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current mood: groggy
current music: Adam and the Ants – Stand and Deliver

I was at a social event last the weekend (everybody please clap) and caught a cold I’m still recovering from, so this’ll be short.

I really love Project Gutenberg and will occasionally browse one if its categories and download whatever seems interesting (ebook of the Epic of Gilgamesh in the original cuneiform, anyone?). Quite a few Gutenberg ebooks come with default covers that can only be described as… visually confounding. A screenshot of books on Project Gutenberg. The covers center presumably randomly generated combinations of shapes in bright primary and secondary colors. The clashing color combinations and oddly squished-looking font are particularly fascinating to me. But I like that they have covers at all. Anyways, being the visual creature that I am, I like to make time to create my own covers for these books. Here are a few of them:

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current mood: exhausted
current location: AO3 Source Code
current music: Cold Wind by Young Neighbours

That voice inside your head that says, “Hey, you should write an AO3 skin that fully replaces the default. It will be fun :D”?

Yeah, that’s the devil talking.

Screenshot of an AO3 user dashboard with a custom skin applied to it. It has is a dark, low contrast, modern flat design theme with a handful of playful design elements.

I don’t want to know how long I spent on this, even excluding the year-long break where I gave up after realizing I couldn’t use flexbox, grid, or calc. The only reason why I decided to finish it this week was because I forgot that was the case and then I was too stubborn to stop.

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Oh, and you bet it’s responsive. Well, responsive in the way that AO3 allows you two breakpoints and no custom media-queries.