Site Updates

12/02/2024 - Tinkering With Toys

Hello, everyone! Just a quick update this time to draw some attention to new art that's been added to the Art Gallery page and my ongoing work on the Kirby Fan Characters Hub page! I have a lot of new page ideas I want to add to the site once I wrap up my school semester in this next few weeks, and hopefully doing some more general maintenence on the site.

Also an additional reminder that i'm posting new doodles and sketches regularly on my Bluesky with the unique Hashtag GrayminArt, so definitely check that out since there's a lot of smaller doodles over there that don't always make it to the art gallery here. (Should I ever get a Neocities subscription or self host this site, that will change.) As always, I also make regular updates to the Media Diary, Recommendations, and Resources pages if you want to check in on what I've been watching and reading.

Anyways, hope to stop by soon with something exciting to herald the end of the year. Have a good one!

11/11/2024 - Graymin's Glyphs 1 Year Anniversary

Well, It’s been a year since I first formally began working on Graymin’s Glyphs, and I’m struggling to properly convey the love and pride I have in this silly little project of mine. I never imagined that I would be able to create my own website like this when I was first clicking around pokemon fan sites in the early 2010’s, so the fact I’ve been able to come this far to put something out like this is truly mind blowing. Of course, there’s still a lot of work to be done.

Javascript in particular has been befuddling me for at least the past 6 months, but I’m still truly grateful for all the visitors, followers, and commenters who stopped to look at what I put together, if even for a moment. Also, thanks to the larger neocities network I’m a part of for giving me the inspiration and tutorials I used to put this site together in the first place. It’s been a long time since I found an internet community that was this collaborative and open-minded.

As you may have noticed from the gap since my last formal news update and what has happened in the real world since, this year has not been particularly easy for me, but this project has helped give me a lot of hope and motivation to keep working and finding like minded creators to appreciate. Thank you so much for reading. I can’t wait to share more cool things on Graymin’s Glyphs in the near future. Take care of yourselves and I hope you have a good day.

Sincerely, Webmaster Graymin

9/26/2024 - When September Ends

Hey, everyone! It's been quiet around her recently, huh? Well, there is a reason for that. You all may remember early in August I was talking some changes in my home life and well that's changed again. Click the read more if you're nosy for for the main details.

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So my parents are trying to get along again, and as far as know, have agreed to go to counseling. In the meantime, I'm going to stay with my Grandmother in town for a few weeks while I finish my first 7-week classes I'm taking for my master's degree. I'm hoping that the time away and my Dad's birthday this weekend will give us all the time we need to destress and start making steps to move forward.

So if you've read that, that's why I haven't been too busy with the site this week but thats going to change as at least for short-term plans, I do want to work on updating the site to celebrate its upcoming 1st year anniversary in November, (Can you believe it!?) As always, I'll keep you updated on new projects on the site. Thanks for stopping by again!

8/28/2024 - FFXIV blog moved!

Not site related but I finished my playthrough of FFXIV Heavensward and started Stormblood! You can find the link to my new blog thread on the FFXIV page!

8/15/2024 - IQ Groups Page Graphics Finished!

Hey there! Small update, but I finished the graphics for the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon 2 IQ Groups page! I'm super happy with the icons and I'm really glad to have this part of the page finished. I'm still considering if I want to do more on the page such as putting the tables on the page for how every pokemon has been grouped in game but for now, I'm just happy to have this little art project finished. Hope you enjoy!

8/6/2024 - Uncertain Times

Hi there, so to cut the chase, I have several things going in IRL right now that have more or less, complicated my plans for the future, which I'll quickly lay out 1-by-1. 1. I'm quitting my retail job soon. 2. I'm going back to school to get a continuing degree, and 3. My homelife is unstable, which is putting extra pressure on me to do well in school and find a job. To get into specifics, you can look at the Read More for what exactly has been going on.

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So the gist of it is that there's a high likelihood my parents (who I currently live with) will be seperating. They still love me and care about eachother but they have not been getting along for years and it's to the point where it seems that my family may be better off with a divorce. Unfortunately, there's still several problems standing in the way of us being able to do something about it quickly and painlessly. The house we live in now is big and would require a lot of cleaning out, the housing market in our area is particularly bad, my mom just got 3 new health diagnosis in the past few months and we're worried about her living alone, my grandparents have their own health issues that need to be watched going forward, and most relevant to me is that I can't afford my own place to live, especially while I'm focusing on school.

These are all complicated issues that we'll need to figure together, and needless to say, it has made my immediate future way more uncertain. As always, this site is a place for me to talk about my interests and generally be positive, but I won't lie and say that this state of affairs hasn't made it harder for me to keep rolling out the regular fun updates. I'm not giving up on the site at all to be clear, just wanted to be transparent about some things that have been going on in my neck of woods.

So to summarize, it seems like the rest of this year I'm going to be prioritizing on getting my affairs in order, assuming the worst and hoping for the best. If you for some reason feel like you need to do something for me, you don't really have to, but supporting the site and requesting commissions would be very appreciated during this time. Anyways, as always, thank you for stopping by. I'm immensely proud of this site and am going to continue making it even better, one step at a time. Have a good one.

7/20/2024 - Setting Sail and Contemplating the Pokemon Mysteries (Dungeons)

Hey everyone! A lot has happened this month, huh? Tomorrow, I'm leaving for my previously mentioned vacation so the site won't have any updates during that time. Luckily, I managed to brain blast something together to help tide you over and thats my new article where I talk about the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon 2 IQ Groups where I speculate on how they're classified. When I get back, I'd like to continue editing the page by adding some additional graphics. Another project I'd like to do when I get back is make an Articles portal page like the Info and Creative portal pages. Here's to a good vacation!

7/9/2024 - Going on Vacation Soon!

Hey everyone! Hope you all have been having a good summer so far! I, myself, am going on a vaction with my family soon in less than 2 weeks. Hopefully I'll have some cool pictures and sketches to show you from the trip later! In the meantime, I am having to work more hours at work IRL to make up for the fact I'm not going to be out of town, so I probably won't be able to add a lot more drawings to the Art Gallery or write a new article before then but as always I'll be checking the site and guestbook. Anyways, talk to you all later!

6/17/2024 - ArtFight 2024 Coming Soon!

Hey everyone! Just letting you all know I will being doing ArtFight again this year representing Team Seafoam!

If you've ever wanted to draw fanart of my original characters, fan characters, or FFXIV Warrior of Light, you can send me and ArtFight attack and I'll try to draw one of your characters in return! Follow my profile at https://artfight.net/~sylph-of-eons for more information. Anyways, hope everyone is having a good start to the summer! Stay hydrated!

5/06/2024 - Changing Guestbook Hosts

The site is officially changing it's Guestbook host to Ultra Guest as 123guestbook has announced it will be shutting down soon. You can go to the next Guestbook now at https://www.ultraguest.com/view/1714857108 and the new Guestbook button I've added to the sidebar will link to there from here on out. I have also archived the Old Guestbook on the Wayback Machine at https://web.archive.org/web/20240506123007/https%3A%2F%2Fsylphofeons.123guestbook.com%2F for future posterity. I highly recommend you check out the archive, not only for all the nice comments I recieved, but I especially wanted to highlight a comment from Daniele of https://daniele63.neocities.org/ for a very cute ASCII art he left of Dooloo's cousins for the old Guestbook. That said, I am looking forward to learning our new Guestbook host and I hope you'll continue leaving and reading comments! I deeply appreciate it!

5/03/2024 - Undertale Visual Motif Analysis Article

I finished a new page for the Articles section of the site where I talk about a Visual Motif in Undertale I've dubbed the Extractor/Blaster Motif and try to sort out what I think it means. Give it a read!

04/27/2024

Hey everyone! There's some more art added to the Art Gallery to the Original Character and Pokemon Sections! Also I've joined the DSring as linked on the splash page and Network page! Check it out!

04/15/2024

Hey everyone! Sorry it's been a while since there's been a noteworthy update, and to be honest, there still really isn't lol. I've still been busy with my new retail job and have been catching up on various personal appointments this month but I'm still working on planning out some Javascript additions to the site like a Style Switcher. There also hasn't many new things added to the Media Diary but I'm still playing FFXIV and recently started playing FF7 original with mods. Anyways, I'd like to thank you all for being patient and hope you enjoy the site regardless! Hopefully I'll have some bigger updates soon! Have a good one!

03/21/2024

The Art Gallery has been updated again this time with some more Original Character art and Deltarune art!

03/18/2024

It's my birthday today!

03/05/2024

Hey everyone! Just a few quick updates.

1. I've started a new retail job that has kept very busy and very tired. Apologies for any update droughts that may happen cause of that.

2.The Network page has been updated to show some Fanlisitings I've recently got approval for and the Art Gallery has a few new pieces added to the Pokemon and UTDR Sections. I've also been making sporadic updates to the Recommendations page.

Anyways, I hope you all enjoy!

02/24/2024

It's been a long time since a new page has been added to the site right? Well that's just changed now cause I've added the Recommendations page! Basically It's just a page mostly for sharing video game resources such as save file editors, video guides or even just some YouTube channels that cover some interesting obscure topic that I find fascinating. For my FFXIV readers specifically, I have a lot of useful video guide recommendations there that have really helped me get back into the game that I think a lot of people might find very useful!

That said, I'm still dragging my feet on the whole Javascript thing. Once I get some things sorted out in my real life, I hope I'll be able to spend some more time getting that working and generally improving site maintenance behind the scenes.

Oh also my Birthday is next month, March 18th! Maybe I'll design like a special birthday header for that or something idk. Anyways, hope you all have a good time until then!

02/06/2024

Howdy, everyone! Just letting you know that a new section has been added to the Art Gallery, this time for my Undertale and Deltarune fanart. Also I'm still working on learning Javascript and implementing it to the Art Gallery to fix the load time issues. Anyways, hope you all have a good one!

01/29/2024

January is always a weird month right? Something about it being the first month in the year makes each day in it feel more...significant than it really is if that makes sense.

Anyways, some new art has been added to the Original Charcters and Misc sections of the Art Gallery. I've noticed though that there has started to be some significant loading times on that page. One of my next big plans for the gallery is to start adding Javascript to toggle which galleries are available on the page so hopefully that may help fix that issue. I also have other plans for Javascript beyond that such as adding comment boxes to the site proper and adding some options to change the style of the site so I'll keep you updated on that one. Anyways, I hope you all have a good one!

01/14/2024

Added a new section to the Art Gallery for my Kingdom Hearts fanart as well as added some more art to other sections of the gallery. Check it out!

01/07/2024

Added a new section to the Creative portal page for sharing decorative assets like custom stamps (for example: The custom Deltarune stamps you now see on the home page sidebar!). These custom graphics will be free to use and share on your own site, but i'd really appreciate it if you'd credit/link back to me if you do use them!

01/03/2024

Another new page has been added! The Video Game Mysteries page is where I'll talk about video game theory crafting and stuff. Hope you all enjoy!

01/01/2024

Welcome to 2024! A new page has been added for the occasion: The 2024 Media Diary! Essentially, it's just for keeping track of any media I watch/read/play/listen to this year. Anyways, I hope you enjoy your New Years!

12/15/2023

Two new things! 1: The Site Map has been restyled and also I've fixed some broken links there left from the last rehaul. Hopefully now it's working correctly and you can get around the site as easily as I intended. 2: The page for my FFXIV misadventures should now be live. I'm still working on it but now it's there to look at if you're curious! Anyways, hope you have a good one!

12/13/2023

The Art Gallery page is finally live! I'm still working on adding new sections and also finding a better layout but it's finally up and live and to be honest thats all that matters to me right now. Yipee!

12/07/2023

New page added in the Creative section for my weird Pokemon gijinka au thing. It's really just a way for me to test out how I want to do galleries but it's here if you're curious. Outside from website stuff, i've started a new retail job and I'm also probably going to be volunteering for ETSU-Con again heading into next year. But yeah, I'm looking forward to getting some more gallery pages up. I should probably also get back to FFXIV soon too. I really want to show off my Warrior of Light here in some way.

12/04/2023

Alright, it's been a few days, but I finished another code rehaul. there's probably not been a big change visually but under the hood everything should look a lot cleaner for me which will be helpful the next time i try to add a new page. Also the website has a Landing Page now! Check it out!

11/27/2023

The Network Page is now live! Check out some of the other neocities I like!

11/26/2023

Added a new feature to the homepage, the Daily (not strictly though) Sketchpage! Pretty self explainatory, it's just a screenshot from one of the many sketchbooks I have lying around that I want to show off somehow and this seems like a great way to do it. Anyways, hope you all enjoy!

11/25/2023

Added a guestbook and updated various other graphics across the site! Still debating what will be the next new original page I add to the site.

11/24/2023

So. You've probably noticed that things look different around here. Like any major updates to a website like this, please leave a comment on my neocities profile if you notice a broken link somewhere and I'll get to work on trying to resolve it. Anyway, I hope you enjoy the big update!

11/22/2023

I've now added a Site Map page to website, and its currently linked on the Index/Home page until I rehaul the navigation. The Keyblades page has also received a big update and now contains most of my past designs for public viewing. Again, the navigation rehaul is the biggest priority right now and I don't really have any immediate additions to be made to the site other than working on that and the styling a bit more.After I clean up the the look on the site a bit more, I *should* be ready to work on an Affiliates page and a Guestbook page but we'll see how things shake out. Anyways, I hope you all enjoy!

11/20/2023

Another big addition to the site was just added: The Resources page! Includes a lot of websites I find handy mostly for art purposes but I think it's definitely worth a look. You might also notice a lot more Kirby around here. Just a result of me making the site a bit more "fun". As exciting as this is though, the addition of the Resources page has sort of expedited the urgency of changing the header navigation to a dropdown menu, so thats probably going to be the next big project for the site and I expect it to be a lot more time consuming than the first navigation bar. Oh well, hope you enjoy the Resources page!

11/19/2023

Two big additions to the site and several smaller ones. 1st: The site now has a proper navigation bar! This probably won't be the final version of it but it's here and is available on every page. 2nd: My Keyblade design page is now live! I still need to format some more pictures to be added to it but the page is live and public now. Some other minor changes include me organizing the images folder and just cleaning up some code here and there. Anyways, I hope you all enjoy jumping around the site now. I'll start working to add a site progress section to the index page soon and potentially start working on resource page that just links to some other websites i like/find helpful. Hope you enjoy!

11/16/2023

The SisterSent Characters page is officially done! I'm so so SO happy with how it looks and more importantly, I can knock it off the to-do list and start working on some smaller pages. Right now the commissions page is the highest priority but I'll see if theres any other self-indulgent pages i want to do before. The keyblade design page is high up on the list and I'm thinking that once thats done, I'll get put together a navigation bar for the site, even if it's just a temporary design. Anyways, hope you have a good one!

11/14/2023

The site is offically live at sylphofeons.neocities.org! Unfortunately, there seems to be a bug with the style sheet relating to the sistersent and kirby character pages that is supposed to turn the captions into scrollable text boxes and for some reason has really messed up the positioning of the sistersent character portraits even though everything looks great when I run it on VSC Live Server. I hope that its just neocities being slow and that it will start working properly in a day or two.

11/12/2023

Finished the Kirby Fan Character Page. Still waiting for neocities to actually login to my new domain. If you don't know, as of now I'm just running all this through the Live Server extension in Visual Studio Code. I don't know why neocities is being slow, everything on the server status page says there should be no downtime. Oh well.

Anyways.

11/11/2023

Hi! If you're reading this, then this is the first update on the site! Just to treat this as a diary for a sec, I'm really impressed by how much I actually got done in one day. Other than that, I don't think I have much to say other than I'm going to work on adding some more pages as seen in the to-do list and after that I'll get a proper header working for the site. After that, I'll probably work on replacing the to-do list with a progress section that will track what I'm working on for the site in a more visually appealing way. So until then, I hope you have a good one!

The Real World

My grandparent's house was destroyed by Hurricane Helene September 27th, 2024. As of December 2024, they officially have plans to have a new house built on their farm property and have been staying at a friend's house in the mean time. Still, as they were in the house when it was pushed off the foundation, my grandad had to be rescued from the flood waters, and my grandmother was left in the remaining portion of the house overnight, this was a very traumatic experience for both of them. Because of that, I'd still really appreciate any support sent to their Gofundme campaign, which you can find here.

Additionally, you can help support their impacted community at large at the Taylors Valley Website. I spent countless weekends staying at their house and it would mean a lot to me to help support rebuilding efforts if you want to lend your support.

Speaking of people of need in support, I've been receiving many tumblr messages from people in Gaza who are in desperate and urgent need of assitance to meet their fundraising goals. Please check My Donations Tag and support these campaigns.