About Me
I'm Pewter, a cat who uses the computer. Most cats are smart enough not to do that, but not me.
Even though this is the 'about me' page, I'm not incredible forthcoming about the nitty-gritty of my personal life. As a cat, you need to hang around me a bit before I'll sit in your lap and let you pat my head. Still, there are some details worth mentioning.
Firstly, I'm old enough to have nostalgia for crappy old websites in the 90s. I deliberately avoid learning or using anything too advanced for this site even though it creates more work for me because I find the idea charming, though I'm not averse to hearing about things I could be doing. My main objective in having a personal website is to retain a place, or at least a format, to put things in. I like to write up my thoughts on things. I like to write fiction. I like terrible jokes and goofs. Those are the primary types of content I'm aiming at. I'd like for the site to someday be a fun little treasure trove of my thoughts, creations, and whatever amused me to add at the time.
Secondly, there are many words which could be applied to me. Descriptions and identities that I have varying levels of comfort with. I dislike labels in general, but don't deny the occasional value in shorthand. I might call myself something like bisexual, or transgender, or nonbinary, or asexual, or therian, or plural. Who knows what other words will become useful down the line? I'd generally rather speak about myself frankly and let myself be known from that rather than trying to fight the preconceived notions that words come with, but this is life, right? You can't exactly keep yourself from being subject to assumptions any more than you can keep yourself from making them.
Thirdly, I'm a furry who plays a lot of video games and my fiction reflects at least one of those things. I have a lot of fantasy and anime inspirations, love Gundam etc, but my inspirations usually come from history or spiritual practice. The writers I look up to most are ZUN of the Touhou Project and Umberto Eco. The world of the stories you find on this site is one I have a big internal wiki tracking, but I want it all to come through in the writing, not be a thing you study up on. I really despise that mode of interacting with art.
Lastly (for now) is going back to something I said earlier: I'm plural, to use a label. If you don't know the concept, it means I have multiple personalities. There are four of us in this skull, and we switch off who's in control periodically. 'Pewter' is the one writing this, and it's generally 'my' website, but we made it before we had really discovered ourselves, so that's mostly by default. I don't dislike being our forward-facing mascot, though. We share all our memories, and don't usually feel the need to distinguish who's speaking, but it does happen. If we need to do it, then we will. Otherwise, it's likely that at least two of us have touched anything you see here. To that end, I'll introduce everyone briefly.
- Pewter
- A cat. Shy, but likes attention and affection anyway. Has a spiritual outlook on things. Agender, but fine with being referred to in whatever way. Vary it up a little.
- July
- Mostly a woman with a chinchilla fursona, but probably our most "human" aspect. She can be stubborn and tends to overthink things and fret too much, but she has a warm and loving heart full of kindness. She thinks very poetically.
- Viper
- A dragon or a demon or whatever he feels like calling himself in the moment. Our most masculine aspect, though certainly still located in the hazy middle of gender with the rest of us. He's easily distracted sometimes, and capable of strong concentration at others. Despite that, he's the best at keeping a cool head when dealing with others, and has a strong sense of responsibility.
- Trinket
- A girl-shaped doll, like a ball-jointed doll. Might appear as a human or anthropomorphic mink doll depending on if she's trying to keep up with the rest of us. Loves things that are pink and cute. Her energy levels are very low, and she's not naturally capable of feeling emotions very strongly, so she depends on the rest of us to ground herself. That said, she's an expert at proactively taking control when we suffer an anxiety attack, and can cut them off with very little effort. She always wants to tell the people in her life how much she loves them.