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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 passion in life, though because I intend to publish my work, the only writing you'll find here is poetry, autobiographical stuff, and blog posts. I sometimes create other kinds of art, mainly digital drawings, 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: wouldn't you like to know, weather boy?
Location: Northeast USA
Spirit Guide: Rosemary (retired service dog)
Interests: writing, creating art, collecting stuff, the folklore of people
Misc: holistic storyteller, genderqueer, neurodivergent, Unitarian Universalist, prison abolitionist, anarcho-socialist
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 gave the line of code that determines stylesheet in <head/a> an ID (I called it themeLink) and made a dropdown selector which has both an ID for the selector itself and named values for the options. my Javascript basically just replaces the link href of themeLink depending on the option value that the user clicks on the dropdown. this is stored locally so that changing the page won't reset the theme. there are ways to make a theme switcher that involves only one stylesheet, but I prefer just having four separate stylesheets. you can find a tutorial on dropdowns on W3 Schools but the Javascript was something a friend helped me with, if I have to explain it more than that I'll Explode so you're on your own, bucko
how do you create pixel art?
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. there are definitely better ways to do pixel art but this is what works best for my style.
