aid's little corner

i finally got one of those embedded guestbooks made from javascript to work on my little site, i've been wanting one for a long while (cause last time i did it was when i first began my actual main site, and it wouldn't let me do it as a non-supporter)

now that i have supporter i thought it'd be nice to actually do a proper guestbook this time (and i got in bechnokid's calendar, but i cannot be assed to do css prettying up right now)

(also that's my bongo cat bahaha, i got a halloween outfit for now)

jesus it's been almost 2 months since i've last done one??? to be fair, work has kinda sucked me out of energy to log things more consistently, at least ... i don't think i began this on sept 2st (probs later) but i cannot be assed to remember

YouTube Videos

• WTF is up with Silly Putty? | Cool and fun video about the history and weird ass properties of silly putty!!
• Use a Notebook When You Play Minecraft (seriously) | I love learning about journals and mixing them with games!! I did have this video saved as well, but it's a system I know I could not maintain ... this video hits more of a simple journaling method to remember what you did in a game, and it was fun to listen to
• We Can Fix It (fixing old toys) | AUGHHH as someone who LOVES my plushies it means so much to see a service made for fixing them?? Or remaking them if they truly are just very hard to fix, and doing a 1:1 job if they can ...
• I Updated Albedo's 3D Model | What it says on the tin, but it's neat to see someone's actual modelling process for changing his model + the struggles tied with it
• Bad Apple but if you pause it's just apples | I mean title says it LMAO
• Minecraft in Skyrim, Skyrim in Minecraft | Actually fuckin whack in the coolest of ways to merge two games together like this, and they’re both vanilla
• Schrodinger's Neurodivergence | What a neat coverage that the deficit model (or when someone breaks) is what's often used to diagnose and never any positives that can come out of it (like pursing deeply what you love)
• The Fun System that makes ADHD brains WANT to work | Eh, nothing I've had a chance to put into practice yet, but that kinda sounds like a fun, more novelty way to track habits. Had I not had Finch and no feasible physical way to do it, I might've considered it
• Project Hail Mary's Sound Designer Breaks Down Rocky's Voice | SO COOL ... I need to still finish the entire video, but even the bit I've seen is so neat to see the process and the love and thought put behind it!!!
• how to build your own little internet | Considering we're all on Dreamwidth, I think we're already carving out a hole, but it's nice to see more videos tackling ways to de-couple from social medias and talking about RSS feeds as well
• Sims 2 Remastered | What a cool project!!!! It's funny cause I just installed the remastered version not long ago, but I'm glad to see people taking their own hammers to this game
• Pokemon Emerald 3DS | Also another cool game project but bringing emerald to the 3ds and using the "3d sprite" aesthetics like XY had and a LOT of little goodies

Articles

• internet safety for kids / a love letter to the internet | Hard to summarize my thoughts in full but it's an article I've been nodding my head to ... the internet, although messy, also breaks you out of a bubble that you may have been stuck your entire life lived in (parents dictating what you believe in, the community, etc)

( artwork )

lavender is a blessing cause they've drawn a handful of my blorbos for ychs........ and she's made my rentry layout too!!! tho i think that's retired now

i gotta... make more icons to use, i'm just so used to making them have an Emotion tied to it

damn, i wasn’t active on it but i still had a subscription to support them in some way cause i know sites can be a Lot… man. i know sites need a lot of support and infrastructure and costs going into that and reading thru with the burnout associated with it… :(

rip pillowfort, you were a good one and i know many people loved you… i gotta see if i can find some more oomfs in other places/if they move to dreamwidth :(

now that i'm hosting two personal sites, i'm torn on what i wanna keep on the big site, what's on the little site, and what can be mirrored on both ...

big site

• bookmarks/recs
• templates
• shrines??

little site

• listfauxgraphy mirror (retire on main site?)
• oc pages? maybe a simpler version?

both

• art gallery?

... augh, i'll have to ponder on this. i could also just keep main site hosting what is already being hosted, but then the little site will just feel like it's just There if i don't add to it. like i do enjoy a much slower feed on the little cause it lets me actually keep up better than the hundred of people i am following on my main site. i also dont mind shutting down pages on my main site to migrate to the little site (ex listfauxgraphy), or having mirrors of certain pages, but i also don't like it being split either in certain areas

BLARGH... i'll hammer it out as i work through it, right now the little site is just as a canvas to try out new things like an actual guestbook that's not reliant on something like atabook, and to try a new layout, and to begin from zero to keep things a lil more organized (not that my main site isn't after literally gutting it to remake in 11ty, but still it is a Big Site so it's having to migrate entire things like my bookmarks, neighbours, etc etc into JSON datasheets sucked balls when you have tens up to hundreds of items to go thru)

ok ok ok ok i think i'm starting to get into a layout i'm liking ... or rather css decos??? i guess it's kinda leaning into some weird neumorphic looks ... neumorphism? i gotta figure out spacing items ... i'm still dinking, but neocities is combusted rn (maintenance) so i can't push anything. i'm also stupidly tired rn so i think i'll crash after my call is over

i do wonder if it's readable enough for the buttons or too blended in ... kinda weird cause the previewer in phoenix code shows the borders a lot brighter than it does in firefox (and i disabled dark mode)

edit: ok, i separated the bevels into their own css variables so i can control those, and i got a lil 'press' effect going on when you hold the click ... obviously you will only see it if you HOLD the button but i rlly like it...

dramatic title but more like. i’m pondering if i should make my personal site theme still sylvie—im not really hiding that it’s Me so it’s why i don’t mind doing it as sylvie/green themed there, but it also makes me think like…

what would i even theme myself around if not my oc? i don’t feel a drive to theme it around anything. maybe dragons, it’s why one space is like that … but like, thinking abt it, i’ve never themed anything i’ve made that wasn’t like. oc based

all my deviantart layouts were very fandom/oc themed, all my tumblr blogs were oc themed (some obviously bc they were roleplay blogs), my avatars are usually my focused oc blorbo…

it’s cause like. some part of me wants to try a different theme for my new site but i also don’t feel connection to it if it’s not sylvie themed/i don’t feel as joyful over it—but like my brain also wants something new?!?!?!?!

AUGH combusts into a pile of goo. conundrum where i’ll probably just stick to sylvie and green

bah i posted about this on tumblr too but i'm genuinely blanking out on what i want to get for my birthday (aside from buying sylvie art which is a Given). or rather i do have a wishlist of items i want to get but it's like

• weighted deer/blanket: awesome, but i'm in no rush to get it + i already have my blahaj i use to sleep ... maybe as a christmas gift i'll get a blanket at least
• mini colour printer: feels like it'd be annoying to take to work where i write in my journal, still want eventually
• books/manga: no space in room :(
• new journal: need to finish my other ones first before i consider a New One
• cuticle/nail set: not rlly much of a birthday gift LOOOL i do want one eventually to deal w/my hangnails
• games: i only buy indie now anyway LOL, if it's bigger companies i'm pirating it unless i genuinely support said company
• physical merch: more like keychains and what not ... issue is space :( im almost out of space for where i hang my keychains

... like the only real things i'm pondering is like ... ?? a new ipad case w/a keyboard to make it easier to use my ipad like a Desktop (kinda) but i also don't use my ipad too terribly often ...

i was looking through custom nendroids, but it's a bit dizzying to find people who do custom ones (i do have one bookmarked for years now on etsy) BUT the issue is all the custom ones are Big Dolls vs the standard nendroids you can buy (tiny and w/o articulated limbs) so even if i got one of sylvie, they'd still be bigger than the zhongli nendo i have :(

it sounds so stupid to have this be an issue LOOOL. i have two months to think it over anyway but it's weird to just have the money and opportunity to get stuff now but not ... want anything rlly strongly that isn't art...??? or rather there's weird barriers like space keeping me from getting it. or it's stupid expensive (switch 2, but i also don't want to support nintendo's kinda garbage practices)

im watching the thousand year blood war anime and my god LMAO it's more like. god im always so. i grew up on the manga, i still think it'd be awesome if it ended after the aizen arc, or even the fullbringer stuff but like

head in hands. the whole thousand year blood war arc feels like a mess. im taking psychic dmg. i mean this in both the most fond and derogatory way. i would love to read the light novels some day still. i hate this

LMFAOOO AUAHDHASHDSH LIKE. IM REREADING THE MANGA RN ANYWAY but the world got SO FUCKING CONVOLUTED LATER ON like genuinely i wonder if kubo was even thinking abt the whole 'yeah there's a god who was split apart and made the 3 realms and is basically being kept imprisoned and oh yeah he apparently had a son lol' when he was writing this shit

bro i’m actually torn on who i’d pick for the genshin limited character for anniversary cause i have none of these characters actually LOL

like my highest list rn is like

• varesa (oc reasons + i already have xianyun)
• nilou (esp cause i run lauma dps + have both al haitham and kaveh built even if i dont actively use them)

funny cause my friend i play with has basically everyone from here so it’s like 💀💀💀 (aside from chiori which… i already have so many geo characters LOL funny that i have her sig wep but it’s with al haitham)

baizhu is cool but yaoyao carries my dendro healing already, chlorinde is cool but i already have raiden ei and yae for electro dmg (still very tempting)

childe i’d pick up only because he’s mutual associated from the tumblr rpc LOOOL