THE HERPLING BLOGS

January 13, 2026 :: What I've been up to, regarding Uli-Ulle

About that worldbuilding, I have been doing pretty decently with it recently. Mostly overhalling a lot of my characters, re-exploring some concepts and fleshing them out. Lots of vis-dev stuff, but also understanding meaning and practical applications in little ways.

A big parts has been tattoos, how they look, what they mean, what they do, all that. Integrating them into more characters, helping define a closer connection to the temple, or hint at it with characters whose lives and histories are more ambiguous. I also just love patterns. Yay patterns.

Something bugging me that I want to figure out more is subbing out different language when referring to “The Temple” or “The Beast” of Uli-Ulle. I don't know, something in the presentation of it seems a little juvenile. Pisses me off.

January 12, 2026 :: Site reworking, etc

Did a lot of the bones of reworking the site today and feeling good about it. Everything is overall lighter and easier for me to work with, easier to build on. Oddly enough, a lot of that comes from removing the immediate need to put a bunch of my digital art up. It always felt hard and clunky. Looking forward to in the future implementing my art across the board instead of all shoved on one page. Part of this is showing off more paintings, maybe more practice or school work. Those are more in-depth, and even though I can't recreate the feeling of seeing it in person, I can center them a lot and actually write about them. I treasure them more then a lot of my digital work, see them more meaningful, valuable, present, tangible, whatever.

Maybe when I make a book digitally again I'll feel different about the medium, but right now I am a bit detached to it and its permanence. I will probably forever do some of it, it's fun, good practice, and I can explore my characters, worldbuilding, and concepts easily and in a way that I feel like I could publish. I just need to gather a little more steam to hop back into passively worldbuilding, and in a few months/years I can transfer that into a better, more published work.

I want to do blog posts more, and more often. I wish there was an easier way for me to upload them that wasn't google docs->VSCode->Neocities because that makes their integration more annoying but oh well. Maybe I will only update my blog page on Neo, neglecting it in VSC. Sometimes I want to write these blog posts out physically before too, so that's another annoying level. Argh. Need to hire me a scribe.

January 11, 2026

Archived my old blog and started this one. The old one was poorly designed and i didn't want to rework all of it.