#Interactive Webpages

[gagande]

Purecode reviews | DOM Manipulation

DOM manipulation lies at the core of crafting dynamic and interactive webpages. The DOM elements can be selected using methods such as document.getElementById(), document.getElementsByClassName(), and document.getElementsByTagName().

[decadence-divination]

does anybody else feel like the internet as a whole has become entirely unusable in the last year or two?

[kelyghtbooks]

Adding interactive webpage to stretch goals! Maybe even a v-tuberish avatar! (Not for streaming, more like a mascot.)

It would be like a point and click page with links attached to items in the background.

Probably not great for marketing, but seems like it would be insanely fun! I hope I can do it someday!

[etirabys]

just ran the command "code gay.html" on my remote server

[exasperatedoctopus]

The BATS are coming. Do not approach a BAT. Do not touch a BAT. If you see a BAT no you don’t, leave the room and call the authorities. You are a Bat Nark now.

[purefilly-connection]

Navigating Community Involvement: Seeking Connection Without the Politics

What do you do to be involved in the community? In today’s fast-paced world, the concept of community can feel both comforting and complex. We’re drawn to the idea of knowing our neighbors, participating in local events, and being part of something larger than ourselves. However, the reality often involves navigating through layers of politics and dynamics that can sometimes overshadow the sense…

[therealsinnohdawn]

confession: i have just never paid attention to tumblr live

[psychesalcove]

i'm recording this - um, while drinking a baja blast, so bear with me. okay, ready?

𐔌՞. .՞𐦯 saja boys x fem. manager reader

synopsis: you managed to get yourself a position as the manager for the newest boy band: saja boys. with the lines of professionalism and something more quickly becoming blurry, you find yourself in a position of something darker—not that you're aware of that, though. cw: lower case intended, not proofread, fic is a little more focused on baby's interactions b/c he's my favorite (whoops...), reader goes to the gym but idk if that's a cw, non professional relationships with people but who's surprised

authors note: first fic for kpdh!!! idk how i did with accurately portraying the characters, so plz bear with me on that lmao :( i hope you enjoy though, this was super fun to write!!! ALSO if any of you guys have any requests for kpdh pleaseeee send them in i wanna write more for these guys i'm sure not sure what 2 write lmao

۶ৎ how you managed to snag a job as a manager to the rising idols known as the saja boys? you have absolutely no idea.

۶ৎ you were a recent graduate (with a master's in marketing, thank you for asking) and were desperately filling out job applications in your condo

۶ৎ like desperate to the point where you weren't exactly looking closely as to who you would be working for - but seriously, who could blame you? you were pretty sure everyone did that anyone, at least you think

۶ৎ days passed after you pulled an all-nighter that was spent glaring into your computer screen, you received an email (and it wasn't saying that your amazon package had been delivered)

۶ৎ you honestly thought it was a mistake at first, but your name was written multiple times in the text, and what seemed to be classified information was being shared with you.

۶ৎ yep. you had applied to be a manager for a boy k-pop group, and you didn't even remember. and you were chosen.

۶ৎ a job is a job though, right?

۶ৎ after you filled out all the online paperwork they had already sent you to solidity your newfound position as manager, you went onto your phone to see who you even were going to be managing

۶ৎ turns out, you were going to be in charge of one of the current most popular k-pop groups right now

૮ ․ ․ ྀིა you let out a long breath as you watched a variety clip from tiktok play on your screen. the saja boys were all sitting in their respective seats, and answering questions when the interviewer asked. you honestly weren't even paying that much attention to what they were saying on the clip. your mind was more focused on the fact that these five were going to be the people you were now a manager for. a job is a job, was your thought as you closed at least twenty different webpages that were all talking about the saja boys.

۶ৎ the anxiety you were having for the first day on the job? levels beyond anything you had ever had; which was saying something, considering the terrifying laundry room in the basement of your condo complex

۶ৎ you sat in your car, which was parked in the staff parking lot, to this tall—almost skyscraper-looking building. you had the mirror down, and you were scanning your face and hair for any errors

۶ৎ your hair was neatly done. makeup intact (and no, you did not have lipstick on your teeth, you checked one too many times to be sure), your necklace hanging loosely from your neck, your outfit intact, and a vanilla scent still lingering around you from perfume

۶ৎ entering the building was a whole other ballpark. you had a friendly conversation with the receptionist (quin, her name was), and had managed to navigate to the right floor where the saja boys now were (the paperwork you filled out had said they would be moving locations frequently, but today it was in this building)

۶ৎ you had found the right floor, but you had in fact not found the right room from the get go

۶ৎ (you walked into a more than sexual photoshoot going on, but you, the photographer and the model all choose not to touch more on the subject)

۶ৎ after that interaction, you found the right room

۶ৎ though, upon entering, you concluded that you'd rather be in the previous room you were in rather than this one

૮ ․ ․ ྀིა your heels clicked on the floor as the doors automatically slid open, and all five pairs of eyes inside the room immediately went towards the sound. you paused in your steps at the attention now on you, though the confident look on your face didn't falter. the boy with teal hair—whom you recognized as baby from the extensive number of videos you watched before this day—tilted his head back slightly and looked you up and down, with one eyebrow raised. fun, he's an idol who also seems to be full of himself. how great. though, as you looked at the rest of them, their egos didn't seem much different, minus the one standing in the corner, seemingly wanting to be one with the shadows. the only one with non-colorful hair was the one to speak first. "you must be our new manager, correct?" he mused, eyes doing the same motion that baby seconds ago. you curtly nodded at him, hands awkwardly at your side. even with your degree, it seemed that your classes hadn't prepared students for first-day job stuff; that was your own to learn. he nodded in return. "great. i'm jinu," he introduced himself, even though you were fairly certain they all knew that you already knew them by name.

۶ৎ the rest of the boys introduced themselves, which included:

۶ৎ romance being dramatic and saying how you must've been an angel sent down from heaven to save them all (which all the others chuckled at, though you aren't sure why)

۶ৎ abby immidentially asking if you had seen his 'bod' as he put it while flexing, very obviously trying to get a reaction out of you

۶ৎ baby was leaning against a wall, now not looking at you, but rather a phone. he didn't look up, eyes simply set on the screen

۶ৎ (not that you minded at this point; he seemed to be the most egotistical out of them, maybe)

۶ৎ your head turned towards the last person in the room who hadn't introduced himself: mystery

۶ৎ jinu quickly intersected, though, and introduced mystery for him, which still got no reaction out of said boy

۶ৎ unlike what you were expecting, they didn't really well...lay down rules for you to follow?

۶ৎ like, no instructions, plan, nothing.

۶ৎ the one thing you did have, though—your tablet.

۶ৎ you had gotten one during your time at university, the device very, very helpful for studying, taking notes, basically anything

۶ৎ so, of course, you had brought it with you

۶ৎ the only sensible thing to do seemed to be to start from skratch with these guys

۶ৎ which meant new schedule, new dance routines, studios, showings, fanmeets—new everything.

۶ৎ the rest of your first day went fine, which meant you spent it glued to your tablet, figuring out where to even start

۶ৎ romance did approach you once, and flirted, which resulted in you staring at him blankly until he scooted away, mildly dejected

۶ৎ this setup became a routine for a short amount of time

۶ৎ you would go to whatever building they were set up in that day, walk around with your tablet shoved into your face, and have minimal interaction with all the saja boys

۶ৎ though with time, you started to notice a shift with the group of you

۶ৎ it started with romance, which wasn't too surprising, figuring he was the most social with you off the bat

۶ৎ he approached you one day, phone in hand, and was grinning ear to ear

۶ৎ you raised your eyebrow at him, but let him speak

۶ৎ romance had learned about the song cruel summer by taylor swift, and, according to him, he was now a die hard taylor fan

۶ৎ he then went into a rant about how you had to schedule a dance routine to this song for the rest of them, even though it wasn't one of theirs

۶ৎ it managed to happen - and romance was living life to the fullest during that routine

۶ৎ you also learned that he loved skincare

۶ৎ love is almost an understatement for his passion

۶ৎ you would see him in the studio, backstage before a show, almost anywhere, and he would be busy doing his skincare

۶ৎ he even had a jade face roller, which he would constantly use in-between fan signings

۶ৎ one day, he saw you eying him as he did his usual routine of ice rollers and jade rollers

۶ৎ so, naturally, he came up to you and offered a face massage

۶ৎ you stared blankly at him. "you go on in twenty minutes."

۶ৎ "so?"

۶ৎ that's how you ended up sitting on a couch with romance, more closer than necessary, with him gently massaging your face with his skincare products

۶ৎ "this is very, uhm - unprofessional, you know that right?" you asked, though you were making no move to stop the action from happening

۶ৎ he simply grinned in response. "who's stopping us, right?" he asked back

۶ৎ one of your most predominant notes of him on your tablet was written as such:

۶ৎ 'romance has a weird thing with shakespeare poems, or any "romance" poem in general, kinda weird, but it's who he is,"

۶ৎ this note came from when you found him backstage, reading a shakespeare poem with over the top emotions

۶ৎ he saw you, paused for a moment, stared back at you, and then continued his performance of the poem

۶ৎ you stayed and watched, lips pressed into a thin line, but as he finished and walked away like nothing happened, you let out a small laugh

૮ ․ ․ ྀིა "there you are," you sighed as you walked into a dressing room. he was sitting in front of a vanity, products covering every surface of the top. romance raised his eyebrows in mock surprise. "darling, where you," he dropped his voice down, "looking for me?" he asked, now looking at you through the mirror he was sitting in front of. you huffed and walked more into the room. "yes, i was in fact looking for you. because," you continued, before he could interrupt you, "you're on in thirty minutes, and i need to make sure that you're all good to go." he simply smiled in return. you stared back at him, pressing your lips into a thin line. "what?" you asked. romance didn't say anything, but got up and walked over to you. you raised an eyebrow at him, still staying silent. he now stood in front of you, and he reached a hand up. before you could process what he was doing, he pushed a piece of stray hair behind your ear.

۶ৎ "your shampoo smells good."

۶ৎ that's all he had to say for himself before he sauntered out of the room like he owned the place (and, knowing his net worth, he probably could)

۶ৎ you didn't blink for a few seconds

۶ৎ then, you pulled out your tablet, and jotted down a quick note

۶ৎ said note read: 'romance likes the smell of raspberry, but not the natural kind, the chemical kind in shampoo' and it had multiple question marks drawn next to it

۶ৎ and yes, you had started to keep notes on all the boys

۶ৎ not in a salker way, more in the way of you wanted to learn more about the people you now worked for, but you were too scared to ask them about themselves

۶ৎ so, you simply observed them

۶ৎ jinu loved cats. and tigers. and birds. but only those animals.

۶ৎ you had thought that since he seemed to like both cat like animals and birds, he would be fine with other animals

۶ৎ oh, you were very, very wrong.

۶ৎ at a fan meet, that was taking place outside, someone had brought their dog with them

۶ৎ when the fan got up to the table and was about to grab a signed poster from jinu, their dog jumped up across the tablet and proceeded to knock jinu over in his fold up chair

۶ৎ while the other boys (minus mystery, he just stared and tiled his head slightly) cackled at this, you, as their manager, had to handle it

۶ৎ the dog was on top on jinu, and was growling, but not attacking

۶ৎ luckily, you got the whole situation sorted out quickly, and handed the fan extra goodies to send them off with

۶ৎ not even a minute later, you were at your tablet, writing:

۶ৎ 'do. not. let. dogs. near. jinu. or jinu near dogs. they do not like him and don't think he likes them, don't know why'

۶ৎ you also figured out that he was clumsy.

۶ৎ clumsy to the point you didn't know if he was actually the leader of the group during performances or not

۶ৎ he would slip on seemingly nothing, and would especially slip and or trip on things that were especially there

۶ৎ this problem got to the point where you had a small first aid pack in your purse which you carried with you to any events the boys went to

۶ৎ you would need to start refilling the band aids at least once every week, so you don't run out

૮ ․ ․ ྀིა "you're good at this–you know that right?" you blinked. he stared. "at...what?" you finally managed, raising one eyebrow in question. jinu raised both his arms, gesturing with his hands to everything around you. "this. your job—you're good at it. and I appreciate it," he said before sighing. "i know we can be, well, a lot to put it lightly, so thank you." before you could interrupt, he continued, "thank you for being a good person." you smiled at him, ipad now forgotten in your lap. "thank you jinu. i love being with you boys, even if it is, interesting, saying the least," you breathed out a laugh as you finished, something shimmering in both your eyes and now your heart; not that you would say that out loud. "but, really, i love this job, so thank you for giving me this chance," he simply smiled in response, nodding his head once. he made his move to leave the studio room the two of you were in, and, as he passed you, he put a hand on your shoulder and gently squeezed. "don't forget that, please," you heard him muttered as he walked past you.

۶ৎ abby, you learned, took his diet very seriously

۶ৎ at first, you didn't know if he had a semi toxic manager before you because of how he ate

۶ৎ though, you quickly learned that was simply who he was

۶ৎ and, it slowly became your job to make sure his ingredients for his smoothies were always supplied in the fridge and the freezer of their main shared apartment (which was more like a penthouse, in your opinion)

۶ৎ not long after you started buying ingredients for him, you also started making them for him

۶ৎ abby would claim that the smoothies weren't the same without your 'magic touch' and were deemed undrinkable by him if made by anyone else

۶ৎ you quite literally had to come to a dance studio during one of their practices because of this

۶ৎ even though the owner happily provided accommodates (which included protein smoothies) to all the boys, abby wasn't having it

۶ৎ which meant that you were called down, there to rescue abby, with a newly made protein smoothie in your hands

۶ৎ and, once he figured out that you went to the gym on occasion?

۶ৎ you officially became his gym buddy - even if you weren't aware of this new situation

۶ৎ suddenly, you found that your saturday mornings were now being spent in a local gym with abby

۶ৎ cause it was totally normal to spend time with who you worked for outside of work, right?

۶ৎ since you were now with him more at the gym, you noticed that this man - who went to the gym at least once a day, didn't have an actual water bottle

۶ৎ he would prance around with a plastic water bottle in hand, and then throw it out when you two left

۶ৎ like did he even care about the environment?

۶ৎ probably not, considering he was who he was, but hey, you can dream he at least pays some mind to it

۶ৎ which is exactly why you gifted him with a reusable water bottle

۶ৎ it matched your own owala water bottle; unintentionally you swear

۶ৎ the bottle was a light blue with a pink top that matched his hair

۶ৎ abby now has acquired an emotional support water bottle

۶ৎ he didn't even just use it for the gym anymore

۶ৎ at dance studios, conventions, fan signings, in their apartment (penthouse, again), and even just out and about on the streets

۶ৎ you were looking at a fanpage of the saja boys, making sure that they weren't being canceled for god knows what, and you saw a picture of abby

۶ৎ he was walking around in the most casual outfit known to man (an outfit you had definitely not curated for him), sunglasses on, and owala water bottle in hand

۶ৎ in honestly didn't even look like he knew the photo was being taken of him, but it was cute nonetheless that he seemed to now carry the water bottle with him everywhere, even if he didn't need it

૮ ․ ․ ྀིა you grunted lightly as you placed the weight down, hand coming up to wipe the sweat off of your forehead. another one of your weekend mornings was being spent at the gym with abby; though you had little to complain about. as you took a quick sip from your water, abby came up to you. "your form is getting better with those," he said, beaming at you. you swallowed your water. "thanks abby, you've definitely been a huge help with that," you chuckled lightly, trying-and failing-to not admire him in his post gym workout look. you thought it was impossible for him to look any happier, but he managed to prove you wrong as he took in your words. "now i just think you're trying to butter me up, sweets," he laughed, hand going up to push his hair back. you rolled your eyes, but didn't disagree. your eyes went back to the weights that laid on the ground, and you decided you could do a few more minutes of a workout before calling it a day. as you started, you figured that abby would take his leave and head to the bathroom to freshen up before the two of you left, but the hand that was placed on your waist as you were bent down into a squat made you think otherwise. "here, let me help," you heard abby say from behind you. "your form is good, but..." he trailed off and put his other hand on your lower back. with light movements from his hands, he was able to make your body shift under his movements - and, before you knew it, he was walking back slightly, eyes now roaming your figure (not that you could see that though). "perfect," you heard him mutter. turning your head back slightly, you thanked him. "thanks abby, really don't know what i would do without you here," you joked. "probably would've ended up needing surgery for my spine at this point," you continued. he wasn't calling your form perfect, but who was he to tell you what he actually meant?

۶ৎ your relationship with mystery was...rocky at the start

۶ৎ after a while of being their manager, all the boys started to warm up to you

۶ৎ all of them but mystery

۶ৎ he would be there, be present, go to rehearsals and do everything that was needed of him, but that was it.

۶ৎ not that you minded - you figured he would come around eventually, and, you liked to remind yourself that these boys are who you work for, and not your friends, and he wasn't obligated by any means to try and become your friend

۶ৎ (though the line between coworkers and friends was blurring for everyone)

۶ৎ though, even with this thought, you attempted

۶ৎ it started before a fan signing

۶ৎ you were munching on matcha pocky, ipad in the other hand, scrolling through the rest of the days schedule and making sure everything was as it should be

۶ৎ then, you felt eyes watching you

۶ৎ you lifted your gaze from your tablet to the room, and quickly found mystery standing in the corner

۶ৎ and, even though you couldn't see his eyes, you could feel his stare

۶ৎ so like any normal manager would do, you lifted your box of pocky in his direction with a smile on your lips

۶ৎ "want some? there matcha flavor, not sure if that's your favorite or not - if you want another flavor i could run and grab some before the event," your ramble about pocky was cut short as mystery came up to you and grabbed one from the bag

۶ৎ he didn't say anything, just nodded at you and did a slight bow as thanks before walking back over to where he was

۶ৎ that was the day you learned mystery adored match anything

۶ৎ since then, you started to leave small treats for him when you could

۶ৎ matcha mochi, cookies, gummies, drinks, essentially anything you think he would like

۶ৎ after a couple weeks of this, he approached you one day, didn't say anything, but dropped a box and a small piece of paper in your lap before calmly leaving

۶ৎ the box was a matcha pocky one, and the paper simply read 'thank you :)' with his name written small in the corner

۶ৎ he slowly started being more comfortable around you

۶ৎ never talking, but you noticed he now sat closer to you whenever the group was sitting down together

۶ৎ every time you talked, even if it wasn't to him directly, his head would tilt slightly in the direction of your voice - the ghost of a smile present on his face, though it was barely noticeable to anyone

۶ৎ he started to leave you small drawings, and sometimes notes that you would find taped onto the back of your tablet

۶ৎ the drawings were just little doodles: flowers, sheep, land scapes, simple things like that

۶ৎ (even though they were simple you still treasured them as though they were the most precious gems in the world)

۶ৎ the notes were also simple, but sweeter in their own way

۶ৎ they consisted of things like: 'you looked nice today :)', 'hope you feel better, today seemed rough for everyone :(', 'the outfits you organized for us were pretty <3'

۶ৎ so, even though you didn't talk to him much, he was started to be there more

۶ৎ with you being (hopefully) closer to mystery, you quickly learned that he had a different way of communicating discomfort than the rest of his emotions

۶ৎ usually, he would be silent, even if he was happy, sad, overwhelmed, anything

۶ৎ it was after a performance of theirs, and you were walking with the boys back to the car to start the drive back to their place, where you would let them be on your way as you found your own car and headed home

۶ৎ with the performance ending not very long ago, there were still fans lingering around the stadium, which resulted in them coming up to the group of you

۶ৎ one of the fans, who seemed - at least to you - to be a very sweet girl, approached you instead of the boys

۶ৎ she quickly explained that she looked up to you as a role model, saying that she always saw you in the background of videos and promos, silently doing your job

۶ৎ before you could respond and tell her that was the sweetest thing you've ever heard, a growling sound came from behind you

۶ৎ you quickly turned to be met with mystery, who had his arms crossed and was, in deed, growling at the girl

۶ৎ jinu calmly walked over (though not without tripping on his feet first) and sprayed mystery with a spray bottle

۶ৎ mystery seemed to...hiss in reaction?

۶ৎ jinu simply sighed at him, and pointed back to the rest of the boys and told him "go."

۶ৎ mystery huffed out a loud breath, but walked over to the rest of the group

۶ৎ both you and jinu quickly apologized to the girl, and you thanked her endlessly for her kind words

۶ৎ jinu then explained mystery just sometimes, did that to fans

۶ৎ though he did say to take it as a compliant that mystery did that for you

۶ৎ so. the guy doesn't speak, but he's okay with growling at people. interesting

૮ ․ ․ ྀིა you sighed quietly to yourself from your spot on the couch. jinu, and romance, had told you multiple times that you are more than welcome to come to their apartment whenever, even if it was just for doing work. which, is where you found yourself now. your tablet was in your lap, and you were glaring down at it. you were trying--keyword: trying--to figure out how to fit things into a schedule that would also allow for the idols to get well deserved rest. that was always one of your top priorities, even if it proved to be hard to do multiple times. before you could sigh in annoyance again at the timeblocks not going together, mystery was suddenly at the bottom of the couch. he was sitting on the floor, with his head resting on your lower leg lightly. you smiled, eyes leaving the schedule planner for the first time in hours. your hand reached out, and you gently started threading your fingers through his hair - it was surprisingly soft, but you guessed you couldn't be too surprised, his hair always looked very well managed. as you were about to remove your hands from his hair, his head quickly moved so it was more firmly laid on your leg. he turned his head so that he was practically snuggling into your sweatpants. you smiled again, and without thinking, ducked your head down so that your nose was pressed into his hairline gently. "thank you," you sighed, though this time it wasn't in annoyance - and was more of a breathy sentence. he didn't say anything, as always, but you could feel his mouth form into a small smile through the fabric of your pants.

۶ৎ out of all the members, baby was the only one you didn't immediately like

۶ৎ all the boys seemed respectful enough, presented themselves okay, and were rounded (though you didn't really know that fit them at all, now that you know them more)

۶ৎ then, there was baby saja.

۶ৎ the boy who had made it his mission to be a personal pain in your ass

۶ৎ he would complain endlessly about your schedules, about how much he had to do, be late to shows, not be dressed properly, not answer you even though you know damn well he heard you

۶ৎ but, after you offered a peace offering to him, he slightly changed

۶ৎ the peace offering? a pack of spicy ramen along with a 12 pack of some soda that you had seen him drinking frequently

۶ৎ the main notes of him on your ipad included: spicy anything, didn't like fabric that he claimed was 'too itchy', and was obsessed with this weird video game you didn't understand but he talked about nonstop

۶ৎ he wasn't the nicest after this, of course, but he was...softer, in his own weird way

۶ৎ he no longer seeked out annoying you, he naturally did it, somehow

۶ৎ he showed up to things on time, wore the right clothes, didn't complain - as much - about the schedule you had them on, and tried to be more engaged with interviews or shows he was on

۶ৎ during another fan meet, he was casually sitting at a table, signing posters or tshirts as fans came up to him

۶ৎ he had a lollipop in his mouth, and would take it out when talking to people, waving the candy around with his hands to go with his words

۶ৎ before another fan could approach him and ask for whatever they wanted, baby sat up from his seat, and walked over to where you were standing

۶ৎ you didn't notice him at first, because you were glued onto your device as normal, and you didn't hear anything that sounded like anyone in a panic

۶ৎ you did notice him however, when he stood close to you, hand up, holding a wrapped up lolipop

۶ৎ you blinked at him as he just smiled at you

۶ৎ and, it wasn't the normal, boyish, cocky smile you always saw him put on

۶ৎ it seemed, more genuine - in a sense

۶ৎ "its cotton candy flavored," he said, waving the treat around slightly when you didn't make a move to grab it

۶ৎ he rolled his eyes as you still didn't do anything

۶ৎ "you want it or not?" he said, hand still up holding it almost as a reward

۶ৎ you nodded your head, and took it from him, thanking him - before realizing something

۶ৎ "baby! your fans are waiting, what are you doing?"

۶ৎ he also wasn't the most talkative when it came to the group, but he was there, like mystery

۶ৎ he would lean against the wall, staring at you with a glint in his eyes that you couldn't fully place

۶ৎ taking a seat next to yours at meetings seemed almost natural at this point

۶ৎ and, trying different types of strange spicy treats and food wasn't that unusual either for the two of you now

۶ৎ though, that is more of him doing the taste testing and then teasing you for not wanting to try

۶ৎ you did try once, and he claimed the gummy bears wouldn't be to spicy

۶ৎ the whole milk cartoon ended up being gone only a day after buying it

۶ৎ you also discovered he collected pokemon cards

۶ৎ like, a lot of them

۶ৎ honestly you didn't even mean to find them - you were going through his backpack because he claimed he was to 'lazy' to get his water during dance practice

۶ৎ so, being the amazing manager you were, you went to grab it for him

۶ৎ what you found instead of a water bottle was a collection of pokemon cards neatly put into a photo book

۶ৎ you decided not to comment on it, but it now made sense to you why his screen time was so high

۶ৎ (he was playing pokemon go)

۶ৎ baby came up to you one day, and held out a threaded bracelet to you

۶ৎ you've learned from the lollipop incident that he likes to hold things out to people without saying anything

۶ৎ you grabbed it from him, while raising your eyebrow, but you still silently put it around your wrist

۶ৎ neither of you commented on it when you noticed he had a matching one on his wrist a day after he gave you yours

۶ৎ one day he approched you, and essentially grabbed your ipad out of your hands

۶ৎ you opened your mouth to protest, but he started talking

۶ৎ "do you have any cool games on here?"

۶ৎ your lips were pressed into a thin line, and then you pulled out your phone to continue what you were doing on a different device

۶ৎ he rolled his eyes, but sat down next to you and put your tablet back onto your lap

۶ৎ “pay attention to me,” he declared, after sitting in silence with you for a total of 20 seconds

۶ৎ you blinked. “are you a child?”

۶ৎ he shrugged. “might as well be,”

۶ৎ the rest of that day was spent on the couch, him sitting close to you with his arm loosely draping over the back of the couch (and your shoulder)

۶ৎ and, because you were on your phone, he went back to your ipad , where he played shark attack on roblox

۶ৎ he also slowly starting making you apart of his whole obsession with gaming

۶ৎ he would be playing on the PlayStation in their apartment (an expense baby had begged jinu to buy for him)

۶ৎ and, when you entered the room, sat on the sofa, and were scrolling through your tablet,

۶ৎ he wordlessly grabbed the other controller and put it into your lap

۶ৎ (while keeping one of his hands on his own controller)

۶ৎ you ending up caving - main reason being it was a friday night and you got weekends off

۶ৎ he was playing fortnight, but when you started playing, he changed it

۶ৎ which meant the two of you ended up playing lego star wars for around four hours

۶ৎ baby would say it was time spent well, you would say you were too tired to realize you were playing a video game instead of working

۶ৎ he also started coming to you for advice on his rap verses

۶ৎ which was not only surprising for you, but also for the rest of the saja boys

۶ৎ romance: “baby doesn’t even trust jinu with that stuff - why’s she getting special treatment.”

۶ৎabby: “i think it’s him getting the special treatment”

۶ৎ romance: signs dramatically and puts a hand on his forehead “what has the world come to?”

۶ৎ you would give him tips on his verses where you could, but you’re also not their lyricist - you’re the manager

۶ৎ even with your limited advice, baby would take every word you said very seriously

۶ৎ (even though he didn’t make it obvious he was taking your advice to that extent, he had written in the margins of his notebook, what you said, word for word, written with a hot pink sparkle pen)

۶ৎ baby also has a strange way of making jokes

۶ৎ which is code for: he only really makes that’s what she said jokea

۶ৎ even in situations where the joke doesn’t even make sense

۶ৎ you’ll be explaining to all the boys the plan for the next couple hours, and you’ll hear baby whisper under his breath while your talking “……that’s what she said,”

۶ৎ and then baby, romance, and abby will try not to laugh, mystery will just tilt his head, and jinu pretends nothing was even said

۶ৎ you don’t even pause in your speech, just shoot baby a look and then go into their costume designs for their next show

۶ৎ honesty, you sometimes don't even think that he knows what it means and says it just for the fun of it

۶ৎ keyword: sometimes

۶ৎ on some occasion, the timing of his jokes make perfect sense, and he cackles more than usual after saying them

۶ৎ you decide not to question him on the matter though

૮ ․ ․ ྀིა you found yourself back on the couch of the saja boys' apartment - at this point, the apartment was almost a second home to you, and jinu has joked with you one too many times about making the guest bedroom your room. You had your tablet in front of you, and you were mindlessly scrolling through pinterest, adding pins to a board for future costume design ideas for a show coming up. you heard the front door open, and, before your brain could register what was happening, a large weight was draped across your lap. you rolled your eyes, already recognizing the weight as baby saja. he was less than graciously lying across your lap, the position allowing his head to be on your chest. "hi." you heard him mumble into your shirt. you raised your eyebrow. "hi baby." you said. "mind telling me why you're acting like a deprived cat that hasn't gotten its pets all day?" you asked while laughing slightly. instead of getting an actual response, he simply hummed into your shirt before letting out a deep sigh. you smiled, and brought your tablet back up to your face. "long day?" you asked as you saved a picture of an outfit that seemed to fit romance's style. again, instead of getting a verbal response, baby nodded his head. you heard him mumble something, but didn't pick up on it; and you decided not to make a further comment. as the minutes passed, baby's position didn't change at all. instead, it seemed he dug himself impossibly further into your chest. in any other job position, you would find this incredibly unprofessional, but at this point, the majority of your interactions with any of the boys fell under unprofessionalism. as the baby adjusted his position again, you brought one of your hands down to his hair. You weren't thinking much about your actions - especially as you started to slowly run your hand through his teal hair. you didn't think it was possible for him to seem any more comfortable than he already was, but baby seemed to lose all sense of holding his body up more. he all but melted into you, sighing deeply into your shirt. his arms came up to wrap around your waist, and you saw his eyes close as he let out another deep breath. you smiled again, and kept the motions of your hand going, now lightly rubbing against his scalp.

۶ৎ you knew after a couple months of being the manager of the saja boy band, your relationships with them were anything but professional

۶ৎ and, they didn't seem to mind

۶ৎ nor did you

۶ৎ the lines between being their manager and being something more were blurring, but noone was commenting on it

۶ৎ not when jinu would come to you after a performance and hug you for at least a minute, talking about how much you did for them to make all the songs so smoothly

۶ৎ not when romance will come into the guest bedroom where you now stayed with his whole bag of skincare, and do his routine with you almost every night

۶ৎ not when abby would glare at anyone in the gym who as much looked at you in the wrong way, and protectively stand behind you, making sure that you are for his eyes only to see

۶ৎ not when mystery would

۶ৎ and, especially not when you would spend the night in baby's room, in his bed, watching any movie that seemed interesting to the two of you

۶ৎ no one commented on it - minus the fans

۶ৎ though, all of you would ignore it

۶ৎ the edits, the fanart, the memes -- everything

۶ৎ because, you were just their manager right?

۶ৎ the manager to the totally normal, idol group, saja boys

۶ৎ there's nothing totally weird about them

۶ৎ not when you would see, just for a split second, yellow glowing eyes on them backstage before a preformace

۶ৎ or when you would see purple markings on their arms after they finish their dance routine

۶ৎ because, like you said, their a completely normal boyband - and you're simply their manager

۶ৎ what you don't know, is that the saja boys are demons

۶ৎ demons, who have all taken a liking to you

۶ৎ and who knows what that means?

۶ৎ for them, and for you

[zarla-s]

will you be updating the spamton ukagaka to have his red suit when he was with tenna? Or possibly find a way to make them interact if both are on screen?

Oh hey, this is good timing! I was just doing some work on him last night! It's been such a long time since I've done any ghost stuff that I had to remind myself how all my files are set up lol.

like remembering the RESOLUTION OF THE IMAGES, OOPS

Anyway, me and Quo have had an update for him half-finished for like... years now, but we ran into a few hang-ups where he needed some new poses and the new game you can play is complicated and a bit busted at the moment. Spamton waking up again in the back of my mind does make me want to get some work done on him though...

I just saw today there is a Tenna ghost too now! I was actually just wondering if someone was going to make one, haha. Spamton CAN communicate with other ghosts right now, if they're set up for it, but I'd have to get in contact with Tenna's ghostmaker if we wanted to set up some specific back and forth convos between the two of them.

As for his big shot outfit, I dunno! Spamton's shell is kind of complicated... I'd have to think about how I'd implement it, it'd be a fairly in-depth process, haha.

(If you don't have him already, you can get him here or from his webpage)

[bearhaironthechair]

Based off of a prompt-in-passing by a mutual of mine who also enjoys reappearances of Bumblebee the dumb-drop. I cannot justify how all-in I went on this other than that my brain had convinced itself that it was funny. I am aware how debatable that is. Notes: This is another long, more serious ramble, so feel free to skip if you’re just here for the doodle! No worries at all, I hope it was able to give you a bit of a laugh! I want to thank everyone that spent their time offering their perspectives on my questions from last week! It was fun to see how you experience and feel about my nonsense doodles, but more seriously, I appreciate the honesty you gave in how you feel about the way I conduct myself in interactions with visitors to my blog. I’m glad many of you feel that I come across as sincere and that you feel heard in our interactions, but after a bit of introspection, those who felt I can come across as both insincere AND sincere at different times make a valid point. I try very hard to come across as supportive, compassionate, and largely unserious, but I realize that I can get to a point of going overboard on those fronts and just end up sounding saccharine. It’s very possible that my words of encouragement sound like copy-and-pasted empty praise, or that my efforts to engage with commenters sound like me taking a casual interaction way too seriously and making them feel obligated to get more involved than they intended, or that my efforts to empathize with someone else’s personal experiences sound like me trying to make their struggles about myself. The point is, my efforts to be approachable and cheery probably DO sound like someone trying to fake a facade of friendliness on many occasions to a good number of people, and I’m going to reflect on that. For me, maybe that just means not taking things to eleven every time someone says something remotely positive. Maybe that means thinking about the words I use versus the words I overuse. Maybe that means reading the room a little more about how we are all mostly internet strangers in passing on a shared webpage. Maybe that means knowing when something can be said in less words than my talkative tendencies always fall back on. Okay, we can all agree that that last one is going to be the hardest for me! Oh, and to anyone who comments on my nonsense doodles or sends me asks, please know that your engagement means so much to me, and that you have a level of courage I can’t help but envy. Every time I comment on someone else’s posts or send someone an ask - be they mutuals or strangers - I am terrified that they will think I’m being obnoxious, or attention seeking, or unjustifiably familiar in tone. I mean, I probably am all those things to some degree because I can be a bit dense at the best of times, but I certainly don’t intend to be. I’m not trying to fish for sympathy here, more just to mention that, despite those worries ping-ponging around inside my skull, I still manage to push myself past the fear more often than not because I try telling myself that other artists and fans of a piece of media might enjoy compliments and comments on their posts - along with words of encouragement and camaraderie in their inboxes - the way I enjoy seeing them on my blog. That genuine human-human engagement is the kind of vibe I want to share with others the way it’s been shared with me, even if I might accidentally go about it in the wrong way now and then. So thank you for having that courage and reminding me that it is - more often than not - fun to talk to people about the thoughts going through your head on a shared interest! Also, on the chance anyone has actually read all the way down to here, I do have a quick question for which any and all input is appreciated!

And, last but not least, an additional little bit of stupid for anyone that got to this point:

(I only just saw the movie this past weekend).

[audliminal]

It's just a game, right? Pt 1

Masterpost

"I just don't see how sitting around is gonna do anything!" Dash argues, face to face with Sam.

"Well, if you have other ideas you're more than welcome to offer them, but we can't just take out the giw. They have more manpower than us, more equipment, and the new agents actually seem to be competent in fights! And we are a bunch of high school students!"

They are all, ostensibly in English Class right now, but even Mr. lancer has forgone the illusion of normal classwork. He assigns books and hands out reading assignments every week, but nobody really cares whether they get turned in or not. The city, after all, has a much bigger problem.

"I don't know! But sitting here-"

"He's not entirely wrong, the longer we wait the more likely they figure it out, just like we all did." As Valerie finishes speaking, the room temperature drops noticeably, and the kids all glance nervously over at Danny who's head hasn't moved from it's spot on his desk. He almost seems dead with how still he is. Beside him Tucker stares at his PDA, the only one who hasn't reacted to the temperature change.

"Should I even ask what you're messing with?" Sam asks, walking over while the others stare nervously at Danny.

"Actually, yeah." Tucker easily shifts so they can both see the webpage displayed on the handmade tech. "I got something through."

"I thought getting stuff through wasn't really the problem?"

"I mean, yeah, they're letting Everything Is Normal posts through, but this wasn't. That. I was, um, kind of fucking around with ciphers and shit? Not saying anything relevant, but just seeing whether they'd flag any old weird shit, you know? And um. I got a video out."

"Okay, but how does that help us?" Valerie asks.

"It helps because if they let a cipher through then means if I encode shit well enough, then it'll also get through."

"But if it's, like, that hard to figure out what it says, then won't it be useless on the outside?"

"The chances of it getting into the hands of someone who could crack it do seem, uh, improbable."

"Not if we stack the deck."

"Wes-"

"No, listen, I know you're all still mad at me, but like. If you can attract a community of codebreakers? Then eventually someone will crack the code on what you need them to!"

"If you have an idea then just fucking say it, Wes," Sam snaps.

"Make an ARG. We can even have like, the base level be completely United to anything real, just make up a story about, i dunno, space travel? And then bury the actual info beneath that. Eventually somebody will crack into the real stuff, and if it's popular enough by then, and the GIW tries to suppress it? That'll be even more suspicious-looking, and just make them dig harder."

"What the fuck is a ARG?" Dash asks, pulling his gaze away from their definitely-just-sleeping classmate.

"Augmented reality game. It's like an unfiction thing. Make a story but the story is interactive and people have to decode shit to figure out what's going on." Tucker glances over to Wes. "And actually not a bad idea. If we all work together, we could probably make something cool."

"You could treat it as a class-wide project." Mr. Lancer says, making everyone jump. "That way I can back you up if anyone starts asking questions."

"Make it about black holes," Danny says, finally pulling himself up from his desk. "We can base it in wormhole theory, and distract the GIW with all the theoretical science."

"What, so like we make videos that seem like they're being sent through a black hole?"

"Fuckin. Sure, why not? As if shit couldn't get any weirder around here."

"Star, please try to refrain from swearing in front of me. I know the situation is - difficult - but I am officially still your teacher."

"Sorry, Lancer."

[laora-ryn]

Just in case anyone was wondering, I am in fact a federal employee and I am in fact having A Fucking Time Of It

In roughly chronological order, here's all the things that have fucked us over the last two weeks:

Hiring freeze effective immediately, which involved rescinding final offers to people who were about to start their job. A final offer is something you can get a mortgage with btw. It's what you get after months of paperwork. It's something you move cross country for. Eighteen people just at our hospital had a final offer rescinded

A demand for a return to in person work, with no explanation given for why they want this so badly. No explanation on people who have teleworking written into their contracts, or people who have teleworking as a reasonable accommodation

Related to the hiring freeze: no creation of any new jobs in even a preliminary way, even to prep to fill existing vacancies after the 90 days are over

Closing of all DEIA teams groups, webinar series, webpages, department gatherings... Anything you can think of. This included the queer teams based communities that were just a place for people to chat

Related to this: our acting secretary sending out an email that sounds straight out of the fucking Gestapo, where "we are aware of efforts by some in government to deliberately redefine DEIA positions in an attempt to keep their jobs. If you know of this happening, here's an email line we've set up for tips. There won't be adverse consequences for reporting, however, failure to report may have adverse consequences"

What appears to have been trying to be a total freeze on federal spending, which threw literally everything into chaos, I was not able to follow it at all, but the hospital is still running so I'm assuming money is happening somewhere

Two strange emails from OPM.gov, marked EXTERNAL, saying they're testing a new distribution list and to please reply yes. These were considered so universally sus by employees that they had to come down from central office and confirm that yes, these are legit, please reply

A day later, an email from that same external address offering voluntary resignation, which I'm pretty sure is the bit that's been all over the news for (checks notes) being word for word the same email musk sent to Twitter before proceeding to Not Pay Them

A restriction on communication and travel. "No speaking engagements or attendance at public facing events, seminars, or conferences (unless approved by chief of staff) for 6 months. VA only events are excluded." Which was later clarified to mean "well if you're going for continuing Ed, as long as you aren't presenting, it's ok" but then backtracked to "it's probably ok but you still need approval which can take upwards of a month." Why are they restricting speaking at conferences? It's not a money thing because traveling for VA events still costs money. It's like they're looking to prevent staff from interacting with anyone external, for some reason

And today, an email this morning that "leadership has received guidance from the office of personnel management [regarding the EO about "gender ideology extremism and restoring biological truth"] and is working to execute the EO fully, faithfully, and thoughtfully."

This afternoon at 4:30, this began with an all employee email saying that all personal pronouns are being removed from Outlook display names by IT, which was a system implemented several years ago and broadly popular! But nope, we'll need to go back to guessing what genders new coworkers named Quinn, Alex, Morgan, and Taylor are.

(oh I forgot! I can't use the word gender at work anymore. Using Proper Terminology (as interpreted by our ~~~Illustrious President~~~) in all communications at work is now required)

It's been a fucking week and a half and I am so goddamn tired guys. Sorry I haven't been on again but I'm spending most of my energy on Not McFucking Losing It rn

[komaedalovemail]

komaedas have you tried straw.page?

(i hope you don't mind if i make a big ollllle webdev post off this!)

i have never tried straw.page but it looks similar to carrd and other WYSIWYG editors (which is unappealing to me, since i know html/css/js and want full control of the code. and can't hide secrets in code comments.....)

my 2 cents as a web designer is if you're looking to learn web design or host long-term web projects, WYSIWYG editors suck doodooass. you don't learn the basics of coding, someone else does it for you! however, if you're just looking to quickly host images, links to your other social medias, write text entries/blogposts, WYSIWYG can be nice.

toyhouse, tumblr, deviantart, a lot of sites implement WYSIWYG for their post editors as well, but then you can run into issues relying on their main site features for things like the search system, user profiles, comments, etc. but it can be nice to just login to your account and host your information in one place, especially on a platform that's geared towards that specific type of information. (toyhouse is a better example of this, since you have a lot of control of how your profile/character pages look, even without a premium account) carrd can be nice if you just want to say "here's where to find me on other sites," for example. but sometimes you want a full website!

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neocities hosting

currently, i host my website on neocities, but i would say the web2.0sphere has sucked some doodooass right now and i'm fiending for something better than it. it's a static web host, e.g. you can upload text, image, audio, and client-side (mostly javascript and css) files, and html pages. for the past few years, neocities' servers have gotten slower and slower and had total blackouts with no notices about why it's happening... and i'm realizing they host a lot of crypto sites that have crypto miners that eat up a ton of server resources. i don't think they're doing anything to limit bot or crypto mining activity and regular users are taking a hit.

↑ page 1 on neocitie's most viewed sites we find this site. this site has a crypto miner on it, just so i'm not making up claims without proof here. there is also a very populated #crypto tag on neocities (has porn in it tho so be warned...).

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dynamic/server-side web hosting

$5/mo for neocities premium seems cheap until you realize... The Beautiful World of Server-side Web Hosting!

client-side AKA static web hosting (neocities, geocities) means you can upload images, audio, video, and other files that do not interact with the server where the website is hosted, like html, css, and javascript. the user reading your webpage does not send any information to the server like a username, password, their favourite colour, etc. - any variables handled by scripts like javascript will be forgotten when the page is reloaded, since there's no way to save it to the web server. server-side AKA dynamic web hosting can utilize any script like php, ruby, python, or perl, and has an SQL database to store variables like the aforementioned that would have previously had nowhere to be stored.

there are many places in 2024 you can host a website for free, including: infinityfree (i use this for my test websites :B has tons of subdomains to choose from) [unlimited sites, 5gb/unlimited storage], googiehost [1 site, 1gb/1mb storage], freehostia [5 sites/1 database, 250mb storage], freehosting [1 site, 10gb/unlimited storage]

if you want more features like extra websites, more storage, a dedicated e-mail, PHP configuration, etc, you can look into paying a lil shmoney for web hosting: there's hostinger (this is my promocode so i get. shmoney. if you. um. 🗿🗿🗿) [$2.40-3.99+/mo, 100 sites/300 databases, 100gb storage, 25k visits/mo], a2hosting [$1.75-12.99+/mo, 1 site/5 databases, 10gb/1gb storage], and cloudways [$10-11+/mo, 25gb/1gb]. i'm seeing people say to stay away from godaddy and hostgator. before you purchase a plan, look up coupons, too! (i usually renew my plan ahead of time when hostinger runs good sales/coupons LOL)

here's a big webhost comparison chart from r/HostingHostel circa jan 2024.

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domain names

most of the free website hosts will give you a subdomain like yoursite.has-a-cool-website-69.org, and usually paid hosts expect you to bring your own domain name. i got my domain on namecheap (enticing registration prices, mid renewal prices), there's also porkbun, cloudflare, namesilo, and amazon route 53. don't use godaddy or squarespace. make sure you double check the promo price vs. the actual renewal price and don't get charged $120/mo when you thought it was $4/mo during a promo, certain TLDs (endings like .com, .org, .cool, etc) cost more and have a base price (.car costs $2,300?!?). look up coupons before you purchase these as well!

namecheap and porkbun offer something called "handshake domains," DO NOT BUY THESE. 🤣🤣🤣 they're usually cheaper and offer more appealing, hyper-specific endings like .iloveu, .8888, .catgirl, .dookie, .gethigh, .♥, .❣, and .✟. I WISH WE COULD HAVE THEM but they're literally unusable. in order to access a page using a handshake domain, you need to download a handshake resolver. every time the user connects to the site, they have to provide proof of work. aside from it being incredibly wasteful, you LITERALLY cannot just type in the URL and go to your own website, you need to download a handshake resolver, meaning everyday internet users cannot access your site.

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hosting a static site on a dynamic webhost

you can host a static (html/css/js only) website on a dynamic web server without having to learn PHP and SQL! if you're coming from somewhere like neocities, the only thing you need to do is configure your website's properties. your hosting service will probably have tutorials to follow for this, and possibly already did some steps for you. you need to point the nameserver to your domain, install an SSL certificate, and connect to your site using FTP for future uploads. FTP is a faster, alternative way to upload files to your website instead of your webhost's file upload system; programs like WinSCP or FileZilla can upload using FTP for you.

if you wanna learn PHP and SQL and really get into webdev, i wrote a forum post at Mysidia Adoptables here, tho it's sorted geared at the mysidia script library itself (Mysidia Adoptables is a free virtual pet site script, tiny community. go check it out!)

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file storage & backups

a problem i have run into a lot in my past like, 20 years of internet usage (/OLD) is that a site that is free, has a small community, and maybe sounds too good/cheap to be true, has a higher chance of going under. sometimes this happens to bigger sites like tinypic, photobucket, and imageshack, but for every site like that, there's like a million of baby sites that died with people's files. host your files/websites on a well-known site, or at least back it up and expect it to go under!

i used to host my images on something called "imgjoe" during the tinypic/imageshack era, it lasted about 3 years, and i lost everything hosted on there. more recently, komaedalovemail had its webpages hosted here on tumblr, and tumblr changed its UI so custom pages don't allow javascript, which prevented any new pages from being edited/added. another test site i made a couple years ago on hostinger's site called 000webhost went under/became a part of hostinger's paid-only plans, so i had to look very quickly for a new host or i'd lose my test site.

if you're broke like me, looking into physical file storage can be expensive. anything related to computers has gone through baaaaad inflation due to crypto, which again, I Freaquing Hate, and is killing mother nature. STOP MINING CRYPTO this is gonna be you in 1 year

...um i digress. ANYWAYS, you can archive your websites, which'll save your static assets on The Internet Archive (which could use your lovely donations right now btw), and/or archive.today (also taking donations). having a webhost service with lots of storage and automatic backups can be nice if you're worried about file loss or corruption, or just don't have enough storage on your computer at home!

if you're buying physical storage, be it hard drive, solid state drive, USB stick, whatever... get an actual brand like Western Digital or Seagate and don't fall for those cheap ones on Amazon that claim to have 8,000GB for $40 or you're going to spend 13 days in windows command prompt trying to repair the disk and thenthe power is gong to go out in your shit ass neighvborhood and you have to run it tagain and then Windows 10 tryes to update and itresets the /chkdsk agin while you're awayfrom town nad you're goig to start crytypting and kts just hnot going tot br the same aever agai nikt jus not ggiog to be the saeme

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further webhosting options

there are other Advanced options when it comes to web hosting. for example, you can physically own and run your own webserver, e.g. with a computer or a raspberry pi. r/selfhosted might be a good place if you're looking into that!

if you know or are learning PHP, SQL, and other server-side languages, you can host a webserver on your computer using something like XAMPP (Apache, MariaDB, PHP, & Perl) with minimal storage space (the latest version takes up a little under 1gb on my computer rn). then, you can test your website without needing an internet connection or worrying about finding a hosting plan that can support your project until you've set everything up!

there's also many PHP frameworks which can be useful for beginners and wizards of the web alike. WordPress is one which you're no doubt familiar with for creating blog posts, and Bluehost is a decent hosting service tailored to WordPress specifically. there's full frameworks like Laravel, CakePHP, and Slim, which will usually handle security, user authentication, web routing, and database interactions that you can build off of. Laravel in particular is noob-friendly imo, and is used by a large populace, and it has many tutorials, example sites built with it, and specific app frameworks.

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addendum: storing sensitive data

if you decide to host a server-side website, you'll most likely have a login/out functionality (user authentication), and have to store things like usernames, passwords, and e-mails. PLEASE don't launch your website until you're sure your site security is up to snuff!

when trying to check if your data is hackable... It's time to get into the Mind of a Hacker. OWASP has some good cheat sheets that list some of the bigger security concerns and how to mitigate them as a site owner, and you can look up filtered security issues on the Exploit Database.

this is kind of its own topic if you're coding a PHP website from scratch; most frameworks securely store sensitive data for you already. if you're writing your own PHP framework, refer to php.net's security articles and this guide on writing an .htaccess file.

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but. i be on that phone... :(

ok one thing i see about straw.page that seems nice is that it advertises the ability to make webpages from your phone. WYSIWYG editors in general are more capable of this. i only started looking into this yesterday, but there ARE source code editor apps for mobile devices! if you have a webhosting plan, you can download/upload assets/code from your phone and whatnot and code on the go. i downloaded Runecode for iphone. it might suck ass to keep typing those brackets.... we'll see..... but sometimes you're stuck in the car and you're like damn i wanna code my site GRRRR I WANNA CODE MY SITE!!!

↑ code written in Runecode, then uploaded to Hostinger. Runecode didn't tell me i forgot a semicolon but Hostinger did... i guess you can code from your webhost's file uploader on mobile but i don't trust them since they tend not to autosave or prompt you before closing, and if the wifi dies idk what happens to your code.

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ANYWAYS! HAPPY WEBSITE BUILDING~! HOPE THIS HELPS~!~!~!

-Mod 12 @eeyes

[spiders-around]

YOU MUST MAKE A WEBSITE

Oh wow, look at that! YET ANOTHER post urging you to make a webbed site! What a completely new thing that people haven't made a thousand masterposts for already!!

• Making a website might look scary. It is Not.

At first, I too thought making a website was too much work. It really isn't! It turns out that all you need is

an HTML file,

a web hosting service and

w3schools tutorials,

and that's about it!

This post will point you towards these resources, and others I found useful while figuring out how to make a website.

• VERY QUICK EXPLANATIONS:

What's HTML and CSS?

HTML is the content of your webpage, the skeleton of it. What shows up in a webpage is what's written in the HTML file!

CSS is the way the HTML is styled; the colour of the background and the letters, the size of elements, the font, all that!

Do I absolutely NEED JavaScript for a website?

Not at all! You don't need to worry about learning it before getting started.

• What do I make a website for? What do I put in there?

ANYTHING AND ALMOST EVERYTHING. Here's some ideas for pages from a post of mine were I was very normal about websites:

You can make a page that's only pictures of your pets.

You can make an interactive adventure.

You can make your own academic blog full of your own essays or articles.

You can just post a ton of art or make a full music page.

You can make a blog and infodump eternally, give book reccs and reviews. You can host a thousand virtual pets and nothing else.

Upload entire books in a single html file. Make a wikipedia for your ocs. Make a fake site for a random fictional place (restaurant, hotel, whatever). You can make a thousand fanpages/shrines about your favorite media. You can upload your own webcomic and make it all like a fancy website and shit.

I could keep going but, for the sake of "brevity", I won't.

• WEBSITE EXAMPLES!

If I started listing the websites I know, this post would be bottomless. Here's only seven:

https://publictransit.neocities.org/ - A webbed site, for sure

https://ribo.zone/ - A personal site

https://leusyth.neocities.org/ - An art archive

https://solaria.neocities.org/ - Personal website with A Lot of stuff (it'll come up in a bit, because it offers web making resources)

https://hog.neocities.org/ - The Hogsite

https://thegardenofmadeline.neocities.org/ - Another personal site! It also has a web resources page and has made another masterpost like this one (but better)

https://spiders.neocities.org/ - My own website, which must be weird to see in mobile . sorry

• You've convinced me. I want a webbed site. Where do I start?

https://neocities.org/

FIRST OF ALL: Neocities. It is a free web hosting service, and it's the one I and the sites I linked use!

When I first started, my website was a black page with red letters and a drawing, and nothing else! It was like that for a month, till i started picking up on how to do things.

Here's what helped me get an idea of how to make things work:

https://sadgrl.online/learn/articles/beginners-guide-neocities

An absolute beginners guide to neocities -- while when you make an account there you get a tutorial page from the site, this one's extra support for that.

https://www.w3schools.com/

Learn HTML, CSS, JavaScript and MANY other coding things for free. All the tutorial/reference pages have live testing windows for you to mess with!! helped me a LOT while figuring this stuff out!

https://htmlcheatsheet.com/

https://htmlcheatsheet.com/css/

Cheatsheets for HTML and CSS, respectively. It includes a JavaScript one too!

https://sadgrl.online/webmastery/

Sadgrl's webmastery resources! Also includes the next resource listed here:

https://sadgrl.online/projects/layout-builder/

Sadgrl's layout builder; not a lot of customization at a first glance, but I've seen wildly different websites all using it as a base, plus it works using CSS Flexbox, so it generates a responsive layout!

(basically, a responsive layout is one that translates well in different sized screens)

https://www.tumblr.com/fysa/728086939730919424/wikitable-code?source=share

Tumblr user fysa made this layout imitating a wiki page!

https://brackets.io/

At some point, you might want to do things outside the Neocities code editor and get one outside the site. I recommend Brackets, because my old as fuck computer can run that and absolutely nothing else apparently, and it works wonderfully! Though I recommend either turning off the code autocomplete or using it after a good while of already using the Neocities code editor, so you get used to coding on your own.

http://www.unit-conversion.info/texttools/text-to-html/

Turn your text into HTML code! i use this kind of pages for my lengthy blog entries that I don't feel like formatting myself.

https://imagecompressor.com/

COMPRESS YOUR IMAGES.

The heavier an image is, the more your site weighs and the more time your page will spend loading. You don't want that, specially if your site is heavy on graphics. This might help!

https://solaria.neocities.org/guides

Some CSS, JavaScript and Accessibility guides! Worth checking out!

https://eloquentjavascript.net/

This is a free, interactive book for learning JavaScript! NOTE: It is very intuitive, but JavaScript is HARD!! I still haven't learned much of it, and my website does fine without so don't worry if you end up not doing much with it. It's still useful + the exercises are fun.

And now, accessories!

• Silly stuff for your page :]

https://gifypet.neocities.org/

Make a virtual pet, copy the code and paste it in your HTML file! You'll get a little guy in your webbed site :]

https://www.wikplayer.com/

Music player for your website!

http://www.mf2fm.com/rv/

JavaScript silly effects for your site :]

https://blinkies.neocities.org/geoblinkies

Blinkie search engine!

https://www.cbox.ws/

Add a chatbox to your site!!

https://momg.neocities.org/

Infinite gallery of gifs. i've spent hours in there looking at moving pictures and out of them all, the ONLY gif i actually ended up using on my site was a rotating tomato slice. it is still there. trapped.

https://wrender.neocities.org/tarotinstructions

A widget that gives you a random tarot card!

https://www.websudoku.com/widget.php

Sudoku widget!

That's about it for now! I don't know how to end this!!! Remember to have fun and google everything you don't know :]

[seraphinitegames]

The Wayhaven Chronicles—Update 05/July/2024

Not exactly the week I was hoping for this week, but I suppose it happens sometimes!

Me and Nai got absolutely slammed with stomach flu this week. We were wiped out Sunday and Monday, then finally thought we were over it Tuesday…only for it to hit us again in full force. So that was…fun, lol.

We did manage to push ourselves to move our working space to somewhere with stable internet finally! I’d actually forgotten what working internet was like until I loaded a webpage in the new space and it just loaded—just like that! :D

So hoping that will make a massive difference to just being able to do things smoothly now.

But whilst I was out of commission for a bit, I did manage to do a few things: as I was thinking over the coding and what’s coming up, I did realise there’s a massive bug for imported characters that I’ll be able to fix before imported characters are even enabled, so that’s a big thing!

Also, I designed the villain’s masquerade mask! I ADORE it so much! That will be up on Patreon as part of the sketch series I’m doing on there soon. Still have Nate/Nat’s and Farah/Felix’s masks to go in that series as well.

I also wrote a couple of loose scenes to keep me in the flow where the MC kind of ‘falls’ into an AU version of the love interest’s backstory and gets to experience it first hand, as well as interact with the vampires how they were back then.

It won’t be in the main series, but it was a seriously interesting writing exercise!

When we finally started feeling like we could stand up without the world spinning away around us, we really knuckled down to it!

I got the first part of the edits back from the editor, so I’m currently working on those.

I’m hoping to get Chapter Two into the demo some time at the end of this month pushing into early August as a loose idea of date, then Chapter Three and Four will be released together quite some time after that. But Chapter Two has A LOT going on that I really want to get out soon so I can chat about it with you all, hehe! ;D

Next week will be social media days, as well as pushing on with Chapter Three. I’m coming into a section that is seriously massive to write. It has three different versions to start with, as well as branching and variations within each version on top. But it does bring in the introduction of a new Unit, which I’m super excited for!

Hope you all have an amazing weekend! We’ll be offline as usual, so I'll update you all again next week! <3

[jinogasux-fr]

Santae banned me without telling me why and won't unban me unless I send them my photo ID

Hey guys sorry for not posting in… forever? I just suck at social media lol. But you may have seen that I've reblogged some posts that advertise Santae in the past, but please disregard all that. I've since deleted those posts after learning how the site is managed and, after what happened to me a few days ago, I feel as though I should go public about this. Because boy did I just get fucked over.

Anyway, yeah, what it says in the title. On October 24th, around 10am EST, I was restocking my user shop when the entire webpage went white. I couldn't access the site at all and, when I tried to look for the Discord on my server list, it wasn't there. I knew what this had meant. I got banned from both the game, and the Discord - this is important to keep in mind for later.

I didn't receive any Discord DM or email notification about my ban, so after asking a mod what their support email was (and yes, I later verified that this is indeed their legitimate support email), I sent them this:

After a few hours, I get this back in response:

There's so much I'm confused about here. I think the one that screams out the most is that they're asking me to show them my photo ID so I can get unbanned. Absolutely not. I refuse to do this. This poses a massive security and privacy risk. They straight up banned my account, gave this half-baked explanation, and told me I need to send my personal information or... I stay banned?

Let me make something clear: The only personal thing they have on file about this account is the email address that I created my account with, which I've also used to contact them. My real name, date of birth, anything of that nature would not be connected because this was not asked for during account creation, therefore this wouldn't actually prove I'm the account holder. Theoretically speaking, I could show them any ID in the world and for all they know, that's my real information, because they have nothing else to go off of. They even say as much in their privacy page.

Secondly, "account has been compromised"? What does that mean? I think anyone's interpretation of this would be that my account got hacked. But if my account got hacked, why wasn't I informed of this? I had to reach out to support, they did not reach out to me first. That means my password, which I may share across other sites, would have been known to someone else and thus I should've been warned of this immediately, not roughly 5 hours after the fact.

Thirdly, what, was my Discord "compromised" too? If an automated system had flagged my account, does that system somehow interact with a Discord bot so they ban a user on both at the same time? How does that work? That makes no sense as to why they'd ban me on both the game and the Discord for something like this, which is why I'm calling bullshit.

Let me tell you what I think happened.

Recently, Santae has been in some really hot water with connections revealing their relation to an older petsite, Lurapets, which has a history of scamming and artist mistreatment, as well as proof coming out of them using AI art for their NPC art. You can find these posts on the @santae-salt blog if you want to see for yourself, but I'm also linking them throughout this post.

Once the post about them being directly related to Lurapets was released, several users that the Santae staff thought might be involved in the creation of the post got banned. As it turns out, I was banned at the same time as these users.

After speaking with the @santae-salt admin, we are both of the belief that I, a regular user, got caught up in this mess because they're assuming I'm an alt account of someone else and staff demanded to see my ID because they didn't think I was a different person. It may turn out to be wrong, and yeah that sounds a bit far-fetched, sure, but really, what else can I go off of here?? Santae staff has given me a very questionable and refutable explanation as to why I've been banned, and their radio silence after I refused to send them my ID is just making me believe they don't think I'm real. They don't want my photo ID to verify I'm the account holder, they want my photo ID to verify I'm not someone else.

This is unprecedented. I've never seen any petsite ask for a photo ID in any situation, and after asking around, not even those banned from Santae were asked for this. It's just me! This is an incredible attempted breach of privacy, and, with Santae now under doxxing allegations, I really don't feel confident they'd keep my personal information… well, personal.

I messaged back almost immediately after they responded to me where I told them I would not send my ID and I had asked if there were any other way I could verify myself to get my account unbanned. I've received no response so far, and after what I've learned, I feel like I'm not going to get one at all.

So, let this be a lesson to you: don't waste your time on Santae. You can be the most obedient player out there. You can abide by all their rules, be a nice and generous player, or just be minding your own business, but if they so much as think you're associated with someone who they think has wronged them, you'll be banned.

And they can't even be bothered to properly tell you why.