Welcome to The Grotto. Thank you for visiting my personal site, currently and probably forever under construction. This is my home for my personal interests; art, writing, fashion, and gardening. I hope you enjoy your stay here, and that you browse leisurely.
Just as a warning- this site is run by an adult. I don't often talk about mature topics but it cannot be ruled out. Mature content will be labeled as such.

This is my webgarden of things I'm interested in. Ever changing, ever growing. This is also an archive of things I want to keep track of and share my thoughts on. I found refuge here after growing disillusioned with social media, and after slowly removing myself from that area of the internet, i found myself still wanting connection and fun, so after settling in, this is now my home on the web.
I've been learning HTML/CSS casually since Feburary '25, and this is a culmination of what little i've learned in that time. The base of this site is created with petrapixel's website generator- her java code for loading the same layout on every page is so useful, and javascript scares me. You can find resources I've used to learn under the 'resources' tab + some more fun stuff that may or may not be of use to you.

Click on things! You may discover secrets :)

"The slogan 'refuse, reduce, reuse, repair and recycle' provides us with a hierarchy of strategies for dealing with waste. Refuse means to decide not to engage in the consuming action or task in the first place because it is not necessary. Reduce means to minimize the materials and energy required or the frequency of the consuming action. Reuse means either reuse for the same purpose or put to the next best use. Repair means to use skill and very limited additional resources to restore function. Recycle means to break down into more basic elements or materials before being reprocessed for the same or other uses."

- Permaculture: Principles & Pathways Beyond Sustainability by David Holgren, page 112