floating black mage soul crystal from final fantasy 14. it's red and green with black and white flakes.

hello there! welcome to my homepage.

you can call me Sly or Chris. i am 25yrs old, nonbinary, and an amateur artist and writer.
i've drawn and written things for most of my life, but rarely have the energy to actually hone my skills
consistently, so, yknow how that goes.

this site was created as a means of getting away from social media, if only a little bit. here, i aim to talk about anything and everything that i think is cool, and just generally do whatever i want.

i'll admit that i wasn't around back in the OLD-old days; i'm just young enough to have been too small to be on the internet then. this is my first ever trip into website-making, and was also my breach into properly learning html and css.
but i do remember the old-ish days, the younger days of youtube and being able to customize your account page, deviantart and posting my childish scrawlings without a care in the world, the chatroom games where people would park their avatars in whimiscal digital rooms and do nothing else but talk for hours and hours. actually using public forums instead of sweeping basic information away into random discord servers and demanding to join them in order to get said information...

it wasn't all sunshine and rainbows, of course. but nothing ever truly is. and i miss it. in having this little corner of the world wide web for myself, i hope to take back and keep even a tiny piece of those times.

divider.

current moon phase

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feeling:
getting real tired of the US medical system 😑

16/3/26
added a new (technically old) xiv OC to the roster and cleaned up the media formatting just a bit.

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5/1/26
added a new absol figure i got last month to the shrine, as well as a new xiv OC to the roster.
i hope everyone's holidays have been easy.

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2/10/25
i've done a very slight redesign of the layout; the majority of the code is the same, just with a few adjustments here and there and some extra flair.
the mood of the previous design wasn't quite as 'dark' as i would ideally like it to be, so this was my attempt to fix that. it kind of still isn't. but it is much closer now.

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28/9/25
new section added; other places.
after seeing other people with button walls and miscellaneous fun links, i felt inspired to do the same! it currently has links to neocities sites that i think are cool, a few fun things, and some resources that i've found helpful in the past.

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26/7/25
further realizing the fact that i can do literally whatever i want with my website. added a cute little snowfall effect and a forest to the background.
also fixed up the journal code so that the actual content doesn't have to be in an iframe.

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16/7/25
the journal has been updated with new code that allows for tagging; unfortunately, i couldn't figure out how to get my pagination code to work with it so it's just. all there at once. i can only hope that putting lazy loading on the imgs helps with any potential lag.

i also carved out a little spot on the intro page for the black mage soul crystal i drew, and added some new stamps to graphics.

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11/7/25
just a small housekeeping update; a lot of images have been converted from png to webp for smaller file sizes.

the only images not converted, that i wanted to, are those in plushies. i plan to retake better pics, so i decided not to bother with them right now.

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27/6/25
new section added; wildlife photography.

i finally sat down and coded a page to put all of my photos, since at this point i have a LOT and i would really like to accrue even more, and i knew that the earlier i got it set up the better LOL.

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21/5/25
this page has been overhauled a fair bit, though it might not be immediately noticeable just looking at it.

for those that have been around a while, they might remember when i had this section all consolidated in one html file.
i didn't quite do that again, but rather something with very similar effects; the div which holds the actual content is now an iframe, while the navigation and footer are static.
this setup allows for a seamless music player, courtesy of adilene and monsieurdoll.

i've been wanting a music player on here for forever. i really wanted to use scm due to its inherent seamlessness, but could never get it working, and i wasn't (and still am not) code-savvy enough to figure out what was going wrong.
so, after deliberating on it, i decided to say fuck it and just uproot my sites code to MAKE a not-seamless music player, seamless.

and it didn't turn out too shabby, if i do say so myself.

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30/4/25
just a bit of house cleaning;

adjusted some text size, added open-and-close buttons where appropriate, and spiffed up the garden so that the refresh button only refreshes the moths, rather than the whole page.

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25/2/25
new section added; pixel clubs.

i've been meaning to join some clubs for a hot minute now, and finally finished up my page for them.

right now i'm a part of Bunny Garden, Kitty Friends, and Yum-Yum Shoppe, with plans to make art for even more.

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14/2/25
new section added; writing.

currently it only has a few fanfics, but i would like to put up original works at some point, too. just a matter of finishing them....

i also added and updated alt text where necessary.

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18/12/24
changed the footer into an iframe in anticipation of the new year.

also fussed with a few OC pages, filled in some lorem ipsums, etc.

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4/11/24
i finally figured out what to do with my absol shrine! ^^_^^

added a few more gif garnishes, as well as pictures of all of my current absol merch.

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4/11/24
tweaked the line height on the nav frames and moved the extra pokemon pages from it to the main div instead.

still need to figure out what i want to do with my absol shrine...

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25/10/24
fiddled with the deco on the index some more; i'm a lot more satisfied with it now.

i also, in my journey to see if pairing text to an image when randomizing with JS was possible, cobbled together a little box that shows a random dragon from my flight rising lair.
so! enjoy my assortment of fellas. there's a LOT of them.

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20/10/24
new section added; guestbook, which now houses the comment widget.
the remaining free space on the index has been filled with some little knickknacks.

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6/10/24
new section added; journal.

just a little somewhere for me to post my thoughts every now and then, as i'm wont to do.
ideally i would've liked to have some sort of tagging system or even a 'like' button, but it seems like both features would be beyond me right now. maybe in the future.

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8/9/24
gave the site a little makeover and cleanup; biggest changes being the navigation div is now an iframe for easier editing and the greeting on the index has been rewritten.

the absol shrine also has rounded corners like all the other pages now. no idea how that snuck past me for so long....

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6/7/24
mofs have been given more marking, wing, and antennae options.

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18/6/24
added a few more barebones profiles to OCs and rearranged some stuff in graphics ever so slightly so that the things i made are a bit more visually separated from the others.

you may have also noticed some new friends out and about; don't worry, they're harmless. feel free to hang out with them in the garden!

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31/5/24
no big changes this time; just finally added more than one lad to the OCs section. after....several weeks..
i have plenty more to add, still, but that would be best done...later. OTL

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24/4/24
new section added; original characters. right now i've only got the one single solitary boi on there, but i hope to cobble together at least basic profiles for some others over the next few days.

'but Sly,' i hear you say, 'don't you already have a toyhouse account to put OC information on?'

and the answer to that is;
yea.
but spending a couple of days coding a page to put on my website is more fun.

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30/3/24
to be perfectly honest, i've had the bones for plushies done for...weeks now. that's about as far as it's gotten since then, though; only some of them have pictures, and even fewer have notes about them, which i would ideally have pics + notes for all of them.

i'm tired of just staring at the file as it is, though, so it goes up technically half-finished for right now. it will gradually be updated over time, of course.

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22/2/24
hiii, long time no see. i've literally just been playing games. that's it, that's the reason for my absence.

minor tweaks made to both homepage and landing, mostly on the backend.
also made the images in crystals MUCH smaller, so that page shouldn't take nearly as long to load as it once did.

the next section i would like to work on is plushies, and i'm also getting ideas for a more general photography section, as well.
when will i actually get around to doing either of those things? who knows!

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3/12/23
layout has been updated to version 2.0.

pages are no longer consolidated in one file, but that does mean i can now add a bit of unique flair to each one, if i so desire. (and i do!)
i'm sure there's some way to merge them that allows for in-depth customization between each one, but i feel like any methods to do so would be way over my head right now so i'm just not going to worry about it.

regardless, i am much more in love with this layout than the first, so it'll probably stay for a while.

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16/11/23
pokemon section has been added to interests.
all of my previous pokemon talk is, and from now on will be, neatly situated over there now.

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12/11/23
hiii. i've been replaying soulsilver lately.

scroll down in the index to read me ramble about that and pokemon in general for approximately ten thousand words.

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9/11/23
remember how i said i wasn't messing with js right now? i lied. a little bit.

thanks to a simple script, the html files that made up this space are now combined into one.

i plan to make the same edits to my petz fansite at some point as well.

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7/11/23
crystals section has been added to interests.

comment widget, courtesy of virtual observer, has been added to index.

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5/11/23
homepage is now online.

if you can read this; you aren't seeing this page as it's supposed to be!
click here to return to the homepage.