june 10, 2025
sorry for missing last week, it's been a little busy!
because of that, this week's interesting find is something i saw IRL and not online! i was at a park with some friends and we saw a crayfish! SO COOL!!
so i recommend hanging out at a park for a few hours and watching some fish eat some bugs. it's pretty cool.
may 30, 2025
HUUUGE week for music!!
i discovered this sickass and incredibly consistent deathcore promotion channel, Slam Wordwide. Here are a few of the tracks they've shared that i really enjoyed:
if that's a little heavy for your tastes, we got a pop punk album from True North that RULES!
fav songs so far:
Burn
Nightmare
Disappear
if you're exclusively a pophead, NO WORRIES because we also got a kickass 2000's pop-inspired album from babychaos!
fav songs so far:
FLAWLESS
BETTER IN THE DARK
plus a whole bunch of singles from artists I really like, of all different genres!
may 19, 2025
My friend Ridge's animatic for his pilot, Puppy Garden, is up!! ITS FANTASTIC!!
this week's interesting find is this interactive road trip website by Neal Fun!
every few seconds you can vote to move foward, honk the horn, or change the radio station! It's SUCH a cool and novel idea, and reminds me of grinding geoguessr before it got paywalled! His other projects are a lot of fun too--I really like the Internet Artifacts one. you can behold the first lol with your very own eyes!
This website was recommended by a fellow Neocities denizen, Myrrh! So be sure to check them out too!
may 13, 2025
a while ago i stumbled on this absolutely bizarre website that's shockingly still up, and was shockingly posting content up until 2021 judging by the bernie sanders mitten meme collection (wow, what a time capsule already). it's the most calcified version of i-can-haz-cheezburger internet humor i've seen in a LOOOONG time.
it's called "Fun Cage", in what i must imagine is an acknowledgement that in order to think it's fun you have to be locked in a cage for several years with no other things to entertain you. even then it might be a stretch.
it makes sense that the 80 real people and 800000 bots still using facebook could keep this website alive, but it's truly fascinating to comb through as a modern human. i found this one collection of sexist and highly unfunny rage comics that just really made me be like "oh yeah, the early internet sucked dick and cock and was pretty not fun most of the time", so if you need a bullet to tank your nostalgic yearning today i can't recommend this site enough!
may 5, 2025
i went to a music store last weekend with a friend to see if i could find the new Magnolia Park album on CD (no luck :( ), and spent some time rooting through the discount bin. i stumbled onto a compilation album from The Vision Bleak, a gothic metal band that writes music influenced by horror literature and movies! I have been REALLY enjoying their stuff!
my favs off the album so far are:
and they actually just released a new album last year, which i've already added to my monthly playlist!
if you're a fan of horror, theatrics, and metal you gotta check them out!
april 30, 2025
my friend recently showed me a HUUUUGE collection of development art for various animated shows and movies!! It's really cool!
my favs so far are:
Cats Don't Dance: really interestingly, this is very heavy in character model sheets and has barely any development/exploration art. It's really cool to see since a lot of "art of" books typicaly focus more on the blue sky development art and less on how designs are dialed in to be production ready. also, a lot of the notes on the model sheets refer to "color computers". It's a neat look into how artists were adjusting to the technology shift!
The Lorax: because you can watch the process as they decide to make the Onceler a Christopher Drew-looking man instead of a fuzzy green guy. It's amazing to see the aesthetic shift from "silly little guy" to "guy who says he's a silly little guy, but then writes a ukelele song about how you're a bitch because you didn't kiss him".
Little Witch Academia: I know nothing about the show but love how expressive the character sheets are!
but there's a LOT more cool stuff in there, stuff i'd never even heard of!! It's a lot of fun to click through and get little glimpses behind the scenes!
Also, new music from The Black Ace!
april 21, 2025
there was an epic fandom meltdown on tumblr over the weekend, about the show 9-1-1. So WARNING!!
i tried not to actually spoil it on this page, but if you click any of the links you'll be spoiled immediately.
basically, they killed off a major character for the first time in the series. and fans were NOT handling it well.
here is a selection of some of the angriest fan reactions.
WE GOT A PETITION TO FIRE THE SHOWRUNNER!!
people are coping so hard it's drifting into genuine "secret sherlock episode" levels of theory crafting. this user questions if maybe the crew shot two versions of the show to air based on audience reactions. this one wonders if maybe it's all a distraction to keep people from realizing a ship will become canon. reading into religious symbolism, reading into show symbolism, and a lot of what's potentially satire but i can't even tell at this point.
while i have tried to watch and like 911 for years (i love the setpieces, not into the character drama), i don't have a good beat on the tone or overall quality of the show. so i talked to a friend who is a fan for some perspective! She said the decision to kill this character made sense, he had kinda worked through all his storylines, and the show covers heavy enough topics regularly that she wasn't shocked by a character death. so make of that what you will!!
BUT, there is another side to the story. The writer/EP who is responsible for the decision seems like he's on a bit of an ego trip.
here are a few of his most insane interview quotes:
overall? seems like fandom doing what it usually does and wayyyy overreacting to something that isn't a huge deal. i get it might be a comfort show, but it's a show about first responders! they have episodes where civilians die by the HUNDREDS. it's also pretty typical to wait a while before you start killing characters because, as my friend said, that's when you start running out of storylines. but it also feels like this writer also did a terrible job reading the room on how the audience would recieve this, and should have come up with different answers than "IT WAS TIME FOR AN EPIC DEATH" LMAO.
also! the webcomic Rodney R Rodney created by Violaine Briat just launched a kickstarter to get a physical copy of the comic!! it's already fully funded (WOW!!) but if you're a fan and want a physical copy definitely check it out!!
april 16, 2025
if you yearn for some art drama of yesteryear, before it was just a bunch of youtubers infighting about ??? i have no idea dude i'm not watching 5 hour long streams to find out why you hate each other, check out this tumblr blog!
A Shrine to the Queen Mother of Tracers
it chronicles the offenses of a deviantart denizen who traced comissions.
now, DICLAIMER--i'm not anti tracing, if i'm being totally honest. as someone who has had their art traced before i can say, from the bottom of my heart, who cares?? *BUT* this person took money for their work, and was hilariously antagonistic against people trying to point out their lies. this blog is a time capsule to a pre-jpeg tuber world and i had a lot of fun going through it.
ALSOOO the latest magnolia park album RULES!
fav songs so far are SHADOW TALK, WORSHIP, and OMEN!