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Welcome!
this is my personal website, where I will mostly just be posting my digital artwork for now. a lot of that is large pixel art, but not always! I am an aspiring author, which means that once I'm published, this website will be far more about that than anything else.
I write character-driven stories with a focus on intersectionality, particularly the interesction between race, queerness, and disability. my work also often involves genres where diverse characters are often overlooked or simply left out, like post-apocalyptic fiction. without giving too many details, I've already finished a series with two books and I have lots of short stories that turned into novellas or the start of their own series... oops.
About Me
Name: Casper M. Valentine
Pronouns: he/hym/hys (or he/him if neopronouns are too challenging to use)
Age: mid-twenties
Location: Northeast USA
Pets: Rosemary (retired service dog, Catahoula mix)
Hobbies: writing, drawing, reading, playing video games, website coding, game development, collecting plushies and crystals
Misc: genderqueer, plural, leftist with a focus on police/prison abolition and anti-psychiatry
Favorite Fiction Books: The Collection (Topside Press), Bound in Flesh (Ghoulish Books), Defying Doomsday (Twelfth Planet Press)
Favorite Non-Fiction Books: Confessions of a Sociopath (M.E. Thomas), The Body Keeps the Score (Bessel van der Kolk)
Favorite Games: the Zero Escape series (except Zero Time Dilemma), Telltale's The Walking Dead (especially season three and four)
FAQ
how did you create the theme switcher?
I had someone help me and regularly referenced the developer resources on Mozilla.org, which is on the links page. I haven't been able to find a tutorial that does it the exact same way I did, but my script essentially just swaps the URL for the CSS style sheet that comes with Neocities pages by default with another CSS file I created for each additional theme. the selector is done through use of the <select> tag, which you can find a tutorial for on W3 Schools. if I have to explain it more than that I will Explode
how do you create pixel art?
there are defintely better ways to create pixel art, but I hate change, so I use the legacy brush in Paint Tool SAI and a lot of clipping masks. for dithering, I use Dither Machine, and for scaling the final piece, I use the pixel art scaler on Lospec. links for all that can be found on the links page.