The song is not in English, but I found a video with rather good English subtitles. I personally think it's rather enjoyable without the subs, too, and the performance of the singer (who also happens to be the author of the song) adds a lot to it. I listen to it…an unresonable amount

Hi Melon, thanks for the warm welcome!

You know, I think you're right about me finding the space to listen to that inner voice - the characters and the whole idea started forming after I quit my very demanding (well, for me it was) office job last year, and I finally started drawing it when my freelance work took a lull as well - so I had the mental capacity to just channel it without constantly thinking about other tasks I should be doing.

Now I'm swarmed with work again, so I won't be able to continue conjuring dozens of pages in weeks, but I don't think I necesserily have to as long as I move in the general direction I can't wait to get to rest of the cast of the characters.

Thanks a lot for the advice by the way, I've been wondering how to smooth out loading (and also keep the limited memory space of the website in check since I can't buy a membership yet), but somehow the thought of jpg format completely evaded me. I'll definitely need to go re-render my pages again when I have time.

Also thanks for reading the comic by the way! ":grin:ark, but humorous and optimistic" is definitely something I'm going for The funny thing is, I've never been much of a comic artist - a digital self-taught fandom artist, sure, but I rarely took on the comic format in particular. That being said, I've worked with professional comic industry folks very closely for a time, so I'll take pride in hearing that I fit the part

- also why does it say Im on page 31 when Im on page 3??

Ooooh that'd be the symbol I've chosen to break off the number and the title of the page (where applicable). It's coded into the theme to show up regardless of whether the title is or isn't present, and it used to be a dash, but a "-" just hanging in the air for untitled pages bothered me, so I changed it to |. Never realized that it could come off as 1 in places. That's the power of feedback for ya, maybe I should change it to a dot!

I know this game is both controversial to some and overblown to others, but I can't make myself to put Cyberpunk 2077 down whenever I have time and opportunity to play.

I've beat the main campaign multiple times and these days I just come back to it…for the world? I also love to see what the modding community does with the game. So right now (or rather a few weeks back when I still had time to play) I installed multiple immersion mods (survival mod to eat/sleep/drink, a cyberpsychosis mod, a drinking-in-bars mod, etc etc) and just…it's a sumulator for me by this point. I'm living out the dream of being invincible and parkouring off of high buildings without fear. Among other things.

That being said I love the story and the characters also, it's just that at this point I've learned it by heart and am waiting for the DLC.

But it's literally the first time I've wanted to just exist in a game and come back to it with nothing much to do but roleplay.

Which is ironic, considering that Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley could never hold my attention despite being made as games to chill and exist. Not enough neon and gunfire for me, evidently. I'd say that the first person view is the charm, but no, I used to hate it in Fallout and Skyrim, immediately switching back to third person.

Apparently CDPR scratched some itch I didn't know I had.

(Perhaps the itch is everyone finding fantasy and/or rural games relaxing, whereas I've always strived for the urban scene. In which there's disappointedly little RPGs with character creation that don't also involve nuclear fallout. I suspect I would also spend a lot of time in VtM: Bloodlines if it was a but smoother to run.)

Hello there!

So, a funny thing. It's been so long since I've last been active on any forum (or maybe I was never a part of a forum like this one at all) that I was unaware it would log me out after an hour. And apparently that's how long it took me to write a post. Which I now lost. Huh.

Well, y'know what? I'm inclined to be positive about such things. I've put down the "always logged it" tick this time, let's try this again!

So, my name is Alex. Or Tarrax, or Hum or whatever nickname you'd be inclined to give me. I'm also fine with absolutely any and all pronouns, since, as far as my gender goes, I live to be completely incomprehensible.

I'm in my late twenties. Which means, I remember some of the good old web. I remember using website builders and a bunch of stolen code and html tutorials to make bright web pages with pure high contrast RGB backgrounds. About everything. About me, about my favorite anime, about my friends. It was fun. Then I moved on to social media. Then social media became all shiny and polished and utterly uncustomisable except maybe for Tumblr which in my mind is the last bastion of the old web spirit among the popular websites. Then suddenly I was weill in my twenties and I completely lost the ability to spend my free time doing anything but scrolling three same apps over and over again. That terrified me to realize.

Last year, thanks to a very enthusiastic Tumblr post, I've learned of Neocities and the Yesterweb community. I was floored to see so many people doing the very thing I mourned and buried as a gone part of my childhood. But I was also intimidated. Having your own website seemed…like too many opportunities at once. It could be anything, and I couldn't choose a thing. I've also found that without sufficient motivation my ability to stack pieces of code together greatly degraded compared to my teenage years. So I just lurked. Around the Yesterweb webring, around this forum, all over.

This year, however, or rather at the end of last month even, there was a shift. For the first time in the last fifteen years I've just sat. And started making something that I wanted to make. Not for a friend, not for a fandom, for myself. I took a story that has been in my mind for more than a year now and I drew 40 full-colored pages of the first chapter start to finish in less than three weeks.

Fifteen years ago, it was a book scribbled in two fat notebooks by hand. It was really a self-insert fanfic with changed names, but who cares.

This time, I'm making a comic. I'm giving life to this character who means the absolute world to me as a creator the more I work on her. I'm giving life to her world and her queer found family. I've been an emotional mess about this for weeks. Can you tell?



So when the question of "Where do I post this?" came up, my first instinct was to make a website. I had a theme laying around. I had the motivation. I made it.

And now I'm building the rest of my website around that comic like it's my foundation. Suddenly it makes sense. Suddenly I'm hyped to make the things other people are doing. So far the front page isn't nearly as obnoxious as I'd like it to be, but I'm in no hurry. I'm doing the thing.

I've yet to build the shrines, but I'm thinking about a page dedicaded to a CD collection, maybe. I'm about to start burning CDs again. Maybe when my birthday comes I'll ask my friends to make me an old-fashioned mixtape. Kinda lacked out on that part of fun when it was hot.

What I'm trying to say is, this comic, this website, suddenly they don't feel like "reclaiming the web", they feel like reclaiming myself.

So, here's my website: https://tarraxahum.neocities.org/index.html

And, for the sake of yelling "I MADE A THING!" , here's my webcomic: https://tarraxahum.neocities.org/pof.html

It's just a little bit bloody, there's lots of fighting, there's some slight creepiness to showcase a metaphorical POV, and it's just at the beginning of the story. Oh, and the logo is a placeholder for now. Work in progress, work in progress. But it's mine.



My latest pride is successfully coding a comment page following Sadness's tutorial. One small step for Tarraxahum, one big leap for Tarraxhumankind.

Oh, and here's my SpaceHey! https://spacehey.com/tarraxahum

I suck at keeping the activity up, but I'm trying to live my best edgy cringe years on there, since I've never had a MySpace. I didn't know English back then.

It's been a while since I've been actually encouraged to make a big detailed post, you know. I don't do "short" very well, never did.

So, if you're still reading, here's a bonus picture of me painted in my favorite things:

Music: Nu-metal, alternative rock and all the neighbooring micro-genres. I need my music to pound in my chest and vibrate in the soles of my feet. You won't find me in the moshpit 'cause I'm small and I want to see the singers, but you will find me by the stage. I've also developed a sudden interest in the cyberpunk flavor of synthware. Anyone got artist recommendations?

Anime: For being "the anime kid" of the class I sure haven't watched a lot of it, but I do have some favs. Gurren Lagann, Black Lagoon, Canaan, FLCL, Kill la Kill (which I genuinely watched and still watch for the plot). And Speed Racer of the 60s was my OG hyperfixation that started it all.

TV shows: As far as live action goes, I've only ever fully watched one, and that's Wynonna Earp. As far as animation goes, I adore Arcane. Also She-Ra (the new one) and the Owl House are cute.

Movies: Gunpowder Milkshake, Captain Marvel, Speed Racer. Back to the Future was the ultimate family movie at our house. As for animation - Mulan and Balto are my general go-tos.

Videogames: Mass Effect, Dragon Age (especially Inquisition, sue me) and Cyberpunk 2077. Greedfall is also good. I'm aware I should give more attention to indie games, but I suck at finding the ones I might like. Anyone knows a more obscure game with nice character customization - pls let me know, at this point I think I've seen all the bigger ones.

Plush toys: Let's spice it up, why not. I have a looong cat hugging pillow that my friend gave me as a gift. I have the IKEA shark. I have lots of plush cats 'cause I'm allergic to real ones despite loving them to bits. And I also have a doll of my favorite comic book character that I've sawn myself. I adore it still.

As you can probably guess from that media list, btw, I'm very weak for women kicking butts.

Will definitely make a website shrine out of that.

Phew, so…that looks about right for an introduction, huh?

I hope I'll stick around. And I hope you'll have me and my inspired walls of text.

Have a good day or evening or whatever your timezone brings