Jcink Coding Communities & Resources
Coding shouldn’t feel like some exclusive, unattainable club. We all started somewhere—most of us just messing with elements to try customizing them before we got ✨ambitious✨ and started building our own projects.
Most of us are hobby coders, and we can’t always hold everyone’s hand as they’re getting into the community. Plus, a lot of our knowledge is hobbled together according to need (maybe that’s just my personal experience though lol). But we can share the resources and communities we use to build our sites and skins with you. So here’s my ever-growing list of communities, resources, and learning tools I’ve used, and still use every day, to build my projects.
If I’ve missed a valuable community or resource, let me know so I can add it to the list! And if you’re a coder with resources on your blog, reblog this with a link to a tag that others can follow!
Forums
Jcink Support Community
This should be everyone’s first stop shop when it comes to Jcink. The support forum has an active community that’s ready to help with specific problems, and is full of very specific codes that usually don’t ever make it to other resource forums. Learn how to use the search function to find what you’re looking for!
Caution to the Wind
The OG jcink rp resource site at this point. It has a lot of what we now consider essential building blocks of our forums, as well as tutorials to teach you how to do things.
jCodes
A community that is mostly full of JavaScript coders, with an amazing collection of Jcink plugins to optimize your forum and add functionality. Not necessarily the best for learning, but definitely a wealth of resources.
Sourced
A mini-resource community, hosted by Essi. It’s the home of many useful resources for forum development that Essi and others have put together. This is not an active community, but a home for resources.
RPG Initiative
A resource forum for more than just Jcink rp’s. There isn’t so much a coding community here, but there are some great coding guides in the codex.
RPG Directory
Another general resource site, the coding community here is pretty quiet these days, but it has some classic tutorials and resources worth visiting.
Discord Groups
The Jcink Community Corner
A great community for coding, as well as writing and general site management. For newbies and pro’s alike! This is the general home for most of us (afaik), and is probably the biggest/most active group of jcink coders on discord.
Coding Camp
A discord community for all levels of coders. Camp offers regular coding challenges, as well as a variety of resources for beginners who might not know where to start but want to get into the thick of things.
General (and free!) Learning Resources
If you’re just starting out, want a general refresher, or are a seasoned pro looking to add some credentials to your name, these resources are for you! All of them are free and are not Jcink-specific.
Free Code Camp
Learn how to code for free! It walks you through the basics to build the fundamentals you need to start on more complex projects. I’ve done the CSS and JavaScript courses and cannot recommend it enough.
The Odin Project
A full stack curriculum that I’ve heart great things about! I haven’t used it myself so I can’t speak to it, but their JavaScript and CSS courses looks amazing.
Flexbox Froggy
A game to learn how to use flexbox and all its corresponding properties by organizing some frogs and their lilypads. When I take a break from coding, I always play a round of flexbox froggy as a refresher.
Grid Garden
A game to learn how to use CSS Grid! A lot like flexbox froggy, but with vegetables.
CSS Tricks
Not recommended to open until you have a basic handle on things, only because it has a wealth of articles that are easy to get lost in. But if you’re looking for how to do something specific, chances are CSS Tricks has an article on it!
Stack Overflow
An active community for coding of ALL kinds, every question about coding ever has been asked and answered here somewhere.
W3 Schools
The reference sheets on W3 are tools I reference all the time. I always have a tab with the CSS or JavaScript references up, because nobody can remember all the properties and what they do off the top of their head!
CodePen
A place to start creating your own codes! It has live updates, so you can see what you’re creating as you make it. And you can use it to create a nice little portfolio for yourself! You can also “fork” other users’ codes to play with them, figure out how they work, and learn how to implement those practices into your own work. (side note: if you see my profile on CodePen, no you didn’t, it’s a mess)
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how do i get into puyo lore i have no idea what's happening but i really want to and i keep trying but i dont know where to go
personally i think the easiest way to start is to watch the story modes. every sega-era game has english translated compilation videos on youtube that are pretty easily accessible. best ones to watch if youre after lore would be fever 1, fever 2, puyo 7, and tetris 1 and 2. (you can kinda skip 20th, chronicle, and 15th for now, but id still recommend going through them!! theyre fun!!)
uh beyond that, i remember immediately jumping over to the light novels, and then later digging through the puyo preservation archives for older compile-era lore
for other translations on things such as some comics, audio dramas, etc, then id reccomend looking though precise museums translations or keeping an eye out for any of pinkgeekneni's work! also remember the puyo nexus wiki is your best friend for anything quest-related!!!
i hope this helps at all!! the reality of puyo lore is that a lot of it it scattered and requires a bit more effort than usual trying to find everything! but i think its an enjoyable search which is what has kept puyo puyo at the center of my heart :D
btw!! if any other puyo mutuals have any tips, pleaseeee feel free to share them!! im sure my process of learning things was less than perfect hehe
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COMMISSION GIVEAWAY!!!
Hi hello hi!!!
I recently opened commissions to draw people's Minecraft bases, and thanks to my lovely friend and mutual @casper-aghost, I can do a giveaway for a piece!
My commissions are open if you would like to order one in a different style than in this giveaway! Please read the rest of the post and visit the links below the images so that you can make sure you're entering correctly!!
There are a few styles I can draw bases in, but this commission's style is going to have traditional lineart and be colored digitally (please see below cut for examples!)
If you have any questions, feel free to shoot me an ask or a DM!
KOFI LINK - ORIGINAL COMMISSIONS POST LINK
[STYLE EXAMPLES, SCREENSHOT GUIDELINES, AND IMAGE IDS FOR THE ABOVE IMAGES BELOW THE CUT!]
The background behind the build can be as detailed or simple as you want! These are just past examples to show how the coloring and lineart will look!
PLEASE FOLLOW THESE GUIDELINES FOR SCREENSHOTS!! THEY ARE THERE TO ENSURE THAT I HAVE A GOOD REFERENCE TO DRAW YOUR BUILD THE BEST I CAN!!
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White text on a dark red background that reads, "COMMISSION GIVEAWAY! Thanks to my awesome friend and mutual Casper, I'm
doing a giveaway for a Minecraft build commission! The style for the giveaway piece will be drawn with traditional lineart and digital colors [see below the cut for examples]. Please see the rest of the post for how to enter, and give the links a look! My commissions are open if you would like to order one in a different style." There is a red Minecraft heart border under the title and a Minecraft flower in each of the bottom corners.
/end ID 1]
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White text on a dark red background that reads "HOW TO ENTER. 1. Follow me here on Tumblr [just to stay updated!] and on Kofi if you have an account. 2. Reblog this post with a screenshot of the
build that you would like drawn for the giveaway!" There is a red Minecraft heart border under the title and a Minecraft flower in each of the bottom corners. There are Minecraft glow berry vines placed in the upper right hand corner.
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(you don't have to respond) it's been a while since I've been in borderlands fandom (like pre-bl3) and when it came to the story, specifically Rhys, I just breezed past it cuz i was salty he wasn't voiced by the old voice actor lol so like i just didn't pay attention to him.. but anyways what made his arc racist or like what makes him racist coded. i fully agree that all of the games can and do have racist characterization. I just didn't pay as much attention/care to bl3 to think too deeply about it
Hi anon :) thank you for asking this in a respectful manner. (lord knows people tend to just tell me to do unkind things for criticizing a vidya game) Putting most of this under a cut because it's kinda long!
To start, It's kinda poorly worded in the post, but Rhys himself isn't the character who is like. racist i guess. it's more to do with the villain within the arc Kat Jr. He's frankly not a character that can be ignored and if you recall, his whole schtick is like. being a "creep" (<- gb's word, not mine) towards Rhys and borderline stalking him in order to be friends. He goes as far as to constantly call Rhys, destroy Promethea, and most notably, kill the things Rhys loves for his attention/to get him to comply. In a sense, he's just flat out obsessed with Rhys.
So, typical villain stuff ig? Except the thing here is that Katagawa Jr is heavily coded to be Japanese and there is a history with gearbox and their writing of east asian men to be obsessed with white men. The only other notable east asian man in that series is Nakayama, who, if you recall, is also incredibly creepy (again GBs words) and infatuated with, you guessed it, another white guy: Jack.
Now we've got two east asian villains who are obsessed with a white guy. Some could argue it's a bad coincidence but considering all the parallels and other racist tropes found in the series... its kinda hard to believe this wasn't on purpose or the fault of a racist writer. The entire strive of these two east asian men being obsessed with white dudes is just. flat out racist. there's a history of East Asian males being depicted as inferior to white men + a handful of stereotypes that stretch back centuries in the US alone. here's a source on the relationship between east asian and white masculinity/feminization (as well as other things, it's a good read if you'd like to be more informed <- tw for antiblackness, misogynoir, anti-asian racism).
So yeah. It's just... hard to ignore that when I play. there's nothing wrong with not liking the "trivial" things (rhys' va change, the mustache, his last name) but I've been on tumblr fandom for 3 years and... i haven't many, if any, bring attention to the vile racism. It's unfortunately common to see people go as far as to fetishize katagawa further or villanize him even further which is just as uncomfortable as the source material.
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