Finding My Style

July 12, 2024

Currently Listening To: Chris Luna's new video

Feeling: Rough week, but feeling better now

Updates on my life first, then the website, then my goals for this blog.

I've been clicking around neocities and I really like the blogging culture of the website. People are so nice and willing to share themselves on the internet, let themselves be open for connection. I can't wait until I can start leaving comments, because I am so ready to tell everyone how awesome their site looks. Everyone is so candid, so I'll try and match that tone as well.

(I suppose all that html formatting of ao3 authorship is finally paying off with all these <p> tags lmao!)

This week was a little rough. But it's over, and everything got finished, and I start vacation tomorrow. So hopefully I can make a bit of progress on this website as well! Things I had to deal with: delays on genotyping experiments I was running due to faulty reagents, my media hard drive biting it after only 3 months of use ( >:[ ), AND to top it all off, I returned after a little escape room fun with my coworkers to discover a GIANT CRACK in the windshield of my car. I'll be able to drive home for vacation, but it'll need to be replaced. Hence the mood tag.

Luckily, I hung with my anime club tonight and we're four epsiodes away from finishing Frieren, and I can devour the soundtrack. I'll likely listen to it on my drive home tomorrow, along with a nice big chunk of Friends at the Table's Palisade. The challenge is on: can I finish Palisade before Sangfielle 2 starts?

Now that I'm a bit calmer, I really am liking the way my site is shaping up. The base of the site was of course Sad Grl's incredible FREE layout maker. My knowledge of html goes about as far as the slight tweaks I made to my tumblr. Sad Grl's theme comes with a helpful guide in importing fonts. Rather, I decided to scroll through the google family until I settled on Lora. I like the serif look for blogging. Thanks to this guide I was able to toss the font right into my head tag. Though, fyi, if you decide to import your own google font, make sure you tweak the ampersand in the font link to & amp ; with no spaces. Then you'll be good to go!

As for the colors, I actually took inspiration from my header, which is just a free image of a sunset dithered via dither me this, then cropped to hell and hosted on imgur. I may not be old enough to have lived in the forum age, but thanks to some of my hobbies, I am familiar with bbcode and image hosting. My palettes were a smish smosh of fivepointpalette's Peaches And Plums , and Color Hex's Sunset Sorrows. Though I want my blog to be a happy place :)

So. What do I want for the future of this website? Well, I can think of a couple next steps: