flamebladed

About me

Oh, Hi there! I'm glad you decided to pay my humble website a visit. You'll be glad to know that behind the creation and maintenance of this site there is a real live human person (!!!). Here's a few things about me:

On the internet I go by flamebladed or Sword (they/them). I'm a fashion student, I'm very fond of science fiction and I just really like making stuff.

Interests:

• Star Trek
• Neopets
• Fashion (mostly historical or alternative)
• Arms and Armour
• Tarot

Hobbies

• Sewing
• Embroidery
• Drawing
• Gaming
• Messing around with HTML & CSS

About this website

This is just a little personal website, where I can put things I would like to share on the interwebs. You can find all sorts of things there on the navigation.

What's in each section?

• Artwork: Digital and traditional illustrations made by yours truly
• Crafts: Things I made IRL with my own two hands. Sewing, embroidery, bookbinding, etc.
• Projects: Other stuff I make! DnD stuff, writings, the sort
• Blog: Personal Journal
• Bookmarks: Cool and interesting websites

Why Neocities?

Ok, so here's the deal. I, as many others, am sick and tired of most social media sites. I hate the way they make me feel, I hate chasing the algorithm, stressing over follower engagement, managing notifications, etc. It feels terrible, I'm sick and tired of it and I miss the old web terribly.

Wasn't it nice when the internet felt like a wonderful place, full of things to discover? Wasn't it nice when one could have at least a modicum of control over their online experience? Some agency over how and when and why they chose to interact with the web? Those are the kinds of question that eventually brought me here, to Neocities.

I've known about static websites and HTML for a while. Hell, I learned the basics of HTML coding on Neopets at age 8. I've learned image editing and digital drawing because I wanted to make images to put on the internet. The old web has been hugely influential in my life in ways I cannot begin to describe, so it feels fitting to attempt to return to something similar.

So, here I am! With my little Neocities website, having the time of my life. Only time will tell whether or not I'll be able to maintain it long term, but hey, I'll try my best.

The Layout

When I was browsing for templates for this website (because I was definitely not going to do the code from scratch), I came across this Repth layout and I completely fell in love. It's incredibly nostalgic, and it's exactly the type of layout I was using back in like 2005 or so, for both my neopet pages and my blogger blog. So that's why I chose this one, I just needed to change around some of the graphics and it would be perfect.

About the graphics

HEADER: At first I thought about doing a custom illustration for the header, but while looking for a placeholder I found this really lovely illustration by Harry Clarke, and thought it fit perfectly what I was going for. It's originally from a 1900's edition of Faust, you can see the full illustration here.

BLOG: The blog layout was edited from the basic Zonelets theme to match this main layout. The bottom border features an illustration by Charles Robinson for "The Cloud Kingdom" (1908). If you want to check out the full illustration, click here!

TV: I wanted to have a little TV gif that played Star Trek but couldn't really find any that I liked, so I set out to make my own. I got the clips from a 1991 promo for "Star Trek - The Astral Symphony", a compilation album with music from the first 5 Star Trek movies.

BUTTON: The purple "flame-bladed dagger" was very loosely inspired by a parrying dagger I found on the MET museum website, as well as some of the sword designs I found on GifCities. I did the pixel art on Libresprite.

Finished Pages

This is a list of all the website pages that are completely set up and ready to be viewed. If it's not on this list, it's not finished yet!

• Homepage
• About (this page!)

Feel free to explore any of those pages at your leisure. I hope you have a nice time exploring my website!