loves:
medieval weaponry, kewpie babies, sewing, collages, historical fashion, drawing, cooking, art history, victorian cemeteries, hiking, fall in new england, fruit teas

music:
japanese breakfast, purity ring, WIM, simon & garfunkel, ruth etting, joywave, everytime i die, ethel cain, zheani, pussy riot, the strokes, sailorr, jeff satur, bts, seventeen, got7, exo, monsta x, shinee, gemini, moon sujin, dawn, luna li, patrickananda, zou peipei, ichiko aoba, IC3PEAK,

k & c dramas:
kingdom, hometown cha cha cha, the good bad mother, blossom, the princess royal, love between fairy and devil

movies:
pride and prejudice, in the mood for love, vampire hunter d: bloodlust, paddington 2, lord of the rings, christopher robin, as above so below, funny games, black christmas, labyrinth, hellraiser

biases:
yoongi - bts
scoups - seventeen
jayb - got7
kai - exo
i.m - monsta x
key - shinee
ten - WayV

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April 5, 2025
Much like so many others out there I've grown tired of social media. The constant doom scrolling, comparing my life to others, the overload of information and opinions all at once caused the ultimate feeling of dread to bubble up to the surface that I just couldn't seem to shake. No matter how much I tried to delete my socials I kept redownloading Instagram because I thought as an artist, the only way to create and share work was through these apps. But I craved something simpler, something more quiet. I could live with not seeing another Instagram reel ever again or what celebrity couple has filed for divorce, but in the back of my mind I still wanted to show off my hobbies... is that so wrong? I love sewing and cooking, I love strolling through victorian cemeteries, going on hikes, and creating collages of all the kpop idols that I like. I love living in the moment but I also love capturing those moments as well. I wanted to share all these things but I didn't want it to be on social media. I wanted to create my own little space, and frankly...I kinda missed the days of myspace where you had your own wacky page to show off all your quirks or Xanga where I would blog about my mundane day as a middle schooler. With all that in mind I had to ask myself, would I still create even if there wasn't an "audience" per se? and That's how I landed here on neocities! There's a very interesting Substack blog I read that brought me here titled, 6 Non-Performative Ways To Track Your Hobbies And Interests in which the author writes about the troubles they've had (much like myself) of creating countless hobby profiles just to burn out. And although I've felt the negative effects on my mental health that comes along with being on social media too much, I needed to be reminded (or informed) that the internet wasn't all exhausting, there were still communities out there keeping the fun side of it alive. That being said, I am very excited to brush up on very limited knowledge of HTML & CSS to make this space as cute and personalized to me as possible and I hope I can change my relationship with the internet with it. I'm not sure if I will let anyone in my life know I have this blog, some things can be kept to myself but who knows, right now I'm just having a bit of fun.