This site is where I host some of my projects (pretty much exclusively). You can follow updates via various decentralised channels. If I had to sum up what the site is about, I suppose it’s a “fandom website” broadly speaking, but also a place for me to experiment with CSS and occasionally post opinions into the void.
The contents of this site are licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0. 
In short: feel free to use anything I create as long as you link to the original on my site and aren’t deriving any financial gain from it. This also holds as a transformative works policy/blanket statement.
All pages on the site are configured to send a Restricted To Adults response.
If you’d like to link to my site, here are some non-aesthetic buttons:
- 50 x 50:
- 88 x 31:
- 200 x 40:
Check the siteroll for a list of other cool websites I enjoy. Mutual relationships aren’t required.
Shtack
credit: some buttons sourced via here and here
I use NearlyFreeSpeech for domain registration/DNS, and a Vultr VPS running Debian for hosting. Some pages are written in HTML, CSS, XSL, and occasionally JavaScript on Emacs while sshed into the server; others (sitemap, trackers, journal, fic archive) are generated by Python, Lisp, and/or Bash scripts that I write, also in Emacs, on a Lenovo ThinkBook running Ubuntu. I don’t use any third-party static site generators because they have various features I don’t need, and it’s much more fun to write my own anyway.
I test the site almost exclusively in a Chromium browser (Vivaldi), so users of other browsers may experience minor layout issues. I use Termius to ssh into the server on the go (I’m sorry to say) and make edits when I notice unforgivable typos.
Design
I’m a bit suspicious of “old web” nostalgia for its own sake and I do try to include elements of modern technologies where they’re useful; not in the sense of blockchain and NFTs lol, but more in that everything is mobile-friendly (because tbh most of my web browsing is done on my phone in bed). Devices set to prefer dark mode will display the site accordingly. JavaScript is used here and there, but sparingly, and I include fallbacks for non JS-enabled devices. Posts are syndicated to the fediverse (and Bluesky, sigh) via Bridgy Fed, and I implement RelMeAuth as an identity verification method.
At the same time, this site includes some “old web”-esque features that I’ve gradually come to accept, such as webring and fanlisting memberships, 88x31 buttons, and even … dare I say it … the occasional iframe in the fic archive pages.
I mostly avoid having page URLs conform to any standard notion of “slash pages” because I think the whole point of having one’s own website is the freedom to deviate from standardised structures rather than replicating them. Also I find it incredibly weird that many of these very anodyne URLs have “creators”? Is the capitalist brainrot so entrenched that we need to assert ownership over the naming of a page people put on their websites?
Ideology
I use computers in my job but don’t work in an IT-related field, so this site is a hobby for me. I don’t want to make money from it; on the contrary, I’m happy to spend (fairly small amounts of) money on the hosting and domain name. I think the “monetise your side hustle” culture promoted in many online spaces is very damaging and I prefer to draw a clear boundary between my professional and amateur activities.
I strongly believe in the right to lurk online; this site includes no analytics or tracking functions, no hit counters, no connection with any neocities profile. You can look at as much or as little as you like and I’ll remain blissfully unaware.
To guard against context collapse, the site is not indexed on any search engines (or rather, if it is, it’s being done against my will).
Here’s the bit I left until last because it’s difficult to explain without sounding incredibly unhinged, but I’ll start with the least unhinged part of it. Maintaining a personal website rather than social media is a way for me to retain total control over the form and content of what I put online. I left social media and turned to my site instead partly as a way of escaping the hypercapitalist walled gardens of the mainstream internet, but also partly because even in spaces that were more overtly critical of the dominant social media model such as Dreamwidth, despite attempts to integrate into what I perceived as established communities, I never had much success in doing this. I think the focus on “mutuals” in many online fandom spaces leads to a general reluctance to interact with those who aren’t already part of one’s own circle, and promotes an insularity that at its worst extremes leads to DNI lists and the policing of strangers’ morality. Therefore, I don’t set out to make friends on the internet, but to share whatever random ideas come into my head while welcoming responses from anyone regardless of whether we have a preexisting relationship.
