It's been longer than I usually like to go without a major update to the site. I guess the main reason is, I'm kind of tired of the stacked information style that every page relies on. Back when I started the site, I was just getting back into web development after a long drought and decided I didn't want to think too much. While nowdays that might mean ChatGPT to most people, back then it meant using Apache OpenOffice as a static site generator. That's why so many of my old pages have inline styling. I didn't want to come home from the Wix/Wordpress/Google Sites mines where code doesn't make any sense and fully immerse myself in code for my own benefit. I did finally stipulate in my terms that I wouldn't work on plugin-based sites anymore, which did wonders for my mental health (if not my bank account), and I could devote a lot of that brainpower to my own site. However, the site was fully formed by that point, with stacks of information instead of iframes or flexboxes. The way I'd set up the site made it more or less immune to style changes because I'd need to change EVERYTHING, and I had something like 125 individual HTML documents at that point so yeah. Draw your own conclusions.
Lately, I'm interested in iframes inside table cells. The Sims Revisited is sort of a primitive realisation of that particular idea, but I don't like how you have to scroll down to see everything, even on large screens (like the 1920x1080 monitor that Riza gave me for my studio computer). But the fact there's an omnipresent navbar helps matters. Even after repeated attempts to get rid of it and have it bork the entire page for some reason. I'm working on a prototype redesign that has 3 vertical columns and 1 horizontal column. I'm not sure I want to use it in this site, but we'll see.
That brings us to the next bit. I'm running myself ragged working on side projects. I'm working on an entirely separate site for my OC's as well as The Sims Revisited, planning a major refactor for SuperForeverCom (my first Neocities site and Super NES shrine), trying to track down all my files so I can release my itch.io and Bandcamp albums to the Internet Archive, drawing quite a bit in Swapnote, and playing quite a lot of Ultrakill and watching a lot of Star Trek.
Also, there's the reality of living in a corporate feudal theocratic dictatorship. My food stamps gave out in September 2025 and my Medicaid is due to give out in June if I can't find a part-time job. Riza and I have been putting in applications with retail shops, but in spite of how vocally they complain about not having any workers, they are all surprisingly discriminating. Plus, Riza has an interview later today and I haven't been able to get any sleep. That won't change anything though-- I'll still be there for her, even up to and including going in to the interview room itself if they need me to, regardless of how much sleep I've gotten. That's the short definition of "girlfriend", always being there for your sweetheart, no matter what. They're boymoding this interview, which makes me sad but it's their choice how they want to present. As they often say, "we need the money." However, when it comes down to it, I refuse to boymode for my interviews. It'll probably cost me a lot of jobs, but the thought of having to dress masc even for an interview inspires deep melancholy, especially as all the retail uniforms basically require everyone to boymode all the time, even cis women. If I do get that job at Starbucks, I'm going to stuff my bra so I can't be mistaken for a man. If that means Father Whoever from Our Lady of Nepotism gets his frappucino and immediately sits down and writes a conservative thinkpiece about how bad transsexuals are, so be it. At least I'll get to wear a black baseball-cap at that job.