Cleaning Things Up

So some things about Publii aren't super intuitive. Go figure. Still more intuitive than most SSGs I tried.

As you may have noticed, I cleaned this site up quite a bit. The width is now 95% of the screen, I'm actually using the author page, the hero section is gone unless I can think of something useful to put there, and so on. One big thing is the navbar. I had to put the navigation links in the hero section until I realized I still had the Terminal theme's page open in my browser, went to close it, and just happened to notice the navbar in the screenshot. Of course, Publii's documentation for people actually wanting to use it isn't so great, so I went to the demo website and used inspect element to get a hint as to what and where the options for that were. Turns out it's the menus tab, but then after you create a menu, you have to add it to a group called Main Menu? I'm not sure if Terminal just has one slot and there are other themes with more than just the main menu, but it seemed kinda unnecessary, since I don't see a way to create more groups like that. Now that I have that figured out, though, it's looking pretty good.

Aside from that, I recently read The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. It's written in first person present tense, and while I don't really like present tense (it just doesn't feel good to me), it did get me thinking that maybe some of my stuff would be better in first person. Yeah, remember that story I talked about way back in the first post? I'll have to take another look at it, but it might be getting rewritten in first person. I'm actually working on a different story right now, and I want to at least finish a draft of that before I touch something else.

I need to write a postmortem of that VN I wrote as well, also mentioned in that first post. I really am proud of it, even if it was rushed (because I am my own worst enemy when it comes to actually doing this writing thing). People who say they need inspiration kind of upset me, come to think of it. I've got a million ideas and I can come up with more on the fly, I do NOT need anymore inspiration. What I need is that perspiration part. That's my fucking issue. I should also start shitposting more. Shitposting is fun. If you do want to read my shitposty works, you can see my AO3 here. Currently, all my shitposts are fanfiction, and all my fanfiction is shitpost, though maybe I should write more original shitposts.

Something else I'd like to do, speaking of shitposts, is make some web pages that are more in line with the Neocities/Geocities throwback aesthetic that are more typical of this website. This site is somewhat of a throwback to old web design, too. If you've ever heard of Maddox's Best Webpage in the Universe, I actually took a lot of cues from him for both this and the old site. Now, Maddox turned out to be a not so great guy, but I really took his thoughts on web design to heart. Simple, easy to read text, no distracting GIFs or weird microfonts, just a focus on the writing I am putting up here. Yeah, I know this site is a premade theme, but I chose it with those design principles in mind. However, the old Geocities (or Geoshitties, as Maddox referred to it) aesthetic has a beauty to it all its own. If I do make some, they'll be subdomains on this site, so stay tuned for that, hopefully maybe.

Hopefully, you'll be hearing from me again soon, this time with something to actually show for it.