THE GRAVEYARD!!

Rows and rows and rows of graves fill your vision. Moonlight breaks past clouds and fog, aluminating the graves. The soft glow of candles leads your eyes to a tomb in the far back. Partially hidden by leaves in the other corner is what you assume to be a stairwell.

There a few graves with neat and tidy headstones, others covered in thick vines and dirt, some with a single stick or flower as their only mark, and a few are completely empty, only a vague outline to make note of their presence.

There is, however, a grave in the middle that gets your attention... You're not sure why. Maybe it's the moonlight, hitting it just right, but you feel a strange pull.

As you walk closer, you notice the grave's name has been completely carved out. Over it, sits a new name, carved neatly:

Stingray

APRIL 29, 2024: it has been 9 months oh my god. hi i turned 19 :3 um anyway soo i am going to revamp my ENTIRE neocities. idk when. so much as happened. i did get a new laptop, i also secretly moved out of my parents house due to abuse (sorry for dropping that randomly), and am now living with my older brother. i have been struggling with as many health issues as you can imagine and then more than that. I dont know if im going to delete this or what, but it will most likely stay for the time being til i figure out what to do with it.

I still love coding and i am actually working on a separate art project on neocities. so i think most of my focus will be on that instead of revamping a casual website. also i dont think anyone is like actually listening or reading any of this right now but i like to write silly little things.

my art project will be primarily on neocities, but I also am posting on tik tok and soon youtube whenever i set that up. it's gonna be cool and fun. im not telling u where or hwat but just imagine its really cool ok

JULY 12, 2023: my laptop is working now!! The keyboard is broken (badly), but I have a plug-in keyboard that I can use.

To show you how bad my keyboard is, here is me writing "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" with my laptop's keyboard: hqe zcy og hqe qeuizck bown ox jum ovrrqe tr (as you can see, I can't really use that to code).

I really want to remake this entire home page (& the entrance page). I think it's laid out really weird & the links are kind of confusing (in my opinion, anyway), and I have a better idea. Instead of it being laid out like: entrance -> home: about, blog, interests, sitemap -> interests: rest of the website, I'd RATHER it be laid out: entrance -> home -> rest of the website. I feel like that makes way more sense, especially with the things I want to add to the website.

I want to lean in with the "storytelling" aspect I have going on with a point-and-click type thing where you have a map & have to click the different locations (The Catacombs/art, The Tomb/writing, my grave/about, bench/stitemap, etc) to get to each page. BUT in order to do that, I have to actually draw things and design things, like the map and stuff. So that will take a HOT SECOND... Very ambitious, but its ok, I will learn & it'll be soo cool when it's done, trust me.

I really like coding & I get so excited to code, but I've been struggling recently with my comprehension and chronic pain (and I think my depression is slowly creeping back). It's hard to code when I'm struggling so hard to comprehend things and making small mistakes I usually wouldn't make. I have a caffiene addiction and my withdrawls recently have been causing body pain, but since I already deal with body pain, everything feels like it's amped up to 200%, instead of my usual 80%. Plus, because I broke my phone, I have to sit up to use my laptop (especially now that I broke my keyboard) or sit in a chair in front of my TV to see it since it's too far away for me to see and I have strabismus so my eyes cross badly. It's annoying having to cover one eye 24/7 just to see. I used to be able to lay down & rest on my phone, but I can't anymore. So I've been permanently sitting up and it is hell.

Updates will come slower