journal

welcome to my journal

this is going to be the place where i write out my heart and soul :D i likely won't get too deep or vent-y like some sites out there, so worry not. i'll likely just talk about my wins or some fun events! i look forward to seeing how this turns out :D

layout switchup 05/13/25 23:08

so you may have noticed my Quite Major layout switch up that's occurred this past week. you may also be wondering "HALE!!! why did you change your layout????!?!?!? monitoring was SOOO COOOLLLL" and boy howdy do i have an answer for you!!! drumroll please ... i felt like it!!!

in all honesty, there are actually a couple reasons i changed the layout:

• all the motion lagged out the site (no good)
• i don't love iframes anymore
• i hadn't changed anything about it in MONTHS and i wanted something new
• the aesthetic didn't line up with what i wanted to do with my site anymore
• there are some site i've seen that i really love the look of and inspired me to get back into coding!! i've listed them in my credits page
• i've been hyperfixating on milgram and they have a lot of pngs lmao

i felt pretty restricted by my old theme and didn't find myself pulling up vscodium to do anything other than colors tcg (which is SOOO fun btw you should def join!). i want to get back into curating my site (especially since i came back to HOLY MOLY so many views.... ) so i did what i knew would get me back into it: coding everything from scratch!

i can say it was a very rewarding experience :D my first layout took me a few days to make, the second as well. this most recent one was done in just a day! i do think it's because it is quite simple, but also it is coded much better as well, which i do think has something to do with it.

i've been working on improving my dev skills while i play my silly card game so to be able to come back with so much more experience gathered over the course of a few months was very refreshing. i really feel like i have a good grasp over html and css, and while my js is Very lackluster i know my way around it enough to do some simple things (like my yaoi shrine's windows! i coded those mostly by myself except for the draggable code. but! once again very proud of myself. great fun!

i got a little side-tracked omg. i felt restricted and stuck on one track with my previous layout. this one, however, is super customizable! since my interests change so much, i fear commitment with a certain theme. with this, however, it's very easy to switch it up. i have it set up so i can set a bunch of color variables and set each page's accent to any color i want. i can also swap out all the images very easily. if in a few weeks (or even days lets face it) i get more interested in something Other than milgram, i will be able to change everything out super quick!

i've already started branching out from milgram. my about page is cherry magic themed, simply because i had a lot of manga caps laying around in my downloads from when i read it last week :D i'm thinking of making another page seven days themed, and maybe kaworu will make an apperance. who's to say! not i! that's the beauty of pawpyrus.art 3.0!

goodness me i've rambled for so long... well i'm super glad to have a new layout (even if this journal about it is rather late) and i'm looking forwards to making all new pages to fill it out!

interview with the vampire pt.1 thougts!02/23/25 23:24

my friends and i are doing a book club for interview with the vampire by anne rice because one of my friends is particularly autistic about it... and hoo boy is it interesting. i can understand my friend's autism.

we just finished watching the first three episodes of the newer show and... it's an interesting diversion from the book. we only read part 1 and decided to watch the first few episodes bc the entirety of the first season is just .. part 1 .. so its a good place to start and keep us interested you know?

lestat is such an interesting character i think he's my favorite <:3 there's definitely a lot he's not letting on or telling louis and then by extension not telling us the readers. which is a fascinating writing choice i love it a lot. anne rice is very good with this ambiguous character motivation that we can't really see just yet. but im super excited for the vampire lestat because we get more of his internal world :3

the way the first three episodes differed from the book were also very interesting... my friends and i all discussed how the show makers probably thought a few changes wouldnt be tooooo big of a deal but they actually have CRAZY consequences and implications for the story as a whole.

anyways sooo super excited for the next episodes and also the next part <:3

new blog layout! 02/20/25 10:53

wow... nearly a month since my last blog post... oopsies!!!

anyways, i saw that had made a new blog layout, and checked out what she was inspired by! i found turd's blog and loooooved the way it worked, so i decided to do something similar.

i really like how this works a lot better than my old blog, so i'll likely be updating this a lot more. yippee!! great success!

honestly that's it for now. this isn't a very exciting update... lololol

oh wait!!!! i also saw turd's music log, and as a BIG BIG BIG music guy, i also thought i would do something similar to that. possibly my next project :3

i made a webring! 01/23/25 16:24

Since I've finished most of the building blocks of my site and now its just small touch ups here and there (and also finishing up some of my projects cough classpectingcough) I decided to see if I could make a webring! So, I did!

Its title is FujoRing Out and its a webring for fujos! And also fudanshis, himejoshis and himedanshis too! I think I'm very clever for the title. You know. Like. Fujoing out. Fujo...ring... out... yeah I'm clever.

It was actually a lot easier than I thought it would be! But of course it did have its difficult moments. I ussed onionring for the base and fiddled around with everything until I thought it looked perfect! And it is perfect: you can see it live on my home page.

Mostly I just wanted something to practice and thought that FujoRing Out would be a perfect starting place since it's quite a niche topic for a webring and mostly just for fun. I learned a lot, though, so I'll likely make more webrings in the future! They're a lot of fun and also I get to make new webpages for them hehe. An excuse to start from scratch every time! That's my favorite thing about webdev, is making New things. It's great fun, really!

Alright, that's all I had to say on that topic. Making a WebRing was fun! I hope to do it again soon.