To all stumbling over here, this is the new dedicated spot for all of my writing! I’ve been posting to Deviantart for about 3 years now and I decided a change was due after the recent developments with Eclipse and my subject matter tipping over their line of decency in many respects.

Due to DA’s limitations, chapters of The Book of Milk and A Report from the Farm were not properly formatted anymore. This may be a little thing, but the strikethrough of forbidden thoughts was essential to the slow devolution of each story, and posting as PDFs never quite caught on UI-wise.

There are a lot of benefits:

  • Custom formatting for any story.
  • Readability should be easier overall.
  • Light and Dark Mode!
    • This should both react to your device settings or stick with your preference if you hit the icon on the bottom of this page.
  • Cheap hosting.
    • I built this all with Jekyll so its all static files on AWS, something like $1/month, maybe less.
  • Built-in story series, linking, footnotes, tags…
    • I had to build most of this logic over the last two weeks, but it was remarkably easy!

Some challenges:

  • Technical setup.
    • If you would like to get my source code contact me directly, I can run you through how it’s done. Git and Markdown, but otherwise its a breeze!
  • Forces me to build a Discord to get around having dynamic changing comments.
    • I could roll with Disqus but they have privacy issues and ads. The only option was to stick with a platform that’s been really transformative for me.
    • FYI its pretty bare over there right now…

So here we are. A drastic over-reaction? Absolutely. A great project to feature writing at its best? Absolutely!

P.S. I would like to extend a huge thank you to Slothargy for the story watermarks for Dollhood and Beta Academy!