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Welcome!
this is my personal website for my creative endeavors, infodumps, and ramblings that may or may not be meaningful. speculative fiction writing is my main thing, I could call it my job but using employment language about things I enjoy sucks the fun out of them. because I intend to publish my speculative fiction work, the only writing you'll find here is poetry, autobiographical writing, and potentially blogs where I talk about my art, culture, and/or politics... oh, and all the pages where I ramble about stuff I like. I sometimes draw and create 3D art, and that'll end up here, too. I've been wanting to code my own website ever since I saw people doing it on Neopets, so this is also a place where I can do all the fun web stuff I missed out on as a kid.
About Me
Name: Casper Mario Valentine
Pronouns: he/hym/hys
Age: ageless adult
Location: Northeast USA
Pets: Rosemary (Catahoula mix)
Interests: creative writing, digital art, 3D prop and environment art, fiction anthologies, sandbox games, story games, plushies, music, theme parks, 2000s/2010s culture, the folklore of people
Misc: genderqueer, neurodivergent, plural, mad, Unitarian Universalist, prison/police/psychiatric abolitionist
Favorite Fiction Books: The Collection (Topside Press), Bound in Flesh (Ghoulish Books), The Evening Hour (Carter Sickels)
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, Telltale's The Walking Dead
FAQ
how did you create the theme switcher?
I had someone help me and regularly referenced the developer resources on Mozilla.org, along with a bunch of very unhelpful substack threads that went to nowhere. my script essentially just swaps the URL for the CSS stylesheet that comes with Neocities pages by default with another stylesheet 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. I still don't understand Javascript so it was like frantically banging pots and pans together until something worked, 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.
