i've been thinking for a while that i wanted to have some place on my site to upload mini thoughts and pictures that i want to share but are too small to warrant a diary post or that i don't want hanging out on the front page through status.cafe. to this point, i've been saving them and encorporating them into longer entries, but i don't really like the way that's been going and it still doesn't let me incorporate really really small thoughts. so here we are!

this page is made to be a "natalie feed" of sorts, a lot more casual and twitter or tumblr-like than my actual diary. it's going to function similarly to my media log in that i'm not going to update my rss feed every single time i post here but i may shout it out once in a while to remind people it exists and gets updated. the layout was built using a template by nomnomnami with my own tweaks, as usual. i really like the tagging system!! i wanted them in the sidebar instead of on top though so i moved them there. since there's only one post so far it's kind of hard to check if they work? i might have broke it. if i have to i'll put them back but i'm leaving it like this for now....

i'm not really sure what to do with the pinned post feature yet either. right now i've made it a spotlight thing that i shamelessly stole from mei, but i'm not sure i'll keep it. i think it's a nice idea so i wanted to give a shot but i don't know... maybe i'll switch it to a banner or something instead...

i may occassionally post about mature things here! such thoughts will be hidden behind a read more (like old tumblr cuts) and tagged with #r18 to maintain a pure facade overall.

anyway, that was a bit wordy for the first post on the so-called "mini" log!!!! next time i'll be back with something more brief and annoying i'm sure