me, with minor improv, and the second one was 100% improv, and even had a bit of a storyline in which my character got arrested by two police officers (the footage of which I sourced from “The Second Stand-Up Comedy Written By Bors”), and then roasted them, prompting the two to arrest themselves. I since deleted both of them from my camera roll, so unless the two discord users i sent them to saved them, they’re gone forever.
(I’ll explain the full thing in DM’s if anyone’s interested, there’s much more to the story. Let’s just say that Crumbelievable’s response to my post in one of the good news/positivity threads (“good on you for finding your people”) didn’t age so well.)
In the mid 2000s, I was working on a game in Unreal engine I called "E.L.I.T.E" (I don't remember what the acronym stood for) but it involved an organisation trying to help restore things after an accidental pandemic that was caused when a lab exploded, flooding the air with a contagious pathogen. I had made several maps in the game for places including Paris in France, China, a base in Antarctica and had plans for Japan levels and drivable vehicles. I wrote an tire backstory for it and storyline and had even made a number of assets for the game.
I ended up shelving the game at the time as my PC wasn't really fast enough to create the game and I didn't have enough coding skills to do all I wanted. I was going to start working on it when I had a faster PC and more coding experience but I eventually lost 99% of it, including the modified Unreal Engine 2 editor I was using to make the game. I just have a few textures, meshes and a couple of unfinished music tracker files I made.
I also had a year or mores worth of photos and videos I took in 2009 on an external hard drive that stopped working. As I didn't back it up, I lost all of those and whatever other files were on the drive. I was helping to do research on butterfly migration at the time and would have liked to have kept those files. Since then, I have been really careful about backing up everything so that doesn't happen again.
Post by angiefoodcake on Jul 21, 2024 19:26:03 GMT
I am starting to binge random Sesame Street clips and I suddenly miss my baby Big Bird plush which is the only remaining items from my toddler days. I think he's somewhere in the house but my mom and siblings lately did a big cleaning spree which I fear he might've been tossed.
Post by mahoganyshyster on Oct 2, 2024 3:53:07 GMT
Around 2017, I began deleting a lot of my early online drawings (we're talking 2013-2014) because of how embarrassed I felt about their quality (it was mostly fanart and fan character based drawings; it didn't help how I drew all of it on an old computer and I was inexperienced with using the computer mouse to draw so everything came out clunky). A couple of years later when I started to feel nostalgic over my old art, I realized that I could have privatized my drawings. Unfortunately, I heard that nowadays it is difficult to restore deleted posts to your account.
History would repeat during January 2024, when I was moving my college stuff from my apartment to my family home. My mom had me and my sisters clean up my room. At one point, I found a red binder containing old drawings I made when I was around 6 - 10. I ended up throwing it away out of embarrassment. Having remembered this today, I feel guilty over throwing away something that represented by first attempts at drawing.
10/23/2024 UPDATE: One of my sisters found a red binder that she said belonged to me. I double checked and it appears that the red binder is indeed the same one I mentioned in this post. Now I'm starting to wonder if I threw away the red binder but she saved it from the trash or if I only imagined/misremembered myself throwing it away (my memory has gotten kinda spotty since the late 2010s).