Sorry for the relative radio silence; in my great hubris I decided to make a fully static website, the old-fashioned way we used to do things, and it turns out there's a reason we stopped doing that, and it's because it's annoying as hell to update. What do you mean I have to update every single page every time I want to add a new one? Never mind trying to write blog posts like someone who lives in the 21st century. So I'm working on feeding it into a static site generator, which is invisible on the frontend but is taking a long damn time on the back end while I learn modern templating schemes. (I mean. I'm very glad they exist, it's past time. It's just a lot.)

Not to mention the fact that one of those days where I hyperfocused and spent sixteen hours working on my webbed site fucked up my hip real good and now I can't actually sit at a desk for more than a couple of hours in one position without winding up in screaming pain. This seems, uh, not normal (along with the full-body aches I've been getting when the weather changes) so I've been trying to follow up with the doctor, but that is of course taking an eternity. So here I am, floating along in general frustration, hoping to make some progress on something soon.

(I am planning to work on translating my tweetfic into an archive here, at least. I haven't figured out exactly how I want to add it to ao3 yet, but I definitely want to play with it here.)

I've been rewatching Invisible Man and Darien vs Arnaud gets funnier the more bilingual people I know.

Darien: Then maybe you could teach me some Swiss douche.
Arnaud: ...excuse me?
Darien: That's your language, right?
Arnaud: That's Swiss *Deutsch*, Swiss German. I am Swiss French.
Darien: So you don't douche?
Arnaud: [giving him an injection] Little prick

(Also it turns out that Arnaud's brother was my original mental image for Peter Lukas, I just didn't remember it was him. Which works because Arnaud is absolutely a bargain-bin Elias who really wants to be some kind of evil mastermind but he just. can't. pull it off.

I have chosen to believe it's because Arnaud is trying to do this with science alone, not having noticed that evil supernatural fear entities are a) real and b) the way everyone else is managing to be evil masterminds.

The Agency is to the Web as the Magnus Institute is to the Eye (although Eberts is an avatar of the End) (death and taxes, you know).)

(The truly tragic thing about Invisible Man is just how many people there are in this show who would appreciate Elias's sense of humor.)

Am I recreating a static site generator from scratch? Kind of, I just don't want it to mess up my theming when I'm having so much fun with it already. Also somehow the last time someone tried making html includes work was in 2017 and it's still dead? Baffling.

Anyway I've been meaning to learn Python again and this is as good an excuse as any. I'm sure other programming languages exist but when all I want to do is text manipulation why should I learn another one?