about

hi hi so we've gone by twig on some accounts, but our personal and consistent preferred name is rea. we have other names but don't need them to be used. im in my 20s, black american and very obsessed with pokemon. i really, really like pokemon, stuffed animals, memes and cartoons. pachirisu is my #1 favorite pokemon; i am The Pachigirl and i stand by this forever, i dont care. but all other Pachirisu fans have my respect and i hope all our Pachirisu take over the world. shoutout to Sejun park for putting Pachirisu on the map because now theres a lot of merch of it. however, i was the pachigirl before that fateful VGC compettion

perosnality wise...erm...yeah. i dont know how to describe myself its pretty difficult BUT u can get some idea of it through my amazing collection of sonas! (listed below...eventually. theyll get profile links soon). most notably you'll see i make hella self inserts and selfship

im an artist. i am very passionate about art. its something very core to me. we take pride in our ability to create - its what makes us human and connects us to every other human bodied being on this planet. i tend to lean heavy into darker media overall because i find complex themes that feel raw and painfully human the most interesting and comforting. i use art to explore themes familar to me and how i process the world, communicate with others and express myself. i mostly work digitally but do enjoy to bust out my traditional material. my gravitation to digital comes from animation and the more accessible for paid work.

ive been drawing for a long time now and i was like first gen of tablet babies from my understanding. well i know for sure i spent too much time online as a an abused kid with a soft programmable brain. my first drawing tablet was the UDraw for Wii, and i guess the DSi and 3DS predated the UDraw. i was a Flipnote Hatena and DeviantART kid. I used to partake in multi-animator projects on Youtube for OCs and Warrior Cats and used to make animation memes.

other than drawing and animation as my main methods, i also enjoy crafting for my plush and toy interests. i also write but its very casual. i have an intrest in writing and photography too, but im still learning my style there.

theres lots of things up with me. one of them is that im plural. ive been open and closed about this since i founded this site because of the impact it has on my socializing abilities and overall ability to function. its a bit (very) embarrassing as its gotten harder to manage thanks to my living environment. i am not fantastic about grappling with my complex tramua and neurodiversity. its frustrating for me and i don't like to hide or sugarcoat it given how ive learned to view myself through it. im trying to teach myself to accept it fully, not with irony. these themes are pretty prevelant in my works, and im pretty open about our specific experiences finding peace and understanding with oneself or others with similar conditions across site.

so, why neocities? cuz i got banned from toyhouse in 2021 for being too awesome (drawing taboo art) and it really made me work on my own website. i had an affinity for coding beforehand though, which is what made me gravitate toward toyhouse. my experience with HTML/CSS started because of DeviantART customization when I was a kiddo. when i got the membership thing or whatever tf! from dA i played with html and css on tumblr, and then toyhouse became a thing and eventually boom ive been using neocities since 2019 (past site name was pizzarisu). im not very good with tech as much as i love it and identify with being a machine. my main love for coding is the fact i can replicate things i like and customize it!

i have a tendency to purge my existence online. i become overwhelmed with the idea that i am alive and a consumable, and i lose my shit. however, no matter how many times i rebirth on the internet, i hope for this site to outlive me as long as it can and i vow to never delete it in its entirety. even if i want to be forgotten, itll be my clumsy pawprint in the sidewalk of the internet for the better or for the worse

i sparsely use social media due to my social aversion and inability to keep accounts before deleting them, but theres some contacts to below if you want to interact. overall, im pretty introverted and low-social contact needs because of my struggle to do it longterm - its rlly hard to get me to keep consistent contact w folks