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 licenced 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. Also this seems a good place to say that trans rights are human rights!!

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 via TRAMP; 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 Debian 12. 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 and 88x31 buttons (there was something here about iframes, but … I got rid of the iframes).

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 also believe that the profit-orientated nature of many of the largest online platforms is a direct cause of censorship and that expressing one’s beliefs online should be divorced from any kind of for-profit infrastructure. This is one of the reasons why I don’t use social media.

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).

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. In light of this, anyone who stops by is welcome to interact with me, but I don’t wish to cultivate a circle of “mutuals” and therefore I’m not interested in “making friends” online, so commenting functions are usually anonymous and I’d prefer not to be told about people’s personal lives. This is another of the reasons why I don’t use social media.