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Artist, adult, ADHD haver, and cat-hair magnet.
Drives an obnoxious kei car. Plays rhythm games. Collects bones, books, bottles, and brass bells. Bit of an idjit.

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art/business account is @UrvogelArts

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aquinton
@aquinton

I made it almost six years ago, in fact! But hang on, letโ€™s get the details down in a new post.

In 2008, writer Warren Ellis made a brief blog post about how Valentineโ€™s Day was a bad Christian remix of roman fertility festival Lupercalia

Happy Valentineโ€™s Day to all. And to those who hate the day, I say this: Valentineโ€™s Day is a Christian corruption of a pagan festival involving werewolves, blood and fucking. So wish people a happy Horny Werewolf Day and see what happens.

I liked this concept when I learned about it, so I made web browser extensions for Chrome and Firefox that traverse the text of every web page you visit, searchingย for variations of the phraseย โ€œValentineโ€™s Dayโ€, and turns them intoย โ€œHorny Werewolf Dayโ€. You can install them here:

People install it, laugh for a while in February, then forget about it, and then one day in August they see something that makes them goย โ€œ???!!???โ€ and thenย โ€œoh yeah lmaoโ€ and thatโ€™s the best.ย Whenever someone shows me a screenshot of some benign web site that says โ€œHorny Werewolf Day giftsโ€ orย โ€œspoil your special Horny Werewolf with a delicious treatโ€ it brings me more delight than I can fully describe.

Here are some important things to know:

  • Right now it only works for sure on desktop versions of Chrome and Firefox.ย I will make a Safari version soon. Apple has a whole process involving Xcode that I need to commit to figuring out.

  • If you install it and you like it and you feel like thanking me, hereโ€™s my Ko-fi .ย Enough support will probably motivate me to figure out how to get the code working on Android versions of Firefox and Chrome.

  • It needs access to all of the text on every web page you visit so it can look for text to change, but it does not store or send any of that text anywhere. It is literally 18 lines of Javascript regular expressions and for-loops that never leave your computer.

  • If you like werewolves you will probably like the digital anthology I edit, Werewolves Versus. There are 10 issues so far, including one thematically linked to this browser extension: Werewolves Versus: Romance.

I always love seeing screenshots of this extension in action so please hit me up!


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