EmeraldSwirl

With just 9 days left of July, I'm knocking down the door and barging in! Well, nine days is still better than my attempt from last year. I hope to make at least 3 attacks within the next three days so that my poor victims would also have the time to retaliate should they want to.

As you can see, I am on Team Seafoam! Here is my profile: it was not easy to write about these four characters, but I hope their descriptions/stories are entertaining enough.

Wish me luck, both this year and so that I'll be able to be even more performant next year. And (whenever you are seeing this post) if you want to be attacked, just message me!

Take a look at my Telegram channel, where I post my art!

Great news: I relaunched my webcomic! If I succeed in finishing at least the first part (about 5 chapters), you will get to read a beautiful story about recovering from loss, the beauty of friendship and finding yourself. So pray that I succeed!

Read «Between the Chapters»

[Post dated retroactively, actually posted on April 17, 2024.]

Take a look at my Telegram channel, where I post my art!

On this arcane date I am happy to announce that my efforts to rebuild this website have almost fully paid off! Except for the News page, all the main pages now have the new design! Soon the entire site will proudly show off the new style.

[Post dated retroactively, actually posted on April 17, 2024.]

Take a look at my Telegram channel, where I post my art!

My only goal for 2023 was to earn a name for myself as an artist and an author on the Internet. Needless to say, I got sidetracked, and really bad. But I come out of that year with heaps of new knowledge: some of it is about how web layout (and site design!) actually works.

So now it is time to implement the design I have drafted all the way back in March 2023! The page where you can see it already is About. The next sections to receive the update are, tentatively, Contacts → Site map → Art → Writing → News. I have a RSS feed now, and I want to make an «Updates» section on the news page — for smaller things like page updates.

[Post dated retroactively, actually posted on February 23, 2024.]

She used to be not just a gifted kid, she was blessed. But you have to be careful who you accept blessings from... Many years later she advances the frontier of science, alone and unrecognized — and nobody can show her the way to deal with an extradimensional threat. Is she doomed to fail like she always does?

I wrote an urban fantasy short story! This is my first piece of writing published in English. Congratulate me on finally sharing it with the world!

Read «Satisfactory»

[Post dated retroactively, actually posted on February 23, 2024.]

So yes, I’m safe from my country’s imperialist war/genocide for the moment, and I’m swiftly preparing to open commissions as an artist. And I’ve been working on new pages for this website! Look at my works, ye mighty, and despair: About, Writing, ...is this seriously it? Well, I’ve been under enormous strain for the past two years or so, so I hope my productivity increases soon. I’ve also planned an essay for Western readers trying to explain why Russia is like this, but it’s nowhere near ready. No illustrations either... well, all in its due time.

For those missing the old News page, here it is archived.

If you want to commission art or a story from me, please contact me on Telegram or by email! (2)

On 24 February 2022, Russia has taken its war with Ukraine, which had been going on for 8 years, to a new level and launched a full-scale invasion. Half a year later, Ukraine is finally taking back its territories and freeing the people who have suffered Russian terror. The Russian government is crumbling, so in a desperate effort to salvage themselves somehow they declared mobilization, in some regions taking the shape of ethnic cleansing.

Of course, I’m far past the point in my political consciousness where I thought that politics was something one could ignore at their will. Still, being so close to the imperial core, I didn’t want to believe that one day I would really have to flee my home country… even though the rational part of my mind has always known that day may come. It is somewhat shameful to me that the reason for my emigration is not my active opposition to the government but simply them seeing me as cannon fodder they could use… but I have been a trouble for them since March and I still have lots of opportunities to aid in the collapse of Russian regime and help Ukrainians and countless other nations that Russia has routinely oppressed. I’m currently safely abroad, in the arms of two friends who have been principled enough to leave the country much earlier.

And since I’m being fired from my job, it’s a one in a hundred chance for me to finally take up art as my main occupation, with nothing «more important» currently standing between me and my passion. So, commissions are officially open. Wish me luck, and let’s see whether I can finally mold myself into the person I’ve always dreamed of being.

If you want to commission art or a story from me, please contact me on Telegram or by email!

It is, of course, my personal opinion, but I firmly stand by it, and it is that 2021 was an even worse year than 2020. Still, this website grew quite a bit... actually, not quite, just a bit. But I do think that my portfolio page and one character page that I have made in the beginning and end of that year are quite big achievements for someone who is learning web design on their own.

Plans for this year? The most important thing one can do is survive despite any obstacles to that. We'll see how it goes otherwise.

Oh, and I redesigned the news page, I guess. Do you like the snow? I think I do. I got it to work using this tutorial!

Oh dear. So much happened. I don't know whether I should attempt to even count the innumerable states of being I've cycled through since September. How much time has passed? How many lives have I tried to live? And now fragments of these lives all surround me, trying to dress me in a thousand costumes all at once...

But right now I am alone. Ostensibly free to do what I want to. Away from the cold wind of responsibility, kept outside by the windows... And thus I come back to this: hacking together a site. The short story I'm writing is bound to raise some questions... so let this site have the answers to them, be an encyclopedia of sorts. Like the 4lung Wiki, which I love so dearly. Well, it seems like it was my initial plan all along. How many lives ago has it been?..

Anyway, testing the new comments «function»! When you see this post, be sure to drop me a few lines of Lorem Ipsum! It will be nice.

(2022-1-14: the comments function was stupid and thus it hasn't been transferred to the newly designed page.)

Hello, and welcome! This site might as well be empty right now, there is literally no content besides this news post — yet I'm still proud of it, because I am coding it myself from scratch! I can't be grateful enough to Neocities for providing this amazing opportunity to express yourself to so many people, now including me!

I know the coding as it is right now is hacky: I'm not a professional, after all. (Still, I can do better.) Right now my plans are on filling this site with content so there actually is stuff to look at! Expect to see more, and I would love it if you stick around. I'm a firm believer in the decentralization of the Internet, so I hope to make this site truly reflect my identity. Let's see if I can make it!

If you want to comment, email me at emeraldswirl@gmail.com, and your comment will be placed here manually :D