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trinkets 1: things i've made recently

2026-07-17T19:57:00Z

Last week, as we were unpacking more boxes from moving, my husband made the joke that it would be a lot easier if I didn't have a million tiny little trinkets. I fully agree with him, but also, the unfortunate consequence of having so many little trinkets is that they also are cool and fun and awesome, which is undisputable.

I don't often get to show off all the things I have. I think the average person doesn't really care too much, and I don't want to sit all my friends down and have them look at all my rocks, odd jewelry, nominally useful items, oddities, and even just junk I just like the look of. I think I'd rather give them the opportunity to take a glimpse into my little vulture brain on their own time.

I've also been wanting to get back into blogging again, but the stress of work has been too much. I'm starting a new job on Monday, so hopefully I will enjoy it more! I'm trying to use this opportunity to renew myself in several ways. I feel like staying in one place too long will make you feel stuck and stagnant if you let it, and I let it for too long.

Anyways, here's random things I've made recently.

Roller Perfume

I'll surely talk more about this one later. I made a larger batch but this is what I consider the "finished product." For the fragrance I used jasmine essential oil as well as clove and nutmeg steeped in the solution. I forgot what else. I'm planning to make it better in the future, but I've been wearing this and it's subtle enough that people who don't like strong smells aren't offended by it and people who do notice it like it.

Oh, I got the bottle at Nikki's Spectrum in Gladstone. I haven't been there in a while, I ought to go...

Pen-wiper

I fucking hate this thing. But it's cute and it works. I'm going to make a better one. At least I know what I'm doing now. My hands were tired from a few other projects I was doing at the time, so I'll blame the poor quality on that...

Doll (and clothes but he's mostly naked)

He needs pants...

I've been keeping him on my desk as moral support.

Anyways...

I've got a bunch of other things I want to show, all different categories, thought I don't know if I'll always categorize them or just show random stuff occasionally.

Oh, I also got a few other random projects I'll probably talk about soon, like a comic I'm working on that I started working on part of the site for (I'm not 100% sure if bits and pieces of it have been exported. Also other things BUT I am tired gootbye....

Updating a neocities site with the neocities node package and node and eleventy and and AND YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THIS ISN'T HOW I WAS ORIGINALLY GOING TO DO THIS, THE ORIGINAL TITLE OF THIS POST WAS ABOUT RSYNC AND WEBDAV AND SHIT BUT YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT I'VE BBEEN THROUGH TO GET THIS WORKING YOU COULD NOT POSSIBLY UNDERSTAND

2025-11-19T15:15:00Z

I decided to just go ahead and make a new post for this lmaooo.

Anyways, I'll get into the technicals, but first, let me talk about...

What didn't work...

The first thing I tried was the most obvious solution – mounting to the webdav endpoint and using rsync. There were a lot of complications.

Secrets management and authentication was kind of hard. I had to do a bunch of hack-y stuff for this which had me convinced I'd accidentally dump my username and password to some logs. I was being delusional, this never happened.
Permissions were hard to deal with, as always.
Rsync didn't work... for funny reasons.

So, the most interesting thing to talk about was the reason rsync wasn't working. I still don't really understand why this was even an issue, to be honest, but it was expecting windows-style path dividers. I figured this out because I tried just using cp (after confirming several other things didn't work, but this was the only one that is relevant to the story) and the result was… the same. So I tried manually changing it myself and it WORKED. Moral of the story is actually fuck windows for real.

So my first plan was to get a list of all the files, loop through them and replace all the path dividers and individually copy each one, but after some thought, I realized there were a few issues with this:

I just didn't want to do it.
It would kind of take a while to do it.
The bash script to do all this was already so dishonorable I immediately put it in .hgignore
Yes, I did this all with fucking bash. I thought it would be a lot simpler, in my defense.
By the time I thought "maybe I should do this in lua or perl or something," I had already written a complicated-ass bash script and I didn't want to start from the very beginning.

Anyways, in doing research, I found... this post on the rclone forums at some point. Actually pretty early on, but I skimmed it, thinking it was somewhat irrelevant to the way I was trying to handle this (I did try rclone. Also didn't work for the same reasons as above.) Something brought me back to it though, and this. fucking. sentence.

"I discovered this halfway through development of my standalone backend, which uses the free Neocities Developers API, [...]"

So that's cool. That's been there the whole fucking time and the only reason I didn't know about it was because I was so obsessed with the idea that the only way to interact with this was through the webdav endpoint. Cool cool cool cool cool.

What did work

So, under my particular circumstances, I am using a static site generator called eleventy & I have some scripts set up to run for various processes in package.json. I have a build script that just builds the eleventy site (I have it set up to write to a folder called "public") so I don't have to remember what the exact command to do that is, I have a bunch of scripts for mass resizing certain images that gets ran during postbuild (highly recommend this if you're like me and you're trying to keep your site pretty small,) and now, I have a deploy script that just looks like this:

package.json:

"deploy": "node deploy.js",

So I can run npm run deploy and it just pushes the whole site.

The actual part that's interesting is inside the deploy.js script. I used the neocities node package, which has some quirks – you cannot send more than 127 files at a time, which is pretty reasonable and not hard to work around. The response it sends back doesn't tell you at all what's wrong. I actually only found out because I was digging around on the project's github and found a bug report about it or something.

Anyways, here's the guts of that script (It's been a while since I've done any actual javascript so be nice pleeeease):

#!/usr/bin/env node

var fs = require("fs")
var path = require("path")

var {Sops} = require("node-sops")
var sops = new Sops()

var NeoCities = require("neocities")
var ncapi = new NeoCities(
  sops.get("secrets.enc.json", "neocities.user"),
  sops.get("secrets.enc.json", "neocities.pass")
)

function recurseDir(dirPath) {
  var filels = []
  var files = fs.readdirSync(dirPath)

  files.forEach(file => {
    var fp = path.join(dirPath,file)

    if (fs.statSync(fp).isDirectory()) {
      var temp = recurseDir("./"+fp)
      filels = filels.concat(temp)
    } else {
      filels.push({name:fp.replace(/^public\//,""),
            path:"./"+fp})
    }
  })
  return filels
}

function deploy(dirPath) {
  var filels = recurseDir(dirPath)

    //doesn't like it if you send over 127 files
    var size = 127
    for (var i=0; i<filels.length; i+=size) {
      ncapi.upload(filels.slice(i,i+size),function(resp) {
        console.log(resp)
      })
    }
}

deploy("./public")

I should also note that I use sops for secrets management, just as I did with the original script (which I deleted because I never wanted to see it again). I'm not gonna go through setting all that up, but it's really not too hard, and if you have something else that you prefer using, the only thing you really need to pay close attention to here is in the neocities initialization stuff, which is where it expects a username and password (you should pay close attention to that anyways, because if you are using sops, this'll tell you how the file should be structured, or you might need to change it or what have you.)

I also did some stuff I plan on changing later, like I gave it the root folder as a param, but then hardcoded it into recurseDir()? I really just wanted to see something work for once I really just needed one w or I'd fucking explode, don't you understand?????? I am usually a good programmer I prommy. I plan on fixing it before I haphazardly toss this script into the actual project that motivated me to make it. But it works right now, you see, even in its worst state. It actually works, and now I can type npm run deploy and I don't have to drag-and-drop files into my browser, and now YOU can copy this bitch into your eleventy site or what have you, do whatever the fuck with it to make it actually work, and YOU can type npm run deploy in your console and experience the same joy I had, but lesser because I trudged through fucking hell just to make something that basically does a thing I was already able to do and was already very easy but now in just a slightly different way, inside my console where I feel safe and warm, and now this script means something to me. I'm enrolling him in pre-k next fall because I love him so much and I want him to have a good life.

Anyways, the part of this that really slays is that it opens up a lot of possibilities for other cool updates I can make to my site in the future and hopefully not become a little freak about it like this time. Things like writing posts on my phone or something idk. Post editor integration? Fuck I don't know there's two fat squirrels having sex in the tree right out my window and I am too genuinely baffled to get my focus back to write about this anymore so kiss kiss I love you and ttyl.

Deploy test

2025-11-17T08:45:00Z

I'm actually just testing something out right now. We'll see if it... actually worked lmao. If you're seeing this, it means I got my deploy script working! I'll probably update more on this later (on this post), but as I said, just testing it right now. I am very tired GOOD NIGHT!!

Art Dump uuuhhhh uhhhhhhhhhh 4??

2025-11-07T09:34:00Z

I haven't done a whole lot, actually. I've been really busy with work recently, but I'm trying to get back into painting, so I've been doing a little bit whenever I can.

I also did a billion value studies (I'm only showing one b/c I don't really like posting studies anymore but this is more of a self portrait situation lmao)

I did some additional stuff on my computer as well but discovered I messed up my color space settings in Krita so I have to go make adjustments to ALL OF MY ART. So cool. Anyways, not the biggest deal in the world, and here is a complimentary early progress pic of a joke thing that I ended up putting too much effort into that I finished but need to make color adjustments to (this is the artwork that made me realize there was an issue, actually lmao).

Anyways BYEEE BYEEEEEEE <3

What I've Been Up To

2025-09-26T18:36:00Z

Getting Rockbox on a 6th Gen iPod

I should note that this was both a nightmare, and also one of the easiest things I've done in all my life. Let me explain:

I followed the instructions on the site for my specific device. After around 5 hours of dicking around with it, it looked like I bricked it, something which you supposedly aren't supposed to be able to do. I should note that because I'm on Linux, I had to do a manual re-partitioning + re-installation of the iPod firmware. THIS is what made it look like it wasn't working, however, the problem with Rockbox had nothing to do with this specifically, it would have run just fine as I had it.

I tell my husband "I had this thing for five hours and I bricked it!" and he went "ok, calm down, why don't you sleep on it," and then the next morning, he took it, placed it down on the table, did the exact thing I had been doing to get it to turn on, and it... just kind of worked for him.

Anyways, after that, I spent several days doing both automatic and manual firmware installs, looking shit up online trying to figure out what I did wrong, why it wasn't working. For context, it had some... very specific issue that tons of people were posting about on Reddit, where it... boots up Rockbox, then says it can't find the partition, and in common Redditor fashion, people were like "well, then make a partition!" and I'm not quite sure how to explain this, but it was there, it's just that the second Rockbox actually starts up, it disappears.

Finally, after spending nearly a week pulling my hair out, I go in the forums. I read EVERYTHING posted within the past month. I can't for the life of me find it now, but someone was saying that Apple did some unbelievably funny things with partitions (namely, the disappearing partition thing), likely in order to prevent people from doing exactly what I was doing. In Rockbox 3.15, there was some kind of workaround for this, but it got changed in 4.0 to something that unfortunately doesn't actually work.

I thought, as a joke, I would just take 3.15 pre-built and drop it into the filesystem. Just for funsies. This was, incidentally, how I ended up getting it to work. Quite literally I did something I thought sounded a bit too stupid and immediately got it running after nearly a week of no progress.

Digging Through Sketchbooks and Old Code

I was looking for a very specific piece of art I did for reference, and I ended up finding a few specific sets of drawings that showed, like, quite an interesting progression in the design of one of my characters? I won't post it now, I don't really have the time to compile it all right now, but maybe in my next art dump post.

The really interesting thing that happened is that simultaneously, I found myself needing to find some old code for a few different projects I've gotten started working on in the same style that I did that got me writing my own audio library. It was also really interesting seeing how I used to solve some problems. I didn't find what I was looking for, but I had the need for some basic scene management stuff, and I had some incredibly fun solutions for that. I had some interesting-looking menu-building stuff as well. It's just nice to look back on your old work and see it still holds up well.

My Car Died (Again)

This is the third one, for the third year. Don't want to talk about it. Getting kind of tired of owning a car. I am over it by now at least.

Anyways, have a lovely evening :)

Art Dump 3

2025-07-21T08:08:00Z

I've been up to kind of way too much and also nothing at all in the past couple of months. Quite a bit of writing and... not enough redrafting and editing. Working outside of that. I finally had the thought, "hey maybe I'm on what book three now? I should keep track of the lore in a normal way instead of just like re-reading random shit in the book & texts I've sent to my husband months ago." I also feel, like, creatively free for the first time since I was a kid. I'm trying to make the most of it while it lasts, in case it's just a short phase or something, or maybe I need to keep flexing that muscle to keep it going or whatever. This means, of course, that I've been drawing my little guys a lot. (And ngl some of this shit I thought I posted previously, didn't realize I haven't posted in two months. Oops.)

The image the last two are from is like a whole page and I can't show it because 1. it's a bit NSFW and 2. I can't look at it in full for more than 3 seconds at a time or I start shaking like an elderly chihuahua.

Anyways don't feel like making this post too long goot bye :) *explodes*

Adding comments, (also, my email has changed)

2025-05-19T18:26:00Z

I'm using Cusdis for comments. I don't know how I feel about it yet, but I'm gonna try it for some time, probably until I find a solution that I like a bit better (I already know what this solution is, it's just going to take more time and effort than I currently have right now to set up). I've also updated my links / about pages to my most up-to-date email address, so now you can send me emails and I will see them.

I'm glad I'm nearing towards the end of having any major site updates that don't also involve new content. Probably the only things I've got left are any tweaks to comments I make, some stuff with webmentions (that I completely forgot I was doing), some automation stuff and a cool page where you'll be able to read one of the stories I've been working on. It's nice to be able to just kind of just write posts instead of fiddling with stuff constantly, as much as I like doing that lmao.

Anyways, that's it for today. Good night and love you :D

Edit

Okay, I got irritated dealing with an iframe so I switched from Cusdis to HTML Comment Box. Cusdis was very nice, I think if you're not super particular about certain things in the same way I am, most people would have a really nice time with it, it's definitely going among the one's I'd recommend to anyone trying to add comments to their site.

Art Dump 2 (Guys crossing their arms compilation (and other art, probably))

2025-05-18T18:26:00Z

I worked on this silly vampire comic for, like, years with my husband, and I've been thinking about it a lot recently (even though I haven't, like, worked on it in forever. Maybe I'll go back to it once I'm done writing my most recent thing...) Anyways, I'm obsessed with these two guys. I'd have to dig around for some more art I've got of them.

And a random drawing of them from my sketchbook last year:

Tbh I have a million drawings of them because I started shipping them as a joke and I did it for so long it became serious. It even made it's way into the comic.

Anyways, more guys from the same comic! Including Steve: Cat Edition (TM)

It's been maybe a year since I've touched that project. My two most recent things are... that one book I was writing (the one about silly wizards) (I don't rember if I ever actually talked about it lmao) and the book I'm writing to procrastinate finishing the book I'm writing (the one about gay robots). Regrettably, I have recently distracted myself from writing the thing I'm writing to distract myself from writing the book about silly wizards by drawing them instead. Anyways...

Thanks for looking at the little guys that live in my brain :)

The Sketchbook Dilemma

2025-05-16T19:22:00Z

Today I went to Joann Fabric (RIP queen) and bought, like, $160 worth of stuff for $30. Which is insane, obviously (I was actually hanging out with friends at Rochester and we were like "I could use some incredibly discounted fabric" and just kinda... went there LMAO). They had these sketchbooks there and I grabbed, like, two of them. I have this idea in my head that if I buy two of the same sketchbook, I'll be less scared to fill one up. This is, aparently, an issue I now know that I share with at least two other people. I guess I have to fill up a sketchbook now, then. I haven't done it in a while, I'm pretty excited!

Anyways, what I've been up to...

I finished up with school. I'm taking a little "break" next semester (by "break" I mean I'm taking exactly one credit -- I can't get away from school LMAO). But now I'm at a weird point where I really don't know what I'm going to do in the spring next year. I could enroll for Big School, but I don't really have any money... I'll figure it out by then. I've got lots of time.

I also made another hat. I don't remember if I talked about my previous hat. Unfortunately, I won't be talking about my previous hat because I moved and idk where it is. Anyways, here's the new hat:

Anyways, I think I used to suffer from a different, similar issue with yarn that I do with sketchbooks. I used to, and kind of still do, avoid using my "good yarn" on any of my more experimental projects. With this one, though, I bought a really nice-looking yarn (it was not nice to work with. It was torturous) and just went crazy. Hats are my kind of "safe" projects, though -- they usually don't take a ton of material, they're hard to screw up, and whether or not you do good or bad, by whatever metric you measure the goodness of a work by, people tend to notice if you're wearing a clearly handmade hat, and they will tell you it looks good almost no matter what. But, like, I can't just keep making hats forever, right? I could make a billion hats, but I won't ever get less anxious about using up my best yarn if I keep using it to make something I'm already really good at making.

In the end, whether or not you fill up that sketchbook or use up that good yarn doesn't actually matter that much. Like, I guess with yarn, it can kind of matter. I always do that thing where I finally decide to use something, realize I don't have enough, and you always kind of run the risk of winding up with some yarn from a different dye lot and all your shit's just slightly mismatched, not enough for any old person to notice, but just enough to bother you, specifically, but I've accepted since this is how I operate as a person, this is how things will be. Art as a thing you do is far more interesting to me than art as a product of an action. I want to make beautiful things, beautiful by my standards, but, like, sometimes it's just nice to say "I need a sun hat" and sit down and make one, and then go out and wear it on a hot, sunny day, even though you can see every little flaw you lovingly put into it with your own hands. And sometimes you want to learn to draw a horse, so you draw them really badly in your nice sketchbook until they don't look as bad anymore, not as much as evidence of your imperfection, but evidence of your effort and your growth.

Anyways, I'll probably start actually posting a bit more art, if I remember to. My cat's trying to eat my yarn, so I've got to wrap this up. Thanks for reading, and I love you!!

Moving (and other things?)

2025-04-18T10:32:00Z

I had meant to make a post sooner, but I got caught up in a lot of stuff. I moved recently. We're still working on unpacking. I'm still busy with school as always. Also, I started playing Dwarf Fortress again, and all of these things have suffered for it (oops). Also, one of my cats was in the hospital and now we're a little in debt (so if you want to, you can donate to my gofundme, I'll link here eventually... or you can go on my kofi, which I already have up on here I thinks. Sorry, I'm writing this real fast so I don't really remember the urls off the top of my head). I'm also in the middle of switching email providers, so if you've emailed me and I never got back to you, that's probably the reason why.

I'm honestly just posting this because I miss it a little bit. I'm regrettably a blogger at heart. But moreso, I miss cohost, and writing here scratches that itch somehow (low-obligation posting about whatever I want to an audience of who cares didn't ask).

I got a bit bored of working on my audio library so I got working on a game project I've been putting off for ages. The thing that always gets me about making games is even though I'm kinda an artist and I have experience with animation, I actually kind of hate making game art a lot. I think it's mostly because I just like programming a lot more. So I always end up trudging through making art so I can make sure everything looks okay altogether. The good thing is I have a husband who is notorious (and I really mean that) for being really good at replicating styles and working with other people, and I've brought up offloading some of the work onto him, and he was like "hell yeahh!!" so, there's that. It kind of looks like this'll actually get made because I don't have to do all the parts I don't really enjoy.

Anyways, I'm sure I'm missing something important going on in my life, but I'm actually on break at work right now so I'm speedrunning writing this LOL. I'll probably hop on later and post some music. Have a peaceful week. I love you!!

I'm still here! Just busy lmao.

2025-02-03T22:40:00Z

I'm just popping in real quick because it's been, like, two months or something (idk I didn't check).

I've been doing a lot of things that aren't the website, including going back to school for the Spring and writing a lot. Also hanging out with friends and driving to Oklahoma a couple of times. Mending a lot of clothing and other similar things.

I keep thinking about posting to my music blog. I'm sure after Valentine's Day or maybe the Superbowl, I'll probably be not so busy. It'll be nice!!!

(I also don't have all my stuff set up on my other laptop, so despite the date, this post will probably actually show up tomorrow lmao. Not like anyone would know, I just think it's a little silly).

It's about time for me to go to bed now and I've said all I intended to. Thanks for reading :)

Merry Christmas!

2024-12-25T13:27:53Z

Probably a little random to do a site update on christmas, so I'll keep this part short: I made a bunch of small changes that you likely won't notice unless you're browsing on a text-only browser, or if you really like to read the HTML of the pages you're browsing (weirdo! lmao jk, me too). Also some really minor changes that you might notice if you're paying way too much attention to some random guy's website (weird css stuff I did when I was sleepy that I keep forgetting to fix).

Now that that's out of the way, I have to admit, it was kind of all an excuse to make a little post to celebrate the holidays with anyone that might be reading (I've made tons of updates like this and this is the first time I've made a post about it, so it might be a little obvious).

One of my friends asked me a while back if I wanted a good present or if I wanted a dumpster fire project present, and of course she was aware I would prefer something I can obsess over and get angry at for months on end. I was not expecting I'd get one of her retro handhelds, specifically the one I kept making jokes about "fixing her with NixOS" (I don't know if that's actually what I'll do, but I feel like it'd be a disservice to my friend if I didn't at least make an attempt. I am a silly clown and also an extreme technological masochist, if I didn't do something that made her ask "what the hell is wrong with you", it would be very out-of-character of me).

My husband got me Nine Sols, and it's yet another game I went in completely blind on purpose, purely at the recommendation of others that I would like it, and I really wasn't expecting I'd be screaming within the first 20 minutes. I love screaming at video games so it's fine. I love it. I'm already obsessed.

I'm making gifts for a lot of people, and I made the mistake of working with a new material so close to when it needed to get done, and the material I'm using requires a lot more time to dry than I was expecting, so I jokingly told everyone, "you're getting your gifts in January". "Jokingly", as if that's not actually what's going to happen lol. I'll post some of my process later, I'm having a ton of fun with it, and I think it'll definitely be something fun to post about. I'm taking pictures as I go with some of them, so hopefully it won't be a big text-only post like this one is. I've already got some sanding and refining down with one of them, now I just need to paint one Billion layers onto it or something like that.

Anyways, aside from that, here's a fun video I've enjoyed today:

I'm sure I have tons more to talk about but I'm going to get on with my day. I hope everyone is having a lovely, peaceful day regardless of what you celebrate :) I love you <3

Finals are over!

2024-12-21T10:15:05Z

Hi! Sorry for the disappearance. I've taken a break from a lot of things to just kinda get done with finals, relax and get ready for the holidays. I unfortunately don't have much of anything to talk about! I've started a few weird little projects here and there, just some small things that either just interest me or make my life a little easier, but maybe if they get interesting or big enough, I'll do something else with them.

I still have a lot of stuff to get done with over the holidays, so there'll be really not much to hear from me for a while!

I hope everyone is having a peaceful Winter :)

Having fun on the computer - post stub generator

2024-12-05T01:25:01Z

This is (kinda) a continuation of This post.

Earlier today, one of my friends sent me this (I promise this is relevant):

I haven't been this excited about a video game since, uh, actually, since the same friend informed me there was a Bug Fables update. Normally I'd say "it's been years!!!" but it's been an oddly great month for people like me who enjoy very specific video games lmao. Anyways, back in the day, I'd go on twitter (and more recently, cohost, RIP) and post some shit like...

Patapon enjoyers

But I've come to a bit of a conclusion that I don't really like social media that much. I have to literally force myself to use the sites I'm on. I find posting here a lot more enjoyable. The fact of the matter is that if I wanna see posts, curating a reading list is a lot easier than curating the Attention Exploitation Spam Machine. I don't really need to explain all this to get where I'm going with this, I've already talked plenty about how I feel about social media.

I probably haven't talked about how I'm, like... at heart, I'm kinda still a poster. I love being silly online, and as mentioned in my previous post about this, I am generally in agreement that the easier it is to make silly posts, the more likely you are to make silly posts.

And plus, I just think it's kinda funnier to post this stuff on my website that I show to prospective employers. They should know my level of dedication I'll put into even just being a little silly.

Posting from the phone

My first thought was "I've got my site source code hosted up somewhere, what if I hosted a little site where I could remotely automate adding posts from my phone?"

This is not what happened. What ended up happening was I realized that, with there being a lot of new tools for this stuff on Android, I can literally just do everything I do on the computer from my phone. Objectively harder to do, but definitely more fun (for me, exclusively). This involved installing terminux, then node, python, mercurial, and then cloning my site.

The next step is uh... figuring out the posting thing. Which shouldn't be too hard, since I'm just using WebDAV, I can probably just mount the site and upload the whole thing. I think. I don't know, I have to figure out a good workflow for this.

My intention wasn't to mislead, I definitely haven't finished all that up yet, I just though the context for what I'm doing now is at least a bit interesting.

Prototyping a (desktop, currently) post writer (kinda)

Okay, so for the more interesting part: I have written this post almost exclusively in a cute little post generator I wrote.

Here's what it looks like:

Regrettably, there's no way to preview posts outside of moving it onto my site and building the whole thing, but I don't see that as much of a problem. Legitimately, I feel like having something this fleshed out is kinda a major win! And it's something I could put on my phone, if I just changed a few things here and there.

I'll probably use tools more geared towards text editing. I built this with Love2D and loveframes. Great tools, but loveframes textboxes don't fully support highlighting, and considering how hard it is to actually do UI stuff with Love2D, I'm pretty impressed with the level of functionality I've gotten out of it as it is. I really only planned to have it generate post stubs, but I added the post content textbox because it was just, like, 10 more lines of code, and at the very least, I could write my drafts in Zettlr like usual and just copy the whole content into here to make the file as well.

The only other major thing that's missing from this is I can't add tags, which isn't really a big deal, but it'd be easy to implement if I really wanted to.

I also didn't add the description or surprise link fields (description is for some currently hidden text that's mostly used for the Atom feed, and if you haven't figured out the surprise of the surprise link, I won't spoil it for you).

Anyways, outside of finals, that's kind of all I've been up to. I wouldn't even say I had time for this, I'm mostly just procrastinating...

Have a good night, or morning. Thanks for reading :)

YouTube & SoundCloud Embed Shortcode Update

2024-11-30T17:47:00Z

I did a bunch of random stuff on the site recently, and I just wanted to kind of show some of it off -- it took me a bit to figure some of it out, though a lot of the stuff that helped me is pretty easy to find. I finally went and made the code presentable :D

YouTube

This is what a YouTube embed looks like:

<iframe width="560" height="315"
src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/dQw4w9WgXcQ"
title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer;
autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture;
web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen>
</iframe>

The dQw4w9WgXcQ bit is the ID. Actually, it gives you a bunch of other stuff in the URL when you grab an embed, but 1) you don't need any of it to make this work and 2) I don't know what it is really. I was feeling lazy when I first started working on this so I just looked up how to match the ID in the URL, and luckily, this wasn't a new problem at all:

/^.*(youtu.be\/|v\/|u\/w\/|embed\/|watch\?v=|&v=)([^#&?]*).*/

This is what it ended up looking like in .eleventy.js:

eleventyConfig.addNunjucksShortcode("ytembed", function(url) {
    // get ID
    const re = /^.*(youtu.be\/|v\/|u\/w\/|embed\/|watch\?v=|&v=)([^#&?]*).*/;
    match = url.match(re)
    match = match && match[2].length === 11 ? match[2] : null
    return `<iframe width="560" height="315" class="yt-embed"
            src="//www.youtube.com/embed/${match}"
            frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
            <noscript><a href="${url}">${url}</a></noscript>`
})

Important thing to note: I added <noscript> so that you can still see a link if you're using, like, a browser that doesn't support JavaScript. This is a personal goal I've made in working on this site that I've had to work around quite a bit, and I do quite a lot of site testing in ELinks (which technically does have JS support, but I can't get it working, nor do I really want to all that much.)

SoundCloud

I thought this was gonna be a lot more difficult, but it turned out to be much easier. SoundCloud actually just uses the same URL as an identifier for embeds, so I basically just did the exact same thing as with YouTube but minus grabbing the ID. Here's what that looks like (sorry in advance for uh... the length lol. I'll fix that later):

eleventyConfig.addNunjucksShortcode("scembed", function(url) {
    return `<iframe width="100%" height="315" scrolling="no"
        frameborder="no" allow="autoplay"
        src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=${url}&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true">
        <a href="https://producer.ua" style="display:none;">
        talent manager</a></iframe>
        <noscript><a href=${url}>${url}</a></noscript>`
})

I actually grabbed the base embed code from SoundCloud embed code generator. This presented 2 problems for me...

It looks different from the other ones I put manually on the site.
If I used this in the other places on the site, it's... really tall. Too tall, really. So I had to make a second one that looks better outside I Post Music Every Day (Sometimes). This was pretty easy, I just made a second shortcode that's the same thing but... shorter (again, sorry lol).

eleventyConfig.addNunjucksShortcode("scembed_sm", function(url) {
    return `<iframe height="166" width="100%" scrolling="no"
        frameborder="no" allow="autoplay"
        src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=${url}&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true">
        <a href="https://producer.ua" style="display:none;">
        talent manager</a></iframe>
        <noscript><a href=${url}>${url}</a></noscript>`
})

Anyways...

Not a super crazy update, I don't have a lot of anything else I want to talk about like I usually would. I'm busy with finals right now and also on vacation, so thought this would be a quick post to put together. I also had a lot of fun writing this, even though it took me, like, maybe 20 minutes lmao.

I hope everyone is having a lovely Thanksgiving <3 Thank you for reading

It's always gotta be something...

2024-11-08T01:24:00Z

I think there's something more obvious I could be talking about now, but I'm not really planning on talking about it all that much, honestly (nothing to really say). No, on this very day, the car saga has continued (and, very subsequently, ended). My car... he is very ill....

Okay, just kidding. Some weird shit happened while I was getting myself all parked when I got home, didn't think anything of it, and the next morning, about to go to work, my car wouldn't start! Quite a few things about how it went down indicated to me that it was likely just the battery, but I just bought the thing. How annoying. Got a tow to the maintenance shop after too much trouble with AAA. Got a call back maybe an hour later that it was just the battery was a bit loose, likely from all the other maintenance I'd had to get done (these folks have got to be a bit tired of me, they see me like once every couple of weeks). They just got it in nice and tight, and now my car is back to normal.

Anyways, I ended up not being able to make it to school or work, so I took a nap after getting it all sorted out.

In the morning, I had seen this post on Tumblr:

@ms-demeanor

Hey, also, all the anarchist shit aside, tomorrow I want you to make something.

I forced myself to draw something after the 2016 election. I forced myself to draw something when my mother died in 2018. I forced myself to draw something when my spouse was hospitalized for multiple organ failure in 2021.

When you are miserable, make something. Add a row to your project, bake a box cake, draw on a sheet of lined paper, write a poem on a napkin, fold an origami shirt out of a dollar bill, make your favorite recipe for dinner, but make something with your hands, something that you can hold and look at engage your senses in.

It won't fix the world, but it will change the world. You will have made something that didn't exist before. You will have impacted your reality, even in a very small way. And it is going to be something you made after. Something bad happened, something shook you, and you made something after, in spite of it.

When I read it initially, I thought about it pretty passively I think. For the past few months, I've kinda had this gnawing thought that, like, I used to really like writing a lot, why don't I do that again? It always feels like I'm too busy to do much of anything, though, but seeing it reminded me, maybe I could do that. The night before, I had incidentally decided to just sit down and write for a while, but I felt so stuck with it, like I was crawling through mud, but when I took a nap yesterday, I had a dream about it. Something about that made something click for me, and somehow, at least today, I've felt very liberated.

I also finally bought a new watch -- I finally decided on a Casio F-91W. It's almost kinda ridiculous it took me so long to pick out a new watch and it ended up only costing me, like, $20. Anyways, being able to actually know the time whenever I want, wherever I'm at, has already drastically improved my life. I also bought a compass. I got in, like, a few too many situations that would have been improved by my having a compass. I also went and shopped around for one for so long, I almost forgot the very event that first prompted me to start looking at them was getting lost in some woods right after getting engaged. It's been almost a year now. I'm, like, married lmao.

Anyways, I wasn't really going anywhere with all this. I just felt like yapping for a little bit today. I'm pretty tired though, I finally finished my homework, I'll probably get to bed soon now.

Good night :)

Art Dump 1

2024-10-30T21:19:00Z

I just finished up writing a cover letter for the first time. While I was doing it, I kept getting distracted by the thought of cracking open my sketchbook and drawing just a little bit. I paged through and realized I've got a bunch of art in there I forgot I even did! Now, I'm sifting through some of my older stuff, seeing what I might want to finish or go ahead and post. I'm having a lot of fun doing it.

I haven't added descriptions to all of these yet! I'm planning on coming back to it when I'm not so frazzled, sorry ;-;

Anyways, here's some random stuff from my sketchbook:

Miscellaneous other stuff I either forgot to post or forgot to finish:

I made this for my husband, this is one of his ocs:

I'm gonna get some rest now, I just got back from a meeting as well, so I'm pretty tired. I'll probably hang out with the cats and play Dwarf Fortress for a bit and then go to bed.

It's nice to just post something without having to do a bunch of random work on the website. It's easy to forget that it's nights like this that I'm fighting for when I do all those little site updates. Just sitting down and making a quick impulse post while listening to the rain, watching the reflection of headlights move on the wet pavement outside my window.

Anyways, thanks for hanging out :)

Busy!! Also, webmentions :D

2024-10-28T17:00:00Z

I am finally done dealing with all my car stuff. Finally. It's been, like... man, I think it's been a year now -- the inciting incident of all of this happened last Halloween (not the car getting stolen part, the car getting destroyed by a mechanic part). It's such a huge relief to finally have a car and have it all fixed up and have the titling finished. I keep thinking about taking the old crushed-up plate and framing it (I wonder if I even still have it)? Or maybe the temporary. I gotta do something to commemorate my struggle.

I also had midterm finals right before that. I haven't had time to do much else (hence my sudden disappearance).

Site updates

I did a few really small things when I had the time. The main things being...

Telling google not to index any of my posts (I did this because I thought it was funny)
Adding webmention support -- this is the thing I actually wanna talk about (briefly, for real this time)

I plan on just using @remy/webmention and pass it the RSS feed. Incidentally, this is also where I realized... I could probably just automate the image resizing by throwing all that in the postbuild script. I don't know how this completely flew over my head before. Anyways, I decided that's not what I want to do with webmentions because for a blog that maybe updates once every few weeks, I am rebuilding this thing all the goddamn time. It'll quickly become a situation of like me spamming the crap out of people.

This site also accepts webmentions. I'm currently not doing anything with them, I'm still trying to figure out how best to display them, as well as put together some other more social-web-friendly stuff (as much as I've said in the past that I didn't wanna do that... it really seems like the internet is a better place than it was, in some aspects).

I also haven't updated I Post Music Every Day (Sometimes), which isn't a problem because, as expected, that "(Sometimes)" is doing a lot of heavy lifting for me. I don't plan on doing it for a little bit, until I start feeling a bit more stable in school or get a job that's a little bit less demanding.

Other stuff

Anyways, I'm really tired of just posting site update after site update. I'm currently in the process of trying to find a good platform to post my music to. Or setting up something so people can listen to it. I posted a little bit of it on cohost, and I ended up dusting off my old Soundcloud, just so I'd have somewhere to put stuff in the meantime. This isn't really new news, I just remembered it for some reason.

I don't really think anyone will listen, but I don't really care all that much. There's something nice about just being able to make something and let it go out of your sight and beyond your control as an artist. I haven't done it in a long time, not really because I don't want to, but because I just haven't had enough time to actually work on anything. The last few times I did though, it felt really nice. It's so liberating, especially when you don't have to worry about, like, metrics or whatever.

I always kind of thought of creativity as like... an itch that keeps coming back, like a bug bite, and you have to scratch it (it feels good at first), but you can't scratch it too much or you'll bleed, you have to put something on it or ignore it or something (you have to say "this is finished" and show it to someone, or you have to rip it up and light it on fire or something). But, like, at the end of the day, you have to do something with it, or it'll be the only thing you think about.

Or, more recently, I watched this video by Thought Slime that expressed a similar kind of sentiment:

"Here's the thing about art and creativity. It's all very fun. We love it. We love to do it. But it's also, um, it's poison. It is corrosive to the human soul, and it will kill you if you let it. You will die. So, what you got to do is you got to get the poison out of you."
Thought Slime - You'll never be a good enough artist

It's not to say I don't think of this as art or it doesn't scratch the same itch. It's just that I've got too many bug bites or too much poison in me or something. Maybe I can think about further implementing webmentions on here while finishing up one of my paintings later.

Anyways, I'm gonna pick up cat litter, go hang out with friends tonight, and maybe do some homework!!

Thank you for tuning in tonight :)

Having fun on the computer

2024-10-06T19:29:00Z

I've always kinda felt like when you make your own stuff, you want to use it more.

There's something about putting a lot of work into something that makes it so much more appealing. I think this is part of why I've had problems trying to be personal and talk about my interests on social media. I've gotten better at it, but I think it'll always feel a little weird to, like, talk about the cool stuff I'm making on a site I didn't make. Especially when a lot of my interests revolve around making software.

I've put a lot of work into making this blog easy for me to use... in my own special way. I actually only thought to make things easier because of this post by @ewie on Cohost:

@ewie

guys who are moving to blogs: you gotta make it easy to post

if you post a lot on cohost it’s almost certainly because you have it saved on your home screen and the work needed to make a new post is open the app and tap the compose button. you gotta make it just as easy to post on your own site! you’re not gonna use it as much if you don’t! it’s okay to spend way too much work up front ensuring the actual posting process is as seamless as possible, but it’s gotta be easy in the moment for you to go from dumb joke to posted dumb joke

I have a lot of opinions about this, but I ultimately agree: if it's hard to do, you won't do it. A lot of the joy I've derided from posting here is from building something and doing problem-solving, and there's a lot of problems to solve when it comes to "making software easy to use" in general. Let alone posting to a website.

I made a joke about this on Cohost, revolving around writing my blog post yesterday morning and, two hours later, deciding to streamline adding youtube embeds, which involved me having to individually re-write 26 posts, two times in one day. As infuriated as I sounded, I wouldn't have done it if I didn't at least find it a little bit satisfying. Despite all the trouble, it's made posting updates on I Post Music Every Day like 10x easier. I underestimated the power of making things easy. I usually don't have the time or energy to post both on there and Cohost on the same day. I usually end up bulk-adding a few posts every few days just so I don't have to deal with the seemingly minor inconvenience of copy and pasting the embed. Somehow, just copy and pasting a link was just easy enough that I was like "ok, yeah, sure, I'll go ahead and make the post".

All the work I had done before made me feel leisurely enough about posting that I felt like posting a picture of my new plushie... and I just did it lmao.

So, now I'm wondering how I can make things even easier...

Post embeds

Yesterday, I read this post by Natalie about reblogging posts with h-entry. I had started writing a script to pull in post data using h-entry classes, but then I was like. Hm. This might take me some time to actually launch before I can actually start posting, and I'd much rather set things up in such a way that if the content disappears off the internet, it's at least still here on my blog. So, only I made a generic post embed shortcode (so far). This is what it looks like (please don't make fun of my code, I wrote it in 10 seconds, I promise I'll fix it...)

eleventy.js:

eleventyConfig.addPairedNunjucksShortcode("genembed",
    function(content, data) {
        let url = data.url
        let icon = data.icon
        let author = data.author
        let title = data.title
        return '<div class="extpost-generic">' +
                    '<div class="posthead">' + // postheader
                        '<img class="icon" src="' + icon + '">' +
                        '<div class="author">' +
                            '<a href="' + url + '">' + author + '</a>' +
                        '</div>' +
                    '</div>' +
                    '<div class="postcontent">' +
                        '<span class="posttitle">' +
                            '<a href="' + url +'">' + title + "</a>" +
                        '</span>' +
                        content +
                    '</div>' +
                '</div>'
    }
)

whatever.md:

{%genembed
    url="",
    icon="https://file.garden/ZRVhuzccGFWyKuG3/awawawa.jpg",
    author="@babyguyyy",
    title="e"%}

waawaawwawawwaaawwaw

{%endgenembed%}

It ends up looking like this (after some styling):

@babyguyyy

e

waawaawwawawwaaawwaw

Doing this is what frustrated me enough to finally say "maybe I should be using just one template engine instead of two". This went exactly as well as you'd expect it to.

Of course, there are a few issues with doing this. I will not be addressing them at this time <3

I also have tons of little things I want to tweak about it, that I will also be putting off in favor of doing other things :)

Quickly, some other things I've worked on

I talked about this in another post, but I had this problem a while back that basically, I kept accidentally almost making repeat music posts, so I had planned to add an archives page and a generated csv that had a list of every post over there.

These things are all now complete. I even continued posting to that blog. I have a few things here and there I plan on doing, but as of now, I am considering it's basic functionality complete. I even fixed the issue of the styling just. Not showing up on the individual post's pages. Go check it out if you think it sounds cool!

I was going somewhere with this...

I had a much longer thing written out here about this, specifically about like... some of the mechanisms around getting attached to the tools you make and use. I was going somewhere much more interesting with this, but I think I might make a second part to this post because it's quite thematically different (and long). I'll do this... someday.

Thank you for tuning in tonight :)

Another I Post Music Every Day Update

2024-10-01T07:30:00Z

I Post Music Everyday's feed now validates! Check it out!

Also, as a reminder, I won't be posting for a few days. Actually, due to some other circumstances, it may or may not extend past when I initially said it would, as I might not even have time to do the updates I was talking about.

Thank you for reading :)

I Post Music Every Day (Sometimes) - Update

2024-09-27T15:10:09Z

~~This is hopefully going to be a brief update.~~ (it was not. lmao)

I am planning some major changes to I Post Music Every Day (Sometimes). A lot of it will require me individually modifying every post over there. Nothing too complicated, just adding tags and additional data for me to use mostly on my end, and eventually to get to gen up an "every post" / "search" page. I already have my design for it all figured out, I just have to sit down and make it.

The problem is that with this being a daily blog, the longer I wait to make it, the longer it'll take me to update it. So, I am taking full advantage of that "(Sometimes)" in the title and going on a brief hiatus on the 1st of October. It will be between two days and a week. I don't think it's a week worth of work, but I'm coming up on a big assignment for school, so that will probably occupy some of my time next week.

By the end of the update, there should be at least a page listing every single post there, along with some miscellaneous information about each one.

Why even add a search function

While doing this on Cohost, I realized it was getting cumbersome to double-check myself that I wasn't making duplicate posts. In my backlogs, I had three of the same song at one point, over the span of just one month.

For further context, there are currently 26 posts. I haven't even posted a full months worth, and I'm struggling to keep track of what I'm doing.

I am not opposed to duplicates. It's actually something I plan on doing at some point, along with other things like compilation posts. One of the big things about this blog is being deliberate about everything I do. Not just on I Post Music, but over here, I wanted to make sure that when I'm doing this, I'm sitting down and actually doing the things that I intended. (hence the "Sometimes" -- forcing yourself to do something you don't want to or have to is a good way to do it poorly just to "get it out of the way").

Of course, in the end, I'm overthinking a blog that's just me sharing some music I'm listening to. But I'm having fun overthinking it, and that's all that matters.

I should also mention, if it looks like I'm not consistently posting it on here, I promise I mostly am on Cohost, I've just kinda sacrificed getting the posts over here for some work on my site and getting them posted on Cohost since that's a bit more time-limited. I'm also working on automating embeds a bit more just to make it a little easier on me.

PLUSHIE GET

2024-09-26T00:00:00Z

Look at his sweet face !!

I wish I'd been able to get an eggbug plushie, they would have been good friends :D

I feel like I should give a "real" update. Here's the update: I fixed the issue with post styling suddenly disappearing on my site. I slept all day yesterday (positive). Lastly, I Post Music Every Day (Sometimes) is now "live" (it was already live, it's just like an actual functioning site now). This is technically old news, I just never announced it here lmao. Check it out!

I've updated my website! Here's what I've done

2024-09-14T00:00:00Z

I've been working on this all week, so I'm gonna probably make this pretty brief.

I updated my about page with more up-to-date information, including links to my current social media (I'll post about this later) and an UPDATED EMAIL ADDRESS. Please email me. I will love you forever. Send me photos of your pets or give me music recommendations.

I also have a page that I'm workin on that was something I was wanting to do on Cohost and tested out for a while, so I moved it all onto here. I have no other links to it on the site, but here's a sneak peek at what it looks like. I plan to add pagination and uhhh... styling... and its own RSS feed at a later date. For now, I'll continue posting these around the same time I post them on Cohost until I can't post them on Cohost anymore. I thought I'd at least publish it so I don't feel like I've done all this work and managed to get nothing out there lol.

I have more life updates. I got a car and I like it a lot. I worked a bunch on my audio library, which I was in the process of working on last week, but I've taken a break for a bit to work on some other things. If you want updates on that before I make my writeup, I've talked about it on Mastodon quite a bit recently, so it shouldn't be hard to find a lot of information on my account about it. I'll relay all of that here later.

Anyways, as always, thanks for reading :)

I'm back! This is what I've been up to.

2024-06-19T00:00:00Z

Not going to be a long update, hopefully, although a lot of things happened. At least one or two of the things prevented me from writing anything on here!

My car got stolen!

Yes, I had a Kia. No, I won't be getting another. They're great cars. I'd just love keeping my car, my car's windows, and getting approved for car insurance. It's been a frustrating process. I like to think I've gotten my one big bad thing happening out of the way early this year, but this is the second car I've gone through this year. I'm looking for a new one still. It's kind of exciting! Though, it'll definitely not be as nice as my previous car, I'm hoping it'll at least look less stealable :p

I changed operating systems!

I've finally ditched Windows – too much headache for me. I've switched to NixOS. It's been so much more convenient to use for the most part! The learning curve is worth it, especially considering what I was dealing with previously…

Though, I did have a few hiccups.

It took me forever to get my graphics drivers working. This was mostly because 1) I don't know how to read and 2) my computer is a lot older than I like to think it is.
I had some issues getting this blog to rebuild. I fixed that by manually reinstalling all the packages, so now it works just fine.
Can't play Destiny 2 or Elden Ring :( (Don't worry, I've got a plan for this one).

I've been distracted sifting through my music collection

Last time I went to visit Oklahoma, my mom gave me basically the remaining bit of the family music collection, so now I've got my stuff AND everything my family has amassed in the past 20-30 years, and I'm in the middle of the slow process of ripping, organizing, and writing the metadata of all that. It's a lot of work, but it's also a lot of fun. I remember doing this stuff when I was a kid. Actually, I mostly enjoyed burning cds so I could listen to them at school on music day and at lunch, but I'm older now and I think just the organization process is relaxing. Also, having an excuse to listen to stuff I don't usually listen to, older stuff from the collection I haven't really thought about in a while. It's been nice. But also, I haven't spent a lot of time doing much else. I'd like to do some studying in preparation for next semester (actually, I'm really excited about doing another karuta competition in the spring, I can't say my motivation has been doing well in school… but I hope studying at least helps with that too). I've also played a lot of video games too, of course. And quite a bit of reading (I'm currently reading Thousand Autumns Volume 4 – I feel very normal about it jsyk).

Anyways, hopefully I'll have a more peaceful rest of the summer.

Later <3

I am married now

2024-04-05T00:00:00Z

I got married one week ago! I am also sick, so this is gonna be a low effort update post haha.

We had a little party with friends afterwards. Demitri made a cheesecake and tiramisu :D He also made jars of pickles which we gave out at the party. We had a bit of a cucumber situation, so we ended up making something like 12 jars of pickles.

@ArtificialAngel

Someone got into my boyfriend's instacart and bought a bunch of shit. They also sent us $30 worth of cucumbers and gushers by accident. I also have their address. I suddenly need pickling recipes and free annoying mail subscription recommendations.

I'M BACK, BABY

2024-03-28T00:00:00Z

About 12 years ago, I started writing a blog. It was really just a way to talk about some of my more niche interests without getting on my family's nerves, but now I have this cute little archive of who I was over the years, so that's neat. For about three years now, I've wanted to get back into just talking about myself and my stuff in general -- I'm a pretty private person for the most part, but that doesn't mean I don't want to talk about the things that interest me -- but I kind of felt like everything I've done since then is half-baked or not worth talking about at all. Anyways, here's the most viewed post on my old blog:

My Mom Caught A Mole (2012/8/5)

Yup. She just saw it and decided to pull it up out of the ground. I got to see him. SO CUTE!!!!!

Now, I really don't know where I developed this idea that I have to have some kind of blog theme from, but I really did just kind of write about whatever. I had, like, some software tutorials on there and a bunch of singing synth stuff. In my drafts, I had a log of all my troubles building a massive text generator.

Last week, I told one of my friends that I was working on this, and it told me "I give it 2 months before you forget all about your blog". I've been doing this for 12 years. BET.

Anyways, let me catch you up on what I've been doing for the past few years.

LAud

In 2020, I wanted to make a pure Lua text-to-speech library. I went down a bit of a rabbit hole and ended up writing my own audio library. I'm in the process of removing all my code from github, so you unfortunately can't look at it, but I'll have it back up somewhere eventually (and hopefully by then I will have fixed some of the issues with it). I also made the text-to-speech library, but it's pretty irrelevant. Here's what I ultimitely did with it:

https://soundcloud.com/trashbees/i-sold-my-soul-to-make-a-simple-text-to-speech-synth-so-i-could-play-the-navy-seals-copypasta

Webcomic stuffs

I started working on a webcomic forever ago called "What Did I Have For Breakfast", about a girl who can't remember what she had for breakfast. It is currently nowhere to be read (work in progress), HOWEVER, here is a small taste of what you might see when I start posting it in 20 years:

I do plan on eventually doing update logs, but I'm busy enough as it is right now with school and all...

Random art or whatever

Cornelius:

Mr. Boogers (sexy country boy):

Some wizards I think (idk, I don't remember making this but it's in my new art folder):

Conclusion!

I'm sure there's more stuff I'm forgetting, but I don't feel like thinking too hard about it right now. I'm always doing something. Maybe next time I do something, I'll remember to write about it? At least now, I feel like I'll have a proper start, now that I'm "all caught up" on posting my last 3 years of lore (everything I missed will come up when relevant, I'm sure).

Until next time :)