Nostalgia-Bombs

Wednesday, October 27, 2021 - 8:28 PM

Chaos, it's been a minute. I love having, and using this website, but it always feels like places like Twitter or Patreon are the "More Proper" choice to do things on. Though admittedly Twitter's not the Proper place to do anything, it's usually just a more convenient one. And yeah, I could put long-form stuff on Patreon, it would make sense, automatically update people that I'd posted, I keep this up mostly out of stubborn-ness and nostalgia, blah-blah-blah...but like...it's okay that that's what I like about this place.

Like, I'd love to have a slight website redesign so that this thing would have dynamic scaling and not cut off images on mobile as bad. And maybe I will sometime. Not any time soon, since that'd require me to either learn how to build a site from the ground up (I did try...and got suuuuper frustrated after hours of effort) or paying someone to do it for me, since I am definitely spoiled enough to seriously dislike the template options available...and I'm never installing Wordpress again if I can help it! Fucking hell, Wordpress. But oh well, this is still okay for now.

But yeah. I got nostalgia-bombed last night by a chance comment, and it led me into digging through the WayBack Machine archive of my old site from high school and college... and those are some powerful memories. I spent so, so many hours on the back end of that thing, and this experience with this site? It's the same. I'm still doing the same thing. And that's kinda comforting in a bizarre way. Heh! The fact that I've made sure to host the old comics I worked on back then on here probably helps reinforce that feeling of continuity.

Chaos, I'm also seeing some of the community I'd worked to bring into that site, and like, that was definitely me pushing back against how lonely making and curating the site's content could be, but also, I liked bringing my friends into the ride. I might look at pestering my mates and friends for ridiculous things to put up here, because that was also fun.

But yeah, SonicSpirit.net is totally DarkWindStudios.com mark 2, and that's kinda adorable. I think I'm just gonna keep playing on here, throwing stuff up, doing what feels right...because quite frankly, I like the continuity, and it's fun.

Nostalgia-bombs are like that <3 - Sonic