Introduction
10 January 2026
Hello! Welcome! This is the first blog post I have ever written, so I thought it might be a good space to introduce myself to both the Neocities community and anyone else who stumbles upon this webpage.
Who am I?
My real life human name is Avery. Feel free to refer to me however you'd like. I'm a 21 year old college student (geology major) from the rotting husk of the United States. I also try my best to create fun and interesting art (many examples of what I make are available on this very website!).
Hobbies and interests:
Raccoons
Garfield
Magic: The Gathering (check out my commander decks on Moxfield)
Doom Metal (favs: Ragana, Windhand, Faetooth, Sleep, Dream Undending, YOB, many more)
Touhou Project (favs: Clownpiece, Patchouli, Nitori, Marisa, Alice)
Instruments and music production (Bass, guitar, piano)
Books (favs: House of Leaves, The Locked Tomb, Lee Knox Ostertag's graphic novels, Patricia Briggs' werewolf stuff)
Movies (favs: Blade Runner (both. Honestly Blade Runner Deserves its own entry.), Total Recall (1990), House, Megalopolis, The Holy Mountain)
Typwriters, Fountain Pens, old or otherwise fancy writing equipment
Videogames (favs: Deltarune, Outer Wilds, Resident Evil (survival horror in general. Crow Country is a more recent indie survival horror game I really enjoyed), Va-11 Hall-a, Celeste, Super Lesbian Animal RPG, Hatsune Miku: Project Diva, Hylics 1 and 2, Psychopomp Gold, Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate, Zero Escape, AI: The Somnium Files, Pacific Drive, Hades)
Star Trek (favs: Voyager, DS9, Lower Decks. Top episodes: Rejoined, Tuvix)
Anime (favs: Wounded Man, Mad Bull 34, Azumanga Daioh, Humanity Has Declined, DNA^2, Cat Soup, Serial Experiments Lain)
Strange and bizarre media (favs: Doggie Woggiez! Poochie Woochiez!, Memory Hole, The art of Yara Asmar, Dustin Couch (bsky and youtube satirical horror), Carter Amelia Davis, Syd and Olivia (this is filed correctly, I swear), Apology None + Transforama (the work of Tim Ross), Car World, J.G. Ballard's Crash, etc. I'll probably make dedicated posts about some of these things at some point).
Bad or otherwise nontraditional music.
High caffeine content liquid (favs: Monster Bad Apple, Rockstar Boom Whipped Strawberry, Coffee with a blasphemous amount of sugar and cream in it.)
Bones
Disturbing images (any picture containing John Travolta. He's like my own personal SCP. It's like he follows me wherever I go. I can never escape that bulldog build, or the silent menace of scientology that emanates from his cold, dark pupils.)
Information about this website/why it exists:
I first created this website as part of a school project (the original version of the website is archived and available here, or on the homepage under "My Projects"). I created a clone of Spotify (or at least a close enough approximation) with one album that behaves in a strange or unexpected manner in an attempt to create a glitch or error in a passive observer by using the preconceptions that the appearance of Spotify's interface brings with it against the viewer. It was for a media studies class focused specifically on cognition, how our expectations for media are socially constructed, why errors, glitches, and jams are what we percieve them as, and how to use those things to create art, media, and experiences that communicate information to their audience in an unexpected way. The one album I created to put on this Spotify clone is probably the most interesting part of that project. It is, in essence, still an album of music, but it also decenters the music itself by making the album interactive. Many of the songs are presented as games. There's a labyrinth, a boss fight, a pet-feeding game. Some of them simply give the listener more choice as to what the song is. One of them is a video of me dressed as an owl, lying on the ground in the forest for an hour. None of the songs are traditional, audio-only music. It was meant to communicate that because Spotify is the ultimate form of convience for music access, it pulls attention away from each individual song and the artist/s that made them in favor of building a homogenous, convenient infinite flow of music. It was a fun project to make, and I do think it's still worth checking out.
Last Summer, I decided to repurpose my Spotify clone into a personal website for myself. I added a few other digital projects of mine to a brand new landing home page, added a button wall and an animated background and called it a day. This blog is the newest addition to the site.