Blogust #5 - Recovery Post 15:04 | 08-08-2026 | Saturday I was so hyped up to post everyday for Blogust, but then real life got to me. I was so out of it, the last two days, that I didn't even want to do the things I enjoy doing, like blogging :( I really want to do a proper, real themed blog post one of these days, and I have several topics in mind for that - My favourite music artist Poe and what caused her to evaporate from the 90s grunge music scene just as she was becoming the queen of MTV. Virgil and The Irony Of Pastoral Romanticism - my takeaways from a very interesting paper on the misinterpretation of Virgils short poetry. Blogust Hype Post - getting more people to sign up for the challenge and a shout out to some of my favourite blogs this month. Currently, I can only sit and dream about doing these things because I am tired and also somehow double-booked for every evening for the next two weeks. I desperately want to do every activity in the world, while also sturggling to do any activity that is actually scheduled for the day. Why did I do this? I have no realistic plan for how I am going to catchup with my backlog of blogs right now, so I will lower the bar and aim for 20 posts this month and not stress myself out (my therapist must be smiling right now). In the meantime, I am also daydreaming about adding the following for the website: Microblog page - regular readers are probably tired of hearing about how this feature is just on the horizon. A cute pixel art badge that represents this site. It can be used as a linking button by other websites, in classic Neocities culture. Maybe I can spread this to my fellow indie bloggers outside of neocities. I don't know how to make pixel art, so I will probably commission my sibling to make this. Finally populating the 'Friends' column on the home page and adding everyone I know! Restructure the webpages so that the main content box takes up a larger portion of the screen on desktop. I should also look into how people get separate mobile/desktop layouts on neocities... Such pleasant dreams. I think if the winds favour my passage, I might just get a sensible 1-2 of these items done in the next few days. Who knows? I'll see yall very soon. Cheers! Love, Aeish <3