This website is an ever-growing archive of me and all the things I love. It is sort of a commonplace book but more organized. Or like a personal archive? A journal? A personal tool above all else.
About this site
About me :O
Hello! You can call me Dog. I'm 24 years old, use any pronouns, and I have a strong and pervasive love of art, science, and humanity.
This website acts as a sort of online commonplace book for me! I collect writing, images, and art I like and write about it. I have created categories for my three main categories of interests - science, art, and humanity. Some will be written directly here and some will be embedded from elsewhere, depending on where I write it.
musings will contain my smaller blog posts. the personal archive is a project I'm undertaking to knit together the art, writing, and experiences I've had over my lifetime. It's an archive of me! as such, it will contain cringe and some extremely uncomfortable and personal details, which may or may not be accessable publically.
I'm currently finishing up a certification in medical billing/coding, which I've enjoyed thusfar. I'm about to enter my final semester (YIPPEEEE). For now, I work in food service doing primarily prep, but I've been in the industry for a few years and have worked all over the place within the unique and beautiful horror show that is restaurant grunt work. Prep is super cushy, and I'm quite happy there. The people you meet in food service are absoultely fascinating too, in my opinion.
I've been making art of all sorts for as long I can remember, and I originally went to college to get a studio art degree as a double major (long story). I completed enough art classes to earn an art minor, learned a lot, and grew as an artist. Art is a huge part of my life as a whole and I absolutely love talking about it (hence this website and blog).
I have DID, PTSD, and ADHD. I will most certainly be writing on all of them.
I see myself as a single person with many facets. To me, my parts are not separate people, but instead different mindsets I enter, complete with their own opinions, memories, reactions, and emotions. That's not to say that i don't personify my parts. Personification and visualization of parts has proven to be a very useful tool in learning to communicate with and understand the various parts of myself. BUT to me, it is just that - a visualization tool.
When I talk about my parts as separate people, it is more in the way you would look at a book falling off a table and go "aww poor little guy is barely hanging on!" I am talking to and describing myself and the inner conflict I experience under a context which allows me to think more empathetically about parts of myself I find scary or uncomfortable - with the added bonus that others are able to more easily understand my experience of myself.
There are very few things which are true to me at all times. After fighting with my diagnosis for a long time, I've come to the conclusion that I can't understand myself without the context of parts, and others struggle to understand me without that context as well. As such, I will include an about page for me as a whole (see here) and a page for each part that wants to be involved in this blog, which will be linked below as i make them. Each part will also have a tag. There are six of us total, but I would be extremely surprised if all of us agreed to be part of this site. For privacy sake, each part will be referred to as an architype of sorts.