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7/26/26

Another entry which means yet another progress update! I've been trying to properly learn css & javascript throught freecodecamp.org which has been a super help recently. While I'm still making my way through things, the laerning curve is sharp yet rewarding! It's been a long months of June and July, for June I spent almost all of my time on vacation either with family or to visit friends. Half of July was spent finishing up my other online class, and now that I have this extra time I've been really locking in. I added some buttons and have been making things togglable in the name of accessability, since to pretty much anyone not using desktop the site is all jumbled and broken. This is more of a short term solution that doubles as an avenue for me to learn javascript, rather than a long term solution for this issue. For the time being I've tried to keep things as simple as possible, for now focusing on css and hover effects. I've also set up a github profile, and have been sifting through my code trying to correct past mistakes before I make anything public. Other than that I've been slowly but surely making my way.

7/27/26

I also want to take the time to celebrate the network reaching 100k views! This is so cool and I can't wait to make my site better and better and more time goes on! Consider following my neocities profile, or perhaps also my pinterest if you liked any of the pics I posted above from my trip! Short post to accompany my previous post from the day earlier since I don't have much new to say lol.

5/18/26

Hey all, I'm done with spring semester, its just so weird. Half of my time in college is over, I got good grades this time around with my lowest being a B-, and still I feel empty in a way. I'm in a sort of social limbo right now, where my current problems and worries cannot be resolved for who knows how long. I sit now, away from all those I want to be around most, and reflect on myself since that's all I can do now. As I sit in my room of which decor outdate my current self, I sit and wonder what to change. I tend to hesitate, as I often worry the person I once was is much more of an interesting person than who I am today. As I work more on this site this summer, hopefully change the aesthetic and content focus, I can do so in alignment with the creator I want to be.

Anyways in other news, moreso site housekeeping, I have crafted several of my own stamps, located at the top of my stamps page, and will definetly will be making more! I also added the badges page, which houses yet another graphic hoard. As I want to pivot from collection to creation, I will possibly relocate or merge my stash of blinkies, buttons, stamps etc. in order to make room for better things. Perhaps not and everything stays the same, but I really want to try to get draggable boxes that each offer their own content, of which only pop up once clicked. I want to revamp the way my site is layed out, as well as the aesthetic somewhat. I like the grass, but I also love the blacklight + neon colors aesthetic. Eventually I will decide and the results will speak for themselves! For now I'm pretty much just sitting here, with nothing but time, and an online class.

3/31/26

Hellooooo neocities, it is I not quaden back again with another update on my life! Classes have been going good, and I've jsut recently got some more stuff done on my website!!! I've finally made an about me page, in which I have displayed what games and movies I enjoy! I want to make the presentation of my favorite media to be more aesthetic and such, which will come with more time and effort. I have also recently installed arch linux on an old computer tower my family had. It previously had windows 7 on it, and since we had forgotten the password, there wasn't much left to do with it. Previously I tried installing Linux Mint as a dual boot alongside windows just in case, but couldnt seem to figure out why the Wifi wouldn't connect. It was only this past weekend when I discovered through my arch installation that the thing was so old it didn't even have a wifi card. So now I have like a 30 ft cable going from my router and across my ceiling, so thats fun.

Easter is soon approaching which means by the time I make my next entry, I will have Tik Tok and Instagram Reels back. Recently I decided to participate in this years season of Lent and gave up both social media sites. As someone who attended Catholic school the majority of my life, I have always participated in some form of Lent. My mother, a devout Catholic, would always make sure every Sunday we were at Mass. But for me, at least From kindergarten through the 8th grade, I had mass twice a week. I would have Sunday Mass but also a school Mass on Fridays. Mass usually takes around an hour give or take, so for my child self, Mass twice a week plus praying before each class, in the beginning and end of the day as well as before meals, and the daily theology class, I was just drowningg in religion.

I always dreaded the Lenten Season since it added an extra 40-45 minutes to Mass with stations of the cross. For those of you who dont know what stations of the cross is, basically there are 14 "stations" or key moments leading up to Jesus's crucifixion. These stations are usually mounted on the walls of the church, and the 45 minutes are spent being led in prayer, as the priest and his entourage stop and stand in front of each one. Some people called it 'church arobics', because at each station you were supposed to genuflect (take a knee), stand as the priest says his part, and then kneel and either pray in your head, or in our case since we were all children, read from the provided book, then repeat for all 14. The book they had was ancient compared to my 2005-born ah, and after finding it online, it did not suprise me one bit see it was authored by some Sister. Some quotes I can remember such as "hollering", or "horseplay" made all us Gen-Z brats cringe everytime we recited it. As I grew older and reached 7th and 8th grade, I began to harbor a hatred for Lent, since I thought it was ridiculous that we as Catholics absolutely dog on ourselves for being sinful and unworthy. At least in that book that we had to recite as our prayer that followed the priest's, almost every page was us praying of how sorry we were for all these different sins. Yelling at your parents, being mean to other kids, sure alot of kids do that I didnt have a problem apologizing for things like that. It was that some of these pages were so specific that it made child me feel like I was apologizing for something I didn't necessarily even do! Every year towards the end of Lent, the 7th grade class performed an hour long Living Stations of the Cross, where all of us 13 year olds acted out Jesus's crucifixion. And yes this was after an hour lond Mass followed by a 45 minute regular Stations of the Cross. I thankfully was an angel or something so I was up in the organ room singing along with like 5 other girls.

Don't know how to end this, so yeah I'll make another entry prob mid to late April. See Ya!

2/26/26 ~8:30AM

Bro oh my fucking god. I havent completed one of these entries in nearly a month, and the reason for todays update stems from rage!! I'm sitting in my class at the moment, and as I'm trying to listen to the lecture, there are two people who keep on yapping

3/4/26

Hello once again! Midterms season is upon us, and by my last micro-entry, it hasnt been treating me very well. I'm trying to stay focused on my work, and for the most part I've succeeded in completing everything accuratley and on time. So the other day, when I was in my Gender and Communications class, there were two people that just would not stop talking in my class. I usually try to sit near the front so i'm not ditracted or anything and to make sure I hear everything, but in this specific class I for some reason picked a back seat. So it's very difficult trying to understand the professor whilst two people are having a full on conversation. We had to present to the class as well for group projects, and again they wouldn't stop. Literally so rude. In other news, my life has been quite hectic, but I wanna continue working more on the academics tab once I arrive home for Spring Break. I'm also thinking of making some sort of Pokemon Go shrine on here, since I love the game so much :3 Anyway Imma go so buh byeeee

1/28/26

Second week of Spring semester, and it's so COLD. We got probably a little over a foot of snow, with some sleet on top. The piles and blankets of snow that become blinding when reflecting the sun aside, the temperature and windchill kills!! I'm now cooped up 24/7 just waiting for Spring to arrive. I got some cool photos though, so enjoy!!

1/21/2026

Typing to you live from University, Spring semester is officially upon us!! Towards the end of Winter break, I discovered that club penguin emulation sites are still around and active! Back when Club Penguin shut down in 2017, 12 year old me was very upset. I decided to take my matters elsewhere, eventually landing on the homepage of Club Penguin Online. When the news broke of the crimes that were happening behind the scenes in the discord, I was horrified, as I played on the site and never even knew they had a discord. By the sites rightful shut down in 2020 rolled around, I was entering highschool and concluded that I was too grown to play such a childish game.

The event I attended today!! Peep my user "notquaden" in the lower right-hand corner, dressed as pitbull

So now here I am, freshly 20 years old, once again logging on to play Club Penguin Journey, and participating in events held by the Rebel Penguin Federation, which is a bustling community of people who still play club penguin! They host daily events and almost everyone online is actually an adult. Instead of being strictly marketed towards kids, this time it seems the vast majority of people playing are in their 20s, being folks who don't have a third places anymore. I'll leave things off here. BYEE!!

1/8/26

Guess whos back, back yet again, but the owner of this shitass website! I return after celebrating my birthday in early December, followed by finals (which I gobbled up), and christmas and new years festivities!! Now that I'm back on my free time, I'm drawing a blank on what to do now. I've spent my days rotting on cookie clicker and rhythm games, combined with learning "Out of Time" by The Weeknd, and surprisingly its starting to get old. I'm hoping that my impending spring classes are interesting and engaging, but unitl the semester starts I'm basically a sitting duck. At least this duck displays 18+ hours of YunYun Rhythm Psychosis on their steam profile. Very short entry I know, but I simply have nothing else to say and will continue to ball out in my pinterest cave (my room). I want to make a full detailed room and decoration tour and post it to youtube, I'm just so camera shy lol. I grew up looking up to youtubers and content creation in general, but I'm just so deeply terrified of being personally perceived that I'd rather stick to my pinterest which only includes posting pictures, and this little corner of the internet where no one will see me except for a few web surfers. All in all I'm a communications major and will have to get over that fear eventually, and when I do, maybe then I'll itch that scratch.

12/1/25

Hey surfers!! Another post yet again! I hope everyone who celebrated Thanksgiving this Thursday had a wonderful time and honored something their grateful for! I recently posted an essay, one of many more to come, to the Academics page! Other than that I haven't really done all that much otherwise regarding the site, other than adding to the list of things to download. Finals week is only one week away and I want to try and finish strong, and score well on all my exams. I recently finished my group project assignment, where we were instructed to gather into groups of 3/4 and analyse and present short summaries on a given science fiction novel. My group was assigned Solaris by Stainslaw Lem. I normally don't read sci-fi, so at first I was skeptical, but by the end, I was satisfied with it's upbeat pacing, exciting storyline, and thought-provoking character dynamics. I still have to compose a final essay on the matter, of which I will certainly post when completed!

11/24/2025

Hello web surfers, I feel like a baby who's just gained conciousness. I finally figured out how to add a hover effect in css! (took me long enough) I know it looks like nothing on this site ever changes, but I swear I try to add at least a few new graphics to my stash, because at the end of the day this is my side hobby. Another slice of my free time has also been taken up by slowly making the switch from windows to linux! >I'm so sick of windows and their data farming, and pretty much the only thing thats tying me to windows is fortnite, which I don't think can run on linux due to anti-cheat or smth. I currently have two computers, my big gaming pc from 2019 and my laptop I recently was gifted for college. While I've been avoiding windows 11 like the plague for years, after the biggest e-waste announcement in history of windows 10 being no longer supported after October 2025, along with Windows 11 being pre-installed on my laptop, I didn't really have a choice in the matter. What I've experienced is nothing short of useless AI bloatware and a built in co-pilot on my laptop keyboard which I often mistakenly hit. I as well have had some quams with Microsoft's greedy buisness practices, and believe that you shouldn't need to pay for any operating system. I've been checking out linux mint and fedora, which I've had good experiences with. Currently I'm just being picky and choosy over which flavor of OS I want on a usb I purchased recently, since I'm a broke college student and my wallet did embarrasingly receive quite a dent. I want to make sure I make the right decision so I dont need to buy another one.

The point I'm trying to make is that even though I've been busy with life, I'm still slowly progressing with my site nonetheless. Recently I've been completing a few different essays for different classes, along with workshopping on one I want to post on here! I want to make sure my presentation of my argument makes the most sense before releasing it, since the topic is something I feel very passionate about. In other news, World Philosophy Day was this past Thursday!! I find philosophy so interesting, as it is the foundation for so many different branches of thought and practice. At the end of this semester I will have completed 3 different philosophy classes, and I'm heavily considering declaring a minor in the field. My uni's philosophy department has recently become too small and has merged with the history department, which in my opinion is such a shame. This new era is enabling people to cast aside critical thinking for nihilistic ignorance, being held up by chat gpt. The amount of people I've seen in class, even during exams, using chat gpt is ridiculous. They simply rely on chat gpt for everything, and frankly it's disapointing and frustrating as someone who's at school to actually utilize their brain. Our brains are being melted by machine-learning systems spitting out information that has been farmed from humans anyway! Rather than submitting to Peter Theil, Sam Altman and the machines apparently "smarter than any human", actually think for yourself. Participate to local elections, stay informed, if Trump doesn't want to federally regulate AI to not upset his butt buddies, we must take things into our own hands.

Crazy rant I know, recently I've been down this crazy rabbit hole of some weird NYC rapper cyber-core accellerationist cult(lmfao that classification), who's raves have been funded by one of Peter Theil's companies.Apparently 2hollis has alot of ties to this thing, way more than what I can properly articulate. Theres a great blog post I read that really dives into things, I'll link it here!

Anyways this is definetly one of my longer entries, so I guess I'll end things here. I'll do another bog post soon, maybe, but I'll always be working on the site bit by bit anyway.

my go wild global event haul!!

11/15/25

Hello my beloved site, I'm back once again, this time to geek out over pokemon go! I am an avid player >and recently been sleeping on the different pokemon in raid prior to this weekend event. This past week theres been different legendary pokemon in raids each day, with the weekend event having mighty pokemon, aka high IV pokemon in the wild, along with rotating spotlight hours for dark and fairy-type pokemon! I loved the event and got a ton of beefy pokemon to call me own, including an adorable bewear, which 1) has a special background, 2) has the cutest little scarf, and 3) alleviates the chore of gathering 400 snuffle candies in order to evolve to get one. I will say that it is kinda frustrating catching upgrades to pokemon I've raised since their first evolution and powered up to no evail.

my setup in 2022 vs the current crib

11/7/25

Another day another blog post! This weekend I'm home from univeristy for the weekend to celebrate my PopPop's birthday!! As I'm sitting in my room now, as someone who only comes home every so often, I can't help but think about the evolution of my room decor from over the years. I was so dedicated to the aesthetic, i would contantly take pictures, and began posting them on pinterest, so thankfully I have some-sort of a time capsule of the different eras.

Another thing I love being able to come home to, other than the vibe, is my keyboard! When I was little my mother put me in piano classes, where I stayed until the 4th grade, when she finally let me quit. While I enjoyed the piano itself and knowing how to play & read sheet music, my child-self just didn't see an interest in piano, as it often felt like a chore, something I had to do rather than something I wanted to do. I still participated in other musical activites in school and out of school, such as choir and cantoring at mass, as well as the ukulele starting at age 10. When highschool hit I completely changed geares. I ditched the traditional music and developed an obsession with the guitar!! I ended up being able to borrow my uncles electric guitar and amp, and eventually being gifted a black Fender stratocaster squire for my highschool graduation! I was over the moon, and spent all my time learning my favorite songs. As I started at univeristy though, it became difficult to play with headphones plugged into my amp, along with the fact that if you're not 100% dedicated to learning the guitar and practicing all the time. My roomate ended up bringing her acoustic guitar, which I ended up liking way better! I eventually bought my acoustic guitar, which is back in my dorm. Speaking of campus, there just so happens to be a grand piano in the lobby of our student center. I like to go over and play a few church songs I still know, and every weekend I come home and try to learn another one!

Check out my pinterest if you want to see other photos & more!

11/6/25

Greetings! 'Tis I, the webmaster! I buckled down and replenished my buttons, blinkies and stamp stock, which took a while tbh, but I had fun nonetheless! I also went through and organized the blinkies and stamps in the same way my buttons were, and while I don't necessarily mind the basic light-green/dark-green combo, I want to eventually find a good background image to use site-wide! Im debating on a backsplash of either a hoard of different cables, or perhaps a grass background, although most of the stock grass images I've sifted through haven't exactly lived up to my standards. Either there's too much contrast and depth than what I'm looking for, or it has some vignette effect. I also at some point want to find a worthy envelope image that I can fix my stamp list to, I thought that would be so cute!

Update: After typing that out I decided to stop being lazy and just start doing what I wanted to do. Anyways, I managed to find a grass image that was sufficient, along with removing all my individual CSS from each html doc and finally put it in the style folder. Don't ask me why it took this long.

a pic I took today while walking along a trail w my bf :3

my pumpkin I carved, his name is beef!

11/2/2025

Heyyy everyone, I hope everyone has a terrific halloween, this year I decided to stay in w my bestie and watched our fav shows, so therefore i didn't really dress up as anything. A huge part of me that didn't care abt the health of my college student ah wallet wanted to be nyan cat, but after tara yummy decided to use that idea, I think I'll pass. I've always held mixed feelings towards Tara, I fuck w the fact that she is a dj and all, and i like her style I suppose, my problem more-so lies in her weird relationship w her ex Jake Weber. I know I know this whole debate is so parasocial and at the end of the day these people can do whatever they want, but I just CANNOT act like the way those two flirt constantly doesn't leave a bad taste in my mouth. Maybe I'm just a hater, but if I were Kenzie, Jake's current girfriend, and I saw them act the way they do, I would either throw hands or run for the hills.

10/26/25

Hello all! Okay I know my site looks even more horrendous then previously, but I swear I have a vision. >As much as I like having my computer shit its pants everytime i open the homepage, I've decided it's best if I start pages dedicated to each. This is definetly going to enable me to collect and stockpile more graphics than previously, since up to this point I have been picky in my selections, but now, everything is fair game. Also once I learn CSS shit is gonna start cooking, swear. Anyways, I've been fiddling around with this site for the past couple of hours in an effort to procrastinate my exam due tonight, and I think it might be in my best interest to end thigns here and go and complete that, so yeah. I promise my skills will improve... eventually. For now UGLY HOMEPAGE and thats FINAL.

UPDATE: i got a 70% fml.

10/25/25

Hellooo! Welcome to the first blog post of yours truly! I don't really know exactly what to talk about, so i guess I'll start with what this site is, how I got here, and where I plan to go from here! This site is meant to be a little archive for my art, papers, but mostly buttons, blinkies, stamps and other graphics!! I started learning html in 2019 whilst trying to customize a myspace reboot profile, but since I never fully sat down and learned, I'm only really starting to pick it up again now in 2025. Now I'm at university, and consider this to be the time to teach myself something new in my spare time! I'm not really sure what my plan is other than have this website be a personal media dumping ground, but it will hopefully at least get more aesthetic!? I'm praying I keep up the discipline of writing little semi-daily paragraphs, Bye!!