howdy...i'm VI! (pronounced like the letter, not the roman numeral. please and thank you.) the eccentric girl-creature behind this here website. i've never been very good at describing myself but i will try...
i'm a mediocre artist and self-confessed cringe-lord from southern ohio, united states. though i am a jack of all trades (and a master of none), dabbling in webdev, video editing, photography and loads of other things i haven't really gotten the hang of just yet. i am always looking for a new project to sink my teeth into and chip away at.

i take great pleasure in being a weird little freak with weird interests - all things grim and macabre are my forte. if its filthy, vulgar, provacative and disgusting i probably like it. freaks like me make the world go 'round and always remember its more than ok to be a bit freakish yourself.

my heart lays within the sweet spot within the 2000s and early 2010s, back when the internet or for many things for that matter weren't enshittified with corporate cleanliness and 'think of the children!' attitudes. where things weren't afraid to be edgy and rough around the edges. and people weren't afraid to be authentic.

i tend to be very passionate about my art and my interests. i love to dissect and pick apart any peice of art that i love...and also i am very annoying and 'extra' when expressing it. sorry, i just can't help myself! 'doing to much' is in my blood.

i am a bit of a social recluse, being avoidant by nature - though i like making friends and acquaintances alike. it's just i have the tendancy to be sort of bad with keeping up conversations. if you ever want to chat please do not be afraid to reach out. having friends and people to speak to is good for your health.

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so...what exactly is the purpose of this site?...well, this was all built on the foundation of "i fucking hate modern social media" which i'm sure alot of fellow netizens relate to. my first taste of customization made by myself was back on deviantart and tumblr where, as you know, were highly customizeble. and once i had a taste of that i never really wanted to go back to standard-issue 'blank slate' profiles that most (if not all) modern social media platforms suffer from. if my profile isn't an avante garde demonstration of what i love then what is the point? i like to be able to tell what sort of things a person likes from just one glance at their page.

this project first started off as a carrd, but quickly i outgrew the limitations carrd puts in place for you (also just the culture surrounding carrds just annoys me to no end.). then i attempted to make a strawpage. but it was to flimsy and bare-bones for me. and don't even ask me about rentry, i still don't know what that is other than to house peoples stupid long dni lists that i never really bother to read.
i first heard of neocities from a youtube video, though i kinda don't remember which one. i had always considered making my own website from scratch however html and css intimidated me to no end...that was until one day i got so godamn angry at social media i created the site on january 15th, 2025. and slowly began to chip away at it.

all in all, this site is an art project...made to excercise my love for customization and showcasing stuff i like. as well to have a place to house my art without the baggage of posting it to social media - which is becoming more and more censored by the day. a lady who draws people getting dismembered among other things can't thrive in such an enviornment! espeically when algorithims push your artwork that is made for a specific demographic onto the timelines of people who it is not for.

and yes, there is a nostalgia aspect to this as well...while i think glamorizing the 'old web' can be really stupid at times (given how much of a toxic, unregulated cesspit it was). i too, am not immune to nostalgia for a 'better time' so to speak. while yes, the internet from when i was a kid was...crazy. (shock sites are one of my personal interests because they scarred me so much as a child)...there was a certain authenticity to it. the internet was for weirdos and nerds and it always should've been. i miss my days on deviantart where we were all super-duper fucking cringe about the shit we like. now all of that authenticty is replaced with 'well i like this thing more than you!' and people trying to police how you like said thing. but i may just be jaded because of how i've been chewed up and spat out by art communinities online. cringe culture back then was real yes, but we're entering a new era of it. it's scary.

i want this to be a sign for everyone to be as loud and proud about what you love as possible, it's okay to be 'over the top' and 'do to much' about your passions for things. write fics, draw fanart, make your own characters, etc. please, i beg of you, don't let this current age of irony and non-chalantness get to you. please be as unapologeticlly you as possible. we need it more than ever in this day and age where every aspect of soceity pushes you into submission to fit into the grain.

a good ol' interests section. may be a bit long, sorry in advance.