Checkpoint 5: Priorities

[nepenthee]

Happy new year, everyone!

As you can guess, things have been quiet around here as December was a busy month. I hope you’ve had a good holiday season, and can start fresh in the new year.

We have one more month until the challenge deadline. How are your shrines coming along? Do you have a preferred order of tackling things, and how do you set priorities in light of the deadline? What are your thoughts on uploading a shrine in unfinished state?

I hope we’ll pull through together and can kick off 2026 with some new shrines! :D

Feel free to use this post to chat about other challenge- and site-related things.

Comments

[larissa]

I've been making good progress! I started off the year by finishing the main section of the site, and now I've just got relationship pages left. Hoping to get some work on them in the coming week; weekends tend to be too busy but I should have plenty of opportunity before a slew of appointments chip away at my time in the week after.

I'm finding that a lot of this site is retelling the story, which is perhaps not the most exciting for visitors who already know it. However, my chosen subject is a character who features about 150-200 hours deep into a video game, so like, I can't expect all visitors to know the story. Frankly, a lot of the reason I'm making the site is just to appreciate a good narrative, so perhaps it all evens out in the end.

Regarding uploading unfinished shrines: yes, please, more of this. Having a framework to start from is so much easier to come back to later — and it's often very helpful to get encouragement at such a stage of the journey. (The only problem is when it takes you a decade to come back and finish the site... no I don't have experience in this or anything........)

[nepenthee]

I have no intention to get back into FFXIV and have forgotten everything from my first month(s) by now, so yes I will appreciate your retelling!

Also, returning to an unfinished site after a decade because you still want to finish it is better than never!! It's the shrine equivalent of a sequel or off-hiatus announcement!!! (I think I'll try to finish my Gwendolyn shrine next time I replay Odin Sphere lol. "Now or never" is a strong driving force when a video game shrine has been sitting around long enough and you finally get around to the replay...)