Blogger's Anthem

April 5th, 2026

I remember using the internet before I could even really read. I would dictate to my mom to search for Sonic the Hedgehog fanpages, and click around looking at the art therein. I’d call her over again and again to read things out loud to me when there weren’t any more pictures to give context. I remember spending what felt like endless hours pouring over pages and pages of Neopets; reading through years of comics on the Neopian times, archives of forgotten sitewide events, and surfing users’ profiles and pet pages.

Rookie Magazine launched when I was 13, and I was a daily reader through late 2015-ish. It was the first actual blog I ever got invested in. I still spend time browsing it on the wayback machine when I need some comfort. I was a Tumblr user off and on from 2012 to 2022. I got a lot of Twitter followers for posting good furry art when I was in college. My life circumstances in 2020 drove me actually crazy and made me choose to quit posting on one platform, then another, then another. Sharing had stopped being fun and voluntary a long time ago, and I felt worse and worse any time I opened a feed on my phone or laptop.

I found out about Neocities in 2020, and at first thought I ought to use it to make a portfolio website for myself. I had a pinch of html knowledge from my personal history on the net, but not enough to put something significant together. I procrastinated on that and just went surfing other folks’ sites from time to time for a couple years. I found out more about the web revival movement, and the perspectives people were bringing to their personal sites. This motivated me, and eventually, I started picking at code again, and over a few years of trying, learned enough to build a site from scratch myself. I spent a long while making different layouts and trying to figure out what I would actually use my site for once it was up.

I still don’t know what the point or significance of all this will be, but I’ve decided a couple things:

  1. This is not a professional portfolio for my work. I would rather make anything but that right now.
  2. I need a place to express myself and feel safe doing so. I’ve had a lot of problems with this that range from needless pretensions to actual real-life trauma. So consider this Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in html form.
  3. I just want to challenge myself to stay consistent, even when I don’t want to.

Here’s hoping it works out!