dragonlady7

I decided to pay for Flickr so I could host images there since the limit on here is way too low for me, and promptly just... stopped uploading photos ever. But I finally got my shit together enough to install the Flickr app on my phone.
It's hard to find any way to upload photos from my phone. The thing it wants me to do is Enable Auto-Uploadr.
But there's no real info about what that feature actually does. If it just automatically uploads every photo I take on my phone? No thanks! Guess what! Sometimes I take photos on my phone that I don't want instantly made publicly available on the internet. I photograph receipts to submit them for verification of sales data to manufacturers; the receipts necessarily include customer information, usually only names and phone numbers but that's still too much. I take photos of memes. I take photos of the back of my stockings to make sure my skirt's not tucked into them. I take photos of my boobs to text to my dude in the middle of the day because it's funny and/or sexy and that is the kind of thing I like to do with my own body and my own relationships.

I don't need Flickr to back up literally everything on my phone, I already use Dropbox to do that. (I have a free account. It automatically saves everything. Then I go through once a month or so and move everything to a folder on my hard drive. Because I don't fucking trust the Cloud, and also there's literally no need for that. If I needed instant access to a photo from any device, it's probably a recent one I took.)
(Oh, it automatically uploads it and marks it "private". Nope, that's not what I want to use Flickr for: the point is that it hosts images, not that it archives my personal data. And how good are their privacy settings??? I don't want this. I want a button I can press to upload things I designate as wanting to upload! What a pain.)

But anyway. Here are some random photos I manually uploaded to Flickr because I wanted to post about them.

New jewelry from my BFF-- dragon earrings and a great dino skeleton necklace. She looked for mammoth things but couldn't find any. I'm going to have to make my own, I just don't know how yet. (I guess I could embroider earrings?)

I'm trying to steer clear of stuff I've put on Instagram, but Instagram doesn't automatically crosspost here and actually back when it used to it kind of didn't work right, so really I should manually archive all that stuff by reuploading the images to Flickr and reconstructing the captions here. I just don't trust Instagram at all, they're not in the slightest bit interested in their users, just like all for-profit organizations-- but neither is Flickr, none of them are, so what am I to do?
Anyway I did put this one on Instagram but I'm putting it here too because it's cute:

Me and

unicornduke visiting Shark Girl! (That fucking statue, it's a legal obligation that if you visit Buffalo you have to take a picture with it, it was supposed to be a temporary installation but the art museum that put it there has to obey the new law of the universe that everyone has to take a photo with it, so they haven't been able to take it down. The law wasn't written, by the way, it's not in any actual legal codes, it's just a Law of the Universe now, our hands are tied.)

My mom made me these fingerless gloves from a kit she bought at the Sheep & Wool Festival and they're great and at the moment I have left them in the pockets of some garment or other and can't find them and am sad.
I can never hang onto fingerless gloves in any meaningful way. I mean, I don't lose them, I always find them again, but not when my hands are cold, so that's sad. I need like. An extra-dimensional pocket to keep fingerless gloves in.

And oh-- here's the wordcount thing from the Uprooted ficlet I was working on. The total wordcount is how much I wrote; the wordcount of the selection is how much I'm actually going to post. Depressing, no? But I feel like maybe i've unblocked myself. We'll see.