I managed to set up both Gemini and Gopher for both ~club and ~green although I have nothing to write about right now so all will be mirrors of my Feels.
As for other miscellaneous updates, I've checked out Botany and set up a plant. I made some updates to the Bakery (my website's homebrewed halfbaked BBS) so that it now has a loading screen, since it loads posts kind of slowly. I need to learn how to improve my PHP and about SQL so I can optimise the database more, hopefully.
After more world wide non-web exploration, I realise that Gemini is a lot more complicated to use than I thought it would be. I initially wanted to make my own gemlog with my own domain, but I apparently need to have a second computer that I can never turn off for it. Which isn't a great investment for my particular circumstances.
C'est la vie. Yesterday, I finally got around to creating example sentences of my fictional language Passrynian so I can upload it to my story website. The 'grammar' of the language has been established long ago (It's basically French vocabulary with a more Austronesian-esque grammar system), but I hadn't bothered to write example translations of it until now.
I'm not sure how I'd go about formatting it for Gemini/Gopher yet. Also, despite the Feels blurb telling me I can write in HTML, I actually can't. So that's funny.
The features of Passrynian are a VSO word order, a conjugation system of aspect-mood prefixes (Passrynian doesn't use tenses) and synctactic alignment/'voice' suffixes, and differing degrees of how much of the 'rules' are followed based on Passryne's four-gender system. Very simple stuff, but I'm surprisingly invessted in it. Some considerations I've had are an additional infix system for intensifiers and using different punctuation for compound nesting (so far, you're just meant to use hyphens, even if you end up using like seven hyphens in a row).
I'm typing this down from within a terminal. Oh boy! It's intimidating; feeling like those hackers in the American movies. I wonder if anybody is going to read this, and if they do, if they're going to find my lack of technical proficiency funny. I mean, if you sign up for a pubnix, shouldn't it be because you know how to navigate a terminal?
I've had to look over tilde.club's wiki to find out how to navigate a lot of things. I could've sworn I was reading other people's Feels on a web interface yesterday, but I can't find it anymore. Ah well, it doesn't look like there's a lot of people blogging to make ocassionally visiting through the terminal that much of a hassle. It's nice to be in such a quiet place.
Tomorrow, I want to keep working on the long-overdue update for my webcomic BreadAVOTA. I feel like I'm 'wasting time' by being here, but I feel like I'm wasting time any time I'm not drawing.. I haven't updated my webcomic in one and a half years, so it makes me anxious. I try to tell myself these sorts of niche experiences that are mildly relevant to my characters is 'research', and that if other authors spend hours into researching then so can I.
I've enabled this to post on Gopher, although I don't know how Gopher works. Maybe I'll try to learn about it. I use a Windows computer, and that makes these sorts of things inconvenient, when most resources are for Linux.
Although I imagine the purpose of this community is less about any technical services and more about the community, admittedly I wouldn't know how that works. Socialisation is difficult no matter where you do it, even in niche internet communities that require a terminal to use. I saw the BBJ forum but posts are really rare. I made three different forums for BreadAVOTA throughout its lifespan (FC2, then NNF, then my own code), and it's active enough to get one post every few days. It's difficult to express appreciation for one's community in a way that sticks, for me, at least.
Sayonara for now.
on gopher: [gopher://tilde.club/1/~rolypolyphonic/feels]
on gemini: [gemini://tilde.club/~rolypolyphonic/] + [gemini://tilde.green/~rolypolyphonic/]