Captain's Log
Hi! I built the homepage from scratch again. And by scratch I mean entirely from scratch. No templates. Just working from the boilerplate up, using proper semantic HTML.
I've been working on this update for a while. I want this site to be more accessible. It's definitely not perfect, I am still a novice, but it should be greatly improved.
Anyway, aside from the homepage, I also redid the design of my blog and my zine index.
Oh and uh, by the way I published an entire book of my poetry on this site. It's called October.
Happy Disability Pride month, stay creative, do the best you can, make your own website, and follow your dreams y'all
Happy May Day! I updated my links page.
New landing page. Cuz I feel weird not warning ya what's ahead, if I make a dirty joke or you see a naked pixel lady. The layout was based on code by Cinni. I do my best to make pages responsive so I hope it works.
Kalechips was right when they said "If every element on your website is meticulously sized down to the pixel and uses position:absolute to go where it needs to be, you are making your life ridiculously hard." I want to find a balance between gaudy & expressive web design, and those elegant responsive minimalist and most importantly accessible indieweb sites.
In other news:
- uploaded the gallery which I have been hoarding on my hard drive for over a year, and it's led to a silly 404 all that time
- and now introducing dark mode (for every page except the gallery), because it's easy on the eyes, and it also works as a functional compromise between my old monochromatic vibe and my crazy color palette. It's based on your browser/device settings; maybe I'll figure out how to add a toggle button another time.
- Joined Baccyflap's No AI ring. I also moved my rings to the index because I like when rings are easy to find and click through while following the chain
- As you can see, it's been a long time since my last update. Believe it or not, I have been picking away at delovely all this time. I have been very busy since my last semester of college + graduating. Getting unexpectedly sick and having to take some time off of work gave me a chance to actually put some ideas into motion.
Thank you so much to everyone who has left a message in my guestbook. They've all made me smile through the months! It's really lovely to know my work & words have gotten through to others.
Home page now in living color.
Introducing the travel log, my way of tracking where I've lost my mind.
Update link directory & about page
A sudden spark of divine inspiration led me to revamp the front page
Updated my zine page
Merry Christmas – I have two new links pages, one on Buddhist links and one on neat stuff to read. As cool as it is to compile and share a reference for myself & for others on the net, I feel a bit like Sisyphus, it's a neverending task. I need to work on redesigning the original links page, but I also want to focus on my own original content... See what I mean!
Made a webgarden!
Made a Sitemap, added some book reviews.
Revamped zine page and uploaded two new ones.
Joined Viatrix's Cuddler webring
A redesign, a journal using m150's blog code. I hope to post there when I feel inspired to.
It's been a while. There's more I want to do, but I feel if I don't update now, I'll never update at all.
Ate some spicy chicken today.
Just small nitpicks here and there. Found a CSS trick that makes images stay nice and pixelly. Made a zinester blinkie 
Published delovely's "raison-d'être." Tried to make the homepage more mobile-friendly.
New stickers & blinkies for my scrapbook ♡
Also made a blinkie and mini badge to link to my site.
Updated my zine reader to use EZMReader. Clunky as it was, I'm sort of proud of the old code I made, because it was something I made entirely myself that actually worked.. but this is a giant improvement! Thanks so much Jeremy Oduber for the code, and also to Aelphaba for using it on their site. (I really enjoyed reading their lovely zines!)
Happy to join Olivia's Zinester web webring!
School's been hectic, life's been weird!
Neatened up the homepage. Added Cinni's Basiic font as a back-up for devices that don't have MS Gothic.
Joined Status Cafe.
Things are complicated. My feelings about it see-saw. Today, I'm feeling pretty down and hopeless. So working on my website was a nice way to be calm and chill with my thoughts.
I hope things slow down this week. Actually, tomorrow I get to attend a workshop from a famous poet at my university. I'm excited for that. Though it's online and I hate Zoom calls...
I'm waxing personal, but whatever. I read some nice poems today by Paul Laurence Dunbar. "Come and Kiss Me" and "Why Fades a Dream"
Added a little radio to the links page, so you can listen to WPRB Princeton as you browse. Shows can be wildly different from one another so... don't assume I'm a fan of everything that's playing! LOL. Radio from Muses.
Made my zines page and shared my latest one!
Reorganized the links a little and added some more stuff to it. It's ever-evolving.
Added quotes to my scrapbook. It was really quite a scary coincidence; the day I started making it was the same day Thich Nhat Hanh passed, and I didn't realize until later. I'm so grateful for all he gave to this world, and to me
I made two things to help me not think about the horrible things currently going on in my life. :')
First, my new button!
I also made a bi blinkie. I couldn't find one perfect for me online, so... ^_^
Credit to nonty for Heart Font.
As for the horrible things, long story short, I was stalked on my campus on the last day of classes last semester, and going back to school has been really hard. I think I'm physically safe for now, but I can't convince myself I'm safe, mentally.
Hey. Did you recognize me? Today I published a major redesign, built mostly from scratch (aside from the scrapbook, which I really just wanted to throw together ASAP.) I stripped the aesthetics down to be very basic, compared to my old design.
I'm working on a zine right now, by hand, and I was mostly inspired by that. I wanted my site's style to feel sort of like my zines!
I was also inspired by the Openbooks manifesto to think of my website in a different light: We are not reliving the old web, we are creating a new one, and taking back the web from corporations trying to sell us social networks.
I was also biting off way more than I could chew! Especially with the semester coming up, how could I expect myself to update that frequently? TT__TT
This time I took a step back and actually taught myself the basics of CSS... Templaterr helped me a lot.
The link directory is pretty ginormous now, and I've moved the glitzier aspect of my site into my scrapbook. I hope this is a lot more sustainable. ^_^
There are a lot of things I want to add and fix as of now, but if I keep going, I may never have my site updated by the time school starts...
Added my music page and first ever song of the week! Happy New Year!
Joined the Yesterweb webring. Yay! ^_^
Made my own blinkie, feel free to take. :)
Added a row of fanlistings to the bottom of my blinkie rack. I'm worried it's too many images. I may work on a dedicated fanlistings page or remove them all together. Tbh I still don't fully understand them.
Added a secret page to my about me...
Added two buttons.
Added links and acknowledgements pages. + this page.
+ a cute little birdie cursor from Totally Free Cursors.
Swapped out some blinkies and added new ones. (I'm worried I might have an obsession. Browsing Blinkie Obsession did not help.)
Oh and by the way... MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!! <3
So much! Garden, about page, blinkies. (Too obnoxious? Oh well... I really love them!) Pimped out my guestbook.
Trying out a template by Websets by Lynn. Added a page to index my logs. A fun 404 page because I absolutely adore Diabella Loves Cats and must pay hommage to her somewhere on my site.
Hello world!