edit #33. original from >>>/trash/slop:
https://desuarchive.org/trash/thread/71686804/#71693093

i stopped embedding the "drop shadow" versions of my old captions i retroactively turned to "stroke" (outline) versions in my rentry, because the "stroke" versions are just more legible and conventionally appealing, and instead linked them underneath each caption, under the source:
https://rentry.co/ambihurts

i also think i will go back and add gaussian blur to my "pally bold" font captions (probably won't bother with the "wild word" font of my earliest captions, since i'm not sure it'd look good, but i can try it anyway, so i might take it back and do them too without saying so) and replace the versions in my catbox with them, linking the non-gaussian blur versions below each caption in my rentry just the same (obviously haven't done these retroactive edits yet, but just to link my catbox album again, for convenience:
https://catbox.moe/c/7vd589

my logic for embedding the "drop shadow" versions of the captions originally was that rentry has a width limit, so if your screen is at least that wide, you can view the "stroke" and "drop shadow" versions of the captions side-by-side, to compare them, which isn't normally possible unless you open them both in their own image viewer instance, scale them down to fit on your screen, and compare them that way, which no one would ever bother doing. but i did know from the start that if your screen isn't wide enough, the captions stack on top of each other, which is useless. it's just not worth the increased bandwidth cost and annoyance of browsing for most users just for an "oh, i see the difference" moment some people will have then move-on from