About
Hi! As forementioned I am a weeby computer science graduate. I made this site in between applying to jobs the summer after I graduated college. My motives were to remind myself that programming can be fun and creative amist the stress of techincal interview prep, to experiment with CSS, and to make an outlet to write about whatever specific or niche stuff I want. I'm now working full time as a software developer (yay job hunt succeeded) so I don't have as much time for this site anymore, but will come back once and a while to keep chipping away at it. My job is mostly React and backend so it's nice to do some HTML and CSS and plain ole Javascript. At the very least I will always come back to update my Perfume page whenever they drop a new album teehee.
Brief History of Me and the Internet
When I was in middle school I would go with my friends to the public library across the street almost every day after school to play on the computers. We loved virtual pet sites, and it was on their forums where I first started coding to make profiles, posts and signatures using HTML, CSS, and BBCode. I also started drawing, initially with a mouse and MSPaint or online Oekaki boards, and I even made my own adoptable website at one point using a now-defunct website builder called myvirtualpet or something. It all looked horrible, in fact I recently found this authentic screenshot on my old PhotoBucket account so you can have an idea of what I was working with back then. But, I made it all with my own hands and that was all that mattered. I like Neocities as it captures that same DIY creative energy largely missing from the Internet nowadays.
Brief History of Me and Animation
Also starting in middle school I was very into cartoons, specifically the most popular 3 at the time: Adventure Time, Steven Universe and Gravity Falls. However, around 2016 Gravity Falls ended, Steven Universe was constantly going on months-long hiatuses, and Adventure Time was no longer holding my attention for whatever reason and so I got bored with cartoons.
However I was still very interested in art and animation, leading me to anime. The glimpses of it on my Tumblr dashboard had me intrigued, and it seemed like there was just so much more of it to explore. I had seen posts about how Steven Universe referenced Sailor Moon, Evangelion and Utena so I started with those 3 so that I could get the references? Honestly kinda embarassing and definitely not the best anime to start with (pretty sure I only followed like 5% of Eva/Utena on my first watch). But I guess they were effective, since I never have stopped watching anime since then. More recently I've also gotten into anime-adjacent stuff like voice actors, and have been looking into Japanese music outside of anime themes.
However I've never really considered myself much of a fandom person. I enjoy some fan content like analysis, discussions and fanart, but not other stuff like fanfic or shipping which dominate some fan spaces. So, another thing I like about Neocities is being able to engage with media on my own terms (aka word vomitting onto a web page with a target audience of me), in a more relaxed setting away from the craziness of Tumblr or Twitter fandom.
Faves
Anime: Jojo Diamond is Unbreakable, Hunter x Hunter, Kaiji, Shirobako, Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun, Sound Euphonium, Saiki K, Haikyuu... and many more (see my recommendation box on the home page)
Cartoons: Gravity Falls, Over the Garden Wall, Adventure Time, King of the Hill
J-music: Perfume, Sakanaction, Mukai Taichi, Fujii Kaze
Other music: Owl City, Daft Punk, various anime/tv/movie/game OSTs, electronic pop in general, some kpop on a song-by-song basis, some classical and big band swing (was a band kid)
Hobbies: Going down YouTube rabbit holes, reading Wikipedia, going on neighborhood walks, playing flute, knitting, art, programmming (it's my job but I still do it for fun every so often lol)
Misc: Drawfee