Hello and welcome! Thank you so much for stopping by; I appreciate it more than you could know. My name is Nora (not really, although know that my real name is just as matronly sounding as my psuedonym, so I feel like it captures the same essence), and I've named my website after myself because I am a narissist. I think that my testimony about starting a personal website because of the evils of social media is familiar and unremarkable to any person perusing neocities, so I won't bore you with those details. Just know that I'm excited and grateful that neocities currently exists and that I can share my thoughts with the world while learning html/css at the same time!
I am a twenty-year-old American college student studying English education because I really just enjoy literature and writing, but I'd like to carry the comfort of a tangible income source waiting for me once I recieve my diploma. I have no friends, which is a bummer sometimes but luckily gives me the time to do stuff like edit this website. I am a catowner, and I work at part-time at a particular chicken restaurant which inshallah I will never be given the occassion to speak further about. As far as fandoms go, I love Pokémon (although I haven't played any of the games since gen 8), FNaF, Tomodachi Life (I was strapped for cash once and sold my 3DS to an ex-friend for 200 dollars, and I did really need to money but man does it hurt. I'm so so excited for living the dream) and weirdly Labyrinth, that 80s fantasy kids movie with David Bowie. Of course, I also love Sanrio, as is required of every mentally-ill girl. The extent of fandom-related material I post will likely appear in the fun corner, which will house all the common shennanigans of a personal website.
The real meat of this website will be my articles page, which I suppose is just a more pretentious way to refer to blog posts. I like to write and occassionally feel that I have something interesting to say. I don't want this website to be an informal space for rambling about my feelings. While I understand the purpose of and have nothing against those types of blogs, you don't know who I am, and I don't suspect you have any reason to be interested in what I have to say unless it's actually interesting; while I'm not selling you something or anything like that, I don't want to waste your time. My articles, I hope, will be of high quality and containing original thoughts. Whether the subject matter will be interesting to you or not I can't guarantee, but you can always stick around or check back from time to time to see if it is.
On the 2020s Internet, there are several (and some potentially profitable) avenues for publishing written "content," that horrible word. I've specifically decided that I want to publish my writing on a neocities website, completely and always for free. First of all, to get the ego-related reason out the way, I'm not confident that my writing will ever have the potential to be profitable, and I'm not eager to experience the humilation of discovering first-hand that it isn't. I've also concluded, having gone the route of getting an education degree, that I don't want my "passion" to be my job, although I do think that education is important and thus will be fulfilling in a different kind of way. The thought of forcing myself to write about particular subjects or in particular timeframes to satisfy paying customers fills me with dread. There are definitely personal reasons for my decision. On a philosophical level, though, I think that there should be more high-quality and free educational and artistic material - material that is REALLY free, not just paid for in data rather than money. I empathize with anyone selling their writing to survive (or maybe even thrive, to a limited degree) under capitalism; I would ultimately sell a book to a publisher if I found myself in that fortunate situation. But I'm not dying or anything right now, and I have no reason to restrict my amateur writing when it can be free. Additionally, publishing my articles on my own website allows me to have full control over my rights to my work as well as the site's appearance, even if that appearance is relatively unremarkable. It's the principle of it.
Thank you for reading this long introduction - enjoy your stay!