the vessel

hi hi so our screen name is twig, but our personal name is rea. 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

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.

im an artist. i am very passionate about art, im just not graceful with words or articulating what i think and analyze. art keeps me grounded and is a source of life for 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 love cheesy art, weird art, unapologetically horny art and super dark stomach turning art and art that just exists. all of it, i eat it up! i tend to lean heavy into darker media overall because i find complex themes that happen irl or can hit home very comforting and generally interesting to explore. 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 am quite a free spirit when im not thinking about paid work.

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. i struggle with an assortment of issues that come with complex tramua alongside fragmentation. these themes are pretty prevelant in my works, and im pretty open about our specific experiences finding peace and understanding with one another on this site. it is certaintly an experience to exist this way

so, why neocities? cuz i got banned from toyhouse in 2021 and it really made me work on my own website. i learned coding just by chance tbh? it 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 thats where i really dived into coding! once i got banned from toyhouse, i moved to focusing on neocities and have my knowledge from w3schools and studying other code and trial and error. 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!

as often as i wish to purge everything i make or do to erase trace of me having humanity, i hope for this site to outlive me as long as it can. even if i want to be forgotten, itll be my clumsy pawprint in the sidewalk of the internet

i sparsely use social media due to my social aversion and inability to keep track of things in our current state, but theres some contacts to below if you want to interact. overall, im pretty introverted and low-social contact needs