I discovered the rabbit hole that was the Neocities project very recently as of writing this, (July 1st 2023), and it was really hard to describe just how overwhelmingly smitten by the concept I was. The first night alone I spent hours clicking through link after link after link of one custom webpage after another. From one page looking like a Windows XP desktop, to another that was a digital stickerbook. There was something obscenely wholesome and comforting about seeing a community of vibrant and active folks making pages like I only dreamed of trying to make myself back on Neopets circa 2006. (The bg music for the home page and this one, are some of the first songs I’ve ever heard on a website, hence why a lot of the songs I wanted to use here are converted from Midi’s :D Same goes for the theming of this page being based on the site I remember hearing this music first playing on. It described a little cozy winter cabin of somesort that a Cybunny had made its home in and invited folk over for some warm tea or cocoa.)

I had realized from exploring these pages, my passion from wanting to learn and create pixel art was never from the games I grew up with on SNES or DS like I’d once guessed, but far more from the web and mmo’s during the early 00s. Candybar doll maker, Maplestory, Gaia Online, this realization just hit me like a lead brick and made me more excited at the thought of my own space on the web than I’ve ever felt in a long long time.

I’ve always enjoyed website customization, but simultaneously intimidated from the thought of building HTML from scratch. So something that’s made this all the more exciting is just h o w many more resources there are now to learn from than what was around when I was a kid. Nevermind discovering I’d already learned a number of basics without realizing it thanks to little description tricks for playing around with formatting on deviantArt way back when.

This website is a space for me to just make a little online journal of sorts. Not any one topic or motive behind it. Just sharing cool things I’ve found or collected over the years and never really get the excuse to gush about otherwise.~ Plus from the pixel art side of things, the sense of community with sharing and building out collections of art in cute ways like decorative towns, charm bracelets, sticker books, ect, is something that took my heart the moment I saw it.

Full stop, don't copy/paste code onto your own page bit for bit. That's not cool. B u t, as long as you do so with the goal to learn and transform it into something unique to y o u, feel free to inspect & splice the coding around here on your own sites for figuring out how things work~ Credits for the original bases and such I’ve cobbled can be found in the footer, but I also left notes along the way of me chipping at or editing things to explain what different parts of the code do. Mostly so I don’t forget by the next time I go back an edit anything .;D