Virtualbeetle's Webpage

Welcome to my webpage!

Please read this first!

WOAH hello this is my website!! Sorry it's still a mess, I'm just working on it a little bit at a time right now :) My site started out as mostly a carrd replacement + worldbuilding posting dump, but I'm also throwing some other fun things on here, notably a blog for our cat, Squid! Maybe I'll make some more other pages eventually, like a blog for me, or some other sort of collection of things I enjoy. But for now, enjoy as is!

Update:

Hey everyone! I'm still not super online at this time, but as everything around us (both online and off) keeps going more and more off the rails, I just wanted to state here that, should anything happen, you can always find me here as long as neocities still stands. And even then, I'd probably just look for another website hoster and republish my site.

Like, I dunno, we're in an age where the business model of the modern internet seem to be failing even the biggest companies. I never used to get too freaked out over the years as tumblr's userbase faced the occasional 'we might be losing tumblr, everyone panic!!' trend. However, particularly with the recent death knell of 4chan, which always felt like such an immutable force on the internet, it's just kinda made me realize just how little the continued existence of any website is a given. Tumblr is a dumpster fire run by a skeleton crew of wildly unpopular transmisogynists. I just can't bring myself to care about my presence there anymore.

So anyway, with that in mind, I turn back to neocities, and sites like it. Here, this website is mine. I have full access to the html, css, and scripts that make up my website. If I jumped my entire life from one burning ship (like tumblr or twitter etc) to another (like insta or bsky or anything Run By Someone Else), then who's to say I won't spend a year breaking my back to reestablish my online presence based out of a site like that, just for it to also close or disappoint in some way?

Along that note, it's also just hard to Want to get into a new social media site, if I'm being perfectly hornets right now. Mega networking sites certainly do have their uses for many people, but for me, it just does not feel good anymore to feel so constantly in the eyes of so many unknowable strangers. Right now, I want my online presence to move out of the loud, busy city, out into the remote country, where it's mostly my friends and the occasional passersby that are the only ones that ever come through.

I don't really have anywhere specific I was going with this. I guess I just wanted to say that, if the sites or services we use to interact ever go down, you can always find me here. If I ever do get set up on any new sites, I'd plan on linking to them from here - this is probably just gonna end up being my primary presence on the internet once tumblr finally smolders out. If you want to follow me across the internet, you'll be able to find the stuff I get into here.

By the way, one last note. This is just an open letter to my friends, the people I've interacted with, or the people who wanted to but for one reason or another, never did. I am so sorry you had to watch my highspeed social crash-and-burn in real time over the past several years. Maybe I'll write more on it later, but for now, just know that I hope I get to talk to you again someday. I really do. I'm sorry I can't keep up with you all through the crash-and-burn of the rest of the internet along with my own, but if you wanted to keep me bookmarked to come find me again someday, I would be so immensely grateful. I hope I can stay in touch with the people I care for, and the people who care for me.

And at the end of the day, I just hope the world is kind to us all.