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Crow, the person

My name is Crow (he/she), and I am a college student artist from the depths of the computer! Just a funny little cat-bird-rat-fox-dog-thing.

My core interests are such: art, computing, and storytelling. HTML is basically a very fancy word document at its core, so it's fitting for me to learn it! I am relatively new to all this (started in November of 2023), but I feel I've picked it up relatively quickly, and I find it very fun and enjoyable!

Why I came to neocities

Heads up! Slight talk of mental health issues ahead

My memory is hazy and I deleted my blog, so I can't be sure for certain, but I joined Neocities during a weeks tumblr break - I found it was horrible for me mentally, so I quit for a week to see how I felt, and once I got past the initial phase, I got miles better. And then I returned and I immediately got worse again, it was like night and day.

No amount of filtering would hide the constant guilt-tripping and discourse (it's easy to filter out specific things, like "snakes" or "blood", but it is much more difficult to filter non-specific concepts, like guilt-tripping and "if I don't see you reblog this" type posts). It was really getting into my head, and I constantly felt like I had said or done something horrible and that I forgot about it, and someone was going to hurt me over it.

Over time I realized it's users had many of the behaviours I judged from twitter, not to mention the constant cross-posting from twitter leading to twitter-esque arguments, and something to do with the guy/company running the site supporting isreal was the breaking point, and so I quit.

overall, I feel like the way tumblr and its users advertise it as "not like other social medias" made it harder to realize they were doing the exact same things. Not to say neocities doesn't fall down these exact same pitfalls sometimes, it's had its minor bits of fighting drama and trolls, but they've been few and far between and I am so much happier now that I don't have that weighing me down!

I feel like quitting tumblr also gave me a lesson in the value of quitting, or more specifically, the sentiment behind this image:

the if shit sucks hit da bricks meme

solid life advice honestly. real winners do quit

I've come to make an announcement:

Shadow the Hedgehog's a bitch-ass motherfucker. He pissed on my fucking wife. That's right. He took his hedgehog fuckin' quilly dick out and he pissed on my FUCKING wife, and he said his dick was THIS BIG, and I said that's disgusting. So I'm making a callout post on my Twitter.com. Shadow the Hedgehog, you got a small dick. It's the size of this walnut except WAY smaller. And guess what? Here's what my dong looks like. That's right, baby. Tall points, no quills, no pillows, look at that, it looks like two balls and a bong. He fucked my wife, so guess what, I'm gonna fuck the earth. That's right, this is what you get! My SUPER LASER PISS! Except I'm not gonna piss on the earth. I'm gonna go higher. I'm pissing on the MOOOON! How do you like that, OBAMA? I PISSED ON THE MOON, YOU IDIOT! You have twenty-three hours before the piss DROPLETS hit the fucking earth, now get out of my fucking sight before I piss on you too!

I am part of a system, but its not really relevant to the things I do here, so you won't see me talking about it alot, and most of my headmates aren't really interested. My headmate Ebony has his own page, but it isn't updated very frequently.

Crow, the artist

What do I do

I specialize in digital art, but I am not afraid to go for traditional art sometimes! I have this thing i do where i will post only cute silly funny art for a few days and then before you know it either I hit you with an actual masterpiece or horror art. I lean more into anthro art where I can, but alot of my characters are human so I end up drawing them more. I am trying to learn 3d but I can't even get through the donut tutorial I am going to be very real here I just don't get it. I sometimes mess around with music, and I want to get into gamedev but right now that seems a bit overwhelming!

How did i start

I started drawing from a very young age - I think it might be since i had crayons, pretty much! I drew on whatever I had access to at the time - when I had pen and paper, I had pen and paper, and when I had my laptop, I had MS paint. I can list a few inspirations in my style:

I got my first "main" OC from some kind of adoptable, and I know she was purple and had a sweater. I can't remember her story but I know she had one, and then she had a child, and then that child had a child - I had generations with my OCs, but for some reason entirely seperate stories like they weren't connected at all. If I ever get the chance I want to find them and redesign them, maybe come up with actual stories.

Eventually I became very focused on foxes and it all went downhill from there. I had a main OC I can't remember the name of (I am aware she was named after some undertale character, possibly Shyren) that was a fox. I stopped playing generations around here, she's entirely seperate. This was followed by more OCs, then I made them a story. Then I had a made some kind of fursona, which was kind of my first dip into exploring my gender. I should probably rewrite these OCs since I think it would be funny and i remember more about them than my other old OCs, likely due to the fact they're more recent.

Anyways quarrantine happened and then my art progression tripled in speed and now we're here.

What do I use?

Maya, the mascot

Maya is the mascot of this site

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