hey

it's the year of our lord 2025, and i realized i wanted a place online to truly just play around at my own leisure

this was largely activated bc i've been playing flight rising again and i wanted to make my bio cute, since people do that, and in my hunt for blinkies and stamps, i found all these really great neocities and self-hosted sites dedicated to people's collections and resources and creations

and they're all out there, just because someone wanted to make something and share it!

and i also wanted to make something and share it, w/o courting algorithms or anyone's opinion

i also wanted to learn a whole lotta something new--eg css/html, all of which i'm teaching myself right now

everything here, as of dec. 8, 2025, is a skillset i learned over the past two days, with the help of a couple of really wonderful personal sites and tutorial compendiums, which will be going up on the resources page

anyway, if you're seeing this, ty for existing and being a person willing to wander around the internet in the ways we used to

i miss the days when the internet felt like an open space, full of little niches people built for themselves

you could poke around and find a site that felt like accidentally wandering into someone's bedroom, mess and all, or a tender place where someone stored years worth of pictures of their cat, indexed and captioned. i miss that! the internet has been so thoroughly commodified that it's now the metaphysical equivalent of a shopping mall, and that's an old sentiment, but that doesn't stop it from being true

long live the goofy websites! long live the hyperspecific ones! long live the website full of model ship-makers, where, after hours on bigger, shinier websites, i finally found the answers to how the crosstrees of a 1780s three-masted ship worked! long live the website full of that family's cat pictures! long live the neocities sites that helped me figure out how to get my hyperlinks to be reactive like this!

and long live you, and me, and everyone we love