#html coding is hard haha

[orcelito]

Oh yeah yesterday I went to my C programming professor's office hours to ask about what's being covered in class tomorrow. Since I can't go bc of my PT appointment overlapping with it & I'm apparently the kind of student that cares about attending every single class now.

While I was there, I ended up chatting with him about a few things, including my current standing in the class. He asked what I got on the midterm exam, & I answered it was an 87, and he told me I was one of the top 5 or 6 scores in the Whole Class (this being a like. Maybe 70 or so person class). Top score was a 92 or 93 (idr lol) & the class average was a 72. Apparently there were a few of us in the upper 80s/lower 90s, but most people got 70s or lower. And once he does the curve on the exam, he said I'd probably end up with a 97 or so on the exam. So yay!!!

And then he told me how he's noticed how I come to class every day and am really active with taking notes and answering questions. Bc I also sit up front all the time lmao. Hadn't even realized how much of a damned teacher's pet I've been being, but I've been Trying to be a good student this year. But he said I was the type of student that if I got an 88% or smth in the class, he'd likely bump me up to a 90% so I'd get an A lol. But he also said so long as I keep up with how I have been, I could possibly get a 100% in the class by the end (bc I've been there for all the extra credit questions in class and whatever).

And just. I went there bc I wanted to make sure I didn't miss anything important in class on Wednesday, and I ended up having my ego stroked for Real. Felt good to have my efforts be recognized.

[antirepurp]

oh dear. the overwhelming urge to design a pokemon region is upon me again

[tempural]

Hi!! I wanted to say that I loved reading about your journey of creating a personal website. I'm still unsure between Vercel and Netlify. I have a small question to ask. See, one of the reasons I want to make a website is to archive drawings and journal/sketchbook. Would you have any tips for creating an area on my website just for the diary/journal, which has tags, files for each entry, etc.?

Bello!

Really happy to hear about your interest in websites! I want everyone to make their own site so I don't have to log into social media and get instant tummyaches ♥

Vercel vs Netlify: I think I settled on Vercel for absolutely no reason whatsoever. I just made a site on Netlify, then tested on Vercel, and now I have like 5 websites on Vercel so I just kept using it LOL. I'm sure a more tech-savvy person would know the difference - I think they have certain integrations with specific programs.

Creating a diary or journal with tags:

There's a couple of different ways you can do that, with different levels of work needed.

you got me yapping again:

This sadgrl tutorial might be outdated and may or may not work, but explains the process better than I can.

Easiest: make a journal on Dreamwidth, or another blogging site (wordpress??) that allows easy tags and RSS feed, and embed that RSS feed onto your site.

This requires almost no HTML set-up, and the easiest to organize tags, but you don't truly have the data on your own site since it's just embedded.

When I snuck into a web design class at college, this was one of the methods that the professor used for a blog within a portfolio site LOL.

Shit like wordpress is what a LOT of ~professional~ sites do for their blog section. They code it separately from the main site haha. It's the most popular thing, but not necessarily the best. And wait til you read on what the CEO of wordpress has been having meltdowns about... he owns tumblr too!

It's made with a tutorial for Neocities if that's what you use.

Medium: Set up zonelets.

It will require some HTML and JS editing, but will help automate making headers/footers for each page of a blog.

I've never used it myself, but I see other people speak highly of it.

HARD FOR ME CUZ I'M A GORILLA: I believe a lot of professional web devs will slap your face with their coding cock until you use a static site generator (SSG) to make your site.

You will need some coding knowledge to set up the tagging system since it doesn't come with it enabled by default. But it's made explicitly to be an alternative to big Static Site Generators which are...

It requires some more intimidating knowledge, because it's a lot of scripts that turn files that are not HTML/CSS/JS into plain HTML.

Also you have to use the command line, and that doesn't come with buttons that tell you what you can do. You have to copy/paste all that shit or memorize the code to 'dev build astro' and it all looks silly.

I've used Eleventy, and now am using Astro. Other people use Hugo or Jekyll or some other stuff with crazy names like Glup Shitto. I hate all these sites cuz none of the words mean anything to me. This is a common theme for me and tech. I don't know what NODES or CONTENT or ISLANDS are!!!

I had the most success attempting to learn how to use a SSG by downloading a template and altering it with github + VScodium. Here's the template page for Astro. You click on a theme you like, and it takes you to its github page. (If you don't want to use evil Microsoft stuff sorry. Skip this entire section.) Follow the instructions on the page for "forking" the glup shitto. When it tells you to run commands, I run those commands through the terminal window in VScodium. These tutorials never tell you what these commands do cuz they assume you already know. Usually those commands automatically install the files you need onto your computer, and create the final files.

You can see my wip here for a "tag system" that SHOULD show members of a web listing haha but I don't know what I'm doing and I have a reading disorder AND don't know cumputer good.

THEORETICALLY this will be the simplest and easiest way to maintain tags and files, because after you set it up you just have to write the "content" of the blog page. And you don't have to set up the header/footer ever again. I see the vision, and potential, but I am not there yet when it takes me 5 hours a day to figure out what any of the words in the documentation mean and I don't want to ask an actual tech person cuz they will be like 'obviously just press the Blip on the Repository and then Suck My Ass in the command line".

(side note I haven't updated fujofans in like a year cuz I'm struggling with this part to make updating easier).

Con: the final HTML/CSS code is really ugly if it's "minified", and a lot of themes use """"""professional"""""" CSS libraries like Bootstrap and Tailwind that I honestly think are ugly cuz that's what every fuckin' tech website uses to style their pages and make them look Professional and Minimalist with stupid code like style="500-w dark-gray-balls D-cup-bra" on every single element. Even Toyhouse uses Bootstrap. Eugh!

But maybe you're smarter than me and can wrangle these things better!

That was really long. Woops. I hope you can slug through this wall of text and find something helpful. Feel free to email me if you have any more specific questions. I may or may not be helpful.

If someone else sees this and has better suggestions for making BLOGS, please chime in. I'm begging you.

[seepweed]

Your site has convinced me to go make a neocities (tumblr glitching paranoia has gotten to me and by god I will be going back to the early 2000s if this place goes down) and oh my god coding is hard. I am in agony. Yes it's going to look very much like your site I am squinting so hard at your html trying to figure out how to do it. This is the worst looking thing I have ever made but there are three buttons that go nowhere now so I'm succeeding mildly at least

OMG PERCY!!! WELCOME TO THE NEOCITIES CRAZE!!! i'm literally so honoured to have inspired you to make a site. funnily enough, i *also* joined neocities after the tumblr-unfunctional-paranoia got to me, albeit in 2022. welcome to coding hell 😎

god, coding is hard. i hope you’re having fun, though. it's such a great hobby, once you're in The Zone. it’s a little like modeling a little clay image... digitally... anyways! i’m here to say: YOU’VE GOT THIS!!! feel free to reuse any code i’ve put down on octagon and PLEASE please please tell me your link!!! i want to look at it (regardless of “how much” is on there).

i’m sure you’re getting the hang on things fast, but since you activated my yapper mode, you now have to sit through unsolicited advice <3

if you’re looking for coding help, https://www.w3schools.com/ is a goldmine, as is https://htmlcheatsheet.com/. also, with CRTL+U you learn something new! ALWAYS investigate nice code to understand how they did that. and https://32bit.cafe/interactingontheweb/ has a lot of good tips for being social off of social media.

general rule of thumb is always: coding is digital arts + crafts. break your website. it’s more pronuctive than always coding in a breeze. never apologise for dropping off the earth and not updating in 6 weeks, 8 months or 15 years. some websites have been unmanned since 2001 and are still running, so don’t worry about it.

furthermore, i need to state that i'm a really bad example of a neocities coder LMAO. i code in the editor, i have 0 offline copies of my files and my form is chaotic at best. my website runs on pure html+css, i don't use javascript (yet) or iframes. most people code their sites in notepad, then run them in a compiler like https://playcode.io/html and THEN they post them to neocities. i am lazy. i do this directly IN neocities. don't be like me. save your page.

also. I’ve been doing this for 3 years. like, on the day for three years actually. here’s how my very first webpage looked in 2022:

anyways. HAVE FUN. MAKE FRIENDS. DON’T FORGET TO BE YOURSELF. SPARKLE ON!!! NEVER HOTLINK! you’ve got this, if you have any questions, feel free to ask. i’m not sure i will be able to answer, but we can try haha. and PLEASE TELL ME YOUR WEBSITE!!! i would love to look at it and in classic neocities fashion, i’d obviously LINK YOU.

and here’s some sites that are awesome :3

The Maximalists. mobile inaccessible, IMAGE HEAVY!

https://ninacti0n.art/ EYESTRAIN

https://olliveen.neocities.org/ EYESTRAIN

https://phrogee.neocities.org/ EYESTRAIN

The Webcartoonists. also image-heavy. also probably not mobile accessible.

The Minimalists.

[wiz-writes]

So, I think cogdemos is the easiest place to transfer a game from dashingdon to, because they're very similar. Or you can try moving it to Twine and publish it on itch.io, but you'll have to learn a new coding language for that if I'm not mistaken.. there's also a post on the forum about making the game into html(?) and you can make it into a downloadable form of your game, that you can publish even on your own website!

Yeah, I've been thinking about moving my games to Twine, but when I took a look at it, I found it quite hard haha. I'm not very good at coding. So I think I'll stick to cscript for now 😂

Thank you for the suggestions!

[altraviolet]

Hey violet!

What’s something you want to share with your audience that you couldn’t fit into TEG? Like a scene or some world building tidbit, etc :)

I wish you a wonderful day!!!

hey anon!

oooh this is always a fun question, but I can't think of anything in the moment. but! I hope you'll indulge me in this, something else I've been meaning to share for a while but hadn't taken the time to take pics yet

last year I printed all of TEG so I could edit it. I find editing a zillion times easier on paper than on the screen, especially because my free, ancient word processor doesn't play nice with AO3, so ALL OF TEG was hand typed with the html. so like every time you saw italics or bold, I hand wrote <i>the coding</i> in there. ANYWAY

I typeset it and went to interpolate (??? I forgot the word, but you have to order the pages a certain way in the PDF so the printer prints them correctly in folios) it in Adobe Acrobat (I think) but the function was broken Dx I haven't tested it since then, but I was VERY annoyed to find that was the case, cuz it meant instead of cutting TEG's ~1000 pages down by four to print, I could only cut down by two

so I spent about 3 days printing the whole damn thing out. after editing, I put the pages in acid protected plastic sheets and put 'em into binders:

I went through the whole thing with a red pen, making as many corrections as I could find. I did a post about my most common mistakes (please learn from my mistakes!) but here's a quick recap of the major findings:

"if... then" NOT "if... than"

pouring vs poring -> "poring over data pads" is correct

reticules vs reticles -> "reticles" are what we want, "reticules" are little purses

reign vs rein -> "rein in emotion" is the correct one

how em dashes work

capitalizing in quotations

Then after all that was done, I went back through with gold pen and added little "fun facts" and bits of info because I thought maybe someday I could sell this massive tome, or use it for a raffle for charity, or something, and my author notes would add some interest and value :)

So for example in the above picture, the gold tid bits are as follows:

text: "Ultra Magnus said it's a closed loop. He closed it himself when the tubes were installed."

note: but Soundwave opened them recently (this was a note to myself- this line is to throw off the reader re: how Soundwave siphoned away the 0001 energon in the Scavengers' tubes)

text: I'm glad we told the crew it was missing. Otherwise they'd probably tear us apart tonight when Ratchet does his thing with the current mix.

note: transparency laws (here Rodimus is referring to an off-page meeting in which the leadership team told the crew the 0001 energon was missing. they did this because of the transparency laws they put in place)

text:

Megatron: "If I asked you what the definition of Soundwave was, what would you answer?"

Rodimus: "I… I have no idea what you mean. Our Soundwave? 0001 Soundwave? Another Soundwave?"

note: R means TFP SW here :D b/c 0001 SW is mentioned separately (when Rodimus says "Our Soundwave?" he means the TFP Soundwave that has boarded the ship)

text: (Aquafend had) accidentally doubled a few of the layers, making the original map hard to see in some places.

note: tech issues inspired by boomers

text: Aquafend pointed to his own aft. "Soundwave: posterior."

note: bwa (I think this line is SO funny haha)

text: Ambulon shrugged. "Tell First Aid and Ratchet to lay off? Velocity's cool. I'm satisfied with my life here. I want to do my work unimpeded."

note: this is why he trusts her later with the spark jewels (by this I mean, it's very small and in the background, but Ambulon always defaults to Velocity as advisor or company over the other medics)

-

I did write a bunch of notes, but not on every page. I wanted to get going with making a typeset ebook available for folks (there's a link on AO3), and I do have the typeset PDF for anyone who wants to ficbind! I don't post that publicly, but I do give it out via email. Just email if you'd like to ficbind =)

So yeah! Right now these binders are just leaning against my bookshelf (in summer I use them to brace the door through the ever-present air pressure changes of a/c, lol). If I ever were to sell or give these away, I'd definitely go through and put notes on as many pages as possible. They're not on every page, but a good amount.

Thanks for the fun ask! =)

[heartsoftruth]

This is the moment where we tell all the people that were in an imaginative long-term marriage with Lewis: "He is not and will not be dating YOU 🫵🏾", "He doesn't know YOU 🫵🏾", "You do NOT know him like that at all". "Whoever's back he is breaking, it is not YOURS 🫵🏾". You are giving yourself heartbreak everytime he breathes near a woman for free.

Let's focus all that obsessive energy on supporting him in getting his 8th championship

PS: I feel like every month I'll have to come in your inbox with my red characters, trying to remind people that we should focus on the 8th and let him be Dr Operation in peace. 😭

HAHHAHAHAH NO BUTT AHAHAHAHHA A "Whoever's back he is breaking, it is not YOURS 🫵🏾".

GUURLLL I CAN NOT HAHAHHAHAH I LAUGHING WAY TOO HARD

And HOW IN THE HELL do you send those colors and italic font HAHA. It that HTML code you send the ask with? I'm so curious hahah. I does make you stand out but the whoever back hes breaking: not yours. HAHAHa I can NOTTTT 😂😂😂

LET HIM BE DR OPERATION IN PEACE HAHHAHAHAHA.

*coughs* he can operate me *coughs* *reads your message again* "He is not and will not be dating YOU 🫵🏾" HAHAHAHHA 😭😭😂

[redacted-s-journal]

insatiable | 29/08/2024 | 22:48

yo,

not sure what to put on here. i was never the type to journal or write diaries as a kid. never quite understood the purpose of such things. i mean, i guess i can understand the practical reasons of it - whatever it may be - but it's one thing for the brain to know and for the heart to know.

so why am i doing this? i don't know, just thought it would be fun. it was kind of an impulsive decision. i can't remember what prompted me to start this either. this blog will serve as me writing down my thoughts i guess?

i guess don't really expect people to read these either (but that won't stop me from adding tags to this post! :D). maybe i'll look back at these entries one day. maybe i'll cringe, maybe i'll laugh. who knows.

but hey, if you're here and i have zero idea who you are, hello there.

y'know, i've always liked the idea of anonymous journals, like imagine finding a stranger's journal and reading about their lives, not knowing who they are. kinda sick.

whatever, i'm rambling. i'm mainly writing this right now because i have nothing else to do. i've already finished up with what i needed to do - assessments, email lecturers. i wanted to play some video games, but it doesn't feel fulfilling anymore. maybe i'll feel good in the moment, but it's not like i'm looking forward to doing it.

i just feel like i could be doing something more productive. i get i should set some time for myself where i can take a break from work/productivity for self-care or something. but i just can't shake off the thought that i could be doing something else, something more productive.

i was thinking of finalising a programming timeline for myself - basically just trying to learning all sorts of coding languages within a year. i'm already in a programming course, but i feel like i could be doing more, y'know? currently i'm learning SQL, HTML/CSS, and XAML/C#. but i could be doing more.

it kinda sucks, thinking like this. makes me feel like i can never do enough no matter how hard i try. but it's whatever. i just gotta push through it.

maybe i'm just burnt out.

yeah, that could be it.

but burnt out from what? existing? what's there to be burnt out about? i'm not the busiest person on earth.

i feel like i'm not doing anything - anything productive, that is, and it's killing me. i could be doing something else, i could be more productive, i could be more hardworking.

but why am i not? why am i still writing this?

whatever.

i'll sleep it off, see how i feel tomorrow. i'll try to play a game to take my mind off it.

haha, think this entry's a little too serious.

time to absolutely LOCK IN and QUIT feeling bad! just gotta STAND on BUSINESS WOOOOOO (this is hilarious btw)

Yours sincerely, [redacted]

[thequibblah]

so excited for flowers and thorns!! absolutely loved how your prose adapted to the universe and really put you in that old-timey, asoiaf feeling. james and lily are GREAT i can’t wait to see where their unwilling attraction takes them lmao.

also, side note, if you don’t like html formatting, why don’t you use rich text (and then just fix the annoying italics space it does when you reread)? i find it easier, but maybe you have a preference!

THANK YOU! i have been rereading dunkegg/relistening to the main series to get the vibe right haha. going to have to squeeze in a “naked as their nameday” mention somewhere… i especially love the big cast of it all because we all know i adore a random secondary character, and (spoiler alert) ive squeezed many into this one because there’s going to be time jumps between chapters!

re: rich text, that’s my preference actually but i write in scrivener and it doesn’t copy formatting when i paste directly from it into rich text on ao3. not a me problem, scriv users have worked out many a workaround. i used one last night that compiled my doc into a .rtf file, which was fine except that it parsed line breaks as br rather than p so it was one ugly text block, which I belieeeeve is because i don’t use two hard returns to get to the next para in scriv, i just use a first line indent. which is way more info than you asked for lol but what i was coding ln was really just replacing all the br’s with p (and i just noticed that I missed one 😭)

anyway, this is mostly because it’s been like 6 months since i last posted anything and i’ve since remembered i had my own workaround (export to word doc then paste in google doc THEN copy to ao3 rich text lmfao) so i might switch back to that. or do some digging to figure out how to get my scrivener compile format to include my para breaks since that’s way less work for me and surely there’s a way.

[ne0nwithazero]

ur website is awesome where did you learn html and css!! ive been looking for months now but i cant find any starting points i can easily understand

Thank you! I kind of mostly used to do Neopets template junk in 2007 and had some extremely basic and outdated HTML knowledge until recently LOL (As in that my knowledge was basically knowing that <i> made your text italic and if I typed color="blue" it would change the color of the text haha)

But yeah, I'm basically self-taught! One of the courses I did in the past did have a few Web Design classes, but I had a really hard time understanding any of it and my grades were awful, so I hardly count that as having contributed anything to my knowledge x) (We were forced to make the most bland minimalistic corporate websites so the lack of fun in that definitely contributed hahaha)

I guess starting out really depends on what you're personally comfortable with? The way I personally started was that I used one of those Free Website Makers like Wix/Weebly/etc to try and "sketch" my website! I had this old unused !Weebly portfolio website I wasn't doing anything with, so I used that

W3Schools is the MVP for this stuff since it has basically everything you can learn about HTML/CSS/etc! For my Website I remember first starting by trying to create the navbar, looking at the Weebly mockup and trying to mentally deconstruct it all into boxes to try and understand how I could recreate it with my own code!

(The reason my navbar looks so different from the screenshot was because I had a really hard time recreating it xD And I ended up with something a lot more basic to match my skillset!)

Something that always worked for me was using templates and just trial and error my way into trying to understand what did what x)

Considering my website has the three-column format, I do recall using SadGrl's Layout Maker code as a reference for my own!

And I guess that's advice I can give?? Finding websites you like, or if you're wondering how someone did something, how their font has weird colours, what animations they're using, etc etc, just go look into their source code, or use the Inspect Tool (F12) and select elements to try and understand the code!

I do sometimes hide goofy hidden text and easter eggs in my source codes, so I'm personally cool with people looking through mine to understand how I did things :)

I definitely relate to this all being overwhelming or confusing at the start, so I'd say just take it slow and make things fun for yourself! I used weird fonts and bright colours when trying to see what does what, use dumb placeholder texts and images too LMAO

Another thing that helped was that I found gifs and images I liked to place on the website and try to make it feel all the more personal and cozy!

Again this is just my personal experience and what I did to make the learning experience more enjoyable :)

[boyfhee]

i will never give you any warnings (゜ロ゜) hehe, you got what rank, 6k and 676 marks, cae didi i could never. have a huge respect for you and i wlnder how much you might have studied and worked hard for it. such a scam :(

my dad bought a management seat, but the admission office said to apply for counselling in rounds 1 and 2 so that we can get fees concestion. by admission was done yesterday, and could you believe that i saw final year students in the seminar hall, they wore their robes but i dont think it was graduation.

i saw a senior rome around the campus bunking classes, lmao and that dude was my dad's friend's friend son :-O such a surprise. i actually took cse course, just pure cse no ai or ml or ds.

for my dad, half off the tension have been cured and next is my sister's who want to join bipc (-)_(-) lol my dad is saying she won't study but now that 30% of the syllabus has been removed (is it 30% or just a few chapters..) i think it would be easy to get seat in our state rather than joining aiims 🥲

well, let's talk about me and only me 🤭 i had dreams of becoming a doctor, but sadly, i have fear of blood and needles like injecting them on someone. i gave on the last minute and join mpc. never knew my life would be this messed up haha 🙃

jay, did you see his new segment – jjong ddu ddu, he is so cute. he is y(our) ddu ddu 😭🫶🏽 i love him so much. also since when were you an enha stan and when did you get into kpop??

— lover club anon <3

PLEASEEEEE i was fighting demons while preparing for this and this is what i get in return TT i think bio comes to me naturally, which is one reason why i chose this field, but phy and chem were the real challenge and gave me the hardest time ( but i have improved a lot which is the main thing here )

and i would love to give more tips on counselling but i barely have any TT my dad usually keeps a check of these things— he literally told me to focus on studies and he will handle the rest, i love him :> also cse is fun ! again, i'm not very knowledgeable about it since that isn't my field, but i enjoyed coding and studying cs in highschool. html was my thing, but python...can it die :/

also good luck to your sister with pcb ! it's true a lot of chapters have been removed, but a bunch of stuff has been added as well, especially the practical skills— which are being asked in these exams. it's going to get worse in the coming years with the amount of students that appear for neet, but i hope your sister makes it through nonetheless. and also wishing u good luck for college :D

and omg luckily i do not have fear of anything but i'm scared as hell because what if i faint in front of the cadavers ㅠㅠ plus i absolutely cannot stand formaldehyde. but it's okay, there are a lot more fields for you, i hope you have fun studying and working in them ><

also, i haven't had the time to watch jong ddu ddu ( what a cute name, by the way ) but i've been seeing pics and clips all over twitters. he's so adorable and bf coded aaa >///< i got into kpop around 2018 i think ? and have been an engene since dimension : answer era. what about u :O

[modern-fe-headcanons-blog]

RGB Squad Ice Cream HC's

Lukas

- Lukas’ favorite ice cream flavor is either chocolate or vanilla- he likes the simplicity of it.

- He never had a chance to enjoy ice cream as a child, so he isn’t really picky.

- The only ice cream flavor he dislikes is peach. It tastes like soap to him.

- He’s the kind of person who eats it plain, with little to no toppings.

Forsyth

- Forsyth prefers strawberry ice cream, but he isn’t opposed to other flavors.

- His least favorite flavor is vanilla- it’s a bit bland, he thinks.

- His favorite topping is whipped cream.

- He’s also a sundae person, but he’s not the person who would eat a giant sundae.

Python

- Python would be too busy eating it to care what flavor it was.

- If he absolutely had to pick, he would pick chocolate.

- He dislikes exotic flavors of ice cream (such as green tea ice cream).

- He likes the syrup the most, chocolate syrup to be exact, but he likes strawberry syrup, too.

- Mod Lukas

[deanu]

I may be stupid but at least I know enough code that my professor sends data to me for analysis on R studio

[nianeyna]

Ever wanted to print and bind your own customized bullet journal, but then inevitably discovered that finding or making a suitable dot grid pdf file is weirdly hard? Like, maybe you find one, but it's never the right scale, it looks crappy, you can't edit it, it includes some junk you don't want... and then you go to try and make your own and it's like, ok get a png of one page of dots and copy-paste it into a document 200 times - what! nightmare! I'm not doing that! ...uhhhhh, not that I have any personal bullet journal typesetting related trauma or anything. haha.

But I mean, it's just dots, right? you should be able to go, ok I want 200 pages of dots 5mm apart on half-letter sized pages, make it so. Why is that so hard?

Well, now it's easy!

Click the link, follow the instructions, get your journal, print that sucker out and bind it using your preferred method. I promise it's that easy. Please don't be daunted by the command-line stuff - you do NOT need any coding experience to use this template (although if you can figure out a bit of html and css, you'll be able to do even more customization than what I've already built in).

Also, I've dedicated this code to the public domain, so you are free to do just about anything with it including modify, redistribute with or without credit, use for commercial purposes, etc etc. But, if you like it, feel free to tell me how cool and pretty I am in the notes. ⤵

[aslitheryprinx]

i’m not all that big a fan of shipping stuff, especially with crossovers, but still- i’ve been having a bit of fun reading murals and mutants! can’t wait to see more!

however, is there a possibility of you changing the font color for leo’s chat messages? it is.. very eye straining right now, and is kinda hurting a bit to look at.

i think it’s because i’m using the reversi skin, which is basically a dark mode for ao3? and it does not clash well with the blue. i suppose i can log out or change the skin back to normal to read?

either way- i love your works! i hope you have a great rest-of-your-day!

Honestly, I'm not usually either 😂 it's been a very long time since I wrote any shipping content (I never have under this name.) I think there's something about the miles x Mikey ship that draws me in!

I'm glad you're enjoying! :D

Oooh that's a good question. I just used the default blue for Leo, which isn't my favorite shade, but I was more focused on trying to get the shade of April's name to not look like shit 😭

For explanation, to actually change the font color, you have to go into the HTML editor, and surround whatever word you want a different color in a special code that looks like: <span class="font-color"> word </span>

Which uh. Takes a while.... And the only two yellow fonts were a neon yellow that was incredibly hard to make out against the white background, and "murky yellow" which looked like actually vomit. So I had to figure out how to edit the skin to make more font colors

Anyways, I'm getting off topic sorry. I can definitely go through and try to find a nicer shade of blue, or even add one if there isn't a good one. I will have to go through and edit the color for every single command in HTML, so it'll take a while to fix haha 😅

For now, if you wanna idk reread it or something, there should be a button that says "hide creators style" which will make the txt colors boring, but hopefully cut down on the eye strain!

Thank you! :D I hope you have a good rest-of-your-day too!

[speakergame]

I noticed a maybe coding mistake? When you're on the detective route and you have the option to talk to the receptionist, there's " \politely\." shown in the link. If you were trying to get the word to be italicized you have to format it as an addition. So like: [["You're going to talk..." + \\politely\\ + ". No need to ..."|Next page]] Because Sugarcube reads the whole passage as a string rather than a string with a coding element in it.

yep, those should have been forward slashes not backslashes (to italicize it)! I’ll get that fixed 😅

Hi! I'm not sure if it's a me problem but I've played the new update (LOVED IT) and at the end of it went to check relationships part and Sebastian's status is empty? I chose to call him at the start and my mc did flirt with him too! There wasn't any other problem so just wanted to report this. Thank you for the wonderful update!

looks like there was a coding issue that made it disappear, I think I’ve fixed it. Let me know if it still doesn’t work!

Hi! Sorry to bother but you remember the last names options for the speaker? I don't remember what I chose, and now I need to come up with one and I will spend to much time trying to think on "the perfect one" if I don't have options lol

Also do you know if it's posible to change the screen to vertical reading in itch.io? (Like it was in dashingdon)

I’m working on getting the premade name options added back in, but if you’re just looking for a list, the last names I had before were: Reed, Delaney, Miller, Williams, and Cole

Hi I love the new update!!! And the new look on itchio! I was wondering one thing tho, in the original demo my mc had dyed her hair a different color from her twin, I was wondering if it would be possible to include that extra choice? Or maybe it is and I just missed it lol , If not that’s totally fine and I understand!!

dyed hair options have been moved to a choice a little later on in chapter 3, that will have a few other customization options as well!

Hi! congrats on the twine release (yay chapter 2!!!)!

I was just wondering if it would be possible to emphasise the move forward option a little more? (On the witch theme in particular, that ones the most comfortable for my eyes to use so the only one I have experience with haha, the continue line of text is so close to the normal text it's hard to tell what's clickable and what's not) Sorry this is such a tiny thing, but I had to ask just to see, it's more than fine to disregard this upfront!!

Congrats again! And thank you for your time!

I’ve seen a few other people mention this as well, I’ll probably go back and make the font a little bigger on the clickable words and see if that helps (I’ll add that to the same patch as the pregenerated-names) 😁 if it doesn’t, I may need to just change them all to a “continue” button, but we’ll see how it goes!

Hi! Congrats on the relaunch of Speaker on itchio! I've always loved to go a little codediving on dashington to see all the possible dialogue without having to replay over and over or choose options I dislike. I was wondering if you know if that is possible with twine? Of course if you really dislike people doing that I'll refrain from trying to do so ^^"

you know, I’ve seen that people have been downloading the game so I know it must be theoretically possible to do so but I’m not sure how. but if you do, it’s just an html document and the code can be looked through the same as any other html document 😁 I don’t mind people doing so, as long as y’all understand that I am a novice at best when it comes to coding so it may be a bit of a clusterfuck in there