capillaries & vessels, stylesheets

friend asked me if there was even still any css on my site. in my opinion v9 is still quite decorated. I still crave the rawness of an screen end-to-end reading width, 16px font. I'm just worried about accessibility. in theory as long as my site's html can be parsed by most browsers' reading mode, it would be fine, right? I know no, not really, not at all. I discovered the gemini protocol(1) a few days ago and understood the flaws of the web (https protocol I think?). but I can't just say "this is the web. expect to be disrespected" can't I? although the disrespect feels very inevitable most of the time. I can see why people would rather take visual expression away from webmasters and into the users' hands. funnel all the expression in the writing. but that's a crazy limitation; it takes a way an entire area of sensory from the web as a medium, you know? I do want to employ visual elements in my delivery—violate the reader a bit. I have to find a balance between accessibility and expression.

I want to express this kind of harshness. A sense of "you're not supposed to be reading this". it's not decorated, not for display. just loose pieces of paper that are to be bound. sort of like microblogs!

this page uses the new stylesheets I made, called "capillaries". they're meant to be seem little and insignificant. I decide that this will be the stylesheet used for "logs" or streams of consciousness. or something. whereas "vessels" is what I call the regular styling with the dotted headers and footers like on the homepage. those pages are for display—for more polished stuff that I want people to take more seriously.

on the header of logs like this page are "tags". tags indicate what the log contains. for this one, "site" means this page is a site log: a log about this site or site-making. "links" mean it is also a link log; it contains links to stuff I was pulling from while logging.

I also want to try avoiding inline linking the traditional way where a fragment of a sentence is wrapped with the anchor tag. as seen on this page, numbered citations in parentheses lead to footnotes where the entire page's links are summarized. this is inspired by how the gemini client 'lagrange'(2) handles links.

it bugs me, "this capillaries stylesheet is pleasant. why can't your whole site look like this?" no my whole site can't look like this because it's cramped. and it's supposed to be boring and ugly like a draft.

I'm thinking about remaking some pages into the v9 style but it's a chore. I've already created them so why remake them? I should focus more on making new pages instead.