New blog post!
☆Kyuranger merch☆
Getting a start on this to make it easier when everything is actually in (it's taken me long enough that most of it is). To put it bluntly, my experience with getting all of this together in any decent amount of time has been Not Good and one of the first items I ordered took longer than a week to even get a shipping label, so to say I'm unhappy with my ability... https://blog.bluestarcreations.net/blues-reviews/kyuranger-merch/
For anyone who didn't see before, because m.s is busy being largely defederated, and my account there never actually got the traction I thought it would after initial promise, I'm moving notifications here. I will still boost them on my old account, but it's clear that this is closer to the audience I want to reach.
Also, I found the "issue" in the code that kept me from inaugurating this w/ something better: apparently it now refuses to post more than once for some instances' rules compliance.
I can't say I'm super thrilled about it because I can't fix tags and categories as easily, but I'm not so upset I'll change the code (yet).
Anyway, this nightmare review is probably my worst ever, but if you're interested in merch, messy as it all is, it's there. XD
Just to clarify some stuff about this: server policy here is not to comment on domain blocks. If a domain gets blocked, though, you can 100% rest assured it's for the safety of the community one way or another.
My comments were not intended to imply anything beyond mastodon.social having been widely defederated for a long time and TBQH if more of that is happening, I am blissfully unaware of it as I have been largely focused on personal matters rather than Fedi.
Just to clarify some more, there is a lot of history that led to m.s being blocked by many servers and I don't have the energy to retell basically Mastodon's whole platform moderation history in excruciating detail.
As for my own personal life eating up so much of my energy; it's literally nothing exciting. Most of it has to do with fairly banal issues with my pills and the US insurance complex being fucked. XD
That and just stuff that's mostly resolved and Life and not creating enough.
My latest side project will likely help with that just because I can do simple, charming grayscale graphics in an interface I basically already have figured out and some of that means I get to flex my background art skills. And it also means I get to try a new style I'm not used to working in because it's a digital pet thing and I have a rather specific image of how it should look. I only have a few sprites for now, but am very satisfied with them.
Anyway, I know there have been others who have blocked m.s more recently, but if there's any discussion of it happening again en masse, I was not aware of it.
Look, I'm tired, I know I am completely butchering this explanation. Things can be true on smaller levels; I'm just trying to find a way of saying I don't know anything outside of the vaguest sense right now and that's for the best for me right now as I try to contend with the whole Twitter/Fedi flood and *gestures vaguely*. XD
I'm just going to enjoy my massage cushion and try to take it easy and maybe do a little more pixel art and try to figure out mechanics for this game outside of "dog walks on path." I am totally spent. XD