The Guestbook

"You find a damaged book, half-heartedly tossed into a dark and dinky corner."

20. September, 2023
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Through looking through other people's guestbooks and the comments other people left them I've grown fond of the idea of having my own guestbook. The Wikipedia article about guestbooks sums up the purpose of guestbooks pretty nicely as well.

The form below just sends an E-Mail to me with the help of a service called "Formfree" so you'll have to wait until I check my E-Mails to see your comment along with an potential response added! If you want to, you can also just contact me directly via email at squaredpancake [at] protonmail [dot] com.



Jul 29, 2023

Hey there! I really like your site! I was reading a bit through your 'Me/Words' section and I get the impression you are a very deep person who thinks a lot. I am like that as well and thought it was neat we had that in common. :) I don't like to talk much either in person, but online is a whole different story. My thoughts are pretty much unfiltered on the internet. xD Anyhow, I think this site is a really cool expression of you and you did a really great job putting it together! Very well done!

I found you through the MelonLand Surf webring, by the way! I also recently made a webring/directory sort of thing for personal websites. So this is me extending an invite to you if you're interested. :) You can find more info to join on the 'Webring' page.

SquaredPancake
18. August, 2023

I feel sorry for taking so long and potentially seeming unfriendly. I had an unfinished answer laying around and didn't want to add this entry until I actually have an answer that I feel is good enough to publish (since I'd feared it might seem like I didn't really appreciate your comment if I didn't reply to it as I published it), but had this other fear of seeming ignorant of your entry if you saw that it was just commented out on this page and not really replied to.

With those personal ramblings aside, here are some more! Regarding your compliments, I was at first happy and then aversive (Probably due to a multitude of reasons like me overly attaching myself to any person complimenting me growing up and then starkly compensating by learning to automatically do the opposite and my inherent repulsion towards phrases such as "being a deep thinker"Such phrases seem like a generalization that kind of puts me on a higher pedestal than I actually feel like I'm on). Nevertheless, I still feel some warm, fuzzy feelings because of it and want to thank you for that!

Regarding the webring, I feel unsure about joining any webring. I kind of accidentally joined the MelonLand Surf webring as I primarily just made my account on the MelonLand Forums and set up my profile (and that automatically put me in there without me even knowing that it exists), and it doesn't feel like a webring per sé because of the lack of a widget you need to display on your website and the fact that there is no ordering where you have neighboring websites. Most "Real" webrings, from what I've seen, require some criteria to keep yourself being a part of it (the only problem here being that I'd need to update my website once a year or something. Most other stuff seems to be common sense stuff about extreme edge cases I don't believe I'll fall into), and while that's not a lot, I don't want to have more thoughts and worries about how it might affect this one webring I joined anytime I update my website. I'd like to work on it in my own pace without any outside pressure - regardless of how small that pressure is. It isn't out of the question for me to join some webrings at a later date, but right now I'm not really feelin' it.

I kind of don't feel too proud of this response, but also kind of not not and I don't know why.

Apr 18, 2023

Greetings, comrade.

SquaredPancake
May 29, 2023

This is late, but greetings as well!

I was a bit hesitant replying before because I don't really know what to say (except "Greetings back" or something similar which doesn't really feel like a good enough response), but I'm curious about what would happen / how you would respond if I were to respond and that curiosity took over right now.

Apr 15, 2023

i love ur website sm!! came across it randomly and i love the way you have everything set up, and u seem to b way more proficient in code than i am atm ;-;!! which is cool! will deffo be coming back here frm time 2 time 2 see what u got goin on!

SquaredPancake
Apr 15, 2023

This really just put a smile on my face! It's just nice to hear and see that although it kind of conflicts with what I've written on the Start page about wanting to care less about other people's opinions through the use of uBlock Origin to block my view count, which kind of confuses and conflicts me. You're also the first page I've seen that included my button, which too makes me happy and conflicted for the aforementioned reason.

Nevertheless, thank you for your comment! I'm also kind of curious what you like about the way I have everything set up! I mostly like the structure of the site (if that's what you mean with "how everything is set up") as well since it feels kind of natural to me (maybe because it kind of organically grew as I expanded with what I wanted to write and share and publish), but it also has the problem of some pages fitting multiple sections that I still don't know how I should deal with.

Apr 21, 2023

>:-3 i may just be enamoured bc of my genuinely barest of bones knowledge of coding but the little "this content is locked until requirement is met" boxes are so so cool, also generally your site theme? the colors and font and backgrounds all work really well together and look like....official if that makes sense.

remy
Feb 28, 2023

hey yr website is awesome it looks so sleek! also the list of cool words is such a good idea