Welcome all ye wanderers

Hi, hello, it's me! I make things, lots of things even and sometimes they're good! There's going to be a lot of not-particularly well connected stuff on this website which include:

• Art, with dimensions numbering between 2 and 4
• Music, at least by the one definition
• Moderately useful software
• Weird litte digital toys
• A blog full of unhinged ramblings
• Links to useful tools and cool things I've found on the interwebs
• Recipes which at least one person likes

Some of it is probably neat, you should look around for a bit. You should also come back later, I add something new every now an dthen. You don't have to of course, I'm not your real dad after all, or even your fake dad.

I wanted to add a comment section onto my website for the off chance someone wants to say something to me. I could pretty easily do a reverse-cronological sorted textboxes, but thats boring. I made this website to host my stupidity, and by god I will make it stupid. I had an idea for a fantasy 'quest board' with each comment being a paper pegged to it. Real message boards have the quirk of everyone getting to delete (throw away) any message, and I decided to simulate that as well. I have some plans to replace the scroll assets I got from here with randomly generated ones I make myself and to improve the preformance in the future.

I have host a music streaming service for myself of off my personal server for myself. Not only does this save me money while giving more greater support to the artist, but it also lets me stream some music which wouldn't otherwise be avaliable. This does come with the cost that I have to manage a bunch of mp3 metadata myself. To avoid having to manually copy the lyrics of thousands of songs by hand to my collection, I made this little script to do it for me. Nothing particularly fancy and Genius only allows for a few hundred calls per day, but that's enough for what I'm doing./

Horror, but sad(?)

Around when Silent Hill F was released, I was watching a friend stream it. While I never played it, it's pretty blatent that the story is about something. It follows a common structure for horror stories, there is a monster which represents the anxiety of the protagonist/author, which must be defeated or escaped from. I never really got into horror. I think one of the main factors in why not is on the scale from depressed to anxious, I fall pretty far to the former side. I was thinking about this after the streamer had finished her playthrough of Silent Hill F, and I had a moderately interested thought (at least to me). 'Horror is to anxiety as depression is to what?' My first thought was tragedy, but I'm not sure that's quite right. Bad things happen in tragedies, but the bad things aren't personified. There is no elemental of despair in Romeo and Juliet. Horror is defined by its 'monster' and all the best horror has the monster represent some greater personal or societal fear. For example, Godzilla (the movie) is about the anxiety post war Japan had about nuclear weapons and energy. The in-narrative horror mirrors that of the viewer's horror, the heroine runs from the slasher as the viewer grapples with the fear of home invaders. So in my possibly fictitious genre of 'horror but sad', there would be a relatively consistent story setup: - There is a big unstoppable monster - The monster is a metaphor for something the author/society feels hopeless about - The protagonist must fight or endure the monster I'm not sure if this genre is actually viable. Fear is a high energy emotion, which makes for good stories because it forces the characters to do things (normally run and hide). Hopelessness on the otherhead is a low energy emotion, it stops people from doing things, 'what's even the point after all?' This presents a fairly major problem for a story centered around it, because stories where nothing happens are boring, characters who don't do anything aren't likable. I do think that if someone could figure out how to deal with the motivation problem, there would be some interesting stories to tell with the format. We live in times filled with problems that feel hopeless to try and stop.

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