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minor mid-month updates

2024 nov 12

what's new with the site? current main projects:
  1. set up art page
  2. set up ocs profiles
  3. weekly game journal entries

a lot of cleanup for today's updates, mostly. and a lot of it on the backend, too! overall, i've made searching, sorting, and editing all easier for me to do; there's still some things i'd like to change, but for now, this should make doing things like uploading images or adding new characters to my oc page much easier.

and speaking of ocs, i finally bit the bullet & made a mobile theme for everyone's profiles. not too hard of a task, surprisingly ( thank you, past me ) and one step closer to the site being accessible on as many platforms as possible, so i'm pleased. the main site still isn't really mobile friendly, hilariously, so i better get to that ... eventually ...
anyway, there are some things i still want to mess around with in the profile layouts themselves, but for now, they should have better readability & clarity for what information is there. i also finally filled out the quotes / dialogue sections for the folks who currently have readable profiles ... i'm very, very bad at writing dialogue, but it's something i need to get better at, so ... enjoy, i guess!!!

final notes: 1) i would like to start writing game reviews again, as the last time i did that was months ago. no reason i haven't, just keep getting distracted or running out of time. and 2) my art page is complete & functional, and i expect to deploy it within a few weeks. so look forward to seeing both of these things! and if i can will myself to, i will include individual updates to these in my RSS feed. ( speaking of my RSS feed ... i might start being lazy & remove the date & time of each entry. it makes updating it annoying, and again, for something i don't really think anyone is using, any extra effort makes it that much harder for me to find the willpower to keep updating it. don't be mad ... ok? )

what's new with me?

not much since the last entry. we had our first power outage of the year a few weeks ago, which thankfully happened during the morning & only for a few hours; however, as i write this, we are expected to receive another intense windstorm in a few hours which might knock it out again ... but we're prepared. so even if it'll be boring, we'll be fine. ( we did manage to get a generator hooked up! but we don't have much fuel for it ... )

i've found drawing to be very difficult lately. and by lately, i do mean months ~ years. i just can't draw as much as i used to, and i struggle to find the motivation to keep going, especially when i try to draw & find i've lost what skills i had ... it's very demoralizing. i'm trying not to wallow & fall even further into agony, but it's hard. i want to try doing small studies every day, if i can, and try to build my stamina & passion back up. i've long abandoned the notion that i need to be "good" at art, but i still can't help but compare myself to others & pine for greater ability. oh well ... practice, practice, practice ...

i joined bluesky -- the twitter clone -- in a kind of desperate attempt to reconnect with friends & maybe get some attention on art that i've been missing since functionally leaving socmeds. no one is too active there yet, though, and there are not enough features to discourage randos from being strange on your posts, sooo ... i'm actually kind of hating it. unsurprisingly. but i'll stick with it for a bit ... see if i can't warm up to it ... idk ...

anyway ... that's it, really. not too much today, just a quick little update before i forget all i've done. gonna keep grindin' on my main projects, and hopefully i'll see you all again soon with some fun news to share. take it easy~