[NOTE FROM THE FUTURE: i talk about setting up my blog using zonelets because that's what i originally used for my blog setup! this blog is no longer powered by zonelets, but zonelets is still very cool! if you'd like to see what a zonelets blog looks like and/or use it for your own site, check out the link below! i also talk about "checking out my main site" because it wasn't directly attached to the site at first. oh, memories.... they grow up so fast don't they...... ok ttyl ]
wow! my very first post!! im glad i finally got this tool set up, this is a much easier and much nicer solution than what I was planning on doing, haha. if you're interested, here is the zonelets wepage, which is the setup im using for my blog! super simple, super customizable, and the creator seems like a wonderful human :]
now that this is here, i might as well take this as an opportunity to introduce myself a little bit more! if you're reading this, im sure youre at least a bit curious about who i am (in which case, thank you!). so, my name is auden, i'm a white transmasc/nb guy from the US, i'm 20 at the time of writing, and i'm currently in school for animation! i like all sorts of stuff (feel free to look on my main site for a better idea), but in general video games, ttrpgs, animated media, all kinds of music, reading and creating are my jam. im diagnosed autistic and a big advocate for mental health and LGBTQ+ issues, especially since where i live is one of the least progressive states in those areas.
i've been on the internet since before i was 10, and i've always had a fascination with tight-knit online communities like this one. i grew up watching adventure time and playing on animal jam and moshi monsters, later spending most of my time on deviantart before age 13 (i was a rebel, i know!). once i hit my 13th bday, i made a tumblr blog and a twitter account. i've since abandoned twitter outside of just posting on my art account since it was not a source of enjoyment to me, but i still browse tumblr and reblog things from time to time. i mainly just use my remaining personal social media, instagram, as a way to mass communicate with my friends. for private conversations and long-term online groups, discord has been my go-to. i was a closeted skype kid turned gay and mentally ill discord user, haha!
i'd like to use this blog to document important moments in my life to share with all of you. i have poor memory, so it's important to me to keep records of everything i do so i can go back and look at it again in the future. i journal daily in my obsidian vault (wonderful program by the way, prefer it to notion simply because it's offline and text based), but it's fun to have a public blogging space where i can share about my day to you fine folk of the internet!
i've been having lots of fun working on my personal website! i love the customizability of having your own webpage, total freedom to express yourself however you'd like! i'm no coder, so i rely heavily on google and the kind people of the internet who make premade tools like this one for folks like me. i'm learning, though! my years of tumblr theme experience have led me to be pretty nifty with css editing, and the basics of html are starting to become familiar to me. i hope to meet lots of other people here on the wild wild web and see what they have on their websites!
alright, rambling over. go on and have a great rest of your day!