Remove: 11ty markdown-it image rendering

Author: rg-wood

content/blog/2025/2025.md

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ image: /blog/2025/dismas-remade.png
 
 2025 was a hard pill to swallow. The political ramifications of the year are, quite frankly, horrifying. We're so screwed, but, then, I could say that of every year for the last two decades. It only ever seems to get worse (_03/01/26 addendum: it did get worse)_. However, the subject of global politics is out-of-scope for my silly little blog. So, instead, here is how my year went.
 
-![Dismas Remade Logo](./content/blog/2025/dismas-remade-partial.png "Dismas Remade")
+![Dismas Remade Logo](dismas-remade-partial.png "Dismas Remade")
 
 _The Dismas Remade Logo_
 

content/blog/alien-as-outside-context-entity-2/alien-as-outside-context-entity-2.md

@@ -26,15 +26,15 @@ In his classic space opera _A Fire Upon the Deep_, Vernor Vinge describes the ti
 
 Vernor then completely undercuts this by having one of these creatures sit down at a reading desk to sip brandy and smoke a cigar. What happened?
 
-![Still from Annihilation, 2018](./content/blog/alien-as-outside-context-entity-2/annihilation.webp "The Lighthouse")
+![Still from Annihilation, 2018](annihilation.webp "The Lighthouse")
 
 ## Xenopsychological parochialism
 
 [Xenobiological universalism](/blog/alien-as-outside-context-entity/#xenobiological-universalism) is a powerful tool for imagining alternative forms of life, but it often ignores a key factor: psychology. [Star Trek futurism](/blog/alien-as-outside-context-entity/#star-trek-futurism) rears its ugly head once again. Science fiction imagines all kinds of exotic, intelligent aliens, but gives them very human-like concerns and motivations. By avoiding xenobiological parochialism we have stumbled into a new trap: _xenopsychological_ parochialism, the naive idea that intelligent alien life would share some kind of psychological affinity with us. Just as it is unlikely that we'd share a common biology with aliens, it seems even more unlikely we'd share a psychology.
 
 <aside>
 
-![Cover of Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer](./content/blog/alien-as-outside-context-entity-2/annihilation.jpg "Annihilation")
+![Cover of Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer](annihilation.jpg "Annihilation")
 
 Here are some examples of xenopsychological science fiction:
 
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ If an alien could speak, why would it? Would we even know it was talking? Would
 
 All very philosophical, but the point is that language is the crux of portraying alien psychology. An encounter with aliens should not just be a categorisation problem ("stones that can think!?") but should be a fundamental language problem. When we see an alien, we should not be able to fully articulate what we're looking at.
 
-![Still from Alien of Jonesy hissing at the xenomorph, 1979](./content/blog/alien-as-outside-context-entity-2/jonesy.png "Jonesy knows what's up")
+![Still from Alien of Jonesy hissing at the xenomorph, 1979](jonesy.png "Jonesy knows what's up")
 
 ## Alien (1979), a case study
 
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ We understand what the xenomorph does, but the unanswered _why_ is what makes us
 
 <aside>
 
-[![Cover image from CONT/EXT](./content/products/context/context.png "CONT/EXT")](/products/context)
+[![Cover image from CONT/EXT](../../products/context/context.png "CONT/EXT")](/products/context)
 
 This article was research for [CONT/EXT](/products/context), my upcoming britpunk one-shot for Mothership. Please follow or [subscribe](/mailing-list/) for updates.
 

content/blog/alien-as-outside-context-entity/alien-as-outside-context-entity.md

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ But, how do you go about portraying incomprehensible aliens?
 
 ### Star Trek Futurism
 
-![Still of Captain Kirk look shocked from Star Trek](./content/blog/alien-as-outside-context-entity/captain-kirk.jpg "Captain Kirk")
+![Still of Captain Kirk look shocked from Star Trek](captain-kirk.jpg "Captain Kirk")
 
 Firstly, in order to question our assumptions about alien life, you need to understand Star Trek futurism. Star Trek futurism is the (often unconscious) bias that the future will be like the eponymous (and often nonsense) TV show. It's an optimistic vision of the future as it ought to be, with faster-than-light travel and (most relevant here) contact with ubiquitous, intelligent and human-like alien life.
 
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ But these creatures can never be terrifying because they are too like us. We mus
 
 I propose a new category: Aliens as outside context entities. The alien as fundamental physiological, psychological, categorical and semantic break with our parochial assumptions of what alien life might look like.
 
-![Cover of Sundiver by David Brin](./content/blog/alien-as-outside-context-entity/sundiver.jpg "Sundivers")
+![Cover of Sundiver by David Brin](sundiver.jpg "Sundivers")
 
 ### Xenobiological universalism
 
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ Autocatalysts - molecules that can create _themselves_ without being used up - d
 
 <aside>
 
-![Cover of Diaspora by Greg Egan](./content/blog/alien-as-outside-context-entity/diaspora.jpg "Diaspora")
+![Cover of Diaspora by Greg Egan](diaspora.jpg "Diaspora")
 
 Examples of xenoscientific fiction include:
 
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ When creating improbable biologies, there must be some hook our players can grab
 
 <aside>
 
-[![Cover image from CONT/EXT](./content/products/context/context.png "CONT/EXT")](/products/context)
+[![Cover image from CONT/EXT](../../products/context/context.png "CONT/EXT")](/products/context)
 
 This article was research for [CONT/EXT](/products/context), my upcoming britpunk one-shot for Mothership. Please follow or [subscribe](/mailing-list/) for updates.
 

content/blog/elden-ring/elden-ring.md

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ image: /blog/elden-ring/cover.jpg
 
 <aside>
 
-![Cover of Fever House](./content/blog/elden-ring/cover.jpg "Fever House")
+![Cover of Fever House](cover.jpg "Fever House")
 
 </aside>
 

content/blog/on-remembrance-of-the-daleks/on-remembrance-of-the-daleks.md

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ This was not your dad's _Doctor Who_.
 
 It seems strange to think about late-80s _Doctor Who_ as cool. We're talking about a (by that time) obscure British science fiction series with a distinctly middle-class audience. (Look no further than Ace's _Blue Peter_ badges.) You have to understand, it was a less cynical time trying hard to be cynical. The endless cycle of gritty reboots had only just got started, and it seemed they'd never get stale. It felt like a fresh start for _Doctor Who_, but it turned out to spell its end.
 
-![Title screen for Remembrance of the Daleks by Ben Aaronovitch](./content/blog/on-remembrance-of-the-daleks/remembrance-of-the-daleks-title.png "Remembrance of the Daleks")
+![Title screen for Remembrance of the Daleks by Ben Aaronovitch](remembrance-of-the-daleks-title.png "Remembrance of the Daleks")
 
 ### Hi Vis
 
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ I mean, even _Loki_ addressed this, and that's coming from within the confines o
 
 You see, we’re always told interfering with history is dangerous… unless it’s the Doctor doing it. In which case, it’s just the sensible politics of time travel. Leave it to the grown-ups. Just as with the neoliberal consensus, better things are not possible. Interfering with the status-quo could only lead to worse outcomes, just as meddling with time by, say, killing Hitler inevitably paves the way for a hypothetical Super Hitler.
 
-![Screencap of the Hand of Omega from Remembrance of the Daleks](./content/blog/on-remembrance-of-the-daleks/hand-of-omega.png "The Hand of Omega")
+![Screencap of the Hand of Omega from Remembrance of the Daleks](hand-of-omega.png "The Hand of Omega")
 
 ## Hand of Omega
 
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ It also shares a lot in common with the TARDIS. A semi-intelligent box that hide
 
 I don’t think the Hand is ever referenced again in the _Doctor Who_ TV canon, which is a shame. A piece of grimdark worldbuilding erased by Russell T. Davies’ shiny, new “Whoniverse”. The Americans already have enough glossy sci-fi, why couldn't we draw from the rich tradition of distinctively grubby British dystopia, instead? And I can’t think of a better vehicle for that than _Doctor Who_. Certainly, the 7th Doctor was heading in that direction before it got cancelled.
 
-![Still of the special weapons Dalek from Episode 4 of Remembrance of the Daleks](./content/blog/on-remembrance-of-the-daleks/special-weapons-dalek.png "Special Weapons Dalek")
+![Still of the special weapons Dalek from Episode 4 of Remembrance of the Daleks](special-weapons-dalek.png "Special Weapons Dalek")
 
 ## Special Weapons
 
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ You see, it hints at more: if there’s a special weapons Dalek what other speci
 
 <aside>
 
-[![Cover image from CONT/EXT](./content/products/context/context.png "CONT/EXT")](/products/context)
+[![Cover image from CONT/EXT](../../products/context/context.png "CONT/EXT")](/products/context)
 
 This article was research for [CONT/EXT](/products/context), my upcoming britpunk one-shot for Mothership. Please follow or [subscribe](/mailing-list/) for updates.
 

content/blog/shiftless-horror/shiftless-horror.md

@@ -20,15 +20,15 @@ This post evolved out of a [self-essay](https://rolltodoubt.wordpress.com/2023/1
 
 At the edges of [CONT/EXT](/products/context/) is the institution after which the module is named. What kind of organisation is CONT/EXT, and what is its place in a game like _Mothership_?
 
-![Still for title screen of Alien (1979)](./content/blog/shiftless-horror/nostromo.jpg "Commercial towing vehicle 'The Nostromo'")
+![Still for title screen of Alien (1979)](nostromo.jpg "Commercial towing vehicle 'The Nostromo'")
 
 ## Shiftless
 
 In _Alien_ (1979) the protagonists are not scientists or explorers, they are workers on what is, effectively, a giant piece of industrial machinery, employed as precarious contractors, apathetic to the wonders of space, resentful and perhaps a little bit bored, and who only reluctantly respond to that fateful distress signal.
 
 <aside>
 
-![Cast picture from Alien (1979)](./content/blog/shiftless-horror/alien-cast.jpg "Cast of Alien (1979)")
+![Cast picture from Alien (1979)](alien-cast.jpg "Cast of Alien (1979)")
 
 In my mind the characters from _Alien_ seemed working class but, looking through the cast list, actually a lot of them are officers, of one form or another. Distinctly middle-class occupations.
 
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ Elements of this "shiftless" or "grubby" science fiction include:
 - **Exploitation.** Billionaires dream of reaching space: a limitless void free from physical restrictions and the social forces that bind the rich and protect the vulnerable. The shiftless always keep a cynical eye on such endeavours.
 - **Institutional.** All of the above combine into shiftless sci-fi's most common motif: the oppressive institution.
 
-![Still of Jessica Hyde from Utopia (2013)](./content/blog/shiftless-horror/jessica-hyde.jpg "Jessica Hyde")
+![Still of Jessica Hyde from Utopia (2013)](jessica-hyde.jpg "Jessica Hyde")
 
 ## The Inevitable Horror of British Institutions
 
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ In many ways, these institutions mirror the forces of the universe itself. Their
 
 And CONT/EXT is part of that horror: it's inhuman ruthlessness. The existential threats to humanity are terrifying, but so are the strategies for survival. Agents of CONT/EXT expose themselves to bizarre alien infections, sacrifice their lives, just to learn something, anything that might give humanity a slim chance to survive impending annihilation. For what? So they might be the last to die? So that their loved ones might have a chance aboard whatever fateful lifeboat CONT/EXT might scramble together?
 
-![Still of George Smiley and Control from Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)](./content/blog/shiftless-horror/tinker-tailor-soldier-spy.jpg "George Smiley and Control")
+![Still of George Smiley and Control from Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)](tinker-tailor-soldier-spy.jpg "George Smiley and Control")
 
 ### A survey of fictional British institutions
 
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ Perhaps this explains the preponderance of secret societies across the Atlantic:
 
 <aside>
 
-[![Cover image from CONT/EXT](./content/products/context/context.png "CONT/EXT")](/products/context)
+[![Cover image from CONT/EXT](../../products/context/context.png "CONT/EXT")](/products/context)
 
 This article was research for [CONT/EXT](/products/context), my upcoming britpunk one-shot for Mothership. Please follow or [subscribe](/mailing-list/) for updates.
 

content/blog/spark-lifepath-system/spark-lifepath-system.md

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ image: /blog/spark-lifepath-system/percy.png
 >
 > - _Gloriana_, Michael Moorcock
 
-![Cover of Gloriana](./content/blog/spark-lifepath-system/gloriana.png "Cover of Gloriana")
+![Cover of Gloriana](gloriana.png "Cover of Gloriana")
 
 As part of my prep I've been using tables for all elements of my campaign: rumours, locations, NPCs, etc. Everything is tabulated so that it can be randomly selected at a moment's notice, during play or prep. It has a number of benefits. Firstly, it's an aid for improvisation and naturalism.
 
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ Create the following tables:
 
 You can roll as many as 30 times on the same spark table for this system, so tables may have to be large (perhaps three d20 table) to create unique outcomes for each player.
 
-![Dismas](./content/blog/spark-lifepath-system/dismas.png "Dismas")
+![Dismas](dismas.png "Dismas")
 
 ## Dismas Remade
 
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ To get us started, we'll call our example PC "Percy".
 
 <aside>
 
-![Portrait of Percy](./content/blog/spark-lifepath-system/percy.png "Percy")
+![Portrait of Percy](percy.png "Percy")
 
 </aside>
 

content/blog/wisdom/wisdom.md

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ image: /blog/wisdom/book-of-wisdom.jpg
 
 <aside>
 
-[![Image from "Book of Wisdom" of Francysk Skaryna 1518](./content/blog/wisdom/book-of-wisdom.jpg "Book of Wisdom")](/products/context)
+[![Image from "Book of Wisdom" of Francysk Skaryna 1518](book-of-wisdom.jpg "Book of Wisdom")](/products/context)
 
 _Image from "Book of Wisdom" of Francysk Skaryna 1518_
 

eleventy.config.images.js

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 import path from "path";
 import eleventyImage from "@11ty/eleventy-img";
 import markdownIt from "markdown-it";
-import markdownItEleventyImg from "markdown-it-eleventy-img";
 
 export default async (eleventyConfig) => {
   function relativeToInputPath(inputPath, relativeFilePath) {
@@ -58,12 +57,6 @@ export default async (eleventyConfig) => {
       html: true,
       breaks: true,
       linkify: true
-    }).use(markdownItEleventyImg, {
-      imgOptions: {
-        widths: [720],
-        outputDir: path.join("_site", "img"),
-        formats: ["jpeg", "png"]
-      }
     })
   );
 };

package.json

@@ -54,7 +54,6 @@
     "linkinator": "^7.5.3",
     "luxon": "^3.7.2",
     "markdown-it-anchor": "^9.2.0",
-    "markdown-it-eleventy-img": "^0.10.2",
     "papaparse": "^5.5.3",
     "plop": "^4.0.5",
     "prettier": "3.8.1",