Hellooo, Reala here

Hey, I finally decided to join this cool place! I've been eyeing it for a while as a major indie web hub, but procrastinated for way too long, so I'm glad I'm here now. I draw, mess around with my website, video games are like 60% of my personality and I'm a little obsessed with game history. I have a bunch of games I love listed here if you wanna get an idea of what lives in my brain. I like a lot of things in general, but I tend not to participate in fandom at all and generally keep to myself. I'm a born lurker.   

I really really love the communities around the small web! I have mostly hung out at 32bit.cafe and always really enjoy when I drop in there. I'm passionate about pre-web 2.0 internet and I'm always looking for alternatives to pretty much anything - be it software, websites or social networks - to get away from the monopolies. I guess I'm an (heavy emphasis on) amateur webmaster and my site is simple, but hopefully comfy (my hosting service is currently undergoing a server migration, but I aim to clean up my site layout and make it marginally more interesting when that's done). I have a very untamed curiosity towards trying new websites, tools and things, and tinkering with stuff that I don't need to, and get lost in reverse engineering stuff a lot.

Uhhh other stuff, I'm 29 and genderfluid, any pronouns are fine. I have one calico kitty and I live with my partner, and I've been disjointedly learning Japanese since I was twelve. That's all the personal information you need to know about me. I'm extremely scatterbrained and prone to hibernating socially, despite really enjoying communities like this. (´∀｀；) I tend to feel "small fish, big pond" no matter where I go, which is a tendency I'd really like to break...when I'm not hiding in my cave, reading my Overcoming Shyness book. orz