snail-legs

It’s 2026!! Can you believe that??

Made some tweaks to my eleventy image plugin config! Basically, making it so that my gifs are kept intact/animated, and also making sure the responsive sizing is up and running.

Working at getting my RSS feeds set up again today~

We’re sooooo close to being able to upload the new version of the site to our webhost aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

The microblog is baack~! I’m kinda looking forwards to being able to put stuff on there again. It’s been so long!!! :0

Working on migrating music stuff today!

I finished writing transcripts for all the sketchbooks!! That means we’re officially at parity with the old version of the site when it comes to the contents of the bookshelf!! :D

All my zines are in! And so are most of my 24 hour comics, now. To be super clear, I’ve only been working on the 24 hour comics today!! A lot of them are silent comics, so transcribing them hasn’t been too bad.

So, I’ve been chipping away at my transcripts and data entry work to move all my comics zines sketchbooks etc over to this 11ty version of the site!

Read up on 11ty’s pagination tools and. I managed to get it working for a comic! Testing with memories since it’s short and has a full transcript and whatnot.

Revisited the site redesign!! Um so.

Refined the landing page big nav further! I might re-evaluate the layout a bit more later- the blog has currently ended up with the biggest panel, which should probably go to comics & zines? The bookshelf has the most Stuff in it by quite a longshot, so…

Started working on a games page for my games stuff, and an archive page to house older works! I need to assemble the many different versions of mirror spell into several PDFs still (next time), but happily I was able to do this for colour fade fairly easily, and everything else already had proper exports~

Did a little more work on the site’s rewrite!

Ended up trying out 11ty!

Finally gave in and decided to switch this site over to jekyll!

• Happy 2025!!
• made a few small updates to this landing page~
• currently a little torn on whether I want to make a new layout or not sometime soon
• I like the theming/vibes of this one, but also there are a lot of places where it doesn’t feel super polished!

• Created a page for my OC-tober 2024 sketchbook!
• The temptation to try and redesign the site somehow… maybe make it dynamic… it still calls to me, but I don’t think I have much faith in myself to pull it off.
• I’ve been enjoying working away at Phi’s World though! Despite also being a static site with hundreds of images and html files to manage, it feels easier to work with…
• I’ll have to think about ways to make this site more enjoyable to work on again too… I feel like I say that every time though ^^’
• The problem is that I do enjoy working with HTML, but the markup for things like comic pages is a little outtdated now and kind of a pain in the butt to update properly with how many comics are on the site!!

• Oh oops it’s been a while since I last updated the site! I’ve decided I’ll be hosting my new comics/zines on itch.io for now - there are new projects there!! three of them!! Paige Turner & the Black Dog, Nightmare Complex Sketchbook, Top Surgery Diary.
• There’s a new exhibit in the gallery! I thought it would be cute to use my gallery page as a place to show off collections of related works in little faux-exhibitions! I realise this isn’t the usual way of doing an online gallery page, but I think doing it like this is more fun for me :)
• Uhh last little update is there’s a new flute video in the music room!
• I definately… need to put more thought into restructuring the site to make it easier to update… but honestly I’m in the kind of mood where I’d prefer to focus on making my comics & zines (and ah. other things that I shan’t talk about yet)
• oh and a teeny tiny update you probably won’t have even noticed! I compressed the header image so it should load a bit quicker now :p

• At long last, a new comic appears! Memories from the Beginning of Time.
• The next thing will hopefully be my top surgery diary, but not sure when that’ll be. Would it be unhinged to try to finish it up for this years TDOV? Maybe.

• Been slowly working my way through the to-do list! Most pages should be updated now, but I need to do a few more passes on the mobile-friendly version of it all before I’ll upload the new design.
• The amount of stuff on this site that I’ll have to update is um. overwhelming. I need to work on learning php or making my own ssg ASAP lol. Just haven’t decided whether that’ll come before or after deploying this update. Leaning towards before.

• Spent some time trying to figure out if I could migrate the site to Jekyll… Unfortunately I don’t think Jekyll will meet the needs of this site very well (not when I have so many comics on it dhjksahdka), so that idea’s been scrapped. One of these days I’m going to snap and write my own static site generator lol
• Finished migrating things to the bookshelf, kind of. I need to improve my comic-page-generator.py script before I can mass-upload more comics I think. Very much related to above bullet hh
• Can you tell I’m at my wit’s end with how many .html files I have to manage for this site.

Hoo boy, whole lotta stuff happening to the site today.

Another update summary! Some stuff added today, other stuff added since the last update.

I am apparently dreadful at remembering to update the changelog… a summary of new things since the last update:

• I… I redesigned the site again lol. The previous version never even went live, rip… But we’re back to being pink! And I think I like this version a lot :)
• I’m still thinking about what to do with the comic pages haha- there are just so many it’s a little overwhelming to think of! So for now they get to stay on the old template.
• No dark mode this time. At least, not yet? I kinda designed the whole site around the header image haha…

ohhh wow, big update today! I had another go at retheming my site, much happier with the general vibe of this attempt!

I think I’m more or less finished with the new layout! I might retheme it as well at some point, but I’ll have to have a think about what that’ll look like.

started work on a redesign of the site! we’re going back to having a sidebar except this time I have slightly different tastes lol

posted becoming, my latest zine! it’s some reflections and thoughts on gender and where I am with my transition :-)

started uploading moon jellyfish kiss, my new webcomic!

• freshened up my css a little! changes aren’t massive, just wanted a fresh coat of paint :)
• the microblog now has a lightly-scuffed table of contents!
• added some new links

new art in the gallery!

uploaded a new zine! manifesto (of the alex otherwise known as snail-legs), made as part of manifesto jam 2022 - lots of cool manifestos there, 100% reccomend checking them out.

• new art in the gallery!
• updated the links page! now everything is (loosely) categorised for easier browsing :-)

redecorated my microblog!

new art in the gallery :-)

might reformat the gallery at some point… I’m thinking about it.

I wrote a knitting pattern! it makes a simple lil dice bag, v cute. (if anyone makes one I’d love to see!)

new art in the gallery!

uploaded my hourlies from hourly comics day 2022! (they were finished late on the 1st, so I posted them on the 2nd)

• added quite a few new links to the links page!
• little css changes here and there - we have custom scrollbars now :-)

• new comic: first flight!!
• also, the comic pages no longer rely on javascript! I wrote some python and managed to mostly automate the process of converting them from JS to HTML.
• also also, changed the fonts around again.

we now have an RSS feed! it’s cobbled together by hand but should be perfectly functional, provided I remember to update it :-)

• made a new blog page for my new years resolutions!
• there is also a handful of new posts on the microblog :-)

I made a microblog! it’s mostly for shorter + less-fully formed thoughts and feelings aha,

• re-arranged some of the images in the gallery, and added some concept art from earlier in the year that I like!
• I also finished work on the art shop and it’s ready to go and everything, I’m just. nervous about uploading it. I should upload it. I will. but not today.

a final update on my nanowrimo project, now that November is over :'-)

new art :-)

small tweaks to logo & site footer, plus a new favicon finally!

• uploaded a new comic! letters from the end of a world
• also we have a new site header/logo!

• made a couple of changes to fonts! hope you like snail scrawl :-)
• uploaded the last 7 pages of factory town
• made the JavaScript I use for my comic pages available! I hope it’s useful to someone!
• updated my nanowrimo tracker :'-)

befriended my printer, feeling good!

• I’m doing nanowrimo this year! I’ll be tracking my progress on this blog page.
• also been working on the art shop… it’s coming along and will open soon!

new blog post full of pictures from going to the arboretum!

• finished populating my pages
• updated blog post layout
• used my epic javascript powers to create a fancy layout for comic pages ;-)

• started work on current iteration of the site! we’re going teal, farewell pink 💔
• set up new page layout and new pages, new styling also!
• started populating pages…

new blog post about writing, perfectionism, and comics!

• blog post about gender envy
• final tweaks to blog page layout

uploaded the dragon knights

added a custom highlight colour!

started uploading heart of the sea

• live2D nav link hidden for time being
• very sneakily changed the font size
• no more splash page :-(
• there’s gonna be a blog! started setting up for it,

• re-organised the comics page a bit :-)

• added icons as a commission type!
• new about image!

• uploaded some scrapped projects to the scrap pile! kinda itching to revisit some of them now. I can see where I wanted to take them, what stories I wanted to tell, and I kiinda wanna see if I could actually pull them off now??

• updated styling! introduced a new font for headings + links, changed the nav bar, changed the background, idk if I’ll keep all these changes but I like them enough for now!
• made small tweaks to overall layout of the site
• finally uploaded alll my completed comics & zines

• updated styling! introduced a new font for headings + links, changed the nav bar, changed the background, idk if I’ll keep all these changes but I like them enough for now!
• made small tweaks to overall layout of the site
• finally uploaded alll my completed comics & zines

• added a cute lil favicon!!

• updated comms page!
• started adding art to the artwork page
• updated comics page with all complete comics & zines I’ve made to date!
• figured out audio tag for the music page, gotta style it next!!
• made a couple of smaller misc. tweaks
• LADS!! WE HAVE A DOMAIN NAME!!! :-D

• updated landing/enter page!
• freshened up the colour pallete a bit :-)

• made and added my logo!
• applied layout changes to comics, artwork, live2D, music, and commission info pages
• started adding content to live2D page

• continued working on page layout, made a more “proper” mockup to work from, started adding content to about page + making things look nicer :->
• added comics, artwork, live2D, music, and commission info pages (empty)
• started to fill out the commission info page (TOS, order form & contact details) & music
• worked on making things more mobile-friendly (need to apply changes to other pages)

started working on current iteration of the site! basic page layout, minimal css

started work on a new version of the site! the old notes might not make much sense anymore orz

Added more modals, adjusted the way the button collection is displayed

added more modals to the gallery! not entirely sure how i wanna format them yet but! progress is being made.

Added a lil button collection! I should really make a button of my own, Optimised the images in the gallery a bit more, they should load a bit faster now!! Updated the page not found page!

Modals go brrrrrr!! Figured out how to make a lightbox, didn’t like it! So now I’m making individual modals for each image in the gallery. There’s probably a more efficient way to do this with javascript, but I don’t feel like figuring that out right now. Messed with some styling.

Added a hover effect to the image gallery and the comic covers on the comics and zines page! Looks like I’ll need to work on optimising the images for faster loading times,

Started work on the front page gallery! I want to put some modals in there at some point, but other than that I’m fairly happy with it! Also started work on the comics and zines page!!

Messed about with the CSS, fixed the header!! Also! We have an about page now!!