Everything You Need to Know

Hello there. If you made it this far, congratulations! I didn't think I'd make it far enough to have an About Me, either, but here goes.

For now, call me Melon or Honeydew. I am a woman in my mid-thirties and that's about as much personal information as I'm comfortable with giving. It's been a while. How long?
Angelfire was a free service when I started! That long.

I don't know. I'm not sure what I'll do with it yet. I think I might put my writing here. I might not. I dunno. I might even delete all this, I dunno.

Most of all, this place is an experiment so keep that in mind before getting too attached.

As for having any "deep" reasons for doing it, I kinda don't. I don't have any antipathy toward social media, and I guess it's because I haven't made Twitter or Instagram or Facebook my home on the web. I understand the problems with the web as it is, but I'm also aware that Web 1.0 had its fair share of problems with censorship and other forms of dickery. I'm not even talking community stuff, which was a mixed bag and will probably always be, I'm talking about things like the Tripod Massacre and even the death of Geocities itself. So I'm approaching this experimental thing with a sense of open-eyed nostalgia. There was plenty of stuff to miss in the old web but also, plenty of stuff I don't miss nearly as much. But that's just me, and that's just what I'm looking for out of this. Some fun.

So the plan is that this little corner of the web will be all the stuff I loved from the old days of the web while having learned from the mistakes of the past, from both myself and others. Therefore, while I can't promise super-sleek web design one could find on a Squarespace or Wix page, I canpromise the following:

• All text will be readable and there will be good contrast.


• Although there is a splash page, the enter link is right there in plain sight. No need to read paragraphs of disclaimer to find the right punctuation to click before entering. The disclaimer is on a page of its own for easier reading.


• There will be no super-loud autoplaying sound that cannot be turned off, or autoplaying sound at all. I know people surf the web while watching or listening to Youtube videos or listening to their own music or their podcasts.


• Blinkies and gifs will be nice and sectioned off on their own page, as will adoptables and stuff like that, if I decide to have those.


• ...And a some lot more that I forgot.

Here are some random facts.

• This is my first website in...oh god, nearly twenty years. I made my first one when I was twelve or thirteen years old and my last one when I was eighteen. By then my interest in building websites had waned and I was starting college, so I had less time to do it.


• Since Neocities has a lot of anime and manga fans, that was the reason why I started making webpages when I was much younger. I know what a lot of the more recent anime and manga are, I just don't keep up with all of them.


• My tastes in anime and manga run more toward shoujo and jousei, even some of the more sexually explicit stuff, which is probably why I'm not up to date on the latest shounen thing aside from secondhand knowledge.


• I love music, so some stuff might just be song references and lyrics.


• Uh...I like to write, both fanfiction and original content. I have been writing fanfiction since I was eleven but making up stories for longer than that.


• I like being in the water even though I can't swim.


• I actually don't like to dress up much, but I like looking at fashion. I do this mostly through dressup games. I used to collect out-of-date fashion magazines from the library. They sold them for $.50 a pop.


• To get an idea of how old I am and how long it's been, I remember the Dollz era and specifically the MS Paint Project. I was a proud member. Mine probably all sucked but no one mentioned that.


• I don't do drugs, and very rarely ever drink because I have neither the head nor stomach for either.

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