After years of moving from social network to social network, we eventually wind up right back here.
I started a few blogs on Blogger for my art and photography when I was 16, but the last two posts were a year apart and both promised to post more often. That was over 10 years ago. Since then, like most artists on the Internet, I've been on Tumblr, Twitter, Instagram, and Bluesky, and since then, three of those have made decisions that harm smaller creators. Art is harder to discover, websites are increasingly afraid to allow "adult" content like swearing and discussion of serious topics, and everyone's incentivized to chase trends and algorithms.
It's no wonder there's a movement to decentralize the Internet.
I have a Neocities site (that I mostly only update when there's a new season of Swedish-Norwegian children's game show Labyrint) and I made a Tumblr side blog meant for longer-form blogging (which the userbase doesn't really favor anymore), but it seemed like time to dust off the ol' Blogger account.
While the old blogs I had on here haven't aged too poorly, they ARE from over 10 years ago. In that time, I've graduated college and learned a language. I started a 55-gallon tropical planted aquarium and had most of my stock (including in another tank) die from Camallanus. At least 4 public figures I liked have turned out to be sex pests or rapists. SMAP disbanded. Cubaris sp. "Rubber Ducky" was discovered AND the price fell to a point that I could get some for myself.
Point is, too much time has passed and it's time to start a new blog.
And what's a new blog without a new header?
I don't know who the woman is, she just looked right for a blog header
The photograph is a stock image uploaded by someone who goes only by Gustavo Fring, rendering them impossible to find elsewhere. It also uses this stock texture, and I edited it in Photopea because I didn't feel like opening Photoshop.
If you're new to me and my work, I do draw and do nature photography. I keep isopods, cockroaches, and praying mantises, but I'd like to get back into fishkeeping as well. I grow heirloom vegetables and I like "weird" movies and Japanese variety shows. I am currently on a mission to make my own custom cookies, and not just with icing.
With that, I leave you with an illustration I did in 2020 and a song I've been listening to:
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