I am so close to being moved into a new house! We've been working on building it since 2024, and it's so close to being livable. We're in a bit of a back and forth between the different departments of the electricity supplier, but once that's eventually been squared away, I'll be moving.
I might do a page about the projects I've been involved in for the house, just to document the process. The current major projects are the curtains, reupholstering the chairs, and decorating the tiles for the splashback (As much as the craftsmanship of Delft tiles is worth it, I didn't fancy paying £30 a tile for quite a long splashback), along with sorting through, cutting down, and moving over all of my stuff.
I might also do a page about Confuzzled! It's coming up again soon and I am very very excited.
-Alcides
05/03/2026
I've had a rough few months health-wise, both physical and mental. We've run enough tests to be confident it isn't anything serious, but it's likely that mental stress is leading to physical stress and vice-versa. So there's been a bit of a slow-down in writing those reviews and other pages for the site.
But Transat the Delcatty has had her page updated - both because I've written more and because we've finally earned another ribbon! The only ones left in Gen IV now are the Pair and Multi ribbons. The Pair is gonna use the same team as the Doubles ribbon, spread across two games, while the Multi ribbon is gonna be terrifying, given how unique the Gen IV trainer AI is.
I'll keep you - and the website! - updated as I go... although as Pokopia is coming out today, that might be a little slow!
-Alcides
02/02/2026
If you're viewing this site on mobile, you might notice it looks a little different, and maybe a little odd. That's because I've been working on making the site responsive, so that it's accessible on mobile as well as pc. The navbar should now be fixed on desktop, and I'm working on convincing it to be a dropdown on mobile.
I know the modern web-design philosophy is to design mobile-first, but this is a website for me and my friends, and we all have desktops. I'm considering switching to a non-smartphone and will mostly be designing on a desktop, so desktop takes priority for me. But I'm also aware that a lot of people are in a very different situation, and I'm working on it!
I'm also working on adding some more content! Multiple Animorphs and Pokémon game reviews are in the works, some of them are even close to being publishable!
I'm increasingly convinced that the inconvenience of working on this is worth committing myself to. As more and more websites require identity verification, demand access to more of my data, or push algorithmic control of my viewing habits, settling down outside of that ecosystem is feeling more and more comfortable.
-Alcides
10/11/2025
It's been a while, huh! 😅
I've been making little updates here and there, but it's been slow going; I've had a rough year mental-health wise, and trying to get myself to focus on anything, let alone something I'm inexperienced in like HTML/CSS is a struggle. In brighter news, though, all this practice is potentially leading up to running a basic introductory course for people at my local library, so that's something!
The animorphs section is a little bit of a mess at the moment, but I think I'm happy with the rating scales for that and Pokémon games. Now I just need to populate it with more in-depth reviews, which is going to be a slower process.
Here's hoping this grows into something I can be proud of!
-Alcides
16/05/2024
Welcome to my own little corner of the Internet!
I've been looking for somewhere a bit easier to personalise than the walled gardens of social media, and neocities seems like the place to do that! It's certainly got a learning curve - it takes me back to studying HTML at school, though I never got as far as CSS or any of the new things I've been learning. This layout has been kindly made available for free by repth and has been very helpful as a starting point. I'll be updating this page as I update the website as a whole, so if something doesn't quite work yet, you can check this homepage for major fixes!
