Best day of the month because it's both divisible by five and a square.

Six more days left of the Nano-Reimu.

day twenty six whatever

Four

>>15992
The spoiler text is normal on my end

>>15993

Pic and below HTML is what it looks like here.

> <span class="spoiler" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">

>>15992
>Hovered spoiler text is now unreadable gray-on-black instead of white on black. Can't seem to change it?
It is the same color as the main font color.
>Margins/padding around post text has doubled
It hasn't. You're confusing padding in posts with margins in the message. They have different effects.
>In archived threads the extra padding is absolutely ridiculous
This is an oversight that I'll fix soon.
>Photon preset's post borders are now pure white, were #CCCCCC
You're correct and I'll make the preset reflect that.
>At some point the font changed from serif to sans
Yes, last year. Only some themes had different fonts and parts of the site like the front page never had serifs. Fonts were made uniform across the site.

Okay, I'll do it. I'm only half-joking. It might happen.

>>15987
Even just the sentiment is (almost) enough.

We should really make a list of underrepresented 2hus and whinge more about their plight in an attempt to get others to write them.

>>15962
Call me a bitch because I'm busier than expected, go figure.

This is me: >>/border/31609

Is starting yet another story a good idea? Feel free to judge me. That way you'll be able to get some practice in.

>>15967
>>/youkai/31426
Call me a double bitch because I said fuck it to being responsible and participating anyway. Do note that I may drop out at any point.

When I posted the OP, I was pretty convinced that there wouldn't be anything happening. I had doubts anyone would even notice this thing for more than a second.

So, did we win? I don't really know. Things were reasonably active, mostly on account of the actual NaNoWriMo happening, but that tells me nothing. Would any of that have happened if NaNoWriMo hadn't gone on as usual? I have some doubts. Still, activity is activity, and activity in and of itself is good. Let's just call it a job well done.

For my part, I'd like to apologise twice: once for constantly forgetting to bump the thread, and once more for getting involved in NaNoWriMo and falling through. I know no one particularly cares, but it's personally disappointing to me. Commitments are seriously hard to live up to.

On another note, I'd like to think that this little stunt has had a hand in bringing folks onto the Discord. Before this started, there were something like sixty or seventy of us total, and now we're over a hundred. Some of you went to lurking immediately, and that's to be expected, I guess. For those of you who continue to be active, pat yourselves on the back. You may not see it this way, but you're doing your part to keep a community as vibrant as possible. It'd still be better if folks wrote, voted, and generally did more on the site, though.

Anyway, thanks for tolerating my cheap little joke. There may be a repeat, or there could just as well not. I'd be glad if someone were to take over for me, but I'm of no illusion of that happening. I guess we'll just have to see next year.

Maybe?

P.S. Okuu is doing fine.

P.P.S. Fortune Teller did nothing wrong.

Wait what the fuck we have a discord? I thought we only had an IRC channel.

>>15952
It's listed under "Chat" on the front page
https://discord.gg/UPHZMWy

>>15940
>No excuses to those who didn't follow up.
Fuck off, I had a perfectly fine excuse.

I couldn't actually come up with anything to fulfill the request I claimed orz

>>15941
That's still no excuse. Why would you claim a request if you had no ideas on how to fulfill it in the first place?

Some personal stuff happened in my life two thirds into the month and as such, this project fell by the wayside. Still, I managed to write 20k at least, and while that wasn't the goal, I am happy with it. Nanowrimo was a good motivator.

The next step for me is to edit and polish these 20k words a bit more, now that I don't have a deadline, and then post them.

Congrats to all who hit their goals!

An Addendum to Motivation
_______________________________________

This isn't a lot of content, but I feel like I should add to this segment where I stated: "Now, this might sound a little weird to say in the motivation section of all places, but with proper routine and regimen, you don’t even need motivation to keep writing."

Oh past me, you are right, but you are also so very wrong. To get words onto paper, I believe that you need both motivation and discipline. Discipline is the greatest supplement to motivation, or something like that. Without motivation, all you'll get are forced, empty words. And without discipline... well, you'll get me. So if you have the motivation, don't be lazy and especially don't be me. Be disciplined.

stop necroing threads fag

Don't think that double click thing works. No thread number pops up after.

Nevermind, you can still use the thing but you have to copy paste the thread number. Just glad it works.

welcome

>>15820
Sure. >>15722 is progressing, but slower than I'd hoped. I still intend to write it, and I figured there was no harm in doing it slowly if it wasn't going to get done at all.

If someone else wants to grab it from me, though, feel free. I imagine it's still a month or two away... and it's me, so if a real writer took it it would probably end up being a better story.

>>15685
hmm yes, yes, I could do this.

perhaps something to write while I am secluded from the world.

>>15822
Please, feel free. If we end up with 2 on accident, that won't be a bad thing.

>>15806
>I'll get right to it!
I'm saying if you have an issue in any thread you should feel free to voice it, apropos of nothing.
>Have you actually read this thread?
No : )
>>some bullshit about being a strong independent writer who don't need no critique but relishes it all the same
>Why the fuck are you even posting in this thread if you don't want to participate? You just sound like a tool by going out of your way to make excuses.
>>15795
>No one else willing to step up?
>?
A question. Though I too wasn't sure on what to, so I replied to this post instead
>>15798
With an answer, as to why I hadn't participated. Does that answer your question of
>Why the fuck are you even posting in this thread if you don't want to participate?
? Or will you continue to be angry.

>>15807
>No
Ah, my bad for assuming that a reply made to a thread would be by someone who actually knew what its subject was about.

As for the other stuff, you're straight out misunderstanding what feedback is. Nearly every area of human activity (jobs, education, art) has feedback from peers as a normal part of the process. It has nothing to do with confidence. To close oneself off to opportunities to hear perspectives and alternatives they might have not otherwise contemplated is just stupid. Asking for critique isn't the same as admitting that you're doing a poor job nor is it born out of feelings of inferiority. In fact, being confident about yourself helps as having a third party point out things makes you hone arguments as to why you do the things you do and what it truly is you intend to achieve.

I may have been calling you out on being a tool when I thought that you knew what this process was about and what we were trying to accomplish. Now I just pity you: you're not confident, you're arrogant. If you ever do fuck up when writing, you'll have no one to blame but yourself even when it may have been otherwise avoided.

>>15808
>you're not confident, you're arrogant
You can be both. I am both.

Pity all you like. I don't mind. Anyway if you want to read and comment on stories I'd say you should check out my stories in this order
>>/shorts/2197
>>/shrine/41060
>>/underground/16139
>>/others/65260
And purely because that goes from shortest to longest. Teruyo did remind me that people on this site rarely say anything in the first place. I've already gotten unsolicited criticism on 3/4 of those and again, to be clear, I was not "tolerant" of that, I loved that. If you or anyone else lurking hate or love any of these stories you can tell me here or in any of those threads.