Bite into my head gently
Tell me what it tastes like
Do you taste salty tears,
Or perhaps sweet dreams?
If you press your tongue
To the roof of your mouth
You might make something out—
Passions taking shape
Will your palate pick something up,
Or will I bleed in vain?
Psst, I'm working on a poetry book! It's taking a long time, as expected, so a lot of my newer, better poems won't see the light
of day until... uh... maybe a year, or two, or three. If two years have elapsed and I haven't found a good publisher yet,
I'll self-publish like God intended.
Hm... still here? Oh well, I'll indulge you in an archive of my old index pages, it's all over on neocities
1. My first foray into neocities was a reference sheet for my characters. I used someone else's code and learned what certain html lingo means to parse what I should be adding where. This site was up for months, as I only touched neocities for a day or two and dropped it not long after.
2. My second crack at this website still heavily used someone else's code, this time from ribo.zone. You could see I was inspired by the multi-sidebar layouts that is popular on neocities. I treated this more like a directory of external links than a true "website."
3. This one is charming, because I had learned flexbox for the first time and was insistent that I code everything by myself, by hand. The result is this very simple looking index page. It was simple, and it did its job well enough. But I was craving for more.
4. Jumping off the "analog" feel of the notepad, I took it up a notch and made my background my literal desk setup. Although it was slightly played up for the camera. I'm not that organized most of the time. This site was great but it had two problems. 1) It was HEAVILY desktop-only and 2) The background took a long time to load the first time. So here comes our next contender
5. Simplifying the layout using CSP assets, this second iteration of "desk setup" keeps the feeling of being in a tangible "place". It even has the first version of a secret bookmark! It's only colored-in on the index page, it turns white on other pages!
6. Lastly, my final layout before I jumped ship from neocities was a book spread with draggable sticky notes. I still relied heavily on CSP assets, but my vision was coming together. I even used a bit of javascript from marcus parsons to make the draggable notes! Can you tell I'm extra proud of that?
My old layouts will stay in neocities because I was a dummy who didn't know how to use relative paths so I used my neocities url/link to refer to images... Oops. We live laugh and learn don't we.