Why does this place look all ... like this?

I grew up with the internet. I was forged in the fires of RP forums, neopets guilds, and geocities. The internet used to have a punk-rock wild-west energy: anyone could make anything, and the attention economy didn't yet exist. It wasn't convenient, or particularly useable, but boy was it earnest.

I'm a content creator. That means that I make stuff that I publish on other people's platforms and then people see that stuff and follow me and then never see anything else I make unless an algorithm decides they want to see it. I'm over it. I'm tired of the feed, and what it's doing to our brains and by extension our societies. I'm tired of making stuff for free to help some war criminal make his next billion. I just want to make stuff earnestly. Stuff that's less shiny. Stuff that's just fun.

I hand-coded this site in HTML (no chatGPT or website builder here!) with the skills I developed as a weird little preteen making weird little websites. The code *isn't great*, but I love it all the same. I see this kind of earnest, kinda janky, creation as an analogy for TTRPG itself: we're not trying to write a masterpiece, we're just trying to tell stories in a world that considers any kind of leisure or play-pretend frivolous.

This site is hosted on neocities, a modern geocities revival. I own everything that's here. I have a local copy on my computer, and a backup. Even if neocities goes under, I'll never lose this site. And that's heartening. I want to make things that aren't just filler between ads: I want to make things I can care for and love for a long time.

A lot of the aesthetics of this site are based off zines -- kinda shitty homemade magazines that punks use to talk about their feelings or a dog they saw or the nature of the universe or the revolution. I make zines too, and I'm looking forward to sharing them with you.

Love the retro vibe? Want to make your own website?

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