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I don't post WIPs on the website because I know me and I know that if I HTMLify things before they're done, they'll never get done. But I have been working on a very plot-important Dudesverse fanfic WIP and have some thoughts about the new segment and how it connects to my experience with recovery and also the Pokemon XD Shadow Pokemon lore it's referencing. Read them?
ooo secret WIP preview. working on a revamp for my sona's human ref since many things have changed since 2022. wip: https://files.catbox.moe/x8d5ev.png | compare 2022 original: https://draggianuniverse.neocities.org/images/theenforcer/enforcer_ref.png
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New RRverse fanfic. It's about how our timeline's Ronnie got dumped back in January, so consults the fanfic guys to try to help make him un-single. (It doesn't work.) > https://draggianuniverse.neocities.org/fanfic/badatlife.html
draggianuniverse
2 months ago
Based on a true story. Everyone generally agrees, seemingly including Ronnie, that they broke up in December, but it wasn't officially confirmed until late January. Dude's been spiraling ever since and frankly, couldn't have happened to a more deserving guy. > https://www.tmz.com/2025/01/21/saraya-ronnie-radke-breakup/
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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lakestheguy
2 months ago
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
draggianuniverse
2 months ago
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!
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draggianuniverse
2 months ago
(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.)
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lakestheguy
2 months ago
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
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your art is so sick!!! love the pixel art styles <3
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draggianuniverse
2 months ago
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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Like, this is a confirmation that I am in fact working on the fanfic updates I promised I'd do, and also I love this concept and want to infodump about it. thoughts.page is the best freaking platform for the kind of stuff I usually send over DMs I've ever encountered
https://draggianuniverse.neocities.org/thoughts_archive/site_related#1741387571 (archive link; used to link to thoughts.page)