{"id":1662,"date":"2026-02-14T02:49:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T02:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cotton.bouvardia.blue\/words\/?p=1662"},"modified":"2026-02-14T02:49:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T02:49:27","slug":"stepping-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cotton.bouvardia.blue\/words\/2026\/02\/14\/stepping-back\/","title":{"rendered":"stepping back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>complete site rehaul !<\/p>\n<p>time to scale down.. step away. yeah. over the past year, i&#8217;ve been not very fond of being on the internet. like no duh but this time it&#8217;s even extended to the smallweb. i suppose part of it is how not very good \/ stressful irl has been recently but partly, in some ways, i&#8217;m just unhappy (in general lol) but like with the entire online space. like beyond the negativity, ai, etc. there&#8217;s no more real world \/ online world separation&#8230; from politics to fandom to everything liiiiike.<\/p>\n<p>to be blunt &#8211; WAY too many normies now.<\/p>\n<p>tourist is seriously the perfect way to describe these newfans because that is literally what they are. getting into stuff (anime, games) because it&#8217;s &#8220;in&#8221; now. like if you only got into anime in 2020 because of covid i don&#8217;t want to hear a single thing you have to say honestly! like having saya no uta userpic and replying &#8220;erm :\/ isn&#8217;t this problematic&#8230;&#8221; or those tiktok ppl wanting ads on ao3 oh my god bruh<\/p>\n<p>but what&#8217;s funny is that i actually feel like i&#8217;m too old for this (lol) and it&#8217;s pretty interesting to actually (finally?) feel this way. i suppose i have the old internet (and plain old lol) mindset for better or for worse.<\/p>\n<p>and my mindset means i just wanna be on an minimalistic island writing to myself!!! so i revamped the site to be what i want it to be: archive for my yaps. no guestbook, webrings, whatever. i&#8217;m gone~<\/p>\n<p>right now, i have the main diary, thoughts (microblog since i&#8217;m naaawt using twt anymore), sketchbook (for future gallery maybe idk just a place for old drawings i&#8217;m not going to upload elsewhere), and log (media log). i may do a page like i see on other ppl&#8217;s site using <a href=\"https:\/\/quartz.jzhao.xyz\/\">quartz<\/a>. it&#8217;s like not-notion where i can put all my #secretwip notes and stuff in an easier accessible way than the scribbles in a zillion notepads (both actual notepads and the windows notepad). i dunno how to install it (i mean i understand the instructions i just dunno how to go about it since i&#8217;m on leprd and not something like dreamhost) BUT i can always code my own knock off php version i suppooose. thinking how whenever my irl is like crap i always come back to this site. having something i can 100% control is nice lol.<\/p>\n<p>besides site stuff, goals for this year is 1. open commissions (yikes) 2. reach a very specific milestone with #secretwip (double yikes) 3. play more videogames 4. decide if i should rename all my socmed accounts to [indiedevname] \ud83e\udd14 we&#8217;ll seeee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>complete site rehaul !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[48,12],"class_list":["post-1662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entry","tag-misc-site","tag-personal-thoughts"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 22:59:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cotton.bouvardia.blue\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cotton.bouvardia.blue\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cotton.bouvardia.blue\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cotton.bouvardia.blue\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cotton.bouvardia.blue\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1662"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/cotton.bouvardia.blue\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1683,"href":"https:\/\/cotton.bouvardia.blue\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions\/1683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cotton.bouvardia.blue\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cotton.bouvardia.blue\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cotton.bouvardia.blue\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}