I was gonna do up a long piece explaining the MySQL MoodMatch thing for my album reviews I've been putting together, but eh. It can wait a couple days. Here's something I doodled up for Caby! She's been going through it a little lately, and I figured good vibes are what's needed right now. I really love how this came out. I was even having issues drawing Cammy the other day, let alone Wren, so the fact that both came out real easy (after a nice Saturday morning drive through the countryside) Read more
This is a little old news now, but I haven't posted it anywhere yet, so let's fix that tonight. Lince! There's a certain old Cammy drawing with a big stuffed marf (you can see it on his original original 2019 ref) that we learned a few months ago dcb was mildly obsessed with for a time, so I decided to draw him a Lince version (featuring his real life plushie Timber!) as a present for completing this semester. Came really quick for how complicated the pose is, and he loves it! I'm proud of it Read more
If you head out to any flavor of mari.somnol now, you'll see a story! Potentially more, by the time you're reading this! If you caught the previous post I did on my DocBook story build system, you know that it's been kind of a gigantic process already. It took another gigantic process to get it over the finish line, but I'm happy to say that I've hit all the targets I wanted to: one script to build six different versions of each story from a single double-click. I then put the output into my Read more
Like I said the other day, I've got a small pileup of books—mostly music books, but with a few oddball topics on there as well—that general lack of time and patience has kept me from digging into. Cold anything is a hard proposition, but especially cold reading. Just picking up a book and starting, I dunno, it's not something I normally find myself in the habit of. Desertbound on Kindle did get me going though, and I'm eager to keep it going. I must've been in a Barnes and Noble last year Read more
Earlier today, my mom told me of a local flea market with metric shittons of vinyl and CDs going for cheap, and well, it reminded me that I hadn't even opened my previous cheap CDs, let alone catalogued them. (40 hour menial job work weeks are nightmarish, turns out.) Let's do that quick. Here's some CDs, DVDs, records, and games I bought this spring that I've yet to show off on here. Quick notes and stories on some of these: Most of the CDs came from a store called FYE (like FYI, but For Your Read more
I have finished reading Desertbound! That's Savannah's still in-progress Pinède novel. She hasn't been too loud about it publicly, but believe me, it's a whopper—and contradicting that, also just a nice, tidy little adventure novel. I have a pretty unique perspective on it, partially because it stars (massively overhauled versions of) some of the characters she was kicking around back when I first met her, and we were just two awkward and sad preyed on teenagers that grouped under this Read more
I've had the idea kicking around for a few months now, but it's finally come time to put it into action: stories deployed on all three of my websites from a single source file. The issue with nofi/lofi/hifi is that it takes some novel ideas to synchronize content across all three. Even though my stories don't change a whole lot once they're posted, the fact that I need to maintain three different versions of the markup for each (owing to nofi using no CSS and lofi and hifi using different CSS), Read more
I've had a bit of a second wind with mari.somnol recently! There was talk on Aftersleep about other people implementing theme switchers on their sites, and it reminded me I put up something similar on hifi and then only gave people two themes to play with. I've now added two more and made a whole ton of improvements to how the style selector works as a whole and how the site loads assets based on the current theme. As one of those projects I intended to get back to when I had more time (and now Read more
If you've known me for a very long time, we're talking the teen years, and even then, you had to be close to me—okay, so basically, only Savannah knows, but still—I've actually had OC ideas and ambitions since I was 14, but a lack of drawing ability really kept me from sharing them widely. I tried to write them, but nobody reads that shit and it wasn't very good anyway. Even since I learned to draw, there's been a certain fear I've had of actually designing them for whatever reason. 2025 Read more
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