The Interests Pile
I can be pretty scatterbrained when it comes to things that interests me. In terms of the hobbies I pursue, at least I've refined it to just a few: creative writing, learning to program in C, and managing this website. I mean unless watching YouTube and anime count as hobbies, IDK. For your clarity and my curiosity, I thought it would be pretty fun to try and list my various interests and hobbies in organized lists. If I keep this up long enough, maybe I'll make a "depreciated" section as well, who knows?
(Also Lia, if you have something you want me to link, I can do that. I'd link your Twitter or something but idk if you really even use it.)
Cool Links!
- Nice Indie Sites
- leekspin.com, my favourite website on Earth (requires Flash Player, RIP)
- Districts, a Geocities-like community built on Neocities (lots of cool sites)
- Mebious, a weird-ass site that is committed to a sick-ass, eerie aesthetic
- A decently-sized archive of 800+ GIFs, mostly of old-internet stuff
- momoirotrick.neocities.org, Very, very cute pastel art, sadly last updated in 2017 (alt pixiv link)
- 7nonsense, photographer specialising in early digital cameras
- theentireworld.com, a small LA-based clothing brand with one of the weirdest websites I have ever seen for an actual company. I'll move this to "off the small web" if they get big enough.
- ChaixTea, not sure what this exactly is about but it has perfect KH2 2006/2007 vibes AND I VIBE WITH THOSE VIBES! (Also as of 04 Dec 2020 I have bought the Kingdom Hearts Complete Collection for PS4 and am just waiting to get a hold of a PS4/5 to play it!!!)
- imisstheoffice.eu, for office BG noise if working from home makes you feel lonely
- Off of Neocities & the Small Web
- Sabrina DiDuro is the best person on Twitter, one of my biggest life inspirations
- Relaxing N64 Music
- Navajo Wikipedia is pretty, thanks d00d
- Software
Hobbies/Fascinations
- Youtube addiction (working on it)
- 90s to early 2000s anime aesthetics
- Game Consoles/hardware, esp. 4th-7th generations (SNES-PS3)
- Computer hardware in general, aka why I am learning C
- learning C lang
- Creative Writing
- Anime, especially [see front page for current obsession]
- Creating personal websites, I have so many failed blogs
Old computer hardware, especially from the mid-80s to, uhhh...- Computers, mostly after the mid-80s
- Cassette Tapes
- fonts, typefaces, languages, etc.
- a e s t h e t i c s and emoticons/kaomoji
Resources, Thanks, & Non-me Credits
- Thanks to the sites and people who helped me learn HTML/CSS, and generally with building this website:
- Kétou, thank you for the inital inspiration and push to build my own personal site back in August 2019, and all the help along the way
- Mariteaux (Mari), while we don't talk anymore, he helped me a lot with getting this site off the ground, so thank you
- Khan Academy, for teaching me so much and being my biggest resource
- W3 Schools, for being that resource everyone fuckin uses lol
- The image resources I could find:
- @vickisigh on twitter
- iStock
- Arseniy Chebynkin
- I used a screencap of a background from Sailor Moon somewhere, which is a copyright of Naoko Takeuchi, Kodansha, and Toei Animation
- Apple (bg from an old version of AppleWorks)
- Nintendo/Sora Ltd. (bg from Super Smash Bros Brawl)
- Apologies to the image credits I couldn't find sources for; if you are the owner of or recognise the owner of something I have used, please let me know at xenotiic@gmail.com so they can be properly credited here
The Rest of the Pile (Unsorted)
- Uhh, go play Freedom Planet and Gravity Rush, two horribly underrated platformers with some of the best heroines in gaming (or MCs for that matter, fuck you)
- I started playing Persona 5, but stopped at the beginning of August 2020 because I got too intimidated by having to manage a virtual life, when I can't even manage my real-life :/