::about::


Welcome! This is the website of me, Lore, a longtime nerd. I've been on the internet for 25 years at this point! It all started back in 2000, when I fell in love with a little ol' anime called Gundam Wing. ♥ I got on yahoo!groups and yapped with fellow fangirls! I explored personal websites for hours (remembering Anime Turnpike?). It was awesome. The internet felt so big.

Then journal fandom took off! I was on deadjournal for a couple of years before getting my own livejournal to while away my hours. My interest in Gundam Wing waned (but never died!) and other fandoms took over; the Final Fantasy series, Harry Potter, ATLA, etc. I wrote and drew so much garbage. It was delicious, fun garbage. I took part in fandomwank (and after it was kicked off livejournal, I followed it to journalfen). I created the ATLA newsletter and looked after it for a couple of years (and that took years off my life) and uploaded art on DeviantArt and things were still good.

And then Strikethrough happened in 2007. And Boldthrough happened soon after. Fandom became so splinter. Worse, the rest of the world had caught up and realized, "Wow, this internet thing is really cool!" And the rise of visual based, quick-form social media grew (mostly Twitter). And with popularity comes the chance to make money and the chance to make money weakened free speech, weakened sincerity, weakened everything.

Fandom hasn't decided where to land. It keeps moving to new social media sites in hopes that this one will be better, this one won't stifle creative expression, this one won't throw ads everywhere. And they just keep. Turning to shit. Basically, I'm writing this on 10/08/2025 and the fandom side of Bluesky is imploding due to the CEO being a huge jerk.

I decided, self, you know what? Just be the change you want to see. Go back to the internet of yesteryear. Build a website. Blog on DW. Connect with people here.

So. That's what I'm doing.