non-expressly-fannish interlude, part the last(?)

[shinon]

PSA: Cleaned up my personal website a bit and actually gave it an RSS feed (???), so on the assumption that that works, I will no longer have to update people elsewhere the next time I make changes. Which will probably happen in 2028, the rate I've been going. I may lump updates to the original-fic site into the same feed, if the situation ever arises that I update that site.

(Which I might. I'm poking at an art project that might be best suited for archival there, TBD).

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I'm afraid your feed doesn't work at present because there's a typo in the first line ("encoting"). The W3C feed validation service is useful for testing feeds and spotting errors like this one. Neocities provides built-in RSS feeds anyway, so I've been using that to follow your site!

– signed, Such A Big RSS Fan That I Deleted My Dreamwidth Account

[shinon]

Huh, thanks for letting me know! My RSS reader grabbed the feed just fine so I assumed it worked... I'll fix that typo now, how foolish of me.

I continue to be impressed with the cool stuff you're doing with your site, incidentally!

[tre.praze.net]

Interesting, my reader seems to have very low tolerance for errors – seems to be working now!

Hahaa, thank you and I'm also impressed you worked out who I am … although having just worked out how to sign into Dreamwidth using this URL that will no longer be necessary B)

[rynling]

Thank you for sharing this! I love your website. I also love "Big Dark," and I'm happy to have an excuse to re-read it. I'm always losing my place in longer stories on AO3, so I especially appreciate the format you use on your site. If you get a bunch of hits over the next two weeks or so, that's me reading your stories. 😅

[shinon]

Thank you very much! I'm glad my Neocities version of "Big Dark" is functioning as intended - the version on AO3 is as I originally conceived it, but I quickly realized that a fic of that length with no obvious stopping points was a lot to ask of people. I wanted to make a more accessible version that would still be a bit of a disorienting experience and still obfuscate the passage of time in-story. Hence, way too many scene breaks vs. none at all. It was fun to try it out both ways!

[rynling]

It's not a big ask at all, I think. Rather, I'm an uncommonly slow reader, and my browser always refreshes between sessions and knocks me back to the top of the page. It's very much a "me" problem. 😅

In this specific case, when I first read the story on AO3, the sense of an undifferentiated flow of time as conveyed through an unbroken textual body made perfect narrative sense, but the fragmentation of Mido's experience works well too. I'm at a loss for how to describe the effect, but maybe each segment of the Neocities version is like the brief flare of light when lighting a match while walking around in a dark place. Instead of a slow and unnerving build to the final act of violence, the reader is left with a more forceful feeling of shock, like, "how many times did this happen when I wasn't looking?"

Anyway! I was really looking forward to reading the Forest Temple scene again, and it made me very happy to find that it has its own special text box and background graphic. What a fantastic touch. I loved to see it.