If promo videos aren't your thing, here are my personal favorites from this month's issue:
Cleaning Up After the Dog: "Pull plastic bag from pocket and wave it like a flag or diploma. Make sure many people congratulate your care for the community."
A Senior Citizenβs Guide to Internet Pornography: "Your favorite search engine is the best place to start your journey into the sexually explicit. Many seniors use Yahoo! and Google for looking up old friends or getting the show times of movies to nap through. But did you know that search engines are also a great way to find out about young horny sluts who like having their feet massaged?"
Jeezus Changed My Oil Today: "Jesus takes my money, smiles, gives me the change, waves me on my way. Have a good one, he says, then turns to the next car in line, pops the next hood, pulls out his oil wand to service another and I imagine heβs cleansed my car saintly, extracted my sins and my guilt, my oily intentions like a drive-through confession."
Sharks die if they stop moving Mr. Mulder. Just being able to say something like that and understanding it's pretty much gibberish is a thing I'm grateful for. Or even terrifying to certain people. Keep up the litcat. Maybe in a way that lets you just have it be a thing and that may mean letting it become a WordPress domain. One thing I noticed is the video intro you did for an issue. I'm saying things that I recognize I understand I might appreciate in important ways since I'm a designer myself. Like WordPress is a scary option to suggest to someone who can make that kind of site on their own. Your expectations of a thing can be hard to even recognize. And that can create undue stress. But if you know what you expect it helps keep shit in perspective
WordPress would be a free option for the journal, I believe. It's not a bad option, it would just be a lot more work and learning, although someone has suggested that if I could figure out how to transfer it to WordPress it would make a really unique theme. I don't know where I'd start with it. On the journal itself. The video was the fun part to me, I didn't consult my editors for it, and this makes me a shitty boss. But this is what makes it a therapeutic project. I enjoy coming up with dumb ideas and executing them without anyone giving feedback.
I know webflow uses shopify's liquid system for its code. Pretty much, I have a theme system for Lit.cat where articles reference another database of articles to get their themes. I've only customized the css of existing WordPress themes, I have no idea how it'd go to create your own element reference system.
Yeah, now you're beyond me. I can make the formatting go. I can make weirdly spaced poems display weirdly spaced rightly on the page if you let me fiddle and swear insomniacally enough. CSS is past me. At least for now. At least I have the confidence I could learn enough to hack a little at it, if push came to shove, but it'd have to come to that for me to learn any first.
Fun easter egg: I've been formatting poetry on lit.cat as h2 headings as a duct tape and popicles solution to text lines being spaced far apart from each other. In my head this means that all the poetry is screaming at Google but all I think its doing is confusing people who read with screen readers.
Well I hope you appreciate the fact that giving careful consideration to you transferring to WordPress is a luxury for me right now. And I do it for reasons that are entirely beneficial to me. I'm right now soldiering through shit that kills people. And I only say that to offer perspective. I don't want pity or anything. Just saying.