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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

It’s 2026!! Can you believe that??

Small update today. Tweaks to the text on some pages, an update to the gallery, and a very small css tweak. Oh, and an update to the site footer for the new year!

I believe a bunch of microblog entries from a few weeks ago will go up with this upload too :)

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

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.

It took me a little while to figure out the responsive sizing. This is what my ImageTransform config looks like now :)

eleventyConfig.addPlugin(eleventyImageTransformPlugin, {
  widths: [200, 600, 800],
  formats: ["png", "gif", "webp"],
  formatFiltering: ["transparent", "animated"],
  sharpOptions: {
    animated: true,
  },
  htmlOptions: {
    imgAttributes: {
      alt: "", // required
      sizes: [200, 600, 800],
      loading: "lazy",
      decoding: "async"
    },
    fallback: "smallest"
  }
});

I still feel a little intimidated by my config.cjs file as a whole, but I think my understanding of it is “good enough” for now!

But yeah um. I think it’s ready. The website, I mean. I think my 11ty migration can be considered “complete”. Very exciting!! aaa!!!

I wrote up like a little announcement post for it, and there was a lot of stuff I edited out because I didn’t want it to be super long or go on tooooo many tangents, but I was looking back on these changelogs and. What do you mean I’ve been working on this for 7~8 months now???

There’s still lots of stuff I want to add to the site and improve about it, but I’m very happy to have reached this point! I’ll probably just take my time with the other stuff.

I was going to copy over the remaining todos, but it’d literally look like this:

…the nice-to-haves:

[ ] Project pages for Game Projects
[ ] Project pages for Archived Projects
[ ] Extra sketchbooks (OC-2023, M)
[ ] Cute header art for the main pages!

Things to fix:

[x] Image plugin seems to have broken our GIFs… See the blender projects.

I’m going to try to run a proper build of the site now. And then if that all works out ok, I’ll upload it to my webhost. If you’re reading this, I’ve probably succeeded! :D

I should probably make an actual git repo for the site too. It’s a pretty big project now, and getting some proper version control set up shouldn’t be that hard/take that long. My gamedev adventures have gotten me pretty comfy using git!

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

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

Remaining core todos:

[x] Figure out RSS
- [x] Main Feed
- [x] Changelog Feed
- [x] Microblog Feed
- [x] Moon Jellyfish Kiss Feed
[x] Look into redirects. If it’s not too difficult, set them up. If it is unmanageable, set up a good 404 page.

… And the nice-to-haves:

[ ] Project pages for Game Projects
[ ] Project pages for Archived Projects
[ ] Extra sketchbooks (OC-2023, M)
[x] Updated favicon
[ ] Cute header art for the main pages!

Fixes:

[x] Wonky chapter layout images (this was caused by the image plugin breaking my flexbox stuff slightly, and fixed by wrapping my images in divs)
[x] Changelog nav buttons are weird on mobile sizes
[ ] Image plugin seems to have broken our GIFs… See the blender projects.

RSS feeds are IN!! :D

I might want to make more feeds in the future? But for now the ones I’ve got working so far are good I think. For future feeds… I think it’ll mostly be for stuff considered as “series that will recieve updates in the future”? So, a feed for the Blender Learner Journal entries for example. Or for Sketchbooks. Stuff like that.

As far as redirects go… I’m looking at this blog post and thinking that setting them up might not be toooo bad, after all? We’ll see.

Okay, so I’ve gotten redirects working for all my bloggy pages! Really straightforward thanks to Brian’s redirect template (linked above), thank you Brian.

Feeling a little more intimidated by the comics/zines/sketchbooks/etc (as usual), so I might just leave those for another time. Very good progress today though, good work team 👍

Hm, ok. I just kinda went for it and I think I’ve done what I can now, redirect-wise. I’m not sure there’s a way for me to easily redirect from /bookshelf/comic/1.html -> /comic/1/ for every single comic page.

I could redirect /bookshelf/comic/*.html -> /comic/, but I feel like if people have bookmarked specific pages they might be kinda annoyed by that? At the same time, it’s probably easier to find the page again if they’ve been redirected closer to it’s location?? Really not sure.

Ok nevermind, I can’t get /bookshelf/comic/*.html redirecting after all. Oh well 😔

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

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

Here, I’ll copy over the remaining todos again:

[x] Migrate microblog
[/] Figure out RSS
[ ] Look into redirects. If it’s not too difficult, set them up. If it is unmanageable, set up a good 404 page.

… And the nice-to-haves:

[ ] Project pages for Game Projects
[ ] Project pages for Archived Projects
[ ] Extra sketchbooks (OC-2023, M)
~~[-] Cool font for the site header in the nav~~
[ ] Updated favicon
[ ] Cute header art for the main pages!

I’m sooo clooose to completing the migration!!! We have all the content!!

I started looking at the RSS plugin, then decided that was a job for another day and gave up on it for now.

Then I tried out a few different fonts for h1 and h2 headings and IIII don’t think any of them were quite right… I think I’ll just stick to good old atkinson for now. Maybe I’ll try replacing the header text “snail-legs” with an image // artwork instead?

Problems for another day, again. Going to be in HND classes tomorrow and Tuesday so it might be a lil while before I touch website stuff again depending on what work we get assigned.

Next time I think I’d like to just buckle down and get those last two must-have todos done!! I reallllly want to set the new version of the website loose into the world.

CSS weirdness that needs to be fixed also:

[ ] Fix chapter layout images (project pages for comics/zines in series)
[ ] Changelog nav buttons are weird on mobile sizes

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

Working on migrating music stuff today!

Here, I’ll copy over the remaining todos:

[x] Migrate Music Room pages
[ ] Migrate microblog
[ ] Figure out RSS
[x] Figure out image optimisation
[ ] Look into redirects. If it’s not too difficult, set them up. If it is unmanageable, set up a good 404 page.
[x] Stop the changelog collection from generating duplicate pages in _site/_collections/changelog/etc/etc

… And the nice-to-haves:

[ ] Project pages for Game Projects
[ ] Project pages for Archived Projects
[ ] Extra sketchbooks (OC-2023, M)
[ ] Cool font for the site header in the nav
[ ] Updated favicon
[ ] Cute header art for the main pages!

So the UTAU stuff was really fun to move over!! I ended up moving it all into a seperate UTAU Page, so all the songs, voicebanks, and eventually videos related to UTAU stuff will go there. Currently there is one (1) video there, and having put that on the website I’m now kind of inclined to make some sort of cinema page for general video content…

I will resist the urge to make a cinema page for now though. I mean, look at the todos!! I have enough webdev tasks for the time being! I think I just like the idea that this website can be super comprehensive and contain a huge body of my work!! The power of hypertext…

I’ve decided to remove the fluteposting segment for now. It was literally just one video… I can always make a fluteposting page similar to the UTAU one later, if I feel I want to do so.

Just finished moving over the rest of the music room, and I think I’ll have to work on how I present it at some point. Another problem for future me.

Started figuring out the image optimisation plugin! Had a little hiccup where it was stretching out all my images weirdly, but it was because my reset.css file sets image widths to 100% by default… and all I had to do to fix it was also set image heights to 100% by default.

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

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

Okok, so I… technically have 2 more sketchbooks to transcribe? But they weren’t available on the old site, so I’m not too stressed about those. I’ll get to them when I get to them.

To-dos before I can upload the 11ty site:

[x] Migrate remaining Snail Log pages
[x] Migrate remaining changelog entries
[ ] Migrate Music Room pages
[ ] Migrate microblog
[ ] Figure out RSS
[ ] Figure out image optimisation
[ ] Look into redirects. If it’s not too difficult, set them up. If it is unmanageable, set up a good 404 page.
[ ] Stop the changelog collection from generating duplicate pages in _site/_collections/changelog/etc/etc

And nice-to-haves:

[ ] Project pages for Game Projects
[ ] Project pages for Archived Projects
[ ] Extra sketchbooks (OC-2023, M)
[ ] Cool font for the site header in the nav
[ ] Updated favicon
[x] Dark mode
[ ] Cute header art for the main pages!

Ough I just added support for dark mode back and I like the colours I picked! But they don’t really fit with the art I put on the homepage. I don’t really want to change the art, so I guess I should build a different colour palette that matches it for now 😔

Cosy dark mode colours!! RIP :')

--txt: #fff3e9;
--txt-accent: #eeaecc;
--txt-accent-alt: #e8956b;
--link: #f8aa22;
--link-hover: #ffea60;
--link-visited: #ef6faa;
--bg:#2a2523;
--bg-accent: #f867ca18;
--bg-accent-alt: #ff7ea916;
--highlight: pink;

I’m now working on migrating more changelog entries and wowowowow. This is excruciating. I’ve nearly made it to 2022. I think updates became less frequent over the years, so hopefully it gets easier the further along I go… (they did)

Surprisingly, I got all of the changelog stuff moved over today! I even found some old entries from 2020! And weirdly a bunch of previously-missing entries from 2021. I didn’t move all of the missing 2021 ones over because I’d kinda had enough of. Doing the changelogs. Maybe future me will rectify this.

Oh, I also finished migrating all the old Snail Log pages! I’ll do the music & UTAU stuff next time I think.

… Looking at the todos and thinking about how several of those tasks are way bigger than they look. Trying not to worry about it since I’ve actually been going at a really decent pace re: the great migration.

Regardless, that’s me done for today! Good night!

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

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.

I’ll probably do the transcript for the 24 hour version of paige and the black dog tomorrow, and depending on how I feel I’ll probably start setting up my sketchbooks too.

I figured out how to group “series” of comics/zines together nicely too, so that’s what I’ll be doing from now on when I’ve got stuff that comes in groups! :)

The only challenge is how to handle crossover between series (eg. do I put the minicomic based on xyz 24 hour comic in the 24 hour comics series, so it can all be read together easily/in one go, or do I put it in the sketchbook it was originally part of? or both?)

Dreading looking into doing redirects… 11ty is currently writing 429 files? Most of those are comic zine pages. The data entry required to set up redirects properly will probably not be very fun.

I do feel bad about changing up my URLs again, because cool URIs don’t change… But basically, they’ve all gotten cleaner. No more file extensions, and the comics all have their own top-level directories.

eg. /the-bookshelf/comic-name/#.html
➡️ /comic-name/#/

I’ll do my best to maintain this new structure!! Other than breaking people’s bookmarks, I think these new URLs are ultimately more user friendly/human readable.

Other than that, I think I still just feel really happy about being able to populate the site so easily!

I’m glad I went for a more simple/flat aesthetic for the site this time too, since I feel like it lets all my comics zines and art take the focus.

For a little while I kinda wanted to get more creative with the design and make a more tactile/aesthetic/themed website, but I think a flat/boring design actually works best for my use case.

I guess the vibe I’m going for overall could be summarised as “simple and clean”!

Cannot emphasise enough how different building a 10-page website feels to building a hundreds-of-pages website. Thank you 11ty for saving my website from a slow and certain death.

Also, I get so long winded with these updates now that they’re all written in markdown in seperate files instead of being handwritten HTML, my goodness!!

I’ll have to figure out if I can set up some kinda read more functionality maybe… These changelogs are functionally just for me, so that I have a record of what work I’ve done and roughly when.

But I’d like for them to be easier for me to scroll through/browse! Which should also benefit anyone else who might find them interesting (though they’re mostly just rambles)

If you’re actually reading these, then. Welcome to my dark and twisted mind I guess?

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

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!

And currently I’ve managed to move over 8 comics and 6 zines!! 🎉🎉

It feels so good to be able to populate my site so easily! But I still have a hell of a lot more work to do yet.

Currently thinking about using the project page type setup for the games and archive pages as well, but I still have more zines sketchbooks comics to move over.

According to 11ty it’s currently writing 245 files!

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

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.

This might actually work for me!! Not the kind of task I want to do all at once though, what with the sheer number of comic pages I need to migrate.

I think the last task for today is maybe. It would be good if I could get the bookshelf displaying links to these pages, the way it does on the old version of the site?

Okay so final update for the day! I did get the bookshelf displaying thumbnails and linking to what I’m calling “project pages”, for book-shaped stuff (comics, zines, sketchbooks).

In addition to memories, I’ve also set up first flight, heart of the sea, and staaarted setting up paige turner & the black dog.

I’ll slowly work my way through setting up the other comics zines and sketchbooks with transcripts & functioning pages over the next few days/weeks/months.

It’s a lot of data-entry and writing transcripts for my back-catalogue, but once it’s all done I shouldn’t be too far off from being able to upload the updated version of the site!

The update is going to break so many links when it goes live… I should really work on figuring out how to do proper redirects!!

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

Revisited the site redesign!! Um so.

We’re back to using a sidebar layout! Needed more space for more nav links.
Decided to just put a nice Nightmare Complex art on the landing/homepage for now!
Updated the games lounge with a new jam game!
Populated the gallery.
Pondered how I want to handle comic & zine pages. I think I might just switch over to downloadable PDFs tbh? Just the thought of going through and uploading/transcribing the hundreds of comic pages from the original site frightens me a bit.
I started a new links page! :)
I’d quite like to make a lil header illustration for each page! Not today/this week though lol.

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

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…

Either way, I was able to get a nice flow going with the ““lettering””, and fixed some of the flexbox issues I’d been having, so that’s a win for me!

Also, put the 7 mirror spell versions into downloadable formats (mostly pdfs)

There really is a special kind of pain that radiates through those old comics… To me, at least. Very glad I don’t feel that way anymore!

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

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~

In some cases the final exports were the only files I could find…

I am pleased to report that I managed to recover a few bits and bobs I thought had been lost to time entirely though! In particular, I’d thought seaside shenanigans might’ve been gone forever.

Anyway. Now people can look at some of my early media projects if they want to. They’re not very good. I wouldn’t reccomend it. But they’re part of my artistic journey, so they still hold a special place in my heart. And now they have a place on this website!

When I’m re-assembling the bookshelf, I might end up moving some of the work that I’m currently displaying there to the archive page, too.

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

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

Started to pretty up the CSS
- actual nice colours instead of test colours
- more styles for basic elements
Made a simple games page
Started figuring out the layout for the landing page

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

Ended up trying out 11ty!

Jekyll is built for building blogs, so it doesn’t really have the flexibility I’d need to keep self-hosting my comics & zines on this site (as far as I can tell)…

So far, I’d say 11ty has had a little bit of a steeper learning curve, but seems really powerful? I keep breaking things and then figuring out how to fix them again :')

Currently I’m also giving some thought to the site’s overall design also! I think I want to have a landing page with a pretty nav…?

For example, Runegod’s site has probably one of the coolest landing pages I’ve seen in a while. I also remember liking bikobatanari’s landing page, when that site was still online. Louie Zong’s site has a really nice vibe to it too…

Being able to use templates & includes is pretty game-changing as far as making thing more maintainable goes!!

Goddd these changelog entries are going to get a lot more verbose probably. I have this whooole markdown file to write in, it’s so easy to keep writing…

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

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

I doubt I’ll have it fully switched over by the end of the day, but I’m hoping this will help me write stuff like blog posts a little easier. I’m such a big sucker for markdown like you wouldn’t believe…

This is probably going to mean moving the comics & zines off of the site? Not sure how I feel about that. But currently they consist of several hundred static html files, which is a bit unruly and hard to manage? So something has to change there, I think…

Also. There are so many changelog entries to move over too omg.

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

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!

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

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!!

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

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

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

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.

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

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.

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

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.

2025 note
wow… I’m working on migrating the old changelog entries over to the 11ty version of the site and wow… yeah no I should’ve moved everything over to a static site generator muuch muuuch sooner. the site is fucking massive.

also! I’m glad I didn’t have to write my own SSG. that would’ve been a struggle.

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

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

I wanted to change things up a bit, so the layout & design of my main pages has once again been reworked! Expect further layout changes before things settle again.
The snail log has been retired for now, with its contents planned to be relocated to the bookshelf and the gallery, depending on what feels most appropriate.
the gallery makes it’s triumphant return! It is part of the reason for today’s redesign; I wanted to give my art some more breathing room here, and the old layout was a little compact for that.
Changed the wording/layout of the Contact Me section of this page. Hopefully it feels more organised.
The links page has also been retired for now; I feel like I wasn’t very good at keeping it up-to-date.

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

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

Changed some of the wording on some pages… I’m trying to feel more Confident, so we’re starting by trying to break the habit of not typing with any capital letters…
Re-jigged the snail log a bit. Removed a bunch of older blog posts; they’re still there, but the main snail-log page no longer links to them.
New to the snail log: Book of Little Guys, SOME DRAGONS, Blender Learner Journal, and some OC-related pages! I’ll probably move my OC/worldbuilding stuff to a subdomain at some point, so I’ll not link them here yet.
Also, there are some new sillies in the UTAU section of the music page!

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

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

the first act of moon jellyfish kiss is now complete! I’m slowly working on adding transcripts to every page.
we have a music page! and I made an UTAU
oh, and the snail log got some mini zines! I also uploaded some sketchbooks there 1, 2, 3.
as far as actual changes to the site go, we moved to a new host!
otherwise I’m pretty happy with the site right now so most of the updates have been me uploading new art/comics/stuff!

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

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…

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

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

the new font is atkinson hyperlegible!
everything is sort of… rounder with less borders? and gradients have been removed!
the site now has new light mode and dark mode themes! done via a prefers-color-scheme: dark media query - the theme displayed should line up with your browser preferences
updated the blog layout to match the new themes of the main site. blog pages don’t have custom colours anymore, but it’ll make it much easier for me to update the blog styling in future if needed ^^’
updated the comics layout too - same as above, more matchy-matchy (with the exception of moon jellyfish kiss) but hopefully easier to maintain this way!

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

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.

you might notice some changes to the about section also :)

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

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

if nothing else, I’ve learnt more flexbox now and don’t need to rely on bootstrap for this kinda layout anymore!

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

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

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

started uploading moon jellyfish kiss, my new webcomic!

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

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

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

new art in the gallery!

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

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.

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

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

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

redecorated my microblog!

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

new art in the gallery :-)

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

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

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

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

new art in the gallery!

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

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

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

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

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

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.

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

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

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

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

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

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

I think it’s kinda neat

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

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.

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

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

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

new art :-)

it shouldn’t look like much has changed from your end, but pls notice my pretty urls! I reorganised all of my pages into proper subdirectories. it was kinda painful.

you may need to hard-refresh any pages you visit for them to work! most of the old links are broken now :'-)

speaking of links, we also have the beginnings of a links page! I made some badges after being given a nudge by noa-s and will slowly be adding links to sites I think are neat!

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

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

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

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

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

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 :'-)

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

befriended my printer, feeling good!

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

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!

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

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

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

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

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

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…

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

new blog post about writing, perfectionism, and comics!

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

blog post about gender envy
final tweaks to blog page layout

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

uploaded the dragon knights

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

added a custom highlight colour!

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

started uploading heart of the sea

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

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,

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

re-organised the comics page a bit :-)

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

added icons as a commission type!
new about image!

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

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??

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

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

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

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

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

added a cute lil favicon!!

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

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

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

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

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

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

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

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)

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

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

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

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

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

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

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

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

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

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!

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

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.

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

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,

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

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!!

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snail-legs — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:08 GMT

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