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Hello World!

It's a cheesy way to start the blog off properly, but feels appropriate as I take my first steps into the world of personal websites.

To me, a computer is a way to draw, write, or play games-- creative outlets! And there's MANY uses beyond what I listed, but that's personally what I use my computers for. I love them, but I never knew how to speak their language, with a meager knowledge of html through running a Tumblr roleplay blog for some time.

I think I'm preaching to the choir here, but I don't like how corporatized and monetized the net has become. When I was growing up, I'd find random sites everywhere made from passion of the person running it, be it a blog or gallery; whatever it was, it was all something unique and personally them. The most I could think of at the time was 'wow, maybe I could do art for someone to use someday like that!' without thinking much of the possibility of MYSELF being the one using my own images.

This does admittedly come in the wake of websites like Twitter (or X, whichever floats your goat) or bsky finding their way to the nearest compost pile and hopping in it. I like talking, even though I don't think people read it. I just like typing and putting my thoughts to words, for when I want a break from turning my thoughts into drawings. And BlueSky is my social media of choice (and said 'choice' being slim pickings between a site crawling with nazis and niche social medias), but as of lately in the last couple of weeks, several dogshit decisions by the developers have put the site into several day-long outages. Truthfully, it made me think of two things:

One, that I NEED to find a way to have a place on the net not tied to how ephemeral social media is.

And TWO, that whatever the hell the developers were doing was incredibly asinine, and if an artificial intelligence could code a website and have it be 'their standard', then by god I can make my own shitty little corner of the net and have it be a MANSION in comparison to that.

And the more I thought about it, the more I realized how much I loved the idea of making my own life raft. I'd been told a lot about Neocities before, and Nekoweb was another option I was looking into (and still probably will end up using for my FFXI-focused venture in the near future!), but was too scared to do anything. Cue yet ANOTHER outage, and I realized it was finally time to just make it exist, I can make it better later.

So there I am! I wanted something personal to myself, that I could call my own place and share my passions in a way that can't be tied down to a single feed.