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for the purposes of the internet you can call me Craw!! i use he/him pronouns and i'm an autistic trans guy who had never done coding before trying to do neocities, so forgive me if this is a bit shabby!! i'm just here to have fun and be silly and free :3 uhh i will do all sorts of anything on here!! whatever strikes my fancy. i get anxious quite a lot so this site isn't gonna be anything serious that'd make me stressed, just my silly little website i do what i want with :)

i am (secretly) a hedgehog , , yeag

if you haven't noticed from the general seemings of this site i'm a very rambly guy, i say lots of words and use lots of brackets everywhere. in the lists below i've bolded keywords to make it sorta easier to process?but i haven't done that for the whole site

medias i enjoy

these aren't especially categorised cause every time i try to do that it starts stressing me out for some reason???i might edit this in the future though!!

  • music (at large yes. listening + writing + talking about + many genres)
  • overpriced nintendo franchises :( specifically zelda, kirby and pikmin although the only pikmin game ive played is pikmin bloom the creatures have captured my heart... pikmin,,
  • lots of books!! books are talked about more in detail on the reading pages of this site
  • specific book shout out to omniscient reader's viewpoint holy shiiit it it fucking. i like it a lot
  • watching inside no. 9 atm and its good and sillyyy i enjoy it
  • various musicals,, in particular falsettos trilogy (in trousers, march of the falsettos + falsettoland) and merrily we roll along do things to my brain

hobbies!!!

  • given this is website it seems relevant to mention coding!! to be fair i've done very very little coding before doing neocities buut i have a lot of fun with my silly little html and css over here :33
  • i've also been enjoying sewing since i started in about june 2024? i can make my little creatures which is fun especially to do for my friends !!
  • don't know if it fully counts but photography has been pretty fun too, i like taking pictures of the sun when i'm walking around
  • playing instruments and singing!!! i've sang in choir(s) since i was very little and at this point its just an integral part of my identity
  • working on doing more painting + also illustration

media/things that i want to learn more about but haven't yet but still seem super cool

video games

  • DISCO ELYISUM i neeeed to play it or watch a playthrough or,, anything it seems like it could be my favourite thing ever
  • persona 4 (golden) but also just persona beyond rtgame's p5r playthrough
  • the professor layton series cause i'm still borrowing 2 of the games and its been, nearly 2 years
  • red dead redemption 2 i know the spoilers for the story but it seems like something i would enjoy a lot

misc.

  • the furry community.. also just art in general but specifically doing art of a little creature guy thats me but not
  • clay sculpting!! there's some air dry clay at a shop near me so i want to get some at some point

lyrics i enjoy (scroll!!)

And if I wanted too much / Was that such a mistake at the time? / You never wanted enough, alright tough / I don't make that a crime / And while it's going along / You take for granted some love will wear away / We took for granted a lot but still I say / It could have kept on growing / Instead of just kept on / We had a good thing going / Going / Gone - Good Thing Going (from Merrily We Roll Along, composed by Stephen Sondheim)

It was an expensive mistake / It was an expensive mistake / My horse broke his back to get me here / I have his blood on my hands for no reason / But what was I supposed to do? / How was I supposed to know how to use a tube amp? / How was I supposed to know how to drive a van? / How was I supposed to know how to ride a bike without hurting myself? / How was I supposed to know how to make dinner for myself? / How was I supposed to know how to hold a job? / How was I supposed to remember to grab my backpack after I set it down to play basketball? / And how was I supposed to know how to not get drunk every / Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and - why not - Sunday? / (How was I supposed to know how to steer this ship?) / How was I supposed to know how to steer this ship? / How the hell was I supposed to steer this ship? / It was an expensive mistake / You can't say you're sorry and it's over / I was given a body that is falling apart / My house is falling apart / And I was given a mind that can't control itself / (And what about the pain I'm in right now?) / And I was given a ship that can't steer itself / (And what about a vacation?) / And what about a vacation to feel good? / My horse broke his back and left me here / And how was I supposed to know? / And God won't forgive me / And you won't forgive me / Not unless I open up my heart / And how am I supposed to do that / When I go to this same room every night / And sleep in the same bed every night? / The same fucking bed / With the red comforter with the white stripes / And the yellow ceiling light that makes me feel like I'm dying / This sea is too familiar / How many nights have I drowned here? / How many times have I drowned? / (How many times have I drowned?) / I give up! - The Ballad of the Costa Concordia (Teens of Denial- Car Seat Headrest)

Well, it seems to me what we want and we need are the same / And that's someone who'll worry about us / 'Til death do us part, please keep breaking my heart / 'Til it ceases to beat, please be mine / Well it seems that that's what it means - When Somebody Needs you (Camp Here & There soundtrack - Will Wood)

And I don't think you were that bad / There were days when I saw the life / that I could have had / I could have been loved / Spent days in the sun / To warm up my back while I run - Laika (Pigeon Watch)

I guess I'm scared that I'm imaginary / That I invent myself every day so other people don't have to / That who I really am is secondary to what I want everyone else to see and I'm scared that I'm crazy / But God help me, I'm twice as scared I'm sane / 'Cause then what excuse do I have for treating people like problems that need to be solved or explained? / And that's where you come in / You came along, you taught me that people cannot be explained / That we are all ghost stories at the end of the day / And maybe we should just aim to stay that way / Maybe there's a reason why we do the wonderful-horrible things we do to each other, but the reasons are too simple to be satisfying / And then we're left forgetting and re-mystifying each other / 'Cause we don't really wanna understand what makes us hurt each other / No we don't really wanna understand what makes us hurt each other / No we don't really wanna understand what makes us- / Fuck, sorry - Ghost Stories (Eden Disorder- The Narcissist Cookbook)

So I rake the sky, I listen hard. I trawl the megahertz. But the net isn't fine enough and I miss you- a swan sailing between two continents, a ghost immune to radar. Still, my eyes are fixed upon the place I last saw you, your signal urgent but breaking. Before you became cotton in a blizzard, a plane coming down behind enemy lines. - I Trawl The Megahertz (Prefab Sprout) (side note this whole song + the whole album are brilliant lyrically

some things i just find cool :)

  • libraries!!!
  • sunsets,, and sunrises,, and just the way the sky looks
  • CDs, i have quite a lot of them!!
  • creatures !
  • getting (and especially making) presents for my friends