diff --git a/src/components/RootLayout.tsx b/src/components/RootLayout.tsx
index ae79bad..c7759d8 100644
--- a/src/components/RootLayout.tsx
+++ b/src/components/RootLayout.tsx
@@ -17,24 +17,6 @@ type LayoutProps = {
 
 export default function RootLayout({ children, protectedPage }: LayoutProps) {
     const {status} = useSession()
-    const snowflakeElements = []
-
-    for (let i = 0; i < 50; i++) {
-        snowflakeElements.push(
-            <div
-                className="snowflake text-white"
-                style={
-                    {
-                        left: `${Math.random() * 100}%`,
-                        animationDuration: `${Math.random() *5 + 5}s`,
-                        fontSize: `${Math.random() * 1.5 + 0.5}em`
-                    }
-                }
-            >
-            ❅
-            </div>
-        )
-      }
 
     if (protectedPage) {
         if (status === "loading") {
@@ -54,7 +36,6 @@ export default function RootLayout({ children, protectedPage }: LayoutProps) {
             return (
                 <main className="min-h-screen bg-black">
                     <Head />
-                    {snowflakeElements}
                     <Header />
                     {children}
                     <Footer />
@@ -65,7 +46,6 @@ export default function RootLayout({ children, protectedPage }: LayoutProps) {
         return (
             <main className="min-h-screen bg-black">
                 <Head />
-                {snowflakeElements}
                 <Header />
                 {children}
                 <Footer />
diff --git a/src/components/SocialCard.tsx b/src/components/SocialCard.tsx
index 5e0df71..63b179e 100644
--- a/src/components/SocialCard.tsx
+++ b/src/components/SocialCard.tsx
@@ -10,13 +10,15 @@ type SocialCardProps = {
 
 export default function SocialMediaCard(props: SocialCardProps) {
     return (
-        <div className="bg-gray-500 rounded-lg text-center max-w-sm p-4 mx-auto">
-            <Link href={props.url}>
-                {props.name}
-            </Link>
+        <div>
             {
-                props.showDelete && <Trash onClick={props.deleteCallback} color="plain" className="pl-2 hover:cursor-pointer" />
+                props.showDelete && <Trash onClick={props.deleteCallback} color="white" className="pl-2 hover:cursor-pointer" />
             }
+            <Link href={props.url} target="_blank">
+                <div className="bg-white py-5 w-full text-left">
+                    <h2 className="px-4 text-lg font-bold">{props.name}</h2>
+                </div>
+            </Link>
         </div>
     )
 }
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diff --git a/src/components/footer.tsx b/src/components/footer.tsx
index a8c4c0e..194ed85 100644
--- a/src/components/footer.tsx
+++ b/src/components/footer.tsx
@@ -1,29 +1,18 @@
-import { Twitter, LinkedinOption } from "grommet-icons"
 import Link from 'next/link';
 
 export default function Footer() {
+    const date = new Date()
+
     return (
         <>
-            <div className="absolute bottom-0 left-0 w-full bg-gray-900 p-2 text-white">
+            <div className="absolute bottom-0 left-0 w-full bg-zinc-900 p-2 text-white">
                 <p className="text-center">
                     <Link href="mailto:alex@alexavfrantz.com" className="hover:text-gray-500 hover:underline hover:cursor-pointer">
                         alex@alexavfrantz.com
                     </Link>
                 </p>
                 <p className="text-center">
-                    All music, game, TV and movie covers are owned by their respective authors.<br/>Currently playing info provided by Last.fm
-                </p>
-                <p className="text-center">
-                    &copy; Alex Frantz, 2023
-                </p>
-                <p className="text-center space-x-2">
-                    <Link href="https://twitter.com/avvex__" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">
-                        <Twitter color='plain' size="30" />
-                    </Link>
-
-                    <Link href="https://linkedin.com/in/thatalex" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">
-                        <LinkedinOption size="30" />
-                    </Link>
+                    &copy; Alex Frantz, {date.getFullYear()}
                 </p>
             </div>
         </>
diff --git a/src/components/header.tsx b/src/components/header.tsx
index c6e0fa3..46fc38c 100644
--- a/src/components/header.tsx
+++ b/src/components/header.tsx
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ export default function Header() {
                 <p className="text-2xl font-bold">alex</p>
                 <div className="inline-block pb-2">
                     <HeaderItem content="home" linkTo="/" />
-                    <HeaderItem content="reviews" linkTo="/reviews" />
                     <HeaderItem content="links" linkTo="/links" />
                     <HeaderItem content="blog" linkTo="/blog" />
                     { status === "authenticated" &&
diff --git a/src/pages/create.tsx b/src/pages/create.tsx
index cdcd9c1..d5b713a 100644
--- a/src/pages/create.tsx
+++ b/src/pages/create.tsx
@@ -77,25 +77,6 @@ export default function CreatePage() {
     return (
         <RootLayout protectedPage={true}>
             <div className="space-y-4">
-                <div className="w-96 p-2 mx-auto bg-gray-500 text-center">
-                    <h1 className="font-bold text-2xl">Create Review Post</h1>
-
-                    <div className="pt-2 pb-2">
-                        <hr />
-                    </div>
-
-                    <form onSubmit={onPostSubmit}>
-                        <InputOption inputName="title" label="Title" />
-                        <InputOption inputName="image" label="Image URL" />
-                        <InputOption inputName="type" label="Content Type (book, movie, tv, game)" />
-                        <InputOption inputName="review" label="Review" isTextArea={true} />
-
-                        <button className="bg-gray-800 text-white rounded-lg p-2" type="submit">Submit</button>
-                    </form>
-
-                    <p>{message}</p>
-                </div>
-
                 <div className="w-96 p-2 mx-auto bg-gray-500 text-center">
                     <h1 className="font-bold text-2xl">Create Link</h1>
 
diff --git a/src/pages/links.tsx b/src/pages/links.tsx
index e7195bc..ab522c4 100644
--- a/src/pages/links.tsx
+++ b/src/pages/links.tsx
@@ -1,37 +1,64 @@
 import SocialCard from '@/components/SocialCard'
-import RootLayout from '@/components/RootLayout';
 import { api } from "@/utils/api";
 import { useSession } from 'next-auth/react';
-import React from 'react';
+import { useRouter } from 'next/router';
+import Image from 'next/image';
+import Link from 'next/link';
+import React, {useState, useEffect} from 'react';
 
 export default function Links() {
+    const router = useRouter();
     const {status} = useSession();
+    const [links, setLinks] = useState<React.JSX.Element[] | null>(null);
     
     // trpc hooks
     const { data: linkData } = api.links.getAll.useQuery()
     const deleteMutation = api.links.delete.useMutation()
 
+    useEffect(() => {
+        if (!links && linkData) {
+            const allLinks = [];
+
+            for (const link of linkData) {
+                allLinks.push(
+                    <SocialCard 
+                        name={link.name}
+                        key={link.id}
+                        url={link.url}
+                        showDelete={status == "authenticated"}
+                        deleteCallback={() => {
+                            deleteMutation.mutate(link.id);
+                            router.reload()
+                        }}
+                    />
+                )
+            }
+
+            setLinks(allLinks)
+        }
+    })
+
     return (
-        <RootLayout>
-            <div className="space-y-2">
-                {
-                    linkData && linkData.length > 0 ? linkData.map((v) => {
-                        return <SocialCard 
-                            url={v.url} 
-                            name={v.name} 
-                            key={v.name} 
-                            showDelete={status === "authenticated"} 
-                            deleteCallback={() => {
-                                deleteMutation.mutate(v.id)
-                            }}
-                        />
-                    }) : 
-                    <div className="text-center text-white">
-                        <h1>Uh oh!</h1>
-                        <p>There&apos;s nothing here :(</p>
+        <main className="bg-black flex flex-col justify-center items-center min-h-screen">
+            <Link href="/">
+                <h1 className="text-white text-sm underline hover:text-gray-500 pb-2">&lt;- Back Home</h1>
+            </Link>
+            <div className="bg-zinc-900 p-10 rounded-sm">
+                <div className="pb-2 flex flex-col justify-center items-center">
+                    <Image className="rounded-lg" width="90" height="90" alt="Profile Picture" src="https://storage.thatalex.dev/content/pfp.png" />
+                    <div className="text-white text-center pt-2">
+                        <h1>Alex</h1>
+                        <p>I&apos;m Alex, a QA Engineer by day and developer by night</p>
+                        <hr className="h-px my-2 bg-gray-200 border-0 dark:bg-gray-700" />
                     </div>
-                }
+                </div>
+
+                <div className="space-y-2">
+                    {
+                        links && links.length > 0 ? links : <h1 className="text-center text-white font-bold">Uh oh, there are no links here!</h1>
+                    }
+                </div>
             </div>
-        </RootLayout>
+        </main>
     )
 }
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diff --git a/src/pages/reviews/[name].tsx b/src/pages/reviews/[name].tsx
deleted file mode 100644
index ccd9fac..0000000
--- a/src/pages/reviews/[name].tsx
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,67 +0,0 @@
-import RootLayout from '@/components/RootLayout';
-
-// next modules
-import Router, {useRouter} from 'next/router';
-import Link from 'next/link';
-import {useSession} from 'next-auth/react';
-import Image from 'next/image';
-
-// api
-import {api} from '@/utils/api'
-
-// icons
-import { Trash } from 'grommet-icons';
-
-export default function ReviewPage() {
-    const router = useRouter()
-    const name = router.query.name as string
-    const { status } = useSession()
-
-    // trpc stuff
-    const {data: bookData} = api.post.getOne.useQuery(name)
-    const deletionMutation = api.post.delete.useMutation()
-
-    function deleteItem() {
-        if (bookData) {
-            deletionMutation.mutate(bookData.id)
-            Router.replace("/").catch(() => {
-                console.error("Failed to reroute user!")
-            })
-        }
-    }
-
-    if (bookData) {
-        return (
-            <RootLayout>
-                <div className="mx-auto w-1/2 text-center flex justify-center">
-                    <Image src={bookData.image} width="150" height="150" alt={`${bookData.name} ${bookData.type} cover`} />
-                </div>
-
-                <div className="mx-auto w-1/2 text-center text-white">
-                    <h1 className="text-2xl font-bold">{bookData.name} { status == "authenticated" ? <Trash onClick={deleteItem} className="hover:cursor-pointer" /> : ""}</h1>
-                    
-                    <div className="pt-2 pb-2">
-                        <hr />
-                    </div>
-
-                    {bookData.reviewContents}
-                </div>
-            </RootLayout>
-        )
-    } else {
-        return (
-            <RootLayout>
-                <div className="text-center text-2xl font-bold">
-                    <p>Well, that&apos;s not good..</p>
-                </div>
-
-                <div className="text-center">
-                    <p>You&apos;ve reached a page that doesn&apos;t exist. Lets fix that.</p>
-                    <Link href="/" className="hover:underline hover:cursor-pointer hover:text-gray-500">
-                        Head Home
-                    </Link>
-                </div>
-            </RootLayout>
-        )
-    }
-}
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diff --git a/src/pages/reviews/index.tsx b/src/pages/reviews/index.tsx
deleted file mode 100644
index d119de4..0000000
--- a/src/pages/reviews/index.tsx
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,79 +0,0 @@
-import RootLayout from "@/components/RootLayout"
-import ReviewCard from "@/components/ReviewCard"
-import React, {useState, useEffect} from 'react';
-import { api } from "@/utils/api";
-
-type GenericItemType = {
-    name: string,
-    image: string
-}
-
-export default function Reviews() {
-    const {data: itemData} = api.post.getAll.useQuery()
-    const [list, setList] = useState<null | JSX.Element[]>(null)
-    const [type, setType] = useState("Book")
-
-    function onCatClick() {
-        // probably gonna rework this eventually if needed
-        switch(type) {
-            case 'Book':
-                setType("Movie")
-                break;
-            case 'Movie':
-                setType("TV")
-                break;
-            case 'TV':
-                setType("Game")
-                break;
-            case 'Game':
-                setType("Book")
-                break;
-        }
-    }
-
-    function sanitizeTitleForLink(title: string) {
-        return title.replaceAll(" ", "-").toLowerCase()
-    }
-
-    useEffect(() => {
-        if (itemData) {
-            const filteredArray = itemData.filter(v => v.type == type.toLowerCase())
-
-            if (filteredArray.length <= 0) {
-                setList(null)
-            } else {
-                setList(
-                    filteredArray.map((v: GenericItemType, k) => {
-                        return <ReviewCard 
-                            key={k}
-                            title={v.name}
-                            url={`/reviews/${sanitizeTitleForLink(v.name)}`}
-                            image={v.image}
-                            showText={false}
-                        />
-                    })
-                )
-            }
-        }
-    }, [itemData, type])
-
-    return (
-        <RootLayout>
-            <div className="w-1/2 mx-auto text-white">
-                <p className="text-center font-bold text-2xl hover:cursor-pointer hover:underline pb-2 select-none" onClick={onCatClick}>
-                    {type}
-                </p>
-
-                <div className="flex flex-wrap justify-center">
-                    {
-                        list ? list
-                        : <div className="text-center">
-                            <h1>Nothing here!</h1>
-                            <p>Try again later :(</p>
-                        </div>
-                    }
-                </div>
-            </div>
-        </RootLayout>
-    )
-}
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