Hi. I wanted to try reaching out after I read Screaming without a Voice. Not sure what I'm doing.. just know I should try. As someone struggling with quite bad social anxiety who is really worried about how isolated they've become, it resonated with me. Even if I can only sort of relate to certain parts. A while back I realised I might be a trans woman, but only recently did my concern over a lack of friends or ability to talk to people reach a high, near-panic state when it hit me how vital it'd be to have more friends (and any in-person friends at all) as a trans person. (I can't relate to the voice frustration stuff, though I'm sure it'll come up further along that path. I wish you well with the voice training climb.) I'm trying to use that severe concern to push through my anxiety, but it's still a real struggle. When I read your post, it gave me a boost in confidence/positivity towards overcoming this. And given your own experience, the thought of talking to you in particular felt much less daunting than reaching out to other people. So here I am trying to be social and actually talking. Thank you for writing it. Hopefully progress and achieving more connection can speed up for us both from this point. I'll keep trying to reach out to people more, and look for safe places/communities online to start being more social in.

Hiya! Love your website. But, say, have you thought about putting an RSS feed for it? Just as a general question.

loved "the gaps we leave!"

much love, alli. thank you for all your work and the person you are <3

Sorry about your vocal dysphoria. I enjoy reading your blogs.

I was scrolling through the indieweb hashtag on bluesky when I found your posts. Your website is gorgeous. I clicked through the themes and when I got to the playstation one, I just hung out in front of the screen for a while and watched the snow and spirals fall. So soothing and pretty. (The code looks really clean, too, I couldn't help right clicking and taking a peek!) I am not anywhere near this level yet, I'm still struggling to figure out how to make a directory for a simple static website without breaking the url paths from the jump...but I think this page has convinced me that I need to look at more y2k/2000's console and web design. I first logged on in 2002, and something about this reminds me of the flash games everyone was making at that time. It makes me so happy! Thank you for making a place online where I felt myself calm down, stop scrolling, and breathe the moment I clicked into it.

The internet is still like this. A website made by someone who just wanted to make a website. And with good taste, too! I just noticed the CRT toggle. You didn't have to do that, and yet!

i hope to be able to code like this one day c: pretty website

to anyone who's reading this right now, don't give up! you've made it this far, you can make it further! hang in there, skeleton ~

I only browsed your page for a few minutes (love the design btw), but the BGM brought back nostalgic vibes for me, so thank you <3 I'll definitely be back to read your blog posts and get game recs! :p

Me encanta tu diseño es genial ojala pudiera crear algo igual

hello! i enjoyed the post about game difficulty very much. our experiences with the secret stages in mario sunshine are very similar: i also struggled with them enormously at age 6 or 7, and had to get help from my dad (whose only gaming experience to my knowledge was arcade games in the 80s and browser-based football management sims)

Your blog about difficulty in gaming put my thoughts into words that I have and talked to sb. Just yesterday about. Thanks for caring about a topic I am also very passionate about! Capitalism

your writing is consistently fantastic & i'm grateful for it 🖤 do you have a newsletter for when new entries go up or should i just keep an eye on blueskys? much love!

hi!! i love how you give each blog post a completely different format and design. it's really cool and kind of makes me wanna try giving it a go myself, lol. hope you're doing well!