new blog just dropped??

so! hi! if you're here you must have heard the news -

i'm blogging here now! maybe! i think!

i'm still trying to figure out how exactly to do that, for now each post is its own page. isn't that fun? yeah, we'll see if that can stay as time goes on.

but!! i'm excited to be able to do my own thing, however i like. and i like web design, so this is good!

ok, cool, but why are you doing this?

so there's this cool (sarcasm) thing that's been happening lately where the few social media platforms i bother with are both going downhill.

twitter's the obvious one, everyone knows about the figurative dumpster fire it's become since muskrat took over. luckily i wasn't very active leading up to that either though because i moved to tumblr!

except that, tumblr's been like, progressively twitter- and tiktok-ifying to the detriment of anything anyone (myself included) liked about the site. the final straw for me was them removing the option to snooze tumblr live*, which i've refused to touch with a 10 foot pole.

* previously, there was a "snooze tumblr live for 7 days" option, which removed the service from the dashboard and, critically, the toolbar at the bottom. now, there is an option to "snooze tumblr live on your dashboard", which removes the service from the dashboard only for 30 days at a time. this means the annoying ass icon is on the toolbar all the time and it makes me want to explode

so yeah uh.

i considered trying bluesky but honestly i'm just so tired of putting my online presence in someone else's hands at this point. so here we are! in my own hands.

and yeah i guess neocities' hands, but i don't think that will be an issue, since my problem was "person in charge of website drives it into the ground" and i'm person in charge of website.

wait... does this mean your socials are going away?

it depends! most of them, no. i'll be keeping my tumblr, and all the other inactive socials i have lol.

i don't usually get much interaction on my tumblr anyway, but i'll still check it every once in a while, maybe answer asks if i get any. those are cool :>

i'll continue to be active on toyhou.se too - though i treat toyhouse more like an archive for art and writing than a social media app. but like, i'm on there!

i will be deleting my twitter, though. i've already deleted some of my side accounts, and intend to delete my main account(s) as well.

is your github site going away?

haven't decided yet! but probably not. it's likely to change though, it's not that old but already the code looks so bad to me.

however, the github site is already outdated in a few key ways, so i'll probably try to fix those up or replace them here?

neocities is just easier on my brain i think, because i can't sit and stew on an update for 5 years - i have to hit that save button or it's gone haha

alright, i think that's all i have to say for now. thanks for showing up! have a good one!