#im excited about my website

[bokuwatetsuo]

hello i overhauled my neocities recently and i've posted some art and ""articles" to it so far. an album review and thoughts on the akira anime series. working on another "article" (essay?) about webmastery. i plan on more and adding shrines/fanpages eventually

my website is best viewable on firefox, 1920 x 1080 displays (i don't have the coding experience or time to make a responsive layout yet)

[ribbitflings]

the absolute fucking letdown when youre excited af about something cool you found that pertains to your interests—thats like a gold mine or candy shop for you—and you try to share it with other people so they can enjoy it too, only to be met with disinterest or feeble attempts at feigning interest

[the-interidiot]

wow my impatient ass already gave up on that sideblog just bc 20 minutes passed and nobody checked it out (i literally only think like two of my moots are even online why did i post it right now when i knew i would immediately get discouraged if people didnt see it)

[guinevereslancelot]

applied to a bunch of jobs! 😅🙏

[the-lavender-clown]

GUYS ITS HAPPENING

GUESS WHO FINALLY PLACED THEIR FIRST STICKER ORDER AND BOUGHT SHIPPING THINGS FROM AMAZON!!!!

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

a little Welcome Home theory that's probably me looking entirely too much into a single line <3

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so i was clicking through the site for the thousandth time and this line caught my eye. maybe its 4 am and i haven't slept, maybe i'm onto something. who knows!

but this little thing... "and lively sets unlike anything seen before!". yeah, it could just be them propping up the show. OR maybe the puppets have been alive the whole time, fully autonomous but entirely unaware that they are puppets on a show. maybe to them, the neighborhood is real, and they simply cannot comprehend the presence of humans so their puppet minds don't register them. this could make for a "cosmic horror but for puppets" spin, which would be sick as fuck

their daytime is when the studio lights are on and people are around. idk how the people would teach them the scripts - maybe they did it at "night"? or maybe there was no script, and the puppets would automatically come up with their own shenanigans, dialogue, and segments that aligned with the show, bc that's what they were made for.

bc its not like the whrp team have physical puppets, or much other than art & reports, right? any information on the puppets - like Howdy being rotated between live-hand and walk-around - could've easily been a lie by the creators of the Welcome Home show. i mean, i don't think it would've gone down well if they came out and said "yeah the puppets are alive"

and now that i'm wondering how they could have living puppets, weren't the 60s/70s chock full of cults? could the WH creators have dipped into the occult to create living puppets for a ground breaking, popular, lucrative show, using minimal effort because "the show writes itself"? all they have to do is film and maybe change the puppets' costumes. if that - they could have set up hidden cameras or something.

and this is gonna sound even more far-fetched, but what if creating the puppets required human souls to power them? im not suggesting that the puppets have locked away memories from a "human life", bc that would be uh... a lot. but it's enough that given time and the right prompts, they could gain awareness, and maybe the soul does influence them in minor ways - in likes and dislikes etc.

and Wally being aware means that he fully saw the humans running the show. and maybe the occult thing is what's under Home - the source of black magic that brought the puppets to life seeping out. and he's aware because he looked into that source and it flipped a switch in his lil cotton brain

maybex2 this is what caused the show to not only shut down, but be wiped from existence. the magic seeped into Home, maybe killing someone in the process, and Wally was revealed as aware. maybe on live television. so the creators panicked and shut it all down, tried to destroy everything and gaslight the country into forgetting it ever existed. maybe in the hopes that once no one remembers the puppets, the magic will leech out of them and leave them lifeless

and that loops back into Wally being the only one referred to in present tense in the neighborhood bios. he's still aware, maybe trapped in the studio, alone. i mean, i sure hope he's not alone - i hope he has his friends with him. unless they're all decommissioned (dead)... maybe Wally is trying to bring them all back or "fix" them?

but then there's the case of all of this currently going down online. have the puppets' consciousness somehow been transferred to the internet? or has Wally gotten his little felt mittens on a computer? something else? and then there's the whrp team... could they be fake, and its really just Wally trying to cobble together the remains of his life/friends? i mean, the Question-Answerer sounds like a title a kid or naive puppet would come up with. people would've called them the Curator or somethin?

i have too many thoughts

[danielnelsen]

update: peach is doing very well!! she's eating and sleeping normally (sleeping more than normal, really, but that's to be expected)!! after 3 days of not sleeping and a few changes in painkillers, she finally just napped for an hr then, after another day, slept through the whole night (and most of the next day). she's started following all her usual routines again and is very keen to eat! still on some painkillers, but they're not having any horrific side effects anymore

now that im not staying up to keep an eye on her all night (while also dealing with upgrading my computer and my phone and also my sister preparing to go overseas and the dogs barking and howling constantly due to all of the above), i finally got some decent sleep too and slept for about 14 hrs. so today ive got that weird shakiness that i get from sleeping too much, but hey it's better than the whole of the last week

[witherfide]

oaiwhwjwjw i just want to attack some ppl but i can’t look at anyone’s refs rn :,(

still not entirely sure what i do yet

i just.. find someone’s character i like then draw it?

and they may or may not attack me?

i appreciate how laidback it is but my autism needs very specific instructions or else i short-circuit from the fear of doing something wrong

[clawsextended]

a note: i tend to make memes their own thread for the sake of if the other person would like to continue it. memes are far more efficient than starter calls and tend to spark ideas much easier. beyond that, as a person with adhd, i know sometimes the additional step of making a new thread discourages me from continuing memes and i tend to lose motivation just because of that extra button-click. me making a meme its own thread is literally just me trying to give the other person the opportunity to make it a thread if they want to without having to go through the linking and creating step.

[bookie-the-reading-junkie]

I'm realizing that I want to learn Japanese. Not because I want to watched anime without subtitles (based) but because I want to read academic articles about agriculture (cringe).

Legitimately, if the reason was anime/manga, that would be less embarrassing for me, please explain that to me

[oyhcomic]

HI. i ended up binging ur comic last night it's really good!! drew me in with the story mode intrigue, hooked by the characters! and im obsessed with how you draw expressions and teeth :] def looking forward to where this comic goes!

AHHH I'm so glad!!! I love drawing big wacky expressions.....drawing the comic's so much fun, i'm so happy you enjoyed!! I'm working on the next chapter as we speak, and so excited to do so!

Ive gotta upload more doodles/fun stuffs, i've just been disorganized and trying to redux my file organization to be better for the future...pray for me x_x" In the meantime here are some explorations/sketches for later~

[planet4546b]

long post about nano below ehehe :) wanted to put some thoughts all in one place!!!

tenth year in a row of finishing nano which is crazy to me!! 500,000 words of various projects!!! im not sure why exactly this challenge works so well with my brain but it seems to. i had sorta thought at the beginning of the month that this might be my last year doing it becuase ive been doing it so long + seems like a good stopping point, but i truly had so much fun this year that im already looking forward to next year.

feel like it was a successful month too, i LOVE short stories and was able to avoid some of the short story stumbling blocks i got caught on last year because it was my second year doing them. i have a better sense for the feeling of west faraday as a place and the ways i want to keep talking about it, and how i wanna tie general thematics to it's worldbuilding. its also bonkers to me to be writing something for nano with the intent of actually publishing it somewhere, i've literally never done that and im so excited to publish these on the signoise website!!! writing them knowing both how they tie into the overall plot as a part of samira's history (being able to know each story was filtered through her was just so much fun to play with on a meta level) and knowing how they'll be presented gives me a clearer idea of what im doing. and its FUN!!!!!

possibly the first year i am ending nano looking forward to continue writing in the weeks ahead, im gonna try to write weekly so i can have a pretty big backlog of posts for the site. and im excited for that!!!! i want to explore more!!!!! i love writing!!!!

anyways keep an eye out for when i finish cleaning up the signoise neocities and post the link to that on here because that's where all 25 of these short stories are gonna go eventually. love you all <3

[iridescentis]

im actually going to fucking cry

i spent so long and i had 5 minutes left on the timer and just as i made an account the website crashed and timed me out ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME

[ikosburneraccount]

thinking back to my tlc posts in 2015-16 i was soooooo valid for calling kai “emperor foot fetish.” like i genuinely thought i was being dramatic or dragging tf out of the foot jokes but no. even in retrospect kai is still unhinged for hoarding her foot like he is no less insane than i remember him being like 7 (BARF) years ago 

[superfluouskeys]

scorched earth (2/?)

Note: This story is set in the world of my very long Maleficent/Aurora fanfiction The Prisoner (which you can read here if you want), but focuses almost entirely on original characters.  There is no need to read The Prisoner to understand what is going on--this story stands on its own and will give you all the background info you need.  Please also note the general content warning; I will not give specific warnings by chapter.

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It is Abigail who finds her.

Senna knows this because Abigail is possessed of a particularly piercing scream, and this is the first thing that draws Senna back into the world of the living.

Read More (AO3)

[ambersky0319]

if i had the ability to scream id wanna scream in happiness rn