Howdy, partner.
To be clear, this is NOT MY ART! I wish I could draw wish good.
This website is gonna be littered with pieces of art I did not make. I'll always try to credit the original.
In this case, you can find this artwork titled "Krimmie Wayne in ‘The Searchers’" and more like it in the catalogue of the wonderful Felice House.
Welcome to my own little corner of the internet.
It's all mine and you can't have it.
Some people who know me might be asking by this point, "Thalia, why did you make a website?" or perhaps "If you were gonna make a website, why make it look like...this?"
For the first question, I have a lot of creative projects and also opinions and in some fruitless act of protest against the predatory and comically evil tech companies who have shoved their flag deep into the collecitve unconsciousness and will do anything for a slightly bigger share of it. Don't get me wrong, I'm not claiming superiority over anyone. Most of my writing is on Google Docs, where it's probably been fed through eight million different LLMs and vomited out into some C student's English essay. And I doomscroll a lot. Way too much. I'm hoping to channel that energy towards something more productive, and this is one of those attempts. Humor me.
For the second question, I don't want this to be corperate or sleek or anything. I'm coding this from the ground up, with some help from our wonderful sponsor Neocities (who only gives 1 GB with the free version so I'm gonna have to live a little frugally here), I want it to be uniquely mine. The writing will be cringe. The design will be messy. And probably only 5 or 6 people will ever read most of the things on here. AND THAT IS OKAY. One of the most important things we lose when we "grow up" is the joy of creation for its own sake.
This website will never be finished. It will eventually be abandoned someday. And that's okay.
That's kind of just a general theme I'm going for with this website. A personal no-judgement zone. This isn't a resume. Resumes are boring. Resumes involve pretending you simultaniously think far more and far less of yourself than you actually do. I hope to inspire other people to stop being as much of a perfectionist as I am.
BOO!
Did I scare you?
This website is run by a transgender woman. I use she/her pronouns. My hope in disclosing this on the main page is that in my humble experience, this flag often causes undesirable people to have their faces dissolve like that one scene in Indiana Jones. Hopefully this also scares away racists, misogynists, genocide apologists, MAGA supporters, Harry Potter fans, and Jeff the Killer.
And before anyone says "so much for the tolerant left" I never said I was tolerant.
Let's get on to what this website is actually going to feature.
I've always been a creatively minded person, and my friends have been subjected to many a rant about random niche topics. I don't just glaze or slander what other people make, though. I like making stuff of my own! Mainly writing. I plan to store some of my creative writing on this website, so if Google Docs ever decides to obliterate my account from existence, I won't have to reupload the files from my hard drive to another website, because I already did that. Finally I'll also use this website to shout out a variety of creatives who's work I reccomend, from artists I know personally to celebrities who I would not be able to form a coherant sentence around if somehow I ever met them, because I'd be too busy trying to hold back my inner cringe fangirl.
This website is all about me and what I'm interested in. You know what you're in for.
Below should be some links to the various catagories I will be storing my musings in.
Heh? See what I did there?
Musings? Get it?
I know, I know, I deserve the chair.