About this site

Last year I got into personal sites through discovering Neocities on Artfight. Seeing all the cool sites really inspired me to join in (and at least try to make my own site).
I mainly wanted to create this space as a place to share my OCs and art, my TTRPG thoughts (as well as homebrew content) and just to ramble about things I like.

History on the Internet

I first made contact with the internet when I got my grandpa's old laptop, back when I was still a child.
I spent a lot of time on a german search engine for kids called "Blinde Kuh" (which sadly lost support back in 2024 I just found out). I used to look at the kids social media sites provided by various different german kids TV channels at the time, too.
Flashgame sites were my real home, though. I remember booting up my laptop, and playing these games for ungodly amounts of time each saturday and sunday. My favourite was a very interactive hair styling game (you actually could cut, dye and style each strand, instead of just selecting premade hairstyles).
I would look through the old Sims 3 Community page, look at people's sims and get my CC from their creations. Youtube was discovered through Avatar the Last Airbender edits to Otto Walkes songs. Later I would watch mermaiding videos with great obsession.
My interests usually led to new discoveries on the internet. The Sims made me search old forum style sites for new information on the mermaids in Island Living (even though the screenshots and info were all the same), my sudden obsession with Sonic lead me to discover Deviantart. I still have my old account too.

Social Media

Most of my early social media use was for the games. I made a facebook account just to play Pet Paradise with friends. Facebook was my second choice, because the german social media for high school students (or uni students) required an invitation.
Deviantart really was my first proper interaction with social media. I would read comments, journals, lurk in clubs. I curated by favourites meticulously.
Sonic eventually made way for Vocaloid. I downloaded all the songs from youtube (often in poor quality too) and converted them to MP3. My bus journey to school was spent blasting my ears off with tragic tails of Kagamine Len dying.
From vocaloid I moved to Homestuck, through which I discovered tumblr. Tumblr really became my main social media site from 2013 to 2018.
I interacted with so many fandoms through it, although I never really posted myself.

In 2018 I left tumblr for twitter, as many people did at the time. I reflowed a bunch of familiar faces, but also found a lot of new people.
Twitter was a lot less curated then tumblr, I never saw much drama there. I don't know if it was because I did not interact with things that I didn't find interesting or because I simply managed to avoid it all together.
But on twitter, it really wasn't avoidable.
The shorter from content made it much easier to interact with all sorts of things, even if you didn't find it all that interesting. And the algorithm made it borderline impossible to escape the constant discourse.

It wasn't always as bad, it slowly crept in. But by 2020 I was much more negative, my twitter use much more unhealthy and frequent, and most of the time I didn't even see things I wanted to.
Instagram became much more relevant to me as many of my new peers used it all the time, and would send me memes and reels. I had managed to stay off of short form content sites for so long. But at last, instagram managed to creep in.

I turned notifications off originally, but it also meant that I was out of the loop. Friends would ask if I watched the things they sent, I didn't even know they sent things.
I turned notifications on, and me checking maybe once a month turned into checking multiple times per day. At first I only watched videos people sent me, then I started to scroll myself.
Around that time I started to draw more again, as I revived an old DnD campaign. And making things myself instead of just consuming really fucking helped.
I also watched a lot of youtube, basically from when I discovered it. Back in the day it really wasn't too much of a problem. I would rewatch the same few edits over and over again. But as content shifted to longer and longer formats, my youtube habit became more and more unhealthy too.

I was always too shy to really interact or post on social media, so most of them were very passive for me. I guess it is good in some ways, it means I loose less when I stop using them as much.
With Musk buying up twitter, I spent less and less time on it, before leaving for bluesky. Most artists I followed moved there, so I did, too. I kind of like bluesky, not because of it's features, but because it's boring. I really just check for 3 minutes and then close out.

The Indieweb

Around that time I found neocities and it's many personal sites. It came at a perfect time, I want to express myself, but social media always felt like a prison. The ability to express yourself freely by making your own site appealed to me. It feels so much safer, so much nicer.

Changelog

• 2026-06-04: Made the site, very basic but it is a start!
• 2026-06-07: Added a changelog, a bunch of widgets, a sitemap, made a proper credits page and edited the preexisting pages a bit.
• 2026-06-14: Added more widgets, art assets, made a button, added 'neighbour site'