25 august 2025
I was very excited to see that my application for the town had been processed- and promptly spent most of my evening puttering around with setting up my homepage here.
Still getting a handle on how to use the terminal- there's a lot of clumsy ending and restarting the session, and futzing around to pull up new options- all good fun!
I dropped an introduction post over on the town's board, (after figuring out how to zoom through posts, yippee!) and my good ol' reliable table HTML element never fails for when you desperately want to add an adorable kitty picture onto your front page alongside a little 'about me' blurb, as I can't quite figure out how to add multiple pages. The nav element has also been putting in the work so far. I'm glad to say that my time puttering around with pure HTML/CSS on Neocities while waiting for my invitation has paid off! It's looking pretty snazzy, for a one page wonder.
I'm up later than I have been, as of late- too caught up in the excitement of learning the ropes. I also had a bunch of the delicious homemade matcha sugar cookies, and a matching, super milky matcha tea this evening, so perhaps that has something to do with it. The rain is heavy and cooling, as August wanes- I can't wait for autumn to come. With it, will be much cooler weather- and an excuse to break out my brand new green beanie, while strutting around downtown in my no-nonsense black leather boots.
I spent some time fiddling around with Inky, this evening, and managed to make the interface pink- and figure out how the Inkberry companion works for previewing the CSS changes. Still wrangling the concept of the Weave around in my head again, but I managed to set a few global variables, and I think I've gotten the hand of the general structure. I'm thinking haunted houses. My writing partner took a lovely early Sunday off, and we're batting around a few cute PBP TTRPG replies at the moment- a fluffy scene babysitting a silly, sweet toddler hanging out with her uncle while playing scavenger hunt, and a fluffy romantic scene between two vampires looking after their pet kittens.
I'm pretty sleepy. It's a marvel where all the time goes. In about a week, classes start- and I'm hoping to maybe use this as a way to capture some of my thoughts and side quests during graduate school. The big city calls- and I've so dearly missed the neon lights. Moving's exhausting, but hey- a new story awaits.