smorgasbord again no problem

[a_flyleaf]

Been a bit!

Mini boost first: Found via vriddy’s Community Thursday (A+ way to find new places to poke around here, btw), findingfriends is a neat community; a lot quieter than addme or addme_fandom, probably because the template is a very thorough questionnaire. Which I like a lot!! I will have to poke around there more some time.

Okay, we now return to your regularly-scheduled… uh, “whatever this person has been doing/thinking about lately.” Yes, that has an excellent ring to it. Very concise.

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ongoing writing struggle

Turns out there actually is a deadline, cool! Also turns out, even when I try ~public accountability~ things, my work process continues to be “get a lot of work done in an extended sitting or two, don’t touch it for several days between bursts.”

Uhh, I read more stuff on the 19th, wrote more a couple days ago finally, and everything’s still shaky but we’re getting there. Wanted to write more today, kept getting distracted, said I would either write or catch up on Dreamwidth stuff aaaaand here I am! Good use of time either way, and the evening’s still fairly young….

At any rate I am liking the rewrite and the direction it’s going now, and I have no idea how it’s going to turn out length-wise but it’s getting somewhere \o"/ Finished, Not Perfect…!!!

artstuffs

Still don’t know how I want to approach putting art here, but for the record, uploaded a couple drawings to my fansite between now and the last one. Art #1 is a comic which spoils the relationship between main characters & alludes to events which don’t occur until the latter half of the game, but it’s also in 90% Croatian so (assuming you won’t understand that) idek if it warrants a spoiler warning. If you have neither game nor linguistic context then you will simply see two people standing around talking, and the framing is ominous sometimes. Hooray!

Art #2 is a complete and total shitpost that calls for no context whatsoever. Very mild spoiler (loosely alludes to something you’d probably notice within an hour or two of playing, pace depending) in the description.

Bonus art, exclusive for you guys because while I’m here why not, has not been published in full yet. It’s a shitpost also but I like the faces specifically.

^These two own my brain a little, btw.

web design is my passion

I am very much aware that my current theme here, and default website layout (test page here, because it will inevitably change at some future point), is Empty Minimalism Hell. Part of this is because, during graphic design school, I started to see it as Peak Design (less the fault of the courses/professors, more on me being perfectionistic about everything); but I also genuinely like the clean look. It keeps your focus where it should be (The Content), and by extension lets The Content speak for itself.

However!! It's not like I don’t enjoy some degree of decoration, and as long as there’s no gifs or sparkly cursors (dear lord those grabbed me like a moth to flame on tumblr) I don’t find, say, the unconventional layouts of various Neocities sites too distracting. I’ve also been poking around the RP scene here, and damn am I impressed by some of the stuff people use for layouts! Like,,, !!!!!!

There’s no particular Point that I’m getting at here, really. Code Fun. And also, somewhat tangentially, I do want to tweak my journal theme to show various links that I steamrolled hid with impunity. Even though I’m still not crazy about the public reading list, the calendar and tag pages are pretty useful! And maybe when the tweakage happens I will get a little more ~personalized~ with it, like sticking in a giant fucking anime character that covers all the posts ahaha jk jk I wouldn’t do that to you guys :-)

maybe for April Fool’s or something—

(Pleasantly surprised that post still exists, btw. How does it only have 8k notes, it has made residence in my long-term memory because it is The Peak ~2015 tumblr theme experience.)

also, re:internet…

Did you know the internet is fucking scary, btw? Recently and without remotely trying I found the state a complete stranger lives in, just by browsing some of the stuff they’d posted—and this wasn’t someone whose About is a laundry list of personal information, either!! And earlier today, in search of a theme code source (over at style_system, for the curious), I tracked down the current accounts of someone who went inactive on LiveJournal years ago.

This was not hard, in either instance.

I feel like I shouldn’t have been able to do that.

And like, I know I overshared like a motherfucker years ago, and basically I’m just constantly reminded of this one tweet by Dreamwidth’s cofounder Denise (rahaeli @not-twitter, though I didn’t save the specific tweets in question) about how most people online are probably much, much easier to dox than they think they are.

There’s this one blogger I used to read, ms-demeanor, who posts about techy things and being smart about the internet—and also happens to use a selfie avatar and talked frequently about Actual Job and dog and such. When asked about this (not something I have a link to either), their response (as badly paraphrased in my memory) was essentially “they already have my info, might as well.”

I don’t even know, honestly. Internet is scary.

…And on that comforting note, this post’s current music features an old earworm :D If I could fit the capslock CSS in the box I would have titled it “Reeses Puffs Reeses Puffs”. Enjoy~!

Comments

[a_flyleaf]

Thank youuu \o/ Haha, the limited palette is largely a byproduct of me not wanting to spend 500 years on it, so I’m glad the colors that are used establish an atmosphere anyway! Basil is the one with the sunflower, so I think you got ’im right. And expressions are always fun~

Look, I’m not saying that it’s apparently entirely possible to make the anime girl layout from hell work on Dreamwidth, but you could absolutely pull off the anime girl layout from hell here on Dreamwidth (minus the cursor sparkles, anyway). CSS is magic :-)

Sometimes it just feels like the barrier of elbow grease (or lack of doing anything with the information) is really the only hoop to jump through to get personal information like that…

Pretty much, yeah >_> And it makes such a fine and ever-wobbly line to walk when it comes to disclosing stuff about yourself! It’s a pity more granular privacy options aren’t mainstream (e.g. only logged-in users can see X, only people on certain lists can see Y); wouldn’t undo any existing damage, but it’s really nice to have the options.