non dmo zone

public diary

wips & working my creative writing muscles

January 21 2025

removed links to encountering the anomaly for now—I want to rework it and make it more of a true supplement to the story I'm working on. eventually it'll become a novella-size, arg-style thing that you can browse alongside the story. published somewhere. I really don't know! having this site has really gotten me thinking about how to make more multimedia art & I'm really not upset about it. god, I missed old web design so much and I didn't even realize it slipped away so quickly in favor of sleek, same-y websites.

art curation & more

January 20 2025

added a new page! a while back I saw a street interview where a woman was asked what she'd do as a dream career; she said she had the degrees to become a museum curator but not the experience. the interviewer asked why she hadn't given herself the permission to do it: started her own newsletter or website where she did just that. pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps attitude aside, it stuck with me. I've been thinking about different ways to do it, either through substack or a tumblr blog but I think placing it here is just fine, too. it's more... mine, I suppose, that way. I made the website, I curate the exhibit, and you're welcome to browse. :)
in more personal updates, I had lunch and coffee with a friend who I hadn't seen in too long, and had a delicious cauliflower-garlic-cheddar soup for dinner with sourdough croutons. I'm starting to sketch architectural studies of buildings I find interesting. I dunno—being off tiktok and social media in general has really helped with me being more creative. it feels nice. like a return to my true self. much to unpack there.

a third week of self-guided study

January 19 2025

been trying to beat back the ~sunday scaries~ with sessions of self-guided study where I go to a large library (bpl) and browse the stacks, picking out something I like and just flipping through. learned about the nettime collective, and how it was one of the defining things for early web & digital art in the 90s.
also looked through two books of Nam June Paik's work, which I've always been enamored with! I love digital sculpture so much. it was so nice to take my time with it & think about the process behind the pieces, especially some of the installations he's done.
and finally - I'm learning to use scrivener at its full potential! the corkboard feature is honestly so powerful & I can't believe I ignored it in favor of keeping notes on the chapters themselves. learning to work in a nonlinear fashion for writing fiction (outlining & writing as I please) has been a real game changer.

oh to be at the family pc again

January 18 2025

lots of little additions to the site! status box, the blinkie collection (it will grow), and links for a webring (ghostring) app. also: working on a creative writing project I've had kicking around for a couple months.
it'll definitely be a published thing at some point, the web project is more of a supplemental and an exercise in doing mixed media/ARG-type extra content.

just had the best banh mi of my life ngl

January 17 2025

pro tip, throw your delivery meal in the toaster oven when it gets to your place. warms it up and makes it all toasty. not really thinking about doing much tonight but tomorrow I'll prob be out most of the day just to give myself a change of scenery & write somewhere that's not my apartment. on that front: glad I started listening to the magnus archives. still workshopping a few things. but it's going well. it's all coming together :)

okay I think I'm getting the hang of the webdev process

January 16 2025

New layout & some widgets! Liking the overall look of things, it's mine and not based on any one template (def inspired by a few other sites I've seen though) and I'm super proud of it so far. (✿◡‿◡) I should definitely switch things over to a private repository. I know everyone's going to be able to see this anyway, but it might be better just in practice. Also tried my hand at an Idle Game Maker game—a simple one, just to fuck around with it. Based on the Discord bot Mudae's kakera (point) system, to honor the patron gods that have gained some notoriety among us.

does the ruby gem work

January 15 2025

If you're seeing this, then the ruby gem works! No idea what went wrong with the Github action.
In other news, the Discord server's JPEG trading card game has developed a pantheon. May The Giant Rat Who Makes All of the Rules, Monkey Blue, and Uta bless our rolls.

genuinely lucky

January 14 2025

That's all.
Aside: damn, Neocities whips. This shit is fun as hell.

great googly moogly it's all gone to shit

January 13 2025

Hey so does anyone know why we're working so hard? Like genuinely, what are we doing all of this for?

The Cream of the Crop

January 11 2025

The cream rises to the top. Waiting on a delivery, attending a belated Christmas party.

The Taco Bell Tolls For Thee

January 10 2025

None of the Taco Bells around me will deliver, and I can't order the nuggets from the ones that do deliver.

Site Update: Theme & Blog

January 9 2025

Finally got around to setting up this page! Figured it may be nice to have an old-school blog that's a bit more lowkey than a Substack post. And, frankly, I'm enamored with the ways that the old internet (per se) is creeping back into the mainstream. Delightful to see—excited to be a part of it.