About

We Wasted our Weekend! is a story I've had dancing around in the periphery of my mind for the better part of a year (2022 to be exact). It revolves around a group of ostensible friends (more accurately, just people who live in the same small town as each other) who get into various tragic situations. Visit the Characters page for more info on the cast.


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Hilda Terry

I'm Poppy! A classically trained illustrator and painter woman! Comment on my website! Put a message in my guestbook!! AAAHHHH!!!


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Font
The font that this website is called Besley* by indestructible type*, and I chose it because it closely resembles one of my favorite fonts: Clarendon! It's a font that's been around for a while (since 1845), and it has been used by a whole lot of people since it came out. I, however, wanted to use the font because it appeared on the cover of the album "The Boy with the Arab Strap" by Belle and Sebastian.

Website Layout
Rarebit, of course. It took a little bit of time to become familiar with HTML, but I think I'm getting the hang of it :).

HTML Tips
W3schools is indispensable to the budding webmaster. If you're feeling stuck with your website, firstly just rest on it and you will feel so much better about all of your creative pursuits, then just look up what you need help with on google/another, better search engine. Chances are there are tons of free resources to help you make your website the way you see it in your head!

Recommended Listening

These are the albums that I was listening to during writing "We're in a Mess!"

Disintegration by The Cure:
One of my favorite albums since highschool. It's a little bit of a dorky sounding album at first if you aren't familiar with The Cure, or with 90's goth music in general. But it is an utterly destructive album. My favorite track on the album is the title track, which starts off with the sound of glass breaking, and features Robert Smith nearly screaming in crushing regret.

Push Barman to Open Old Wounds by Belle and Sebastian:
There are a few Belle and Sebastian albums that fit firmly in my list of favorite albums of all time, but this is unfortunately not a studio album. This is actually a compilation of EPs that fit firmly in my list of favotie EPs of all time. Stuart Murdoch and his bandmates all seem to share a very deep appreciation for pop music from the 60s, just like me :) . My favorite song from this compilation is difficult for me because I have so many tied for the spot, but the one that sticks out to me right now is the song "A Century of Elvis." It tells a confusing story, in spoken prose, over a quaint, jangly rock track. It took me a few listens, but I was able, through the guitars and Scottish accent, to appreciate how tenderly the main character relates to the listener and the other characters in the story. It essentially listens like your friend reciting "The Gift" by The Velvet Underground if it were written by someone who had spent their young adulthood picking flowers and yearning.

Pink Moon by Nick Drake:
This was the last album written by Nick Drake, and it sounds like something written before a death of despair. There is a lot of mythology surrounding the album and its creation, but a few listens will let you know everything you need. Pink Moon paint Nick Drake's last images of depression in abstract. My favorite of the tracks on the record is the last one, "From the Morning." It helped me in a time when I felt like I was slipping away. Everything was beautiful, and I felt like it was time for me to leave everything behind as right as it could be. I'm better now. But the song is what it sounded like when things weren't.