# life update 02/02/2025 2025-02-02 [tag] life update, migrated from 1dkreally *crawls out of my crevice* wOAGH WHERE DID YOU ALL COME FROM? thanks for 100k+ site visits, i never thought i'd get this far!! i promise i've been thinking about making a 2.0 site that's more accessible, i'm just rlly busy rn it's 2025 now!! happy new year!! (i say, a month after new years). i think i have a couple of updates? for a start, if you follow me anywhere else you may notice that i've changed my username on most platforms! i'm now shapezncolourz on every platform where i can easily change my username, and i'm working on the other platforms where it isn't so easy (mostly forums). i think i wanna change my site name too, though i feel like i could break a lotta stuff x[ i applied for uni!!! i have 2 main choices, and im currently woeking on my portfolio :3 it's due on the 7th, i should probably actually work on it LMAO (and addition right before i upload this - i dropped out of higher english yippiee!!! turns out i didnt even fucking need it yippiee!! that's over £250 down the drainnnnn!!!!) good news, i've developed a new hyperfixation!! bad news, i'm hyperfixating on the it crowd. you know, the sitcom with the transphobic episode that caused graham linehan to go down the transphobic rabbit hole and lose both his career and his wife. that one. to be fair, i prefer the characters and their dynamics much more than the plots themselves - quite a few of which have aged pretty poorly. i haven't finished the show yet but i've been headcanoning everyone in the it department as trans and autistic (well, i say headcanoning, there are some things relating to autism that are either canon/implied outright or practically so), and even though a lot of it is projection i feel like it gives some scenes that haven't aged so well a new light. the one i've been thinking of a lot is jen's obession with shoes - i'm almost certain it's supposed to be a Women Be Shopping™ trait, but i like to think of it as either her being a trans woman and just wanting to partake in traditionally feminine things, or being autistic and having some sort of interest in fashion, specialising in shoes. or both! i might make a shrine and write a few articles going deeper on the topic, but i've found that there are barely any it crowd video essays online (and most of the ones that DO exist are about the shitty usa remake pilot), so i'm tempted to try make videos on them! i've been streaming on twitch and youtube every week for the past couple weeks, so i feel like this is something i'd like to try :3 i have a few ideas already! the it crowd and autism ranking every episode i love the it crowd, lets rip into all of its flaws fuck graham linehan, lets talk transgender headcanons idk if i'll ever get around to any of these, but i'm mostly just glad i've jotted down my ideas LOL that's about all from me. i'll probably be making small changes until at least easter, i just wanna show i'm still alive LOL now i'm gonna go watch the transphobic it crowd episode that eventually ruined glinner's life, wish me luck :skull: # life update 24/11/2024 2024-11-24 [tag] life update, migrated from 1dkreally wow i've been pretty busy. hi i don't think i have too many updates overall, but i'm sitting at my computer so i might as well put something out... i just turned 18 on the 21st!!!!!! i got a new monitor and desk, and an external disk drive with 10 cd-rs!! i've downloaded rage against the machine's self titled album and self-ish - will wood and the tapeworms - currently testing out the latter; the former doesn't work, it stops working after 0:55 in killing in the name of and i have to skip through the whole album if i want bombtrack to play :( i've been really getting into that album recently too :( i also went to build a bear in glasgow, and i got the new tartan highland cow!! i didn't even know that existed until i saw it instore, but i'm glad it does :3 his name is andrew! all this talk of teddies is reminding me i need to make a page on my teddy collection... my first college art project of this year is almost at an end! i just need to fill out my digital portfolio and write a 500-word evaluation :] that's due on friday and then i have the next week off, so hopefully i'll be able to work a little more on the site! i may also open up art comms now that i can have my own paypal account, so look out for that x] # life update 10/10/2024 2024-10-10 [tag] life update, migrated from 1dkreally hi!!! its been. a while i started back up at college in late august!! i'm getting on well with my first project, i only have a couple things to finish off :3 unfortunately, i've been told that to get into any art uni in scotland i need to have my higher english, which my last school didn't offer, and so i've had to take an evening class that i'm a month behind on because i started late... the factual work is fine, but i genuinely think that analysis of hidden meanings within creative works is gonna kill me. i can't not go to uni at the end of the year, i think i'll die if i stay up here another year i wanna talk about all the things i've done within the past 2 months but... i haven't actually done all that much outside of college LOL i can't even say i'm gonna work on the site during my week off!! i'm gonna be busy scrambling to get as much higher english done as i can!!! :( the main project i wanna work on is a portfolio site to show people irl, but i wouldn't even be able to share it here because it'd dox me!!! OH!!! one thing i HAVE done is that i switched my old laptop from windows 10 to linux mint!!! i'm just about to do the same with my main computer, except i'll be dual-booting instead of switching wholly because of some games i like - i've heard of ways to get around that such as with the wine program or a virtual machine though. i'll probably do all of my coding, social stuff, and as many games as i can make work on linux tho!! also, the tally hall (+related) hyperfixation is still going strong :3 i started listening to cojum dip recently and they're SO GOOD, i know it's the most popular but moon waltz is my favourite, though all the songs on the album are just SO PEAK. i also preordered the new hawaii part ii vinyl that came out yesterday!! it was £50 including shipping, but apparently tally hall-related merch gets scalped to FUCK, so i don't mind paying that much LOLLLLLL that's all from me for now!! i'll try to remember the site... but no guarantees until maybe christmas JDSHJFKDJFJ # life update 17/08/2024 2024-08-17 [tag] life update, migrated from 1dkreally so hey, how have you all been? thought i should probably give a bit of a summer update lol i've been able to do a bit more sightseeing since coming back from ireland! namely, i went to loch ness for the first time, despite not needing to travel too far (well. i still have to travel a while. but considering people will get on 10+ hour flights to get here it isn't so far) - i went on a boat around the loch, i went to urquhart castle, and overall had a good time! i also went to dundee with my mam, which was really nice! i know it has the scumdee reputation, but i loved seeing the v&a and the mcmanus, but most importantly to me i went to a cex aND I SAW A VIRTUAL BOY IN REAL LIFE!!! WITH GAMES!!! the virtual boy is SO fucking interesting to me because of how shit it was, i want one so bad but this one was £410 i got to start my driving lessons over the summer, which i believe i forgot to mention in my last post! my instructor is lovely and i've been getting on well, but the only unfortunate thing is the PRICES AUGH each of my lessons is £59 and i've had to cut down from 1 a week to 1 fortnightly because it was eating away at my disability money :{ i bought myself a new computer!! i got it for £150 off of facebook marketplace with my parents very kindly covering a third of that, and i'm SO grateful for it omg it's SO much better than my old laptop. i can finally actually play the games i've been wanting to on it!... except i keep forgetting to play them, i still need to check out deltarune and half-life and the heartbound demo and helltaker and hypnospace outlaw and monster roadtrip and sky children of the light and tf2 and yume nikki, and even then i've still barely played celeste and monster camp and needy streamer overload and skul the hero slayer and trove and and cave story and new club penguin and moshi monsters rewritten- ough. if downoading lots of cheap/free games and never playing them was a crime id be in the chair forreal. at least i've been having fun with my singing monsters, doll eye chapter 1, and (mario) the music box LMFAOOOO i also joined the melonland forum recently! it's a lovely community, and i've found myself checking in daily! i've never really taken part in forums before, anyone recommend any good ones? for more recent updates, my friend from my current d&d group and i checked out a 16+ group today, as we currently attend an all ages -18 group... except it was Really busy and Really noisy and our autistic arses couldn't take that so we just decided to hang out in town for a few hours LMAO it was great though! very peaceful, we had a much better time than we would have had if we'd stayed :3 i also plan on going to the cinema tomorrow with my younger cousin who i've not seen in a while, we're gonna see the new deadpool movie :] except i need to watch the 2nd one and i also need to book cinema tickets FHDJDFHFJ after having a few individual songs on my playlist, i've finally started listening to the tally hall (+ related) discography!! i've listened to MMMM, g&e, h:pii, and not a trampoline so far, but i've yet to listen to joe hawley joe hawley - are there any other significant ones i'm missing? hawaii part ii and good & evil are SUCHHHH banger albums holy shit where have they been all my life (i've known about em for years i just never bothered to listen to them in full). i've been listening to them nonstop this past week. i need to make a tally hall shrine to talk about them more omfggggggg and also i need to watch t.h.i.s that's about it i think! i get to find out my college results on thursday, which means i'll likely be back to school soon :{ i guess i gotta cram all of my free drawing, gaming,and coding time into this next week oops- # life update 21/06/2024 2024-06-21 [tag] life update, migrated from 1dkreally HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO 1DKREALLY.NEOCITIES.ORG, WE ARE NOW 1 YEAR OLD !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i can't believe that i've managed to stick to one project for so long! i started this site during my summer holidays in 2023, having nothing to do and wanting to create my own space on the internet away from the corporatism of modern social media sites. i never thought that over 50 thousand people would take an interest in my silly little side project, and for that i thank you all!!! <333 unfortunately i haven't had the time to make any big updates to the site, and that's because i'm in ireland visiting family - as well as being a bit of a tourist, which i haven't ever really been before here... we got here on monday, and i bought a teddy on the ferry to belfast! its a strawberry from palm pals and its name is strabby, like from bugsnax :3 that reminds me, i want to make a page on my teddy collection, but i need to figure out how to make it and how to remove metadata from my pictures... i should figure out different site layouts for these side pages, i'm pretty tired of the main content iframe + side navigation on translucent boxes with rounded corners combo, but i don't have any better ideas at the moment :( who knows, maybe i'll figure something out once i'm home lol on tuesday we went to the giants causeway! the causeway itself was great, it was really accessible! they gave me a sensory pack with a bunch of stuff, and i saw that they offered motorised wheelchairs too :] there was also a bus to the stones themselves, though we decided to walk lol. however, my mam and i took the bus back, except it was REALLY busy and the line was REALLY long. like, two-other-buses-filled-up-before-we-could-get-on long. we did manage to get seats once we did get on the bus though, which i can't be thankful enough for as i was in agony at that point LMAOO we also met this really nice older american couple from minneapolis, minnesota! the lady said that she loved my jacket (i have a bunch of patches + badges on it) and that she used to have one just like it!! we talked for a while, and they mentioned that they were travelling around europe for their retirement, and that they had been to scotland last year! it did take all of my willpower not to correct their mispronunciations of placenames (glass-cow instead of glaz-go for glasgow, edin-burg instead of edin-burugh for edinburgh, gAl-way instead of gall-way for galway, etc), but they were lovely to talk to :3 the road up was pretty boring so we took the coastal route back down south, which was lovely! that is, until we got to belfast. the road signs for the coastal route stopped in the middle of the city, and we ended up in east belfast, which for the unaware is REALLY unionist. lots of union jacks, and even some uvf (uk domestic terrorist group) support murals. we had to stop for fuel, and i had my headphones in so i didn't hear this, but my parents were arguing about who should go in to pay because they were terrified that someone was going to like, stab them or something LOL (/in a laughs nervously what the fuck kind of way). we texted the rest of my irish family about it later, and they said that we were lucky that 1) our car had a uk license plate and 2) if the things we saw were the most extreme we had seen LMAOOO we managed to find where we were going and continue on the coastal route, but not before going through an hours worth of decrepit unionist towns, with more union jacks and unionist slogans. it got much nicer after we reached a certain coastal town that was clearly more touristy, and while there were a couple union jacks up, at least we didn't feel actively unsafe driving through- also oops sorry for writing so much here LMAOO i have to get this finished before midnight its 23:42 go go go- wednesday was my brother's birthday! we went around another lovely little coastal town over the border (context - all my family live really close to the roi/ni border, whether that be in the north or the south) for lunch, and we went into a sweet shop and i found bags of freeze-dried sweets! i've seen them online but never irl, i'm SO glad i don't have to pay for shipping for them. as well as that, i also found swedish fish - i've had them once and i love them, but they're generally not sold in my area :( we later went go-karting, and i got my arse kicked by my brother and one of my cousins (and nearly beat but overall still lost to the other cousin who was racing LOLLL) one of my cousins had a sleepover at the bnb we're staying in and we went out to another touristy place near newry on thursday - slieve gullion! we did the forest drive, and only at the top of the mountain when i looked at the view did i realise that ireland is actually a really fucking flat country, as my family either live near the coast (which is often less hilly anyways) or near hills LMFAO and that brings us to today! we went over to my aunt's house for a part 2 of my brother's birthday - all the family were over and we had nibbles and played party games :] i'm home now though, in my pajamas and trying to get this blog post out before midnight while my brother is out of our shared room and playing his xbox AJKSDJHDKJSH cheers to one year of 1DKREALLY, here's to many more <333333 # life update 05/06/2024 2024-06-05 [tag] life update, migrated from 1dkreally hello once more! the first thing you may notice here is that my blog page has changed!!!! it's much cleaner-looking and easier to navigate now that it has its own subsection rather than one big iframe :] second of all, WHEN DID I GET 50K SITE VISITS????? THANK YOU SOSO MUCH I NEVER THOUGHT SO MANY PEOPLE WOULD TAKE INTEREST IN A SILLY LITTLE PROJECT THAT I STARTED BECAUSE I WAS BORED LAST SUMMER... :'] speaking of, my site is almost a whole year old!! i will try do something to commemorate, whether that be something substantial or just another blog post, but be warned that it may be missed as i will be out of the country to visit family that day :( college update: i completed and passed my third and final project!! i don't have my final grade yet, but i'm really worried about it... not much i can do now though, i have my exhibition on friday and i feel like ive accidentally completely overhyped my project in my family's eyes - i don't like showing them my work so they haven't seen it yet, but they seem to have really high expectations hhh aside from that though, i've decided on where i want to go for university!! i went down south the other day to an open day and attended a talk on this university's animation course, and it seems like exactly the sort of thing i'd like!! i also viewed all the student films, and they were all really good :] not to mention the city itself too! it seemed really nice, i think i'd really enjoy it there! i never know how to finish these things. summer's here, so i guess i'll be more active? maybe? who knows lmaoo # life update 07/05/2024 2024-05-07 [tag] life update, migrated from 1dkreally hi erm. its been a wee while oopsie i've been too busy with college lately to keep active on here - deadlines are in about two weeks, and i wanna stay focused on that haha (voice of a guy who has much less time than it thought xe had) not all doom and gloom, though - i recently started watching dungeon meshi and its really good so far!!! currently on ep 15 :3 also at the start of last month i went down to glasgow with a friend of mine and we went to build-a-bear for the first time!!!!! i got a frog and im HOOKED thank fuck i don't live anywhere near glasgow because my bank account would be EMPTY. that being said i DID order the tardigrade the other day because it's online-exclusive and it's gonna be here at some point within the next week and i'm SO EXCITEDDDDDD don't expect too many updates for the next few weeks as i still barely have motivation even outside of college lmaoo # life update 17/03/2024 2024-03-17 [tag] life update, migrated from 1dkreally thank you for 40k views!!!! i want to thank federiefederi for featuring my site button, it's really helped with getting my site out there!!! for anyone who doesn't know, federiefederi is a neocities directory with a focus on promoting smaller sites, i highly recommend checking them out if you haven't already :3 i recently finished my second college art project :] by which i mean i had three mini-projects - a 2D piece, a 3D piece, and a video! i don't know whether or not i've passed yet, but im hoping for the best lmao now i have to decide on the single piece i'll be working on for the next 8 weeks :'] i've already put in my first project proposal, but i've been told that i need to be more specific with what i want to do, which i am... Nervous about, to say the least. my project theme is order and chaos, and i think i wanna do mixed-media? but then one of my lecturers mentioned animation, which we haven't covered this year and that i don't really know anything about, but it's something i really wanna do in the future and i don't know if i'd be able to go to animation school if i don't have any prior experience... anyways, i have a week off! will try to update the site a bit more lmao also HAPPY ST PATRICKS DAY [CONFETTI] [CONFETTI] [CONFETTI] i am. not doing anything special other than having irish food bc it isn't celebrated up here lol # life update 12/02/2024 2024-02-12 [tag] life update, migrated from 1dkreally erm. late happy new year ?? you may or may not have noticed that i've been more active lately, and that is because... i am SICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (insert tbh creature yippie with confetti clip) dw, nothing serious!! just a nasty cold. being sick means that i'm just laying around the house, and turns out that was exactly what i needed in order to get the motivation to actually pick up my laptop :3 i'm almost fully recovered and will likely be returning to college soon, so don't expect this activity streak to go on too long LOL speaking of college, it's going well! i currently have 3 mini-projects - one in a 3d medium, one in a 2d medium, and a 2-min video. as well as that, i also have a promotional vid for the college that i still need to finish oopsie- things aren't due for another 4 weeks tho, so hopefully that's enough time (nervous laughing that turns into crying) also i got a new hyperfix - chonny jash!! he makes a bunch of remixes for indie artists such as tally hall and will wood, and has a few originals too! i heavily recommend chonny's charming chaos compedium, vol. 1 - a 27-song tally hall (+ related) cover album with a whole new story of its own :33333 (I Really Need To Make That Shrine) anyways i'm still alive. just about :thumbs_up: # life update 02/12/2023 2023-12-02 [tag] life update, migrated from 1dkreally hello hello!! just some life updates :3 i finished my first art project for college!! i now have a week off while my work gets marked, and i'll try be more active? no promises tho LMAO my birthday was also recently, i just turned 17 a couple weeks ago! i got my provisional drivers license and now scotlands roads are 10000% more dangerous :) i saw the podiatrist, and turns out i have Really Bad flat feet. i now have proper insoles for my shoes and they sorta help?? im still in pain if i stand for too long but i can def be on my feet for longer, which is nice :3 unfortunately i'm in a brain-space where i'm not really focused on this site rn :( updates will likely stay infrequent, though i may update a couple things here and there over the next week lol # life update 16/09/2023 2023-09-16 [tag] life update, migrated from 1dkreally turns out i wasn't lying when i said updates would be less frequent AKDSJDJSK yeah, art school has kept me very busy; and i've not had the motivation to work on the site :( a couple tweaks here and there, but nothing substantial. speaking of, college is going pretty well!! i knew 2 people already (1 from my last school, 1 from my social science course last year), but our course got split into 2 classes and i got separated from my social science pal and we rlly havent been talking as much :( however, i have been talking to my old school pal much more, i guess it cancels out? though it feels disrespectful at best to describe it like that lmfaoo other life update!! im finally seeing a podiatrist about my pain!! lets just hope they take me seriously and dont just call me fat, like im more consistently active than i have been previously yet its only gotten worse so if they say that i may have to start killing updates will likely continue to be infrequent until the tattie holidays in october, where i'll have a bit more time to myself :] # life update 21/08/2023 2023-08-21 [tag] life update, migrated from 1dkreally so, it's been a while since ive updated this lmao so for a start, happy 2 month-iversary!! at 00:11 i have only just realised that 1) it's been 2 months since i first created this site and 2) i missed the 1 month-iversary DSJDSHDSJ next, you can pretty much expect this "blog" space to just be thanking people for visiting, but thank you again for visiting my site!!! i'd like to think that 11k is a pretty big achievement :3 i got the alt chatbox set up, but unfortunately it had a bug where only those in the same timezone as me would have their comments register :( however, i now believe that this is fixed!! i was also recommended a viewer counter that uses javascript native to my site, so no more inaccurate counters!!!!!!! i start my new college year tomorrow. i decided to move over from social science to art; i just hope it was the right decision. i know that i'm not supposed to have my life plans all together at 16, but i feel that i should anyways. doesn't help that a combination of autism + being unable to stand for long periods of time lock me out of any job within 100 miles, so it's not like i can even take a gap year to work, even if i wanted to... i just worry that i'll never settle on something. website updates will likely be less frequent with the new school year, just a heads up !!! tho tbf ive already been getting more infrequent anyways LMAO, i plan on adding more drawn elements but idk when aksjcdjdskj # life update 17/07/2023 2023-07-17 [tag] life update, migrated from 1dkreally it's been 2 days!!! 3k visitors!!! thankyou /genuine!!!!!! also i'm just gonna accept that the js counter is never gonna be accurate, i may move/delete it at some point- and funny enough, just as i add my cbox, i see a tumblr post about an alternate, much more customisable chatbox that someone developed! while i do wish i'd seen it sooner, i'm very glad that i saw it at all, and you should add it too! the site is linked in the changelog, and i believe in my site source code too? either way, i'm sure you can find it :3 # life update 15/07/2023 2023-07-15 [tag] life update, migrated from 1dkreally we hit 2k visitors!!!!!!! (tho the javascript counter doesn't seem to match what my neocities profile says, idk what the issue is but i just re-changed the initial value to match the neocities profile number AHXHCBCHS) thank you all for visiting my site, i really appreciate it <33 my next plans for the site are to add either a guestbook or a chatbox, and start filling the place with collections and shrines!! speaking of, should i add a guestbook or a live chatbox? i'm not really sure what the benefits/drawbacks of either are, so any input on the matter left on my neocities profile would be vv much appreciated!!!!!! update from later: i added the chatbox, but i'm not so sure if i'm such a fan? a lot of customisation is locked behind a paywall :( ah well, i'll keep it for now and see how things go! # life update 05/07/2023 2023-07-05 [tag] life update, migrated from 1dkreally hi there!! i decided to add a blog here for any thoughts i have that i'm willing to put into full sentences and i also needed something to put here after i moved the graphics to their own page JXNCJCJXBCX as such, i probably won't be updating this much lmao. i also just want to say thanks for nearly 2k site visits (3/4s of the way at time of writing)!!! it means a lot to me that people are enjoying my newest little hobby, even so early on :3 this is also reminding me that i want to add a guestbook, i'll get round to it i prommy !! but yeah!!! tl;dr i have a blog here now and i'm vv thankful for everyone visiting :] [sign]