Siph
Ariz
they/them
I'm a constant work in progress, and so is this site
I was cursed by a malevolent tigerfish to forever be amazed by things but never retain a single hobby for long.
I was alright at art once... till I quit for 2 years and had to start from circle one.
I knew how to knit. I'll pick that one back up some time. Maybe I should crochet next.
For a while I was very depressed and unfulfilled because I'd look back at my life and see the half buried corpses of projects long abandoned, hear the faint heartbeat of a first draft from under the floorboards (and my house doesnt even have a wooden floor).
Here's a cool comic by an artist I like that captures this feeling perfectlyBut perhaps there is value in that. I wouldn't count on it, but I'm gonna try to combine my interests and make something that perhaps someone will enjoy. Something that I enjoy making, and that makes me push my boundaries.
So that's kind of the thesis of my artistic vision for now.
The Machine
Since I was little I was always intrigued by technology. I'd salvage anything I could get my hands on for bits and components.
When I got my first computer when I was 7, it didn't take long before I started messing about on CMD. What else would a kid without internet do in the 2010s?
I really got deep into Linux and webdev during the lockdown. At one point my Windows OS died and I had to install Arch for school. I used that for an year or so.
I'm still quite young and learning. I'm nowhere done. But then again, I never will be. I held off on making this site for a while because I thought I needed to get better before that, but making this site has already made me a lot better at webdev. You're never too much of an amateur to try anything. That's a silly bias.
Self
I'm Indian. I'm queer. If I could turn into any animal it'd be either a mouse or a siphonophore.
That's about all for now.
Likes
- My friends
- Early 2000s archived webpages
- Researching obscure stuff
- Queer theory
- Siphonophores
- Writing
- Tiny diaries and notepads
- Dark chocolate
Favorites
- Book series: Discworld
- Book: Stone Butch Blues
- Movies: Nausicaa, Howl's Moving Castle, Knives Out 1 & 2
- Anime: Neon Genesis Evangelion
- Podcasts: The Magnus Archives, WTNV
- Albums: Hawaii: Part II, Wallsocket
- Bands: MCR, ABBA
- Musician: David Bowie
- Literary genre: Postmodernism
Dislikes
- Gender essentialism
- Instagram and Twitter/X
- Degradation of physical media and the inevitable decay of all things unloved
- Self-help books
- Unhealthily career oriented people
Talk to me about
- Linux
- Web revivalism
- Retro tech/tech history
- Literary criticism
- Queer theory and politics
- Marine biology
- Whatever else you like