Introduction & Why Blogspot?

It's very nice to meet you, welcome to the first post on my official blog! If you're here, you most likely know me for my art and writing. Here are two examples of mine:

My most recent complete piece as of writing, fanart of Eriko Christy from Illbleed.

A portion of SCP-8060 - Toontown that I wrote.

A lot of my work tends to focus around very cartoonish and hypnogogic events with a leaning towards surreal horror. I am inspired by all sorts of things, but my main inspirations have to come from my experiences with online horror when I was really young. The pangs of fear I'd get from specific low quality imagery, uncertain if what I was looking at was real or not. There are certain experiences you can get online that you just can't from something like a show or movie. A strange improvisational quality that can either hinder or improve a work. Either way, it's super interesting. 

There was even a period of time where I ran a Tumblr 'aesthetic blog' called lostfootagefoundepisode that consisted of a large collection of various screenshots, gifs, videos and audio fragments relating to web horror. Mostly creepypasta, indie horror games and weird experimental web stuff that fit itself neatly into that niche of online horror. It was fairly light-hearted and even began more as a joke blog, but overtime I just started using it to dump various photos and tag them with any "-core" I could think of at the time, a practice I overall regret participating in nowadays. Core suffix aesthetics are often muddled and confused, barely able to be accurately categorized by anything but vibes.

*sniff* They grow up so fast...

It was nice, aside from all the dead bodies I had to see. That wasn't a joke by the way.

I wanted to create a blog because I've never really had a space where I could express myself that wasn't limiting or distracting in some way. Social media has been getting worse for me every year. I plan on making a website soon. The sad part is just that I have little to no coding knowledge and am easily frustrated by that sort of thing. I have friends that can help though.

So why did I pick Blogspot (Note: I do not like the name Blogger) for this blog?

It's simple. Blogspot is a very nostalgic website for me. There's something really comforting about it and I'm surprised I hadn't looked into using it sooner. The atmosphere of these customizable template blogs has always fascinated me. I really like playing with the almost utilitarian and gaudy feel that these sorts of website templates tend to have. From brutalist and stifling to lurid and garish. I could spend hours playing with anything customizable.

Y'know, funny thing, Hyperbole and a Half is a Blogspot site. That was a huge influence on me artistically growing up and I still think of the Alot whenever I see that typo. 

This blog will be used to post updates involving my projects, various miscellaneous thoughts, reviews, experiences... just about anything goes really. Just a space where I can ramble and not have to worry about making it too overtly presentable. I may touch upon disturbing topics, so content warnings will be applied at the beginnings of posts in those cases. NSFW topics will also be tackled occasionally, you've been warned. 

I have a bad habit of sometimes starting projects and dropping them as soon as they get too difficult for me, which has been compacted terribly by my several mental health issues. I'm hopeful that this blog will help me come to terms with that a bit, giving me something to do in the meantime that doesn't feel like too much of a commitment. A way I can express myself that doesn't stress and exhaust me.

I hope you can all join me on this new adventure... onwards to Blogspot...

What. Can someone get this ugly fucking animal off the Blogspot logo, I don't know how to get it off. Jesus Christ it's drooling. Please someone get rid of this thing or I'm going to have a panic attack.