A Sacred place

01.20.2025

Today I finally took the plunge and started up the Neocities stuff to make a website. The plan in my (and my partner's head) is to make websites for ourselves, and when my art skills improve we make a site for the two of us to make a webcomic.

It's definitely refreshing seeing all these sites, they take me back to the old geocities/angelfire days where the web was more loose and disconnected. It's sort of refreshing seeing sites like these where the aren't so...integrated.

Every social media site and service are all linked together, a bunch of corpo slop knotted together like the the heads of a confused hydra fighting its other heads over food. These sites seem individual focused, yet allow for expression and connection in a more divided way. That isn't a bad thing, I think.

I used to wish for more ways to connect. My high school girlfriend only communicated through Gaia Online PMs for a long time. I wished I could just message her and her always see it. At the time, I craved that constant collection. How silly that is now. We can't even go onto a site without an online status indicator. Every site in the surface-web does nothing but scrape user data and sell it to advertisers who flood every platform with out of touch attempts to make a sale. If I wanted to see products, I would be on eBay, not Facebook, not Twitter.

This experience also gives me some time to figure out some very old-web HTML stuff I hadn't even thought about since my Gaia profile days. Figuring out what symbols do what, trying to get my background to show up. Linking my pages together to make a coherant site. It's refreshing and has really added to the burst of creativity I've felt lately. Even the images on the main page are photos I've taken and edited. It feels like I'm not 32 lol

For now, (for convenience's sake) I'll imbed my actual Tumblr blog so I don't have to edit the html every time I want to post lol. The blog is singleactionjack.tumblr.com, and may not show on mobile. But c'mon, who is using this site on mobile?