about me

undefinably queer, probably neurodivergent, likes the idea of creating more than the act of it. somehow simultaneously bounces between projects while remaining remarkably consistent.

about this site

i created this website on a whim with the blind enthusiasm of somebody who has absolutely 0 experience in whatever it is they're about to do. the most coding i have ever done in my whole entire life is when i had to use RStudio to make some graphs for one of my Microbiology papers in uni, and i didn't understand a single damn thing all semester (i somehow passed that class, but only by the skin of my teeth)

as a kid in the early/mid-2000s, i spent a lot of time online browsing Pokémon fansites. i spent whole afternoons following affiliate links, exploring everything this passionate niche of the internet had to offer my young self. despite this, i never quite got the idea in my head that i could make a website of my own -- at least, not one that looked and functioned like an Actual, Honest-to-God Website. while i did spend a lot of time on Piczo, that involved far less coding and far more drag-and-dropping as many glitter graphics as i could physically fit on a page. i was also young enough as to only have a single digit in my age, so what little 'content' existed on my Piczo site consisted mainly of terrible video game reviews, a barely-started Pokémon Mystery Dungeon walkthrough, and a detailed guide on how to 'zombiefy' your younger sister's Barbies.

of course, in order to have a site it needs to be about something; my brain latched onto the first thing it could think of that i liked, which was video games. and thus, Beyond the Sky was born. (however, i am indecisive and have never been particularly good at committing to any one thing, so in reality this site is more of a fansite/personal site hybrid.)

i spent the entire weeking feverishly alternating between neocities and W3Schools, and by the time Monday rolled around i had something that functioned vaguely like a website and wasn't a complete assault on the eyes. i've been working on the site on-and-off since then, and have already learned a whole lot, so the some of the pages are going to look a lot uglier than others as i haven't (yet) gotten around to redoing them. i'll get there ... eventually :')

Beyond the Sky is a hobby and a passion project. i don't know what i'm doing; i'm having fun learning. updates come as and when i have the motivation to work on them. my attention span is fleeting as all hell, and i have a terrible problem with perfectionism -- part of what this site means to me, as the webmaster, is learning to be okay with putting things out into the world when they're not 100% 'perfect'; reminding myself that 'finished is better than perfect'. a lot of this site's pages are made live when they're 'good enough', and retroactively edited once i've learned a little more. please do not hesitate to let me know if something is outright broken, though! the best way to contact me, currently, is via neocities or my chatbox.