And we're back!
SO! I’ve rebooted my neocities more times than I’ve used it, let me tell you.
We are FINALLY re-open for business though! Getting this site to shape up did imply a lot more re(-re-re-re-re…)building than I expected even when I first started working on rebooting the site back in February, and naively thought I’d have it done on time for the 23rd for the year and a day joke of finally finishing a site I started on February 22nd 2022.
But if I’m posting this now it means I’ve managed to continue to figure out Astro (And Tailwind! I really like Tailwind!) and I’m actually comfortable with how the site is structured, its look and the content stuff to show in it as well.
The stuff really is the most important bit truth be told. We talk about how nice it would be for everyone to have a website but I fully feel the people who go “What the heck would I even put in one?”. I myself am not a frequent artist or writer, and the last years have been odd (both at the personal level and in the fandom zeitgeist) to a point where even my involvement in fandom has been sketchy at best.
So yes, what will I put here?
Specially since I did throw out the 2022 posts to start fresh…
- Well, for starters we have my fanfiction, and my two most recent Helltaker fanfics can already be found here.
- I also have OCs, like my D&D Bladesinger Loro and my FFXIV WoL, who I’ve drawn and had art commissioned for, and it’d be nice if I could collect it all in the same place. That’s my second most immediate WIP.
- The first would be my friends, cool artists and writers whose own websites and work I enjoy and would like to link to.
- I’d also like to have somewhere to put up some more longform blogging, either as an offshoot on threads I might write on Blorbo Social, ship manifestos, squeeing about cool stuff, new fandoms and the like. But that’s a muscle I haven’t flexed in a while despite what this entry might look like.
- Maybe fun exercises like webshrines? Interest pages? I already have a guestbook I implemented as an Astro component while following Sadgirl Online’s tutorial. It’ll be fun to take on other self imposed technical challenges like figuring out how pagination works, or making more pure css images like the little flags you see on the sidebar.
In the end, all I want is the little online niche I haven’t had since the porn ban took me out of the infinitely manicured webcorner my tumblr used to be. Even the layout here is frankly a bit reminescent of old tumblr themes, and frankly that’s kind of on purpose.
Guess that’s a good enough mission statement. 😊
Love and Peace!
- Citro