Well, my attempt to get those images from that dead Tumblr blog has succeeded. I only found one of two image sets when I originally updated this entry.
A key part in this: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/browsing_history_view.html
Note: The necessity of this is only if part one is no longer accessible.
I'll explain how to do this in two separate parts.
First Part: The Backdoor
1. If the blog is dead, within 2 weeks you should still be able to get a cache of the most recent date of the blog's home page from either Google or Bing. When you get the page, the image section is discarded and replaced by some 404-type bullshit.
2. Right-click the page and go to "View Page Source".
3. Use the "Find" function with Ctrl+F and search for "photoset_iframe" or browse for it. The URL will look like this: http://[Username].tumblr.com/post/[Post Number]/photoset_iframe/[Username]/[Image Set Code]/500/false
Example: http://tumblr-user.tumblr.com/post/84542861205/photoset_iframe/tumblr-user/tumblr_n24utqAJYV1stf8x/500/false (Note: The image code always starts with "tumblr_".) This URL is still valid for the most part and will give you the image listing.
4. When you click any image, it will give you the "500" resolution. The file name at the end of the URL, in regards to the example, will look like this, "tumblr_n24utqAJYV1stf8xo1_500.png" The "o1" is the first image, and each next one in the set will give you "o2", "o3", etc. If you know there are other resolutions, such as the "1280" resolution, simply replace the "500" with it.
Note: This is for things which have clickable images that bring up larger resolutions. Otherwise, just use "Find" on the page source for the image URLs with either "media" or "png".
Part 2: Lack of Google/Bing cache.
Since the thought occurred to me to check the page source, it was already too late to get the cache from Google since they erased it at some point, and no one uses Bing, so they didn't have it in the first place; lel. I had originally been on the Google cache and had clicked the original link during the first check-through.
There are a few things about this. If you had been to the original page, downloading that thing up there is the best bet in order to check your full browsing history, regardless of what browser you're using. Google, Firefox and Internet Explorer separate themselves; this thing checks everything, including some other browsers. Luckily, I viewed both the original last page entry to the the blog as well as one image from the set. All I needed were the URLs at this point. It didn't even matter that they were dead.
Here's how to get the "photoset_iframe" of them in regards to the above example:
1. URL of last blog entry: http://tumblr-user.tumblr.com/post/95481265017/someone-found-the-images-lel
2. URL of one image: http://24.media.tumblr.com/6973e7c8fb25b9f732fd8c6c426e5771/tumblr_n78frgGLER5gen8xo3_1280.png (Note: The jumbled characters before the image file are irrelevant.)
3. Taking the parts in red: http://tumblr-user.tumblr.com/post/95481265017/photoset_iframe/tumblr-user/tumblr_n78frgGLER5gen8x/500/false
Extra: You could get these cached offline HTMLs/images by going into your browser cache folder and opening them. Mine were already gone as they get auto-deleted when you go to too many sites. There is a way to use "System Restore" to get these old cache files, but I have no "restore points" at all, because I didn't realize the entire thing was off. There is also a process in which you could use an "undelete" or "recover deleted files" software to go through the cache folder. I couldn't do that, because the process would take too long. Some wouldn't give any results at all, and one that looks like the only good one said "12+ hours remaining".
Oh, and I tried to use an example of someone's username that technically doesn't exist so it doesn't look like I'm mentioning anyone in specific; lel.
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