talking about my wubsite

As I bring this aeon to a close I realized this site's birthday passed! I've been writing here for two years. Amazing! It feels so natural at this point. I'm always thinking about this site and what to do with it but I realized, I never really write about it in my diary. So, I thought I'd document where I'm at right now creatively and technically.

I spend a lot of time making backgrounds. I decided to go for a black and white and pink theme to reference that I've always seen synchronicities of black, red, and white things throughout my life and didn't realize why until demons started sending me dreams in the same color palette. Red is cool, but I've come to accept that I love the color pink and always have. I make all my backgrounds in Photopea, which is free. I take inspiration from dreams I have and realms I've been to. A lot of the backgrounds have references to my favorite occult books. The Cloud of Unknowing, Gruppo Di Nunn (duh), and Liber HVHI. Some of them are more elaborate than others because I like to collect graphics over time. I'm a fan of slow internet, and don't like the idea of rushing the creative process for an algorithm. I'm inspired a lot by purikura photobooths and Japanese flip phones right now. I'm also into these super cute edgy affirmations Hekate sends me and different space articles Stolas sends of photographs from space, which inspired the background of the realms page.

When I don't get my assets digitally I find them in real life. I lost all my scans of flowers on my old computer, so I have to go flower picking for the new theme. Alastor and I go on forest walks together and that's where I get a lot of the nature pictures you're seeing. I live around a lot of nature right now and I'm surrounded by bunnies and deer and it made me realize there aren't enough cute animals on the site! So I put a dissected rat and a kitten smoking weed. Lucifer sent me this kaomoji site, and it's perfect for me and my kawaii needs! There are things and assets I have in mind that I don't want to put out there before they simply are, but I'm intending this site becomes really maximalist, dense, and somehow still browser friendly. My virtual collection of memories. ♡

If you've looked around some stuff is kind of broken. This is because I'm having an identity crisis over fonts. Fonts are tricky because I love a textured font but textured fonts do not love being rendered by browsers. JavaScript is the most challenging part and also the most interesting. I like making things move, and I try to think of my site as software. I have a certificate in UX Design and I try to find a balance between accessibility and creative expression. I make sacrifices, and I've admittedly been kind of haphazard about alt text in the past, but a lot of the design choices I've made are very intentional. Web design is like a form of theatre for me and I focus on how to make each page feel cohesive even if they're visually different through call and response. I prefer when a site doesn't need explaining to navigate it, I like when everything speaks for itself. I do miss having some kind of update log though, there are ideas I have for that but one of them has been taking up my time because it involves software engineering which I'm learning as I go along. It's kind of frustrating right now because some of the diary buttons are broken and I have to go back and fix them, which I will. I still struggle to find out how to organize and prioritize such a big project but it helps to remember this isn't a project with a finite end. I'm always changing and so is my site, and I like that.

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