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2025.01.05
It's new years!! I know I said I probably wouldn't make a new year's blog because not much would happen, and it didn't, but I did get some cool pictures I wanted to post.
Here's a video!!
I had to upload it to youtube to be able to post it here, because neocities doesn't let you upload .mp4s. Which is okay, I guess it saves me some of the limited amount of file space I have for my website, but I don't really like the idea of uploading it to youtube.
I feel like youtube is more of a "upload videos to get famous and make money" kind of site rather than somewhere it'd make sense for me to upload my personal videos and stuff. If I find a better site to put videos on I'll switch to that. I just hope it doesn't try to show people ads when they watch it. Go download firefox and get an adblocker, it'll fix your entire life.
Back to more relevant things, here's some firework pictures!
Reminder that you can click on images to see them at full size, if you want. I have to compress all of these to make them take up less space, so they're not the best quality, but they should still look okay.
Semi-related tangent; Every time I take a picture and put it in a blog post, I also put it in my photo gallery page, which is divided up into categories. Bugs, pets, nature, and food.
Bugs, pets, and food are all pretty self explanatory, and it's pretty obvious for each one what you're going to get. Nature should be too, but it ends up not really being that.
An animal outside? Not a bug or a pet, so it goes in nature. A picture of a forest, or a park with lots of scenery? Very obviously nature. A picture of a sunset in a city, or an ordinary view of a convinience store I thought was visually pleasing? Well, it's not exactly nature, but it is scenery, and if we want to stretch it, it probably has some sort of plant or animal or something in the background, so it goes in nature. But like... fireworks? A picture of a thing in my house? Notably not at all nature. But since everything else that's not a bug, or food, or a pet goes into the nature category, it will also go in the nature category.
It's like a scale of nature to not-really-nature, and it'd be a bit stupid to make a new category about it because then I'd have to decide if the dubiously-nature images should stay in nature or go into the new category, which feels kind of difficult for no reason, and I'd definitely end up making weird or wrong picks sometimes.
Basically, what I'm realizing now is that my "nature" category of images should have just been "scenery", or maybe more generally "photography", but I can't go back and change it now, because the button to visit the page says "nature" and I'd have to make a whole new one, and the page is already titled "nature", and if I changed the name I'd have to go around my site and make sure every link to the "nature" page was changed to the new thing it's called or else the links would be broken.
All of this to say that now we can come to a mutual understanding of why my fireworks and lemon piglets are going into "nature" despite neither of them being pictures of things in nature.
Speaking of lemon piglets:
If you're not familiar with what a lemon piglet is, it's this.
It was a thing people posted around social media for a period of time, and I had a lemon and I figured not much to lose, so at the beginning of 2024 I made one for fun. And also because I secretly hoped it'd actually make my year luckier. And then she shriveled up and I never threw her out or anything.
I entirely forgot about my lemon piglet adventure until I saw her again and realized that it was lemon piglet season again. Sadly I did not have a lemon, but I did have an orange. So this year we have an orange piglet. They also look more like puppies to me, but it's whatever.
How much did the lemon piglet actually improve my luck? Will the orange piglet I made three days late be better or worse for the economy? I guess we'll find out this year.
That's all I have to post about this new years. I will definitely do more blogposting when it gets warm out and there are bugs and I can touch grass for real. I miss spring and summer. I still hate the cold. I want the bugs back. :(