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Yumegari.net was registered with the darling folks at Dreamhost on December 24th, 2002. Yumegari means 'dream hunter' in Japanese. Although I grabbed it from the CLAMP novella, it was chosen more for the way it rolls off the tongue than because of its association with my favorite mangaka. I'm very attached to this domain, and have a hard time imaging myself with a site of a different title. Most would call this a manga-themed collective, although I think of it in more personal terms. It is affectionately called 'yumenet', ho ho. My sites look best in IE. I double-check them in Mozilla to make sure that they are at least navigable, but I've long since given up trying to make them pass for decent in both browsers (and in my experience, it's all relative). 99.9% of everything is coded by hand, from scratch in Editpad. I'm self-taught, if that explains anything. All images are editted in a freebie version of Paint Shop Pro 7 I acquired years ago. As you can tell, I have a pretty relaxed attitude towards all of this, although I enjoy it (wink). It's a light hobby I don't stress out about too much. You'll find a lot more to read in this collective than to look at. It is much easier to get a hold of images today than it was when I first opened this site. In contrast, good written content and useful, unique information is increasingly difficult to come by. I try to write as much as I can to make up for the purposefully minimal amount of media on my sites. Anyone can snap a screenshot or scan an imported artbook these days. My written content may not be great, but I am constantly re-reading and revising it in hope that it will be genuinely informative and entertaining. It's a good way to practice my writing and express myself while I'm not doing much of either for anything immediately important. Besides all of that, yumenet would not be here today without the late night companionship of our beloved local WOXY (vive!) and a warm cup of harshly-steeped pitch-black tea. It's a fair substitute for not having a social life, I guess.
The current layout features Ishida from BLEACH, a shounen manga by Kubo Obihito. You've probably noticed that I'm something of a freak for this series. For whatever sentimental reason, the characters really touch me, Ishida in particular. I think his dorky-loner-emo nature reminds me a bit of myself when I was a nerdy little teenager. As for the colors and over-all "design", well, I admit that it looks suspiciously like an Urban Outfitters catalogue. Nevertheless, I'm really happy with the way this layout turned out. Enough, even, that I attempted to make it look attractive in Mozilla. Failed. I long ago lost track of how many layouts the hub has had, and can't even remember what most of them look like. Certainly, none of them were worth archiving anywhere (although I vaguely remember attempting to do that in distant past, when I was still a hostee).
A lot of potential new projects are swimming around in my head, but these are the only ones I'm fully committed to at the moment. Low maintenance is high priority: - New manga inventory - A purely personal project. I'm trying to make my online manga catalogue look pwetty.
A 22 year-old from the American Mid-West with a BA in art history, Riot currently doesn't know what she wants to do with her life. Instead of getting a 'real job' or continuing her studies, she divides her free time between reading large quantites of smutty manga, violent comics, dense novels, and dry scholarly books on ridiculously specific subjects (usually art or history); hunting for cute clothes and things for her apartment at thrift stores; baking tasteless stuff; superficially enjoying local bands and indie rock; and daydreaming during long jogs at 2:00 AM. She wears skirts in the winter and pants in the summer. Her boyfriend is better than your's. Whatever she does in the future, she hopes it involves traveling more and sewing. |