02/01/2025
Things Changing (for the better?)
Hi friends, Nova here and if you've been keeping up with my site updates over the past few weeks you may have noticed I've been somewhat steadily updating all of my pages with the new format. This has been easier than expected thankfully and I should have most of the major pages done within the next few weeks if my estimations are correct.
However, that may not exactly be accurate as I got a new job recently that's been taking up a fair chunk of my time. It's a good job I enjoy it a lot and it pays well so if I'm lucky they'll hire me back after this semester ends. In addition to that classes for my web design major have also resumed which means I'll hopefully be learning more stuff I can apply here as well as in my professional life.
Stuff I'm Hoping to get Done Soon
Petal and Leaf
So I have a few things on the docket outside of here that I need to work on. A major one being the original comic I'm doing for Petal and Leaf that has been on the backburner for at least 4 months now. Things keep popping up that have been of higher priority so it's kind of fallen to the wayside unfortunately but I'm really hoping this'll finally be the month I'm able to get it done.
Wonderful Precure AU
In addition to that me and my beloved partner Zim have started tossing around ideas for a wonderful precure AU in which Satoru and Daifuku become cures along with Satoru discovering she's actually a girl. He's been doing a lot of the visual design for said au (which you can see here and here) and while I'm trying to do studies to help me get better at a similar style I think I'm gonna try and stick to the narrative side of things.
Oh right! Speaking of that, I've been trying to write some more prose recently and posted a few wonderful precure fics on my AO3! Now you may be wondering "why no tropical rouge fics?" and this is mostly because I'm getting most of my tropical writing fix through Laura Quest.
Laura Quest
LQ Chapter 3 has been pretty stagnent I'm not going to sugar coat it, I'm currently at a point in which I'm looking for some feedback from my editors but none of them have gotten around to looking at my current draft. This by no means is a slight to them of course I understand they have their own lives and are doing this completely out of their own passions so I understand it completely. It's just I'm hoping to get some help before I continue working is all.
Wrapping Up
Anyways I think that's about all I have for you all today. Expect more site updates as I overhaul old pages and hopefully some more art soon! Hope you all have a lovely day/night/whatever.
01/19/2025
Starting Fresh
Hello all! If you've been keeping up with my site over the past few months you may have noticed that my blog page (this page) mysteriously stopped working. I'm still not exactly sure what the problem here is but it seems for the time being it would be wise for me to move away from hosting my blog on dreamwidth. My old blogs can still be found here but going forward I plan on to just update this page instead!
Anyways it's a new year and a new start to this blog which is cause for excitement. I'm hoping now that I have the main page updated it'll get me back into the swing of updated various pages here. (one can hope at least...) The main things one my agenda are as follows:
- add in an actual changelog page as that's now missing from the homepage
- spruce up and fix the sitemap since it got messed up in the homepage update
- make a 2025 art page and populate it with my most recent works
- redo all of the other pages so that none of them are using template's anymore
Now that last one's def gonna take the longest but it's something I'm hoping to do eventually and not immediately. As I've been learning more actual html in my classes (I mentioned in a previous blog I switched my major/school I think?) I've been finding myself less and less content with the way the templates I'm using have my site currently structured. You can tell with how drastic the change between the old homepage and the current one is I feel.
Project Progress
Laura Quest and my other projects are still in the works I'd say I'm a little more than halfway done with chapter 3? That sounds about right. Along with that I have some other more nebulous concepts kicking around in my head I'm hoping to be able to develop more this year.
Most notably I have a sort of multimedia narrative in the works which I've always wanted to take a stab at but felt like I didn't have the proper knowhow until recently. That compounded with a myriad of life experiences has gotten me inspired to work on a narrative about online friendships and the masks we were both in person and behind the screen. I hope you'll all take a look at it whenever it releases!
Anyways that's all I have for today! I hope you all have a good day/night wherever you are and I should hopefully be back soon!