Honestly, I have no idea why I made this site, or why it still exists! I'm constantly considering deleting it. I like the whole indie web/web reclamation movement a whole lot, but I don't feel I, or my opinions, are really important enough to put "out there." And yet here I am, putting them out there. Why? I have considered the reasons:

• I want to learn to code (no, I don't).
• This is an art project (a shitty one!).
• This is a political statement (a weak one).
• Self-expression is inherently valuable (...maybe?).
• Believing I have value to strangers boosts my ego (...I guess?).
• The importance of self-expression has been artificially created by social media, and I'm just tricking myself into thinking I'm doing it better (...definitely?).

I used to enjoy how profile customization and the like could act as a window into the "self" someone really wanted to embody, and therefore used profile customization to understand myself, but that was with super limited profiles--- here, there's so much damn space that it feels like I'm obligated to be a little more accurate, but then I run into the problems of: Who am I? What am I? What interests me? What is important to me? Etc.--- and I don't know the answers to any of these questions.

And, more to the point: whether or not sharing my drawings and stuff is important, I still want to do it, and this website is the only way I can share things on the internet when taking into account my social anxiety. I'm way more frightened by interacting with people online than in person; it's nearly impossible for me to so much as "like" a post, so receiving "likes" or comments or whatever is also nervewracking. With this website, no one is obligated to acknowledge that they were here. I can just write to the void.