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"I DIDN'T MEAN TO TAKE YOUR STATUE AND BREAK IT! THEY WERE GOING TO KILL ME AND TAKE MY PELT AND MAKE MY SCROTUM THEIR WALLETS!!"

i've liked fnaf since i was 11

Springtrap Vs. Moon

I didn’t understand the link between autistic people and how we’re apparently so into trains until I actually started doing some research and I was like “omg this is awesome”

Officially adding trains and public transport systems to my list of current hyperfixations

I'm cooking sth (and some of my old stuff)

iive been so obsessed with this video for days

Essentials You Need to Become a Web Developer

HTML, CSS, and JavaScript Mastery

Text Editor/Integrated Development Environment (IDE): Popular choices include Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text.

Version Control/Git: Platforms like GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket allow you to track changes, collaborate with others, and contribute to open-source projects.

Responsive Web Design Skills: Learn CSS frameworks like Bootstrap or Flexbox and master media queries

Understanding of Web Browsers: Familiarize yourself with browser developer tools for debugging and testing your code.

Front-End Frameworks: for example : React, Angular, or Vue.js are powerful tools for building dynamic and interactive web applications.

Back-End Development Skills: Understanding server-side programming languages (e.g., Node.js, Python, Ruby , php) and databases (e.g., MySQL, MongoDB)

Web Hosting and Deployment Knowledge: Platforms like Heroku, Vercel , Netlify, or AWS can help simplify this process.

Basic DevOps and CI/CD Understanding

Soft Skills and Problem-Solving: Effective communication, teamwork, and problem-solving skills

Confidence in Yourself: Confidence is a powerful asset. Believe in your abilities, and don't be afraid to take on challenging projects. The more you trust yourself, the more you'll be able to tackle complex coding tasks and overcome obstacles with determination.

beginner’s guide to the indie web

“i miss the old internet” “we’ll never have websites like the ones from the 90s and early 2000s ever again” “i’m tired of social media but there’s nowhere to go”

HOLD ON!

personal websites and indie web development still very much exist! it may be out of the way to access and may not be the default internet experience anymore, but if you want to look and read through someone’s personally crafted site, or even make your own, you can still do it! here’s how:

use NEOCITIES! neocities has a built in search and browse tools to let you discover websites, and most importantly, lets you build your own website from scratch for free! (there are other ways to host websites for free, but neocities is a really good hub for beginners!)

need help getting started with coding your website? sadgrl online has a section on her website dedicated to providing resources for newbie webmasters!

HTML (HyperText Markup Language) and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) are the core of what all websites are built on. many websites also use JS (JavaScript) to add interactive elements to their pages. w3schools is a useful directory of quick reference for pretty much every HTML/CSS/JS topic you can think of.

there is also this well written and lengthy guide on dragonfly cave that will put you step by step through the basics of HTML/CSS (what webpages are made from), if that’s your sort of thing!

stack overflow is every programmer’s hub for asking questions and getting help, so if you’re struggling with getting something to look how you want or can’t fix a bug, you may be able to get your answer here! you can even ask if no one’s asked the same question before.

websites like codepen and jsfiddle let you test HTML/CSS/JS in your browser as you tinker with small edits and bugfixing.

want to find indie websites outside the scope of neocities? use the search engine marginalia to find results you actually want that google won’t show you!

you can also use directory sites like yesterweb’s link section to find websites in all sorts of places.

if you are going to browse the indie web or make your own website, i also have some more personal tips as a webmaster myself (i am not an expert and i am just a small hobbyist, so take me with a grain of salt!)

if you are making your own site:

get expressive! truly make whatever you want! customize your corner of the internet to your heart’s content! you have left the constrains of social media where every page looks the same. you have no character limit, image limit, or design limit. want to make an entire page or even a whole website dedicated to your one niche interest that no one seems to be into but you? go for it! want to keep a public journal where you can express your thoughts without worry? do it! want to keep an art gallery that looks exactly how you want? heck yeah! you are free now! you will enjoy the indie web so much more if you actually use it for the things you can’t do on websites like twitter, instead of just using it as a carrd bio alternative or a place to dump nostalgic geocities gifs.

don’t overwhelm yourself! if you’ve never worked with HTML/CSS or JS before, it may look really intimidating. start slow, use some guides, and don’t bite off more than you can chew. even if your site doesn’t look how you want quite yet, be proud of your work! you’re learning a skill that most people don’t have or care to have, and that’s pretty cool.

keep a personal copy of your website downloaded to your computer and don’t just edit it on neocities (or your host of choice) and call it a day. if for some reason your host were to ever go down, you would lose all your hard work! and besides, by editing locally and offline, you can use editors like vscode (very robust) or notepad++ (on the simpler side), which have more features and is more intuitive than editing a site in-browser.

you can use ctrl+shift+i on most browsers to inspect the HTML/CSS and other components of the website you’re currently viewing. it’ll even notify you of errors! this is useful for bugfixing your own site if you have a problem, as well as looking at the code of sites you like and learning from it. don’t use this to steal other people’s code! it would be like art theft to just copy/paste an entire website layout. learn, don’t steal.

don’t hotlink images from other sites, unless the resource you’re taking from says it’s okay! it’s common courtesy to download images and host them on your own site instead of linking to someone else’s site to display them. by hotlinking, every time someone views your site, you’re taking up someone else’s bandwidth.

if you want to make your website easily editable in the future (or even for it to have multiple themes), you will find it useful to not use inline CSS (putting CSS in your HTML document, which holds your website’s content) and instead put it in a separate CSS file. this way, you can also use the same theme for multiple pages on your site by simply linking the CSS file to it. if this sounds overwhelming or foreign to you, don’t sweat it, but if you are interested in the difference between inline CSS and using separate stylesheets, w3schools has a useful, quick guide on the subject.

visit other people’s sites sometimes! you may gain new ideas or find links to more cool websites or resources just by browsing.

if you are browsing sites:

if the page you’re viewing has a guestbook or cbox and you enjoyed looking at the site, leave a comment! there is nothing better as a webmaster than for someone to take the time to even just say “love your site” in their guestbook.

that being said, if there’s something on a website you don’t like, simply move on to something else and don’t leave hate comments. this should be self explanatory, but it is really not the norm to start discourse in indie web spaces, and you will likely not even be responded to. it’s not worth it when you could be spending your time on stuff you love somewhere else.

take your time! indie web doesn’t prioritize fast content consumption the way social media does. you’ll get a lot more out of indie websites if you really read what’s in front of you, or take a little while to notice the details in someone’s art gallery instead of just moving on to the next thing. the person who put labor into presenting this information to you would also love to know that someone is truly looking and listening.

explore! by clicking links on a website, it’s easy to go down rabbitholes of more and more websites that you can get lost in for hours.

seeking out fansites or pages for the stuff you love is great and fulfilling, but reading someone’s site about a topic you’ve never even heard of before can be fun, too. i encourage you to branch out and really look for all the indie web has to offer.

i hope this post helps you get started with using and browsing the indie web! feel free to shoot me an ask if you have any questions or want any advice. <3

I don't know who needs to hear this

But if you go into the comments section on AO3

And type

Then replace image url (keep the " marks) with the url of a picture

You can leave fan art in the comments of a fic

neocities guide - why you should build your own html website

do you miss the charm of the 90s/00s web where sites had actual personality instead of the same minimalistic theme? are you feeling drained by social media and the constant corporate monopoly of your data and time? do you want to be excited about the internet again? try neocities!!

what is neocities?

neocities is a free hosting website that lets you build your own html website from scratch, with total creative control. in their own words: "we are tired of living in an online world where people are isolated from each other on boring, generic social networks that don't let us truly express ourselves. it's time we took back our personalities from these sterilized, lifeless, monetized, data mined, monitored addiction machines and let our creativity flourish again."

why should I make my own website?

web3 has been overtaken by capitalism & conformity. websites that once were meant to be fun online social spaces now exist solely to steal your data and sell you things. it sucks!! building a personal site is a great way to express yourself and take control of your online experience.

what would I even put on a website?

the best part about making your own site is that you can do literally whatever the hell you want! focus on a specific subject or make it a wild collection of all your interests. share your art! make a shrine for one of your interests! post a picture of every bird you see when you step outside! make a collection of your favorite blinkies! the world is your oyster !! here are some cool example sites to inspire you: recently updated neocities sites | it can be fun to just look through these and browse people's content! space bar | local interstellar dive bar creature feature | halloween & monsters big gulp supreme peanutbuttaz | personal site dragodiluna linwood | personal site patho grove | personal site

getting started: neocities/html guide

sound interesting? here are some guides to help you get started, especially if you aren't familiar with html/css sadgrl.online webmastery | a fantastic resource for getting started with html & web revival. also has a layout builder that you can use to start with in case starting from scratch is too intimidating web design in 4 minutes | good for learning coding basics w3schools | html tutorials templaterr | demo & html for basic web elements eggramen test pages | css page templates to get started with sadgrl background tiles | bg tiles rivendell background tiles | more free bg tiles

fun stuff to add to your site

want your site to be cool? here's some fun stuff that i've found blinkies-cafe | fantastic blinkie maker! (run by @transbro & @graphics-cafe) gificities | internet archive of 90s/00s web gifs internet bumper stickers | web bumper stickers momg | gif gallery 99 gif shop | 3d gifs 123 guestbook | add a guestbook for people to leave messages cbox | add a live chat box moon phases | track the phases of the moon gifypet | a little clickable page pet adopt a shroom | mushroom page pet tamaNOTchi | virtual pet crossword puzzle | daily crossword imood | track your mood neko | cute cat that chases your mouse pollcode | custom poll maker website hit counter | track how many visitors you have

web revival manifestos & communities

also, there's actually a pretty cool community of people out there who want to bring joy back to the web! melonland project | web project/community celebrating individual & joyful online experiences. Also has an online forum melonland intro to web revival | what is web revival? melonking manifesto | status cafe | share your current status nightfall city | online community onio.cafe | leave a message and enjoy the ambiance sadgrl internet manifesto | yesterweb internet manifesto | sadly defunct, still a great resource reclaiming online social spaces | great manifesto on cultivating your online experience

in conclusion

i want everyone to make a neocities site because it's fun af and i love seeing everyone's weird personal sites that they made outside of the control of capitalism :) say hi to me on neocities

EDIT: part 2!!

Aggressive Retsuko

during work🏢

🐾Haida🐾 part 4

This one looks like it's from japanese DRAMA🤣

P.b. twt insta @ sytinhaw11

unknown forces compelled me to draw this

I’m just realising now how much I hate doing sketches as the first draft of my drawing

At this point I’ll just stick to using blocks of paint and my bare minimal fundamental knowledge to make my stuff

It feels so nice as an author to know that your fanfics are able to be enjoyed by anyone- regardless of language ♥️

So far I’ve gotten quite a fee english and spanish comments and I can’t wait for when I see a comment written in like French or some other language ♥️

Big shoutout to non-english AO3 users I love you guys so much ♥️

I think one of the many reasons I love Fiyeraba is that it’s one of the few m/f “villain romances” I can think of where the woman is the villain.*

I feel like often when there’s a love story (or at least romantic tension) between a “good heroic” character and a more dubious/villainous character, usually the man is the villain. Part of this because lots of women wanna fuck villains. But I also suspect part of this is because we tend to hold fictional female characters to higher standards of likability/morality. So, we don’t as often see the reverse.

Even in the few instances where a hero has romantic tension with a female villain (including my beloved batcat and aeon) it rarely ends in a canonical happy ending with them together. It usually ends in the villain’s defeat or them just leaving because it could never work out.

And Wicked looks at that and goes: Nope. The female villain will get a happy ending with her beloved and she won’t have to change for him.

And as someone who hates “brooding alpha males” in romance fiction and loves female villains/antiheroes, it’s really refreshing to see a story that inverts the tired “good girl fixes the bad boy” plotline.

Instead, they do “good boy runs off with the bad girl” which you just don’t see as often.

*(I know Elphaba is more of an antihero but she’s a villain in the eyes of Oz and she’s based on the villain from The Wizard of Oz so I still think she counts)

I wonder what you think about this - do you think that the children of animals of the same species, but of different subspecies, are hybrids? For example, in my mind, Louis's biological mother is a fallow deer, and biologically father is a red deer.

IRL? They're very much called hybrids- check ring species and hybrid zone on Wikipedia to read more about it. In Beastars? Probably not, since the pool of possible hybrids is much wider. Either that, or they'd be classified as more "normal" hybrids. Like, in a list from most accepted to least accepted:

Hybrids between two subspecies of the same species- often not even clocked as hybrids or recognized as such, seen as normal.

Hybrids between members of the same genus but different species, like lion/tiger hybrids or mules. Usually clocked as hybrids, but not seen as too unusual, somewhat "exotic" but still normal.

Hybrids between two members of the same family/subfamily but different genus, like a llama/dromedary hybrid or a wholphin . The point were hybrids start being seen as odd and discriminated against, but these ones can usually still live mostly normal lives without too many obstacles.

Hybrids between two members of the same order but different families- surprisingly common with birds, apparently, but unheard of with other orders. I wonder if this means these hybrids would be less discriminated if they're bird hybrids, but much more discriminated if they were, say, a cougar/wolf hybrid? Something to think about for sure.

Hybrids between two members of the same class but different order- this is were Melon is (both mammals, but leopards are order carnivora and gazelles are order artiodactyla). Also the point where I think we don't have any IRL hybrid animals to reference. These hybrids are generally treated rather poorly by society and discriminated heavily.

Hybrids between two members of the same phylum but different class- this is were Leano is (both chordate, but grey wolves are mammals and komodo dragons are reptiles). The rarest type of hybrid, and usually seen as an aberration to nature when they do occur.

I don't know if two animals from different phylums could procreate tbh... Even with Beastars' crazy genetic outbreeding capabilities, I feel like that would push things too far. But what do I know?

Anyway, sorry for my massive ramble to answer your very simple question lol. A guy likes overthinking.

some people think writers are so eloquent and good with words, but the reality is that we can sit there with our fingers on the keyboard going, “what’s the word for non-sunlight lighting? Like, fake lighting?” and for ten minutes, all our brain will supply is “unofficial”, and we know that’s not the right word, but it’s the only word we can come up with…until finally it’s like our face got smashed into a brick wall and we remember the word we want is “artificial”.

YOU!! YES, YOU!! GO WRITE THAT FANFIC YOU THINK NOBODY BUT YOU WILL READ!!

https://archiveofourown.org/users/2Dy

My AO3 account.

Does anyone like aggretsuko anymore

Haida. My favorite r/niceguy

And a Kohga crumb

I remember in class today when I was mishearing everyone talking about “chicken jorkey” and I was thinking in my head

“Wtf is these guys talking about?…”

I genuinely thought they were talking and joking about straight up jorking it chicken style

And a few hours later I watched the minecraft movie and got my answer to my confusion .

💞- Day 2 of Pride Month 2020, y’all!!

…Yes, I finally drew Redd and Nook again. QwQ

Happy Boys 🥺💕

Happy V-Day!

Wanted to make something with reddnook here because I just couldn’t resist ≧(´▽｀)≦♡

Customer: you have a pretty smile

Me: thanks it's fake