out of atuan

welcome, traveler

you've come across my internet burrow - pull up some moist earth and make yourself at home. this little webspace is a collection of things i think are neat, cobbled together with amateur css and love. i hope you enjoy your stay. <3

latest transmissions

back to the grind - 3 jan

back at work like usual, deep into a locked tomb re-read, trying not to break into blind panic over the political climate. i scream into the void that i am tired of living in interesting times.

more updates! - 27 dec

got into a flow state on christmas and got a ton of stuff done around here!

tarot: added my correspondences for the whole deck, though some are just a word or two until i can put my thoughts together better. about 85% done.

grimoire: added a big section on background styling with lots of examples, i think it looks nice and i learned a lot putting it together

2026 daylog: getting ready for the new year! i'll keep fiddling with the layout once i actually have some stuff in there

sitemap: full overhaul and some pretties :3

webweaving resolutions for 2026:

  • make collages with my graphics
  • finally build a page for my own art
  • post tarot readings once in a while

housekeeping pt 2 - 17 dec

knocked a couple of things off the list from last entry - not in the order i meant to but what else is new. also ended up working on the tarot corner quite a bit. it's still in the ugly phase but i'm pleased with how quickly it's coming together.

remembered the new rosalía album existed and spent a while transfixed by that. i think i replayed the intro track five times before i felt emotionally ready to continue. the yves tumor feature was an unexpected delight.

the Nancy Drew revisit continues, though after finishing Danger By Design i'm going back to Deception Island and working back from there. partly it's because i'm putting off Kapu Cave but mainly it's because i want an excuse to use my whale stickers.

end of year housekeeping - 7 dec

now that the mini homepage redesign is done, there's a only few things left to finish up before the new year.

  • finishing touches on the shadow ranch shrine
  • sitemap overhaul
  • set up next year's daylog

longer-term goals:

  • improve the inspiration page
  • implement the design i have in mind for the point and click page
  • collages (might try to learn iframes for this)
  • grimoire revamp (currently working on the words if not the code)

my entire focus has narrowed down to the week and a half vacation i get over christmas - it was the highlight of last winter and i expect it to be the highlight of this one too. the workplace christmas party is also coming up and i'm so excited to get gin drunk and tell everyone how much i love them.

about

  • thirty something
  • mixed media artist
  • line cook
  • mom friend
  • autism + cptsd
  • stoner
  • former deviantart kid

interests

  • biology
  • scifi and fantasy
  • tarot and divination
  • the public domain
  • prehistoric cultures
  • point n click games
  • trash art
  • papercraft

influences

ribo.zone Solaria's Webspace fabled.day lostletters hillhouse antikrist myrrh goblincat

(more sites i love on the links page~)

to the museum...

my hoard of public domain graphics

to the library...

recent reads, the tbr pile, and the forever favorites

to the gallery...

art and artists that inspire me

to the grimoire...

charms and incantations for the indie web

to the nancy drew shrine...

formative PC sleuthing adventures

media palette

microecology

plants doing their thing in my side yard include a dewberry vine, a small mulberry tree, a pink crepe myrtle, an established but inoffensive tangle of poison ivy climbing one of the oaks behind the house, hurricane lilies in the summer, a late-blooming stand of goldenrod, tiny white asters, and wild periwinkle.

around my front door live several spiders, all of whom are named Veronica. (they are differentiated by where on/near the door they live, with the lowest one being Basement Veronica and the highest being Penthouse Veronica, with Neighbor Veronica having moved in on the other side of the porch light.) the little gastropods that munch the biofilm on the outer windows and siding leave trails of tiny radulae-imprints - at least three different types. high summer brings out the fireflies that hatch from the leaf litter (we never rake).

one or two birds take shelter in the little cozy pockets where the porch posts connect to the eaves - lately it's been a pair of wrens, but house sparrows and cardinals hang out sometimes too. my favorite winter sound is the white-throated sparrows singing as the sun goes down. other singers include chickadees, titmice, catbirds, many mockingbirds, bluejays, towhees, and juncos. several generations of barred owl have kept watch over the nearby pines and water oaks.

many opossums (my beloved) and raccoons have trundled under the house or through the back porch over the years, plus a single armadillo and a bunny.

about the site

this site was established on september 16, 2024! everything here is hand-coded with love and with zero AI bullshit - please forgive me my dashes, i'm just a millenial. i use vscode and push everything to Neocities with the command line thanks to whiona's guide to using eleventy and the cli, without which this site would not exist.

i update daily-ish, which means i'm always tinkering on my local files but if i'm working on something kinda big i won't always push an update. i feel weird sharing half-finished stuff but i'm trying to get better about it.

"out of atuan" is a reference to the tombs of atuan by ursula le guin.