Uses

I use things!

I thought the idea of a /uses page was an interesting one, though I'm not a very technical person and so there's not much of a tech stack here. Honestly I like my tech to be minimal and get out of my way. Sometimes I'm in the mood to tinker, but when I'm not in the mood for it, I get frustrated really fast. Then I throw everything out and start over.

That's why I've gone through so many SSGs, haha. As soon as something breaks and I can't figure out why, I'm half inclined to start from scratch with my pile of markdown files. Which I suppose is the entire benefit of SSGs and markdown; I have the luxury to do that.

Website

  • Code: Right now I'm using Flowershop with the Obsidian plugin to publish.
  • Graphics: I end up doing a lot of graphic editing in Canva because it's fast and convenient. My mascot self is by Avis Raveni.

Writing

  • Ellipsus for long-form writing. Does it make me anxious that it doesn't have an offline backup option? Yeah it does. Do I use it anyway? Sure do. Nothing's perfect, but when it's working smoothly I really like it. It lets me give stuff to someone to beta with minimal fuss, and it's pleasant to write in, and I like that it gives me the option to export already formatted for the AO3.
  • Blogging: I'm split across Tumblr, Dreamwidth and weblog.lol because I'm not 100% in love with any of the options. What I'd like is to be able to bring over the archives of my old wordpress blog, going back to 2007 or so, but I don't know whether that's really worth the effort.

Art

  • For most of my digital art I use Procreate on an super basic iPad. I don't use anything terribly fancy as far as the tools go: a knockoff pencil that cost less than $20 and a paperlike screen protector.
  • If you're interested in learning Procreate with a live teacher online, I'd recommend the classes at Crucial Comix. I did their intermediate Procreate class and got a ton out of it.
  • My favorite reference sources are collected on my art list.
  • If I can't find a good reference or I need something cleaner to figure out what I'm doing, I have Magic Poser on the iPad and I find it fairly easy to use, if a little fiddly. I paid the one-time fee for the first upgrade level because I thought it was worth that but I haven't tried the monthly subscription so I can't say if I think that's worth it.

Tech

  • OS: Linux because I'm just familiar enough with stuff to be frustrated with Windows' limitations. Instead I get to be frustrated with my own limitations in using the command line.
  • Monitors: Two, because I started using two at work and it's completely ruined me for just having one now.
  • Browser: Waterfox
  • Email: Fastmail to host my domain emails

Last updated: September 2026.
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