I’ve noticed that many artists avoid drawing their characters’ foreheads, to the point that their bangs appear unaffected by gravity when the characters are upside down.

I complain a lot about the state of fandom spaces on the internet (have you read this and this?) so it surprises me that I haven’t blamed the gringos for anything yet.

Supposedly, the English-speaking side of the internet is more international/diverse. In reality it’s gringos who monopolize discourse and establish values, logics, and etiquette. The stupid culture war became real when people outside the United States started treating media in terms of “woke vs non-woke,” and when yelling “media literacy!!!” became cooler than actually applying it. A random dude will “explain” an anime in a 1-minute video on TikTok and young folks will absorb whatever he said as the truth if it sounds morally appealing.

Or a game like Stellar Blade gets mentioned because of its sexual content on a liberal website; right wingers see it later and overrepresent the opinion that made them mad about a game that actually nearly no one complained that much about. Like, who gives a fuck about a very specific sexualized character? Are you kidding me? That drama was 100% fabricated, and intentionally or not it polarized people around a false dichotomy.

But you see, both the liberal media and the conservatives are rewarded with interactions and peace of mind, so that’s all that matters, right? Something-something-capitalism, I suppose.

The smartest people I know from the internet are usually not gringos. Smart people think feminism and anti-fascism are good causes, and that they are not necessarily in contradiction with whatever specific shocking or fucked up content you might find in something fictional. Nor do they base their education on TikTok videos.

I don’t mind autoplay background music on personal websites, but I can understand why other people hate it.

I don’t understand why no one complains about nested vertical scrolling, though? Like vertically scrollable areas within an already vertically scrollable page. That’s a UX nightmare.

Legend says Melty Blood: Type Lumina was going to be a Fate fighting game but they decided to give Melty Blood a sequel instead.

I don’t think this is true but it could be, because what other reasons could there possibly be for Fate not having a modern fighting game?

I’m back®©™. I’ve been visiting a few of the personal websites that I already got to know thanks to neocities, so could say I never left? But I admit I rarely visit those sites without RSS feeds.

There are more updates I want to do here, related to both content and the layout (I want to give everyone an excuse to read the thoughts I have about the stuff I watch without reading my entire posts!) but this will do for now.

I liked the idea of answering the questions in this prompt I found on layercake, but I think I’ll split it into many entries of several questions at a time because a few of them deserve a post(s) of their own.

Ok let’s say I’m back. I have a lot of stuff to do, tho.

I should’t add new content without “finishing” the design of my web first. The main menu is incomplete, the microblog could have its own RSS feed, my media log doesn’t have a proper index, bla bla. So I’ll be working on this for the next couple of days.

It’ll be hard, but hey.

I have not abandoned my site. I simply haven’t been active anywhere online

In fact, I haven’t been very active irl, which is a problem. There are projects I haven’t tocuhed in months and I feel guilty about it.

By the way, this site supports RSS. Not just its root (/): every section like /blog, /favorites, and /anime also has a feed. Just add the URL you’re interested in to your RSS reader and it should find the resource (and if it can’t, just add the /index.xml.) I haven’t included a feed for the microblog because of reasons.

I found an interesting article about “nerd spaces” and gatekeeping, so to speak. Then another one that held a different perspective.

Let’s see what I can say about it, heh.

Well, this is a hello world of sorts for the microblogging feature.

I kinda like it. For the preview thingie I tried to make it like a TV, so it clamps the text to only show the first two lines and starts from the bottom.

As with everything else so far on my website, I didn’t use JavaScript. Maybe I should have. Working with font sizes in CSS has always been a pain, and there are certain things that don’t support transitioning.