Bio
is Skel! Based in the Philly area, I'm a fella who loves art and pop cultures of the sort. In my art, I have a wide range of subject matter; I like expressing my thoughts and ideas in provocative ways that leave interpretation up to the viewer, and those tend to manifest as horror and slice-of-life. Other times I draw anthros and other things from imagination. My main sources of inspiration has always been from video games and internet, fandom culture, having been exposed to them from very early on in my life. TF2 and Sonic are the two big franchises that I've always held so close to me and what inspired me to create my own characters as a kid, as well as connect with others online growing up.
Internet background
I'm someone who's been on the internet for over a decade, with my true start to being on social media on Google+ starting back all the way in 2014. It was a pretty obscure platform where I met a handful of my friends online, some of which whom I still friends with today. Google killed it in 2019, and for a while I missed it, but looking back, it was probs for the better it got killed lol, considering what went on in that site, including the kinds of people who tended to inhabit it. (Being a literal kid there, it definitely was not a safe place, to make friends let alone have relationships, and I unfortunately was a grooming victim because of it.) Nonetheless, that's where I first set foot in the world of social media.
Why this site?
Twitter has been my main place on traditional social media ever since. It's an awesome place for memes and art, but it and social media in general are just so restrictive and formulaic in a way that kills genuine self-expression and a sense of unified community that the wider internet used to have. I find it really awful that everybody lives on sites like Twitter to connect with each other, even though we know we all hate it. Fortunately, getting more into the non-traditional side of the internet and delving more into my great interest in tech is what led me to create this website. Twitter feels like resorting to staying at a homeless shelter, getting the bare minimum of staying in contact in a widely accessible and convenient setting; coming across Neocities and creating my own website felt like going off-grid and building my own house. Now I'm no longer starved of creative self-expression and autonomy, and now I'm kinda a personal web evangelist lol.
But yeah, I'm just here to have a good time :3
Oh shet, Skel!
She is a magnetic, crystalline folf (fox-wolf) whom I've had since I was 9 years old. She was originally a Sonic character (I was OBSESSED with Sonic as a kid lmao), but then not long after I made her, I converted her into an anthro one shortly after discovering LAPFOX TRAX at around the same time. She is also how I got my nickname/display name, Skel! :3
Since then, she has been my main fursona, evolving over the years as I've grown and drawn her countless times. I'll post a page more about her when I get to it~!
Social Media
Ones in red are ones I use most!