Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Dark Fantasy X blog and banner

At one point, I had decided to create a new blog to talk specifically about Dark Fantasy X, and I created the blog https://darkfantasygamerx.blogspot.com. My thought at the time was, I guess, that I hadn't been talking about it much here and why not separate it? However, whatever I was planning on using this my original main blog for never materialized, so I'm talking about Dark Fantasy X here. In spite of the fact that the title doesn't really work anymore, after my renaming of the setting and game, I still feel like this is the most sensible place to talk about it. I won't delete the darkfantasygamerx blog, but I probably will use it very infrequently, and I may even migrate it to a discussion on Space Opera X and SWTOR, since I have more posts about that there than here recently. 

I also don't think that I can rename this blog without it being a pain in the butt and causing all kinds of confusion, so I don't want the URL to change.

But I thought a tongue-in-cheek banner chance highlighting the hostile takeover of the blog by subject manner originally slated to go elsewhere would be fun. I have the original Dark•Heritage text, which was no longer accurate or relevant, and I slapped "Fantasy X" over the "•Heritage Mk. V" stuff. However, rather than just taking the old file, I thought I'd retype it to make it more clear. 

I had a pleasant surprise when I did; the • symbol in the font that I choose renders as a big "Cthulhu Lives" banner, like so:


While that's not what my original banner looked like, I didn't care; that was pretty cool, and appropriately topical, honestly. If I'd known that, I might well have used that font from the get-go for my banner for Dark•Heritage. 

Anyway, you can see it up top, but here's the new banner here too:


And for reference, here's the original Dark•Heritage and Dark Fantasy X banners. I might yet re-add the subtag: fantasy - horror - madness. Or I might not. 









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