I finally made a button. You can see it on the footer of every page, or here https://othala.goeshard.org/static/img/button/othala.png
I like the button but I don't know if it matches the site. Oh well. Feel free to link to me with it if you want.
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discreteideas
1 week ago
That’s a very cool button. I’ll try and remember to add it next time I update my site
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It's like a comic book cross over issue:
https://goeshard.org/2026/07/17/othala-is-better-than-this-website/
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Thanks for the follow! Your site is really impressive, I like your theme a lot :D
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The importance of a good button on neocities can't be understated. I have multiple sites, some with buttons, some without buttons, and it's interesting to see which ones people link to. Sometimes I feel like the reason you get a link is because the person likes your button. It's one of those things that you CAN choose to not do, but you're choosing for your site to be less networked. TLDR, I need a button for othala.
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me yesterday: why so many meme website
me today: https://goeshard.org/2026/07/14/my-daughter-is-half-black/
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I would like to see more Christian websites that shoot for a historical, literary, or academic vibe and use classical elevated language. Take me back to Lindisfarne Priory to look at texts by candle light or something. But more Christian websites seem to be going for... "memelord hackerman quit using 4chan because I found God" thing. I get that practically that's a very useful avenue. But just how I think sometimes.
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discreteideas
3 weeks ago
I definitely get that. Although I do sometimes struggle with the very difficult to read fonts people go for
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othala
3 weeks ago
For sure I think you have to use careful discretion to pick something between a realistic font from the middle ages, especially the type of stuff they used before the time of Charlemagne lol, and something people can actually read.
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discreteideas
2 weeks ago
Your comment inspired me and I have just worked out how to change my font to something a little more aesthetic
rainight
2 weeks ago
There's so much irony poisoning on the internet. I'd like to write a post about that one day.
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duvarki
2 weeks ago
I am not a big fan either, but I seem to have fallen into the corner of the internet where this is less so! I am a big mediaevalist, and I try to capture a bit more of an older atmosphere on my website, but I am limited by my technical skills to execute what I have in mind. I try to be sincere and unbothered in a world where all things must be buried in irony lest it be seen as "cringe", but it's difficult at times.
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othala
2 weeks ago
I admit that I have a very absurdist insincere side myself. I think the best way to deal with it if you have that problem is to carve yourself a place out where you don't do it. Then you can retreat back into if you need to but your "sacred" space wont be contaminated.
you have good taste in hardcore music
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daliwali
3 weeks ago
thanks! there's a bunch of bands i've seen in small venues that aren't listed, it's def the scene i'm most familiar with. it started with listening to deftones "white pony" as a kid.
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Luke is a great gospel, I think because he is writing with the benefit of some distance from the events. It's like a memoir from someone who thought in ww2 is very valuable, but actually a historian writing a few decades later can look at events more holistically - and perhaps see more clearly what specific details are most relevant.