Journal
Saturday, November 30, 2024
I spent a good portion of the day redecorating and even completely rearranging this site. Last night I had a grand total of three pages and now I have an amount that I'm not going to bother to count (not because there're too many but because I'm too lazy to look lolll). I'm really happy with how it's turning out, though I'm still struggling to wrap my head around how on Earth I am going to make any kind of layout beyond the single thing in the middle to work. Flexbox is really, really, really confusing. I'm sure I'll figure it out at some point and feel really, really dumb for not understanding it earlier. Needless to say, the Dunning Kruger effect hit me hard today.
I left my plants in my dorm over Thanksgiving break and now I'm really worried for them (especially Phabian the emo nerve plant).
Something I just learned about today is Watsonian vs. Doylist perspectives, named after Dr. Watson, the POV character of the Sherlock Holmes stories and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who was the real-life author of those stories, respectively. The Watsonian perspective is the in-universe explanation for something (ex. a sequel to a movie happens because a new, mysterious threat has come for your favorite characters), and the Doylist perspective is the real-life explanation for that same thing (the sequel to the movie was made because the studio that made the first movie wants more money). I'm not sure why I found this so fascinating, but I did, and I wanted to share. :)
-Lavender Doyle