FABLED // updates and changes

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The below logbook tracks changes to the site, including those to the theme and interface, new content, and other updates. Most recent updates appear nearest to the top, and all include a date. When new content has been posted, a link is provided if at all possible. Stray Cat Claire

October 1st, 2025: My latest update messes with a lot of cosmetic and structural stuff behind the scenes of this site, and I wrote an article about America Online member profiles which features some cool old screenshots.
September 22nd, 2025: When you start thinking of cyberspace in similar terms to a normal space, things seem stranger than usual. i am trying to write about that sometime soon, and have gathered a bit that belongs grouped with it (general web stuff). Am not near writing my own thoughts yet. Soon, I hope!
September 19th, 2025: The entire site has been updated to a new theme, Eleventh Lynx. Based on my earlier theme called Pink Lynx, this one is very bright and, well... pink. Lots of bold fonts, though it took me a while to transmute them into the proper format. Very feline!
September 15th, 2025: Added a page of resources for those wishing to make the best of the "indie web," or, as I like to call it, the new web.
September 14th, 2025: The "Satanic Panic" of the 1990s left plenty of ruins for me to explore online in the 2000s. I decided to write more about it for my flames section. Read my article about online moral crusaders. Not actually about Harry Potter.
September 13th, 2025: The flames section is now here! I also posted another article worthy of the section. In this one, I ask whether airport paperbacks can be prophetic. Read more here.
September 12th, 2025: I created a Discord server called the Eridanos-3. Click right here to be beamed aboard. It's got a sort of space theme per popular request. I haven't ran a server in a really long time so hopefully it goes well. Beyond that, I am eventually going to post the Flames section.
September 4th, 2025: I'm hoping to have the Flames page page up soon! In the meantime, I've made quite a few small, behind-the-scenes, and aesthetic changes to the site over the past few days, while also touching up articles that imported poorly the first time 'round.
September 1st, 2025: I think it might be fair to call Operation Eleventh Dragon (aka my switch to a static site generator) complete! 11ty is installed and working, and my site in its latest incarnation has now been uploaded to neocities in a working format. Still have plans, though. I'll be adding the Flames page next. There's stuff I want to rewrite, too.
August 29th, 2025: I doubt the site will be entirely migrated to 11ty (the static site generator) by the beginning of September, after all. Also? Ulysses itself (the markdown-based MacOS software I use to draft articles) is glitching. Looking into alternatives for the future, even though I do have backups. Any good markdown editors??
August 26th, 2025: Struggling a lot with setting up an error page that works properly alongside neocities. My old one did, but the one that I was initially having dear sweet 11ty generate doesn't quite do that. I have plenty of time to solve the issue this week, though!
August 26th, 2025: Operation Eleventh Dragon was (mostly) successful. I'll be slowly uploading the remainder of my existing articles before September, in batches. I'll be expanding the new Rants and Flames section once I set it up...
August 3rd, 2025: Ever been othered or bullied in school? Clique of RavenDays discusses school shootings, and the false media narratives that surrounded them. Many questions remained unanswered.
July 12th, 2025: Read about Hostees and the Quest for Hosting! A perennial topic on the indie web, believe it or not, going back as far as the 1990s, and never a simple matter. Learn more within!
June 23rd, 2025: I only wanted to add that I followed this wonderful tutorial and install a back-to-top button on the site that gives dynamic feedback like a scrollbar. It's a nifty little thing.
June 22nd, 2025: Just posted Which Witch is Wicca?, a look at an infamous website and the rant included therein - did it change minds, and if so, why? What were we to make of it? Occult weirdness.
June 22nd, 2025: Check out my stamp collection! 99 pixel wide by 56 pixel tall stamps, originating on Deviantart, became an online phenomenon, and I've started collecting them. Here's the bunches!
June 21st, 2025: The first practical application for sharing .mp3 files, Napster opened up worlds of sound. Read about Napster's Floodgates in my own life...
June 13th, 2025: A new, neon purple version of the site's theme (officially called Last Dragons) is live. Experimenting with color combinations is fun. This site will become more cyberpunk over time.
June 3rd, 2025: Finally went and added an askbox for longform, public communication. Leave comments there if you'd like, though I do screen them for spam...
June 2nd, 2025: Began reminiscing a bit - Who was Moyra? She was certainly one of my childhood heroines and role models, either way...
May 28th, 2025: Finally created a page to share web shanties and ballads I've been collecting from YouTube. Go check it out, or hit me up to share anything I may have missed...
May 26th, 2025: Some housekeeping; reorganized the menu on the sidebar, am making some progress on improving (marginally) this site's responsiveness, etc. A lot of small changes, including the addition of some cute emojis for fun and flavor. Hope nobody minds that.
May 22nd, 2025: Have you heard of The Children's Immortality Project? Are we all really born to die? One guy created an online labyrinth in the 2000s to spread awareness about (somehow) stopping death. But what was this strange project, really?
April 30th, 2025: Meet The Infamous Green Blade. As a youngster, I developed (quite quite privately, though) an elaborate mythology about a notorious hacker. Killed some boredom, kids are weird.
April 20th, 2025: A beautiful new site theme entitled Pink Lynx, now live. I made it without images because I'm not good with creating those, but the CSS effects and fonts do a lot of work to create a striking yet inviting atmosphere... I hope.
April 7th, 2025: You've likely heard of 4chan, and you've definitely heard of the dastardly Church of Scientology. But what was Project Chanology? Just added an article about it.
April 4th, 2025: I'm adding a shrine of sorts dedicated to dystopian media such as 1984, The Hunger Games, This Perfect Day and others. Why do millennials find them so captivating?
March 20th, 2025: I've redesigned the entire site with a whole new layout. It's no longer using images from a sozai site, and in fact, uses no images at all (so far) besides the illustrations inside each page. It's pink and pale yellow. I might still make changes to it from here...
January 13, 2025: Second update today. See some ways to go about [displaying something only occasionally]( "Displaying Something (Only) Occasionally") on your website, as an easter egg perhaps?
January 13th, 2025: So, what was Survivor: Photoshop Island? I sure didn't win, and frankly, I wish I'd never been involved, but really, was it all that bad? The prize was, I think, a $500 gift card or something...
January 11th, 2025: Ever had to embody an historical figure? Read about The Annual Middle School Wax Museum! Other site updates include a new picture of Lulu (in motion) and some other cosmetic features...
December 26th, 2024: I've posted some Sorcerous Inclinations, a page focused on the occult and magic in a digital environment. Though in a nascent form, there's some resources and information.
November 23rd, 2024: Added a page discussing the circumstances and experiences I had surrounding my grade school bully and his self-published philosophy book from 1995. How do you feel about the industrial revolution and its consequences?
October 20th, 2024: Added an article on five reasons the 2000s were terribad. Make of it what you will, and some of what I have to say is rather specific, but symptomatic of wider societal issues that existed at the time.
October 19th, 2024: I've updated my Sounds page with several new playlists, including one featuring over fifty hours of Russian rap and hip hop. I've also added a nifty trinket to the sidebar, which shows what I've been listening to on Spotify.
October 14th, 2024: The section focused on the future of the internet now has some content uploaded, but is incomplete.
October 10th, 2024: Expect more and more site updates. Work on the Aristasian Reminiscence Project has, strangely enough, nearly had me breaking down. Learning coding while working on this site is a welcome respite.
August 14th, 2024: I've added some additional personal information, including a small status widget and extra contact methods, to the sidebar.
August 10th, 2024: The majority of the site's index pages, which list all contents extant within a category alongside descriptions, are now live. Consider this the site's main launch, I guess?
August 2nd, 2024: Site structure and Table of Contents are now live, but many links are non-functional, leading to my new Not Found page instead.
July 29th, 2024: I've adopted an akita inu puppy to guard the site. Her name is Lulu, and she should now be found watching you from the sidebar. She may look friendly but will attack on command.
July 24th, 2024: I'm sharing a vast whirlwind of likeable sites from the indie web now; the list is not organized and, in fact, the table itself is randomized to prevent playing favorites, but there's plenty to explore!
June 8th, 2024: Having decided on a template provided by Foollovers, I've spruced it up as much as possible, and done extensive customizations with fonts, colors, and even sounds, and chopped it up to make it easier to use.
April 20th, 2024: Inception of site; decided to name the site Fabled, and took a couple short polls in relevant Discord servers to decide on a TLD, ultimately choosing .day, of course. Domain name registered soon after.

To Do List

Share some scarier things. Much of what I've written thus far has been fairly lighthearted, but I'd really like to share some stories highlighting the darker aspects of growing up in the 1990s and 2000s, which were just as troublesome as any other era.
Write a bit about religion. The way that the internet has affected human spiritual patterns can't really be denied, understated, or even easily understood, and I'd like to explore it.
Upload some details about text effects. I've collected a great deal of CSS code for interesting and creative text display effects to be used with links, titles, and anything, really. I'd like to start sharing those.
Improve mobile interface. It can almost always be improved at this point, and the current version, while a definite improvement over the original version, is mediocre at best. I can do better!