Glossary
This is my personal glossary that I've assembled for learning the various strange words of my vampire books! Hopefully this page will help you navigate them a little easier and learn some funny words along the way! I write the definitions myself and source the origins of each word from Etymonline.
Right away you'll see there's two sets of buttons, one for the plaintext entries and one for reading them on this very page. The latter uses javascript to fetch the files, which as plaintext is easy for the computer to do. The script converts the text into a nice HTML display, and you can read it seamlessly on this very page. If you're on mobile you'll have to scroll past this preamble, whereas if you're reading on desktop it should pop up below. Note that for those of you archiving with the Wayback Machine or other snapshot-based tools, the Javascript here won't hold up in said snapshots. You'll have far better results using Wget, and you'll have a copy of this whole site to boot! Thus, to not put all my marshmallows on one skewer, I offer the live javascript alongside the plaintext as a compromise.
This feature was originally planned for the Vampire Books page, but the length of these books made this less-than-practical. Another reason for why this feature's here and not there is because the vampire books are one-and-done deals. Once I upload one I can generally leave it alone as a plaintext file, whereas here I'll be updating the glossary...quite often. While it's doable in HTML, it's also a massive pain and especially if I start tinkering with the composition of the thing. Plaintext lets me write, and the machine lets me keep writing by handling all the tedium for me. It's actually inspired a python-tool that I'm working on, which you'll be seeing...soon!
If I must offer a suggestion to you, especially if you own a website yourself, offer your readers some plaintext downloads! They're cross-platform, needs no special readers, is easy to scrape and will last for years to come. Give me your text! I love plaintext! I am a plaintext enjoyer! GIVE IT TO ME!!!