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
about
- thirty something
- mixed media artist
- line cook
- the mom friend
- autism + cptsd
- trekkie
- former deviantart kid
interests
- biology
- scifi and fantasy
- the public domain
- prehistoric cultures
- tarot and divination
- point n click games
- trash art
- papercraft
influences
(more sites i love on the links page~)
i collect charms and incantations for the indie web in my grimoire...
recent reads and the tbr pile can be found in the library...
my vintage 'sticker' collection lives in the museum...
most recent vibes
more graphics! - 23 oct
small and tired brain wants simple entertainment, which means cutting-out in Krita while i watch youtube. (i'm on a tornado kick which is fittingly bleak and also fucking fascinating.)
anyway that means more additions to the museum, including some seashells and some tiny beetles (more of these to come).
new stuff - 14 oct
after much handwringing i realized i was hella overcomplicating my graphics museum, so that's fixed now.
took the opportunity to add a couple new cutouts i had floating around, my favorite being this lil guy:
or perhaps this guy:
tinkering - 10 oct
the revamp continues apace (the pace in question being "slow") but i'm also reading again so that's lovely. my halloween costume is a low-effort Morticia Addams unless the last-minute crafting urge hits (not altogether unlikely).
i have almost finished My Time at Sandrock for the first time. will i get to the end or will i start a new save in a desperate attempt to stave off finality? the world may never know.
ta da - 1 oct
another day, another overhaul. completely lost track of the end of september but we're back!
in order to have any chance of getting this done i had to give myself permission to write the messiest and most unoptimized css while i get the new layouts figured out. i'll make another pass later to tidy up the main stylesheet and standardize some stuff.
(if nothing else i managed to make things much more responsive than they used to be, so i'll take that as a win.)
more updates coming to some of the bigger pages as i have time for them - please excuse the inconsistencies in the meantime.
favorite books
the southern reach series
by jeff vandermeer - masterful environmental horror and the first addition to my modest home library. a story of strangeness, unbelonging, and the swamp as a lovecraftian being. there is a recent fourth installment but i haven't read it yet.
the earthsea cycle
by ursula leguin - if i have a set of holy texts, it's these. the name of this website comes from the second book, which is the single most impactful book about trauma i've ever read.
the locked tomb series
by tamsyn muir - the most glorious mindfuck i've ever read. unimaginably excited for book four and also the rest of the author's literary career.
the obsidian chronicles
by lawrence watt-evans - my husband's teenage sleeper hit that he passed along to me; a fantasy series about dragons that elegantly sidesteps a lot of tired tropes.
favorite music
i love anything that's big and loud and expansive, which cements Florence and the Machine and Hozier as my comfort artists. i used to love Sia before she said a bunch of stupid shit about autistic people, which is such a shame. i've seen Shakey Graves and Briston Maroney live, but i mostly tend to catch local bands at local shows. sucker for disco and swing. my childhood favorite songs were Fly Away by Lenny Kravitz and Mambo No. 5 by Lou Bega. the best venue i've ever been to is Blues City Deli in St. Louis.
favorite tv and film
true detective season one
time is a flat circle, and the best gothic is southern gothic.
star trek
very slowly working my way through the entire franchise, but tng is perfect and all the more recent series are so much fun.
gravity falls
a masterpiece of modern animation and the source of like, thirty percent of my personality.
the expanse
i love the books too, but the casting, set design, and conlanging takes the show to the next level. josephus miller broke my heart.
o brother, where art thou
perhaps part of the reason i ended up in mississippi. semi-traditional birthday rewatch.
jennifer's body
the best horror movie, no close second - fight me.
y tu mamá también
i love alfonso cuarón and this one hits me in the homesickness.
roomies
i share my home with a few friendly wild creatures.
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.) they stay tucked in during the day so i haven't been able to get a good picture to identify them. i would tentatively guess that they are wolf spiders.
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.
many opossums (my beloved) and raccoons have trundled under the house or through the back porch, and the property was once blessed with a rare armadillo going about his business.
several generations of barred owl have kept watch over the nearby pines and water oaks.
