Name: Gao (LeGaosaure or variations on most platforms)
Projects: *ticking on my fingers* so I have my fanfic archive (up to date, I just have to add fics as I post them elsewhere), my craft archive (I'm adding new projects as I share them, but more on it below), the site I made for the fan event I'll be launching in 10ish days (the Project Moon Anniversary Exchange, keep an eye on it if you happen to be interested ;) ) (complete, will just need updates as the event progresses), and the fan archives directory that lists small/personal fanfic archives, come apply if you have one ♥
Yeah, I'm not one to make one big general site with tons of categories and pages, so I end up with lots of different URLs x'D
What are you hoping to work on for SWS? I'm not committing to much given I already have writing and crafting plans, but the thing that needs working on is my craft archive: while I've been posting every new project on it since I launched it, I have... 15ish years of backlog to add to it? Most of it has been tackled already (I say "already" but I'm pretty sure I was already working on that for last year's event lol), I'm currently only missing some crochet projects. Around 60 x') So if I could make any progress on that, it'd be neat! It's so much more comfortable having one central place to link to people when I mention my craft, be it to show a specific piece, to showcase what I do more generally, or to immediately dig out a pattern!
As for today's questions... Honestly, I don't recognize myself in most posts about what the "small web" or "indie web" is even supposed to be. I just code websites because it's practical. Though I do have a specific event that kicked my butt into finding something I wanted to code (after 15ish years of having the knowledge but not doing anything with it because I didn't see the use): July 2023 DDoS attack on AO3. It was bad, on top of an already cursed month (both twitter and reddit were in utter chaos with ripples all over the other platforms...), and it shook me into realizing I could leverage my coding knowledge for something I cared about, actually: having my fic available elsewhere just in case. (I since learned that it's not only useful when AO3 is down, but also for people for whom AO3 is blocked. For example the whole of China. For some reason last time I discussed it with a Chinese reader neocities was perfectly accessible from China.) Then I realized I could also solve my quest for a unique platform to display my craft that I had been poking at for years. And now here I am, this tool back at the front of my mind, asking myself if it can help automatically instead of forgetting about it =)
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Date: 2025-08-31 07:33 pm (UTC)Projects: *ticking on my fingers* so I have my fanfic archive (up to date, I just have to add fics as I post them elsewhere), my craft archive (I'm adding new projects as I share them, but more on it below), the site I made for the fan event I'll be launching in 10ish days (the Project Moon Anniversary Exchange, keep an eye on it if you happen to be interested ;) ) (complete, will just need updates as the event progresses), and the fan archives directory that lists small/personal fanfic archives, come apply if you have one ♥
Yeah, I'm not one to make one big general site with tons of categories and pages, so I end up with lots of different URLs x'D
What are you hoping to work on for SWS? I'm not committing to much given I already have writing and crafting plans, but the thing that needs working on is my craft archive: while I've been posting every new project on it since I launched it, I have... 15ish years of backlog to add to it? Most of it has been tackled already (I say "already" but I'm pretty sure I was already working on that for last year's event lol), I'm currently only missing some crochet projects. Around 60 x') So if I could make any progress on that, it'd be neat! It's so much more comfortable having one central place to link to people when I mention my craft, be it to show a specific piece, to showcase what I do more generally, or to immediately dig out a pattern!
As for today's questions... Honestly, I don't recognize myself in most posts about what the "small web" or "indie web" is even supposed to be. I just code websites because it's practical. Though I do have a specific event that kicked my butt into finding something I wanted to code (after 15ish years of having the knowledge but not doing anything with it because I didn't see the use): July 2023 DDoS attack on AO3. It was bad, on top of an already cursed month (both twitter and reddit were in utter chaos with ripples all over the other platforms...), and it shook me into realizing I could leverage my coding knowledge for something I cared about, actually: having my fic available elsewhere just in case. (I since learned that it's not only useful when AO3 is down, but also for people for whom AO3 is blocked. For example the whole of China. For some reason last time I discussed it with a Chinese reader neocities was perfectly accessible from China.) Then I realized I could also solve my quest for a unique platform to display my craft that I had been poking at for years. And now here I am, this tool back at the front of my mind, asking myself if it can help automatically instead of forgetting about it =)