Ive set up the blog page on this website! Reckon thats a good reason to make my first post.
I'm enjoying having a neocities page a lot lmao. I've been having fun with the html (my only prior experience being the homebrewery). This process is a lot more in-depth than that though. I'm especially prowd of setting up the navigation sidebar for the blog, and I'm looking forward to tackling the other pages on this site
Shifting the topic over to what I'm currently doing, I've got a few goals I'm going to start pursuing. I'm DMing a TTRPG campaign right now (I'll talk more about it in future posts) that I'm hoping to serialize on AO3 and I'm getting back into reading. I'm about halfway into "Hollow" by Brian Catling right now and its making me go feral. A lot of reviews mentioned that it was like reading a Hieronymous Bosch painting and I very much agree. This book is dark and surreal and I want to shove the book directly into my brain so bad man. Highly recommend checking it out if the phrase "surreal dark historical fantasy" piques your interest at all
It's following three storylines that you rapidly swap between the perspectives of, with the background being that there's this church (called the High Church) and their Oracle has died. The first (and my favorite) among the storylines is following this band of mercenaries transporting the new Oracle to what used to be the Tower of Babel, and all of the mercenaries had to have committed just the worst crimes imaginable because the Oracle feeds upon their sins indirectly (there's a whole ritual called the Steeping where the men speak their sins into a bone-filled box called the Pyx and then the Oracle eats the bone marrow afterwards and then gives prophecies). The second storyline takes place at the destination at a monastery full of monks where one of the monks has lost his voice under mysterious circumstances and its being implied that its very related to the death of the previous Oracle, and the third follows a woman named Meg (but derogitorially she is called "Dull Gret" by other townsfolk) who was friends with a witch and has sworn vengeance on the Spanish authorities that have now imprisoned her son. I love this book so much man
Anyway that's it for now. I'm looking forward to making more posts here and getting my site up and running!