Accomplishments! Quantum Break fansite in progress!

[cmdonovann]

Well, I removed Tumblr from my phone to prevent me from wasting so much time there, which means I now have nowhere to easily and quickly post my inane thoughts (at least not without feeling like I'm bothering people on Discord or in direct messages, though perhaps that's something I should work on). You know what that means! It means I'm probably going to try posting them here instead.

Thing I want to post about: I'm making a Quantum Break fansite! I've been wanting to do this for ages, and actually started putting together a couple of little graphics for it during the "Quantum Break Appreciation Month" event I ran on Tumblr in April, but I hadn't made much progress on the project since then... until the past few days, anyway, when I started brainstorming what I actually want to do with the site, how I want to lay it out, and so on. Yesterday I put together some CSS for the site, and today I did The Hard Part: I set up a git/GitHub repo for the site, and got the "deploy to neocities" script working for it, so I can easily and quickly make updates to the site in VSCode, then push from there to GitHub to neocities all at once, like I do with my personal site.

Was this an absolute pain to set up? Yes! Somehow, it took me even longer to do it a second time than it did the first! But I did it myself, with a lot of encouragement and rubber duck-ing from a few very helpful people in the Fandom Coders chat. Can't say I'm not proud of myself for that. I would not have had the skill or confidence a year ago to do something like this, especially not all the mucking about I did in the terminal trying to set up the git repo in the first place.

Anyway, I am, to put it mildly, extremely fucking excited to continue working on this site. I've got big plans: first order of business is to get an archive set up of all the Quantum Break fanfic I can get my hands on (and get permission from the authors for). After that, I'm probably going to do the same for fanart and image edits like photosets and gifsets from Tumblr, since the CSS page styling for those will likely be similar (though I expect to run into some attribution problems with older Tumblr posts, what with so many deactivated or moved blogs post-2018). Once that's sorted out, I'm considering looking into the best way to archive fanvids, but honestly that might be put off for a while longer, as video hosting and video players are way out of my skill level currently. Maybe I'll import some of my Quantum Break playlists from my personal site, too? Oh yeah, and at some point down the line, I want to make a searchable wiki with transcripts of all the in-game narrative objects. But "searchable" is probably going to be a stumbling point there, and transcribing takes ages, so this will be last priority, I think.

Wow, that's... a lot, actually! Damn! This is gonna take a while. Not that I mind spending a couple of years poking at a project, obviously. *Gestures at my longfic that took four years to finish...* I've been neck deep in this fandom for over seven years, what's another five or ten? XP

[EDIT JUNE 15th 2023: I also crossposted this to Tumblr, with some additional commentary and a screenshot of one of the WIP pages. You can find the post here.]

Comments

[tempural]

This all looks really great! I'm not even familiar with Quantum Break but it's so good to see your enthusiasm for it. Archiving OTHER people's fic?! Wowie! That's 100% sorely needed right now in fandom, we can't trust ao3 to hold everything forever! Omg yes and gifsets + photosets + other people's art with permission, that would be freakin sick. It's such a great thing to rep other people's work in the fandom (i'd do it more if I knew anyone else with the same interests in mine ghghg).

Hmm I gotta try that deploy to neocities script some day... I have some sites I wanna mirror/backup to neocities Just In Case, and I've been so spoiled to just pushing to github and never thinking about it again LOL.

[cmdonovann]

yeah!! i really think it's important for SOMEBODY to be archiving stuff, and in the case of such a small fandom, i figure it may as well be me, since i don't know anyone else who's gonna do it. it's definitely gonna take a while, but i like have a project to slowly pick away at, so i don't mind haha.

re: the neocities deploy script, i've set it up twice now, so if you ever decide to use it and need a hand, you can totally ping me in the fancoders server and i'll do my best to help troubleshoot. it is a bit annoying to get it working, but once it does, i've found it makes updating my sites WAY less stressful :p

[chemicalcain]

you're always welcome to send your inane thoughts to me :) it'll be good to see you on DW though, i do like reading your long form thoughts