June 2, 2024
Listening: VOCALOID
Reading: IDOLxIDOL STORY!
Watching: Hololive clips
Eating: Chocolate
Drinking: Iced tea
Status: Thoughtful
Hello, everyone! Thought that since I did decide to update the site as a whole today, I'd make a quick blog post.
If you hadn't seen (which. to get to this page you probably did) I finally implemented the long-awaited summer theme! Pretty nice, right? I worked pretty hard on figuring out a good color palette and such. I put out a feed message the other week about what kinda theme I should go with - don't get me wrong, I did think pretty hard about doing nautical (mostly because I have a lot of OCs that fit that theme and therefore could be on the banner) but in the end I decided to go with sunflowers. Sunflowers are actually my favorite flower, you know? They are indeed very summery, but sunflowers have always been a symbol of positivity and hope to me. I feel like as the years have gone I've developed a bit of a negative personality, but I'd like to be able to chase the sun just like they do. Sunflowers also always remind me of the song "Himawari" by Hearts Grow, which is a really special song in my heart, so there's that as well. I put the song in the front page's music player, so please take a listen if you like!
I also created a new banner for the site! I've admittedly been in a little rut with my art lately, but I had a spark of inspiration last night that rejuvenated me a little and I was able to finish it only a day late. :> I hope you like summery Cafeko! I didn't plan for her to be the banner character for this season (I was actually gonna use the OC in my Character of the Month slot, Mimosa) but since sunflowers are so special to me I thought it'd be better to depict my sona with them instead. I hope the banner is satisfactory ^v^
Now, for a little update about me...as I said on the Neocities feed (and without going into too much detail), I recently found out that my physical health has actually, well...declined, quite a bit. :'D Most prominently, it seems that I've become anemic. So, because of that, I've been exceedingly fatigued a lot lately, so getting out these site updates has been a bit more challenging than usual. It does take work for me to code, after all, and for the past few weeks I'd barely had the energy to do quite a few things that I want to do. It's been rather frustrating. TvT So, allow me to say that my activity might be a bit on the slow side for a while while I try to get back on track, and that if I do make changes, they'll probably be some smaller projects rather than all the big stuff I'd been planning like the character page. I will still try to do those! But for now, it's probably better if I take care of myself. Right?
Additionally! I added a new artwork to the gallery! I said I had a spark of inspiration - that spark came to me after watching a certain Gavis Bettel's 3D model showcase yesterday!! I'm super duper proud of him, and I felt compelled to commemorate the occasion by making a drawing. I'm pretty proud of it! I've been drawing my other oshi Octavio so much recently, I kinda felt maybe I had lost my groove at drawing Bettel...but we perservered nonetheless! It might seem dumb, fangirling and stuff like this, but man, Holostars makes me really happy. ^v^ Love Gavis Bettel now!!!
Let's see...what else...wow, in the end not only did I talk quite a bit, I just recapped stuff I've already said. XD Whoops...well, it's probably fine. I just like going into detail. Anyways, please let me know what you think of the new theme! Thanks for reading my rambles XD