Never actually got around to doing a status update last week 😅 But I had started poking around and trying to figure out how I wanted to format my recommendations, which went well for deciding how to (mostly) split them up and making a landing page/"site" map for them and went poorly in that I wasn't really vibing with the specific way I was formatting the recs themselves. But then I saw bookscorpion's comment last week about osteophage's bibliodex and went "Wait, that could work! 👀" And it did!
So the main updates I've done are posting the beginnings of my recommendations and my statistics pages! Plus fixing the navigation bar links for all the main site pages (I am Ignoring™ the fact I need to fix it for my fic pages rn) because I've renamed some page files which naturally broke the links. I also only got minorly distracted by making new decorations - I wanted some Steam-style achievements for my stats page- and exactly one (1) new fic got archived. It might be the same one I just published at the end of August, but at least I didn't add to my fic archival to-do list right? 😂
Of course, making a recommendations page means I need things to rec, and I don't have a backlog of rec lists I can just import. Instead I have 500+ Ao3 bookmarks and that's a bit much XD So I ended up stalling on my fic recs page for a bit. But a post has been making the rounds on tumblr about how we should be doing more rec lists, and I got the urge to do one. So two birds one stone, I made a rec list out of the fics I bookmarked in August and cross-posted that list to my site. And I think I'll try and keep doing that! Now I just need to figure out what other kinds of rec lists I can put together lol
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Date: 2025-09-15 04:29 pm (UTC)So the main updates I've done are posting the beginnings of my recommendations and my statistics pages! Plus fixing the navigation bar links for all the main site pages (I am Ignoring™ the fact I need to fix it for my fic pages rn) because I've renamed some page files which naturally broke the links. I also only got minorly distracted by making new decorations - I wanted some Steam-style achievements for my stats page- and exactly one (1) new fic got archived. It might be the same one I just published at the end of August, but at least I didn't add to my fic archival to-do list right? 😂
Of course, making a recommendations page means I need things to rec, and I don't have a backlog of rec lists I can just import. Instead I have 500+ Ao3 bookmarks and that's a bit much XD So I ended up stalling on my fic recs page for a bit. But a post has been making the rounds on tumblr about how we should be doing more rec lists, and I got the urge to do one. So two birds one stone, I made a rec list out of the fics I bookmarked in August and cross-posted that list to my site. And I think I'll try and keep doing that! Now I just need to figure out what other kinds of rec lists I can put together lol