Hello? Is this thing on? Oh good, it looks like things are functioning and I haven't yet completely broken things with my extremely limited knowledge of HTML and my complete lack of anything resembling competence with CSS.
Anyway, I suppose I ought to start with some sort of introduction. Hello! My name is Jacob and as this rather uncreatively titled page suggests, this is my blog! This, alongside the website in general, is a bit of a personal project of mine. The state of social media and the internet at-large has been downright dreadful. Things like the sea of AI slop proliferating in recent years and algorithims that discourage thoughtful discussion and encourage rage-bait have ruined the experience. I am hoping that this website can be my little way of rebelling against the current state of online spaces. A small slice of the internet that I can call my own and use to document my life free from the corporate web.
As I've already stated, my name is Jacob. I am an anthropology student in my seventh year of undergrad, a feat possible due to academic shenanigans and chronic lack of decisiveness (you know how it is). Apart from anthropology, I am also studying English. Speaking of which, one of the goals of this website is to have a single place to document all of my writing so expect some of that down the line as well. I will also likely rant about my interests, as one does on a blog, so if you're interested in literature, horror, gardening, cooking, science fiction, fantasy, folklore, and much more™ you're in luck!
So yeah, that's about it for this first post. If I don't manage to spectacularly break anything with my terrible programming, I will see y'all in the next post!