I just made my first website using a really awesome resource called HTMLforpeople.com! I just finished up a bunch of late gender studies homework as well, so that's done. Yay! I've been preparing to write my paper on Star Trek and gender; I'm really excited. It took me down a rabbit hole of a former English professor who wrote essays about fandom, including the homoerotic relationship between Picard and Q in Star Trek: The Next Generation. I found out she passed away in 2008, and found her old Livejournals and Tripod.
Finding these traces of a person's history on the internet and their interactions with media and pop culture left me with a... Not nostalgic, necessarily, because I am of the generation that was not alive then (born 03, quite young) but... A sense of pride, of joy? Of hope? That people then were doing what people do now: talking about the things they love, and making online spaces for that.
This made me realize how... Annoyed and jaded I am with modern social media. It is all very centralized. We each use the same services, and some of them offer some individuality, but nothing like these awesome little websites. I love maintaining things like this, so I was wondering "...can I too do something like that?" I immediately thought about having a place to put all of my ocs, one I can customize to my heart's content. So, I opened up Neocities and started to learn. I got this awesome reference from another person on Blue Sky, and it's awesome.
I have to say I'm super impressed with how far I've come already. I'm excited to learn more.