Gee, that's a lot of text down there

First, let's go over some of the site improvements you can actually notice. I've been improving the CSS files for the website, so things should look just a little cleaner. I also removed the desktop-only warning because guess what? It doesn't look terrible on mobile anymore! It's... still not great, but it's an improvement.
It was easier than I thought it would be, honestly. You can tell CSS files to follow extra instructions if the display size of the screen is a given number of pixels wide, so I just have to tell it to shrink the margins when the display is narrower, like on a phone. If you resize the whole window on desktop, you might be able to see where it switches instructions.
I've also been browsing a lot of other personal websites for inspiration. There's a lot of cool stuff on Neocities! Lots of super talented artists.

Wanna Paranormal, but I haven't even got one

Believe it or not, the Paranormal Accounts project I opened last week has ballooned in scope (in a good way, I hope).
Well, maybe that's an overly negative way to put it. I realised just how much attention it needs. The concept that developed is a much larger project than I had expected, as I begin to think about... like, character arcs, thematic elements, writing style, but also keeping things simple and concise. Making a lot of vague, moving ideas seem simple to a reader is maybe one of the hardest things to do as a writer.
So, I'm deferring the creation of the pages until the writing job is more complete. I also think I may want to take on smaller projects to up my skills and get the practice before I fully tackle Paranormal Accounts. I don't have the graphic design chops to do it justice. Still, if you're curious, I did pledge to share what I've been working on regardless of whether or not it's complete.

Where PA took me

Funny enough, I didn't realise at first that I was borrowing a lot of homework from the show Welcome to Nightvale. The whole "radio show in a spooky town" vibe. I decided to just to my best to embrace that I'm not very original, and just look at what they do well and what doesn't land as well.
It became one of my core maxims - I want to give readers a feeling like the one I had the first time i listened to Welcome to Nightvale, laying on my bed, playing the show through a beat-up radio from the early 2000's. There's warmth, comfort, and even humor, but also mystery and a sense of discovery, like a warm summer night. Whenever I overcomplicate things, this is one of the ideas I turn to when deciding what fat to trim.
Another is that of the stories, and the themes it's trying to communicate. It's taken me to a lot of weird places. I've never really thought this hard about the meanings behind plot points and character beats. Honestly, it makes me wish I was a little more well-read, to have more stories to compare to. More options. I don't wanna spoil anything, but I've already had to a lot of random research:

...But there's a catch

I guess I don't have enough stories to tell. I'm pretty quickly running out of ideas for how to work on this website. If my last projects are anything to go by, I'll abandon this altogether within a couple of weeks. I just made it for the sake of making it - in other words, it was doomed from the start.
That's not a terrible thing, though. Maybe I can repurpose it in some way. My natural instinct is to use it to talk more about myself; after all, it's easier than anything else. Bad idea, though. I'm already an intensely singular person, and I don't need to dedicate more of day to talking about myself. That doesn't seem beneficial to my health, and I wanna make something people'd enjoy.
What I'd really like, I think, is a way to talk to, to think about, to understand other people. You know, human connection! Trouble is, I don't know what that looks like in the context of this website. Like I said: doomed. The other sticking point is interest. How do I make me connecting with people worth their time, or worse, worth the time of the people visiting the website?
There's no shortage of cool things to do. I guess. I thought it would be kinda cool to document picking up a skill and struggling to improve. I thought it could be neat to do actual paranormal investigations, real historical analysis. Unfortunately, "thinking it's cool" isn't really good enough...? Maybe it is, I don't know. Even if I wanted to do those ideas more than anything, I don't know how to get the motivation to just make them for their own sake.

When I talk like this in real life, they call it crashing out

What is the future of the-moon-real.neocities.org? What are we even going to call it? Come on, that URL is just way too long. Dear reader, if you've made it to the end of this blog... *why*? That's not a dig, I'm just curious what exactly it was about my fruitless, half-baked artistic crashout that made it feel worth reading. Whatever it was, thanks. Don't worry, the end is a long ways yet! I just need to find my footing, and have a bit of a self-critical habit to get over. I'll see ya when I see ya.