Hello! My name is Iiris (with two i’s – or actually, with 3 i’s) and I live in Finland.
I have been thinking for a while that having a personal web page would be pretty rad. I switched to a dumbphone in October 2023 (so almost a year ago now!) and basically quit using all traditional social media along with it. But in all honesty, being completely unplugged made me feel kind of lonely. I still wanted a space to share my art, thoughts, cute outfit pics and all that. So here we are. Yay!
When I looked online for different web hosting services and tutorials to get started with HTML, I was very positively surprised to find out that it seems like personal websites are becoming cool again!? How awesome is that!!??! And that there is a rise in people my age, specifically COOL ALTERNATIVE PEOPLE AROUND MY AGE who are making their own websites. That means I might actually make some friends and interesting acquaintances here instead of just yelling into the void alone (how exciting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1! o(☆▽☆)o)
I’ve been looking a bit into different web rings to join, but I thought it would be best to actually have some content on my page before joining any. Specifically joining a lolita fashion webring would be cool, since I’d really like to get to know more lolitas. ( • ⩊ • ) Despite wearing the fashion for around 1.5 years now, I’m still very much a lonelita. :'3 Who would have guessed that eliminating your online presence while having social anxiety and being scared of Real people in the Real World would make for a pretty isolating combo… My main audience for my fashion currently are my IRL friend group, parents and the grandmas who frequent the local cemetery and compliment my dresses and tell me I remind them of their youth (they’re so real I love them).
I think I might make a separate post talking about my experience without a smartphone. I hear a lot of people talking about wanting to switch to a flip phone but so far I don’t know anyone other than myself (my grandma excluded) who actually has one. But that’s for another day~~
In all honesty, I’m pretty nervous to post this. I don’t know if it’s scarier to think about having people see my stuff and not like it, or that no one will see it at all and I’m just talking to myself? But I try to remind myself that realistically, the worst-case scenario is that a few of my friends will read this and no one else will just care I guess. (Hi friends!!!! Hi dad!!! Hi mom!!!! Hi Milla!!! :3) (Yes I’m planning on sending the link to this to all my friends & my parents & gf to show how Cool I am having a website that I made all by myself and then also actually publishing a weird too-long ramble there about nothing in particular.) But it would be way sadder to just give up because I thought I couldn’t make anything that’s good enough to be released into the world. I won't improve if I never give myself the chance to fail. I try to remind myself of that. And there are so many cool Potential Friends to be made, I just need to put myself out there a bit!
I’ll stick a pic of one of my fave coords here as a bonus!
Thank you very much for reading! See you again, hopefully! (￣ε￣＠)
