☽ ☆ About This Site ☆ ☾

This site exists as a safe space for me and me only, a sanctuary away from the bullshit of much of the modern, corporate web. A place to exist unfiltered, unmonitored, unhinged. If Neocities ever decides it hates me, I can take all this code and go anywhere I need to.

In an era where censorship has only become more prevalent and extreme, my site is where everything that censorship threatens can breathe a sigh of relief.

It's also a sanctuary away from judgment and cruelty. Sure, it's visible for everyone and anyone to view, but no one can barge in on here and call me slurs. Sure, you can see me, but this is my home where it's all for me. Everything is mine and for me only, untouched by the foul lands of the modern, brainrotted culture war-obsessed web. Nothing is for debate on here, it just is.

☽ ☆ History ☆ ☾

I was born in 2000, and ever since I was old enough to sit in my mom's lap to play with a computer mouse, I have long known the magic of the internet. Growing up, I was all over the kid-friendly web, starting with Nick Jr's site and Seasame Street's site, then Starfall's site WHICH IS STILL AROUND CLICK THIS LINK TO VISIT IT, and soon, any site that had games to play...Notably, girl game sites.

Of course, if you're the type to browse this site, you likely know about GirlsGoGames, and DressUpWho.com, but a particular game site I cherished more than any ite, was introduced to me by my mother; Dressupgames.com.

These days, Dressupgames.com is a more typical dressup game site, but back in the 2000s, it was a link hub that linked to every and any dressup game, and as long as the game itself wasn't fullblown porn, you could go to it. These games ranged from typical kids sites, to more general game sites, to...Newgrounds. And DeviantART. Mercifully, they had the decency to not select any fetish games LOL! Anyways, THIS was my introduction to DeviantART.

Yeah, being on DA at eight years old probably screwed my brain up. But to me, it was a magical hub full of art, games, anything you could think of, DA had it. This site was magical. Everything. Especially, if you were a little autistic kid with special interests, special interests that people loved creating for. I still remember when I first discovered DA had a Phoenix Wright dressup game. It was crude, sure, but it was so cute! I also remember adoring the games and art created by Princess-Peachie and Steffne, studying it obsessively.

What pushed me to actively create on the web, however, were roleplaying groups on that very site.

I was super into Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, and wanted to join all the PMD roleplays happening at this time, so I joined DeviantART at age 11. These roleplay communities inspired me to actively pursue drawing as not just a fun activity I did all the time, but as a way to create art. Even if it was just OC doodles. And so, I practically lived on DeviantART, talking to everyone and roleplaying my epic cool Pikachu OC, but I valued most my profile.

Back then, if you had a subscription to the site, you unlocked Custom Boxes, which were big boxes where you could place in custom HTML, such as images of ANY kind, links to whatever you wanted, audio players, and even change the background of these boxes! It was no Myspace, but to an 11 year old, this was otherworldly. I learned how to code through copypasting and paying for codes initially, only for when Sta.sh Writer to come out and make it even easier for child!me to learn.

You see, Sta.sh Writer had it to where you could type in either rich text editing, or straight up code. Now, you could easily switch between the two as needed, meaning if you wanted to dazzle your profile and didn't know how to code, you could type in and paste in everything in rich text mode, then convert it to code, copypaste the code into the Custom Box(es) and you were good!

It also provided an easy way to learn to code, just by copying the thing that seemed to make the music play, or the thing that made pictures show up!

Ever since, I have lived on DA, drawing, posting art, roleplaying, getting yelled at by weird stampmakers, being flashbanged with fetish art and suddenly discovering you have a new fetish now, yanno, the usual! It wasn't perfect, but to me, this was the only social media that mattered. I later joined Facebook at 14 to talk to my IRL friends at the time, and now it's a tool for my dad to send me cursed images, but it wasn't what the real me was. Tumblr took off, but I didn't quite get it, and was too scared to join after the horror stories I heard at the time.

However, in 2019, DeviantART Eclipse was coming. New accounts were forced to be under Eclipse without any way to turn it off. Eclipse made the site basically unusable, destroying all the fun HTML I spent years building, as well as throwing out any ability to search properly. And also, making the site slower than if I were to make that very computer from my childhood run Crysis. I tried to make it work, but it wasn't for me. People were leaving and I saw the writing on the wall.

From that day onward, I just floated on whatever normie ahh social media was out there, going insane from how gentrified and bland these sites had become by that point. Floating on, without any purpose, feeling stifled, I can't slap a funny dance gif onto the page...

Then, I discovered Neocities, and began relearning how to code. It was a slow, grueling process, and this site has had a few different looks before now. Now, it's here, with all of me that Neocities' servers will allow!