So you wanna know more about me?

Well, I'm data/datum. My names get weird and many. If you want specifics, check out my system's site. Otherwise, don't sweat it too much! Just data is fine. Though it is case sensitive. always lowercase. Never capitalized "properly". Either all lowercase for normal talking or caps lock if you're shouting or talking intensely towards me. Thanks!

I'm from the West Coast, and I've been here my whole life. I've lived up and down California, and I know the Bay Area the most of all. It's shaped a lot of my love of microclimates, the sea, nature as a whole, and regional signature foods. You can't pry my love of San Francisco sourdough chowder bowls out of my claws. I'll bite you. and probably cry

I love a lot of things! Comedy and entertainment of varying forms, arts of many mediums, sciences, foods... I especially like cooking and baking for other people, it's one of the many ways I can express my feelings for people without feeling disingenuine or ostentatious etc. I also love showing people things that can make them laugh. I want to entertain and bring a smile to people's faces, whether it's through the things I create, how I nourish others, any new fun information I pebble over, or even just a dumb pun or joke.

Namely, I've always been into YTPs. I love their radically transformative nature and how they've always been a sort of "fuck you" to authoritative copyright regimes throughout Internet history. It's like a comedic Ship of Theseus: If it's remixed and chopped up so much to the point where you can visually recognize what it is Supposed to be, but it's so fundamentally changed from the original form, can you really even call it the same IP outside of ingredients alone? Not to mention witnessing the actual comedy shift in real-time from the crass, off-color, downright vile early-web insensitive humor to something more inclusive and modern that proves you don't need to resort to cheap "bigotism = funny" edits to make something extremely funny.

... ah. I'm rambling about YTPs again...

Unbeknownst to many on first impression,

I'm Asian American. Particularly mixed Southeast Asian (Thai + Chinese). I'm not sure much more specifics than that due to my partial estrangement from my family, but I'd like to find out one day (very low chances... but it would be interesting to know). Due to how my human face is made up, a lot of people do not think I'm Asian but some other flavor of mixed which has led to some really interesting interactions and assumptions. (It did not help that I was moved from a predominantly Asian school to one where Asians were in the minority..!) I have a hard time with my cultural identity due to the trauma of growing up how I grew up, but I'm hoping to re-approach it at my own pace as I go through my personal recovery. I'm currently trying to find a way to get back into traditional music..! if only the instruments weren't so expensive and hard to source T^T

Now onto things that aren't a surprise...

I have Autism and OCD. Verily. I also have DID, and I'm part of a polyfragmented system. Got some other unsavory things as well that I'm not really going to list off here. To top it all off, I'm also Alterhuman and find a closer identity with the draconic and digital than I do with humanity as a whole. I used to be really strongly fictionkin, and don't get me wrong, I still do have fickintypes, but a lot of older ones seem to have either divvied up towards other folks in the head or just got repurposed in different ways. It happens. (You can learn more about my system here.)

These things do make up a significant part of my life, personality, etc... It's my whole lens of the world. It can get rough a lot of the time trying to make sense of everything and just live in the day-to-day processing with the brain I'm stuck with. That being said...

Please do not reality check me.

I'm well aware of the body I'm in. I know its place in the world, the factors that make it the way it is, etc... I don't need folks on the internet going "erm actually you can't be a dragon it is physically impossible also they are made up" etc etc etc. I already had enough of that shit growing up and then some, so just let me be! It is not hurting you <3

So, how are things now?

As of writing this, I'm still based in CA trying to balance my retail job with my passion projects and creative endeavors. I live with my partner of 10+ years (now fiancé as of June 2024!) who also has his own website and online projects. Check his stuff out here!

I'm sure I'll try adding more to this or wording it out better at some point... I kinda burnt out writing most of this over the course of the day (and coding this page on top of it..!)

Thanks for reading my personal yap sesh :]