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Turned out the problem with PDF embeds was a problem with my browser, so I changed my settings and that fixed it. If you're on Firefox and can't see embedded PDFs, change your preferences for them to "open in Firefox" vs. "ask" or "save file" and they should work. Not sure why that changed, since it worked with them set to "ask" on my end before.
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Finished a new RRverse fanfic, but it's late so I'll put it up on the site tomorrow.
Thanks for the follow! As someone who had a Windows XP / 90s office special interest starting in 2014-15 (before it really became an "aesthetic") and used 7 as my main OS until 2021, I've never been sure how I feel about it being an "aesthetic", but I dig your commitment to it and your lists of resources / tech stuff. Would you be interested in exchanging buttons?
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your art is so sick!!! love the pixel art styles <3
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draggianuniverse
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yee, thank you :D Big fan of your whole thing too, as an emo vampire of sorts and ecology enjoyer. Would you be interested in exchanging buttons? I'd love to get more scene / emo / punk / etc. sites onto my affiliates list :)
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New blog post / prose poem / something of the sort, inspired by Pokemon Go Unova Tour today and Unova lore in general (and also me and being nonbinary and such). Very proud of myself for doing the Javascript on those "show spoilers" buttons without a guide. https://draggianuniverse.neocities.org/miscellanea/truthandideals
New Dudesverse fanfic. It's mostly a vehicle to discuss in-universe science and folklore, but I think it's got some interesting character moments and questions for the future too. Also, removed the "ships" listing from the fanfic page story descriptions because this isn't AO3 and my Spark/Arlo ship is kind of the central point. https://draggianuniverse.neocities.org/fanfic/changingscales
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sure i'd love to exchange site buttons. and thanks for the compliment. i also grew up with windows xp & 7 as well. however i understand feeling unsure about the aesthetic movement(?), since a lot of it is nostalgia-based
It's less the nostalgia, and more how every "aesthetic" inevitably ends up kind of watering down the reality, which is weird as someone with a vested special interest in that kind of thing. Like, where's my Microsoft Bob / Plus-core, you know? I had a full on snake-gijinka OC version of search assistant Courtney and nobody recognized her!
(I ofc know that Microsoft Bob / Plus is Windows 95, but I started feeling weird about it with Windows 95 vaporwave and it's only accelerated with the rise of XP / 7 aestheticization. Anyway, added your button.)
thanks for the explanation. it probs doesn't help that some fans of the aesthetic are too young to have actually experienced it, which isnt shade to them.just an observation