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I’m a 29 year old artist, occasional writer and weirdo from Canada who’s just trying their best to function in this messed up world we’re living in.

I came here from a site called Pillowfort which was my internet home for the last 7 years. I’m unbelievably sad that it’s closing down but since most of the people from there are moving here, I decided to give this place a try! You can also reach me at my Neocities site (where I normally hang out)

A short-ish list of my interests : Disney, Pixar, and DreamWorks films (and animation in general), Adventure Time (favourite cartoon of all time!), music (pop punk/rock, indie and folk), reading, video games, visual novels, musical theatre, cute animals, the indie web, kawaii aesthetics, fairytales/mythology/folklore, MBTI/Enneagram (and psychology in general), and making art/zines/comics!

A note on interaction: I can be a very anxious person but I do enjoy interacting with people on the interwebs sometimes. Just don't expect me to reply right away and please be patient with me!

Tumblr refugee blinkie I was on Pillowfort!

Current Music: Even If it Kills Me - Motion City Soundtrack

It’s actually such a good thing that I picked up some HTML knowledge @ Neocities a couple years before this whole PF/Dreamwidth thing happened because I would be completely lost if I hadn’t

Current Mood: creative
Side Comments: sometimes life…finds a way

Posted a thing over on my Neocities site yesterday about Pillowfort closing. Kinda ironic because this blog post was originally gonna be one about trying to convince people from there to come to PF, but things happened and I had to rewrite some things which actually has been kinda therapeutic since there have been some feelings stewing in my head since the announcement.

Current Mood: melancholy
Side Comments: o7s all around

I think one other reason why I stuck around here on DW is that I can customize things. I love customizing things!!

Current Mood: happy

Welp, it was a good…*checks phone* 19 hours…but I decided to deactivate my Wafrn account.

Felt too overwhelming overall and it made me feel more anxious than comfortable which is the exact opposite of what I want for my online experience. To me, WAFRN is really for the people who are really looking for someone to chat with and actually interact more (which my introverted butt is not, sadly) I like doing things at a slower pace.

I guess I’m ok with sacrificing the like button and reblogs in the end since I’d say it’s much more comfortable here by comparison.

I think between here and Neocities (and Reddit believe it or not), it’s a good enough replacement for PF.

Current Mood: relieved

Things I like about wafrn so far:

emotes (including pride flags!)
scheduled posts and drafts
ability to post more images than I could on DW
overall faster pace than DW

Things I don’t like about wafrn so far:

feels like Twitter
actually harder to navigate vs. DW (so far at least)
liking posts sometimes doesn’t work??
almost too fast?
…feels like Twitter

I’ll really miss Pillowfort.

Current Mood: a bit overwhelmed

Here’s a cool thing that one of my neocities mutuals showed me: https://my9albums.com/

And here’s mine (I tried to make sure it was only 1 album per artist):

(Edit 11/10/26: Changed Don’t Panic to So Wrong It’s Right because while DP is my favourite All Time Low album, SWIR introduced me to pop punk as a genre. Plus it’s iconic!)

Current Mood: content
Side Comments: lol @ the song being completely unrelated
Current Music: Jesus From Texas - Semler

It came to about 110MB in total which was a lot less than what I was expecting. If I remember right my Tumblr archive (which is by now deleted to save space :/) was like 5GB! Funny enough I don’t really care about my Tumblr archive anymore but I’ll definitely keep my PF archive somewhere safe for a very long time.
Also I’m now seriously considering a Wafrn account since I now know that they actually do have quite a few privacy settings in place! Also I miss looking at people’s art and memes and the like button and reblogging! Dreamwidth is nice but (no offense) it can be a little boring sometimes 😅

Watch on YouTube

A Hachiware for you all in this trying time.

~~if you saw something no you didn’t~~

Current Mood: peaceful

Even if the navigation of this site is still confusing as hell and I really hate the lack of a like button, reblogs, and images on here (especially the like button since I use it a lot) and how stupid muscle memory keeps making me click on my avatar to go to my ~~dashboard~~ reading page it is so nice to see a lot of familiar people here from PF. I think I might end up keeping this account after all, at least just to occasionally see how everyone is doing for the people who don’t have a personal website on the indie web. Basically what this post is saying here: www.pillowfort.social/posts/8425020 (oh adding a link is actually so annoying!)

Side note: this is gonna sound kinda stupid but I’m actually so touched that some of the people who were following me actually found and followed me on here too 🥹 Thanks for sticking around and listening to lil old me even if I’m not very outgoing compared with some other pillowfolks out there!

Current Mood: grateful

ok that took way too long but my signature favourite colours are now on my layout!

~~All of the themes here are hella ugly tho ngl~~

I think I sort of understand how some things work on here surprisingly? I managed to follow back those that followed me on here (hi) and I joined
the pillowfolks community to start with. The whole “grant access” thing kinda confuses me though?? If someone could explain that’d be great. (Edit: I think I understand now after reading someone’s post on pillowfolks)
Honestly it’s just the way everything is laid out that bothers me because it doesn’t feel smooth AT ALL compared to PF. It’s also a pain to navigate on iPad -_-

Ah well, at least I have this as another potential option (but idk if I’ll stick with it)

Current Mood: uncomfortable

(This is an archived post from Pillowfort.)

What’s a blanket box?
A blanket box is a post (the box) containing a set of questions or prompts (blankets) that you can answer to help build your Fort and introduce yourself and your interests or projects to others. Make your own post, copy the questions/prompts into it and answer them. Each blanket box has its own unique theme and questions/prompts to answer.

original by babycarrot on PF
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(This is an archived post from Pillowfort.)

(I originally thought about live-blogging this but I felt like that would be too much pressure on me plus I don’t really know how to go about doing it without spamming people so I’m just going to do bullet points as I listen to it. So it’s kind of a liveblog I guess??)

It’s a concept album based off The Hero’s Journey plots in stories, so each song represents one part. (cool, right?)

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🩷 TL;DR: I loved it. So much better than their last album. Easily up there with my favourite of theirs (Masterpiece Theatre) but not quite dethroning it (that may change though…)

After my other favourite band’s new album disappointed me this more than made up for it lol.

Anyways PLEASE give it a listen if you’re interested in this sort of thing