7/18/2025 9:41 PM

I got a little bit more done tonight. I started on The DIY Zone page. But other than the spinning gif of my sewing box (hover over it to see inside!), I haven't put much there. It's coming though! I have a number of things I wanna photograph for the page. All hopefully with some sort of hovering over feature. There's gonna be some cool stuff there, I promise. Especially if you're a fan of battlejackets and other stuff.

7/18/2025 2:58 PM

I added a new way to navigate the page for mobile users on the landing page, as well as a censor panda. The mobile user navigation is basically just a site map, but it works around the problem of the iframe all the content is displayed in on the main site not displaying correctly on the actual site.

I also added a "More" link. I have a list of pages on there I basically wanna make but haven't gotten to just yet. But rest assured, they're coming. That being said I think I'm going to work on getting a guestbook going next.

In other news, the TRON: ARES trailer dropped yesterday. I'm iffy on the plot. It IS the natural progression of the series and I get this is a different grid than Flynn's grid but why is Jared Leto here? The new Nine Inch Nails music is so good tho. I am cautiously optimistic. I really don't like Jared Leto in starring roles (or as a person at all really, I'm sure there's horror stories with him on this set like there were from Suicide Squad) but on the other hand, it's a new TRON movie so I can't help but be excited.

7/17/2025 9:22 PM

Last update for today. I removed the cbox. I really want some kind of cbox/guestbook thing I just haven't found the best way to implement it. Right now I'm trying to make sure my page looks nice on my PC monitor AND my laptop and the cbox pushed the last.fm widget out of view on my laptop and that just won't do. Add it to the list of things I need to do lol.

I started messing around with "remastering" that comic I mentioned in the previous post. I wasn't good at drawing then, and I'm still not good at drawing, but I'm trying my best to make an improvement on the comic. Aiming for that pen-drawn look while also leaning into the quality of life improvements I get out of making it with photoshop. Here's a look. One of the images is from the scan of the original comic, one is the work-in-progress remaster. You should be able to tell which is which. Regardless, I think it's coming along nicely. The minimalism is charming in a way. :3


Anyways, there's not much else I can do for tonight. So uh, cya.

7/17/2025 12:28 PM

I've been working on more things for the site! I added a zine I hadn't digitized yet, Post-It Proclamations. It's a zine I made when I was away from home and didn't have access to my computer or my usual supplies as a sorta challenge I guess. I also added two zines that pre-date Zines by Lennon. Activate Your Right Mind, and No Day But Today. Activate Your Right Mind is a pre-cursor to my collage art zines and might be the first zine I made in college. It's not my best work, but for archiving sake it's here. I feel similarly about No Day But Today, a little RENT fanzine of poetry made from lyrics from the musical. Felt a bit half-baked. But still, it's here.

I started to digitize my middle school comic that's laying around. IDK what I'm gonna do with it just yet. Maybe retrace it in photoshop IDK? I made it with a friend and it's a whole lotta setup and not much happens. Does have this little moment though: (may need to open the images in a new tab to read IDK)


Finally, I stole some code from MelonLand for my little Porygon friend. IRL, I hide porygons on all my DIY clothes stuff. Felt right to have him here. He doesn't like iframes though, so conviently he shouldn't really cover any main page content and will mostly watch you from the sides of the page. Hopefully he's not too distracting.

7/17/2025 8:30 AM

The new site for Zines By Lennon launched yesterday! I'm so glad you've come to check me out. That being said the work is far from over. I just coded in this news page and added a cbox, albeit with some compromises. I'm having some problems with that last.fm widget. Mostly the size of it. I can't decrease it's height and it's got a whole black box area underneath it you can't see, so for now it sits at the bottom to hide that. Ideally, the cbox would be at the bottom, but oh well.

Anyways, I launched the site with 31 zines! That's 23 zines in the "Other Zines" section and 8 issues of Stacks. That being said, I still have more to upload. Not only do I have some zines of mine that I've never circulated and I'd like to digitize, but I have some zines that pre-date Zines By Lennon from my college years and even a comic from Middle School. The middle school comic sits in my drawer right now and is a bit worse for wear. I'm going to look into scanning it and doing my best to repair it digitally and rebuild it in InDesign or something. I think it would be a neat little addition. As far as my college zines, these were from my pre-transition years. And while I have them all archived if you know where to look, they won't all be making an appearance on this site. There are a few I intend to tho. Notable examples: a RENT fanzine that's full of poetry using stolen lines from the musical and another poetry zine that's kind of a precursor to the collage zines I'd release under Zines By Lennon. There might be more from that era, but I'd need to do some digging. I definitely have other people's zines but while I have them archived, I don't plan on uploading any of those. Only ones I've made will appear on this site.

Anyways, I'm going to get back to pulling my hair out over HTML, CSS and... sigh...JS.