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
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.
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:
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.
now that the mini homepage redesign is done, there's a only few things left to finish up before the new year.
longer-term goals:
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.
(more sites i love on the links page~)
my hoard of public domain graphics
recent reads, the tbr pile, and the forever favorites
art and artists that inspire me
charms and incantations for the indie web
formative PC sleuthing adventures
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.
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.