my first post

June 22, 2026.

This is the first official post on this website!

I tried thinking of what to write first and immediately got hit with choice paralysis. That’s the problem with long-form posting, isn’t it? The entire arrangement of everything anyone will see here is up to you. It’s like having all of time and space at your fingertips, if you really wanted it. The act of creation is paralyzing as much as it is fulfilling.

For me, just having something on this blog (or… website? I don’t know if I consider this a blog) will be a monumental occasion. I’ve had this site since 2022. It’s now 2026 and there is not a single post, page, or anything remotely interesting on it outside the bare essentials. I spent the past four years either forgetting about the site or stressing over the software I was using or straight up working on everything except content. Four reworks of the appearance and not a single post to show for it! What an existence.

I imagine if my site was sentient, it’d be very happy to know I’m making this post. I don’t know if it’s obvious, but this makes me very happy too. I’ve spent far too long agonizing over the potential outcomes of the site and not nearly enough time making it into something that can have outcomes in the first place.

It reminds me of this problem I have very often: I find myself wanting to do something creative but only wanting to think about it, not wanting to do any of the work required to bring anything into creation. This is ironic for a lot of reasons—the biggest one being that my medium of choice is games, and games take horrendous amounts of work to bring into existence. How can I hope to make entire games if I can barely get myself to flat some colors or open my code editor on my (unfortunately, plentiful) off days?

Hopefully this site, now that I’m actually making content for it, is going to act as yet another bulwark against those bad days. I already have drawing, writing, and occasional game-making as creative hobbies—now, whenever I don’t know what to do with myself, I can also try writing or coding for the site as an option!

This could be viewed as me spreading myself even thinner than I already need to be, but I think the idea is exciting enough that it’s worth pursuing. I like the idea of having a little website with my collections of stuff posted on it. It’s worth making a nook for it in the back of my brain.

So, here we are. The first post on my website. Let’s make this a good run!

Side note. I don’t know why I retyped this entire post from my notes app into my editor instead of just running it through convertcase or something… I did minorly rephrase some things, but I don’t know if it was worth all that. At least now I know for next time.

Side note 2. You have no idea how long I spent mulling over how to organize my images in the file system because of this page. I’m so very slow at these things.