I don't think I entirely understand why some sites mandate specific writing perspectives. What if I want to write in present tense second person because that's how my creative juices flow best?

sam gets fed on a different schedule than murk's girls so he can't be in the same space as luna for like half the day cause she's food aggressive towards him specifically its kind of funny but also kind of sad . he is just a little boy (he's a 13 year old cat)

Either. As long as the skin doesn't make posting the replies difficult, good enough for me.

i hate to say it but i have in fact been thinking a lot about making a genshin impact oc and now, despite literally never having rped genshin and not having played it for over a year (maybe 2? maybe 1 and a half???) i am suddenly hit with the 'i wanna rp in this setting' beam

…maybe this is a ‘i miss elemental power rp’ kind of situation. i want to assign ocs elements like they’re flight rising dragons

speaking of simple looking skins... i realized how much i love how base forumotion looks && my current passion project is porting my favorite elements of that look over to jcink.

esp their sidebar widgets... like... ugh...!! makes me so feral...!!

I want the Zhongli pajamas.

i feel like a broken record talking about this orz. board mods are only a portion of the effort that coders put into skins now!! there’s so many invisible or qol things that we incl. for practical functionality, or to make certain coding things easier to maintain, or skins more accessible - and i would argue that for as much work as board mods can be to implement, they’re also,,, mm less error prone. (which ofc depends on how you implement boards mods, but if ur a hack feral coder it doesn’t have to be much harder than boop boop yay i coded another board now my skin is going to take 10 years to load oopsies.)

okay princess diaries 3 in the works fr

excuse me while i go scream

*squints in terrible sleep cycle*

Man i wish i had aderal … adhd meds common in the states are illegal here. Im not allowed to get better 🫠

Just to show how inaccessible coding is for those who dont skin, this is what i have to do for jcink:

- first i have to remove so many impractical classes that literally don’t get used or just randomly get in the way
- i have to FIND and remove typical html formats to set a standard scaling. A big example of this are specified px font sizes all over the place. So if i want my body font size to be 16px, i have to go down through everything to make them all consistent or i will have this class that only gets used during the ucp control to be “not like other classes”. And the random paddings. Oh boy. Random 2px paddings everywhere
- you want the latest active topics to look consistent with the others? Too bad! It punches you while saying ora ora as you try to make sense wtf the classes are
- *laughs and cries in jcink’a macro images mess*
- you know the announcements/pinned/forum threads thing? They will always break first and u have to figure out wtf guys no one even cares abt you why are you being a useles issue
- maintitle is the most universal class you might know since it’s for headings like categories. Oops! They’re ugly in this niche section and they break in this one. You gotta make your own class to wrap things nicely for this and that and oops that one’s different now
- custom forum fields are cool. Oh you want tk change something about custom field 6, custom field 69c and custom field 2000? Well you gotta do it all by yourself! Manually! Chop chop go here and here and - you dumbass it was custom field 1234 for avatars!!! Wdym you want to change/reorder them??
- “add reply” is like a thing every people do. And you never know how cluttered and messy it is until you try to slightly make it look modern and suddenly yoy’re like a surgeon doing surgery on a grape
- oh this simple code that would make things so much easier for rping would be nice…. Time to look through every code in existence and pray you dont have to bang ur head in the wall to make it work with ur skin….
- *typing in google* “how to edit subaccount display” “how to display variable in wrappers” “code isnt working even tho i put it under copyright why is there not a more intuitive way to put scripts why do i have to slap them in the header or specifically below this why am i n”
- *doing editing around the awful admin cp to make normal things like avatar upload size* now how do i format the date and time… where is it
- gdi i forgot to change the forum to allow dohtml
- gdi i forgot to have this usergroup to allow them dohtml
- WHO CARES ABTO WHO’S BIRTHDAY IN BOARD STATISTICS
- *suffers in webpage 269*
- “why is the font still tiny…” *finds out there’s an 8px font size in a default class somewhere in the style’s anus*
- oh man it’d be nice for a visual indication of alerts *endd up learning advanced trigonometry*
- “jcink: tableborder wraps around the stuffs! Isnt that great?” “Tableborder: chaos is birthmother of innovation. Without me, what can provide mortals the sense of accomplishment filling their monotonous, short-lived existence? I am the alpha, the beta, the sigma, the omega. I can be your top or bottom or the lego you step on”
- notepad+ is a more coding-friendly app. NOTEPAD
- and if you do code things offline first, you have to go through the hidden trials to make it look That Way in jcink snysay
- literally nothing in jcink is nice to coders and the default exists to make it even harder for them. Why is there still no option of “create blank wrappers/stylesheets” even my unlicensed microsoft word can do better