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👋 • he/him • 2001 • asian-canadian • PDT (GMT-7)

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me

meandering young adult who recently graduated with two specializations in the social sciences. i'm heading back to a technical college for a year—an IT program in hopes of leveraging some of my past internship experience as my first step into the industry. Myers-Briggs isn't scientific in the slightest, but for the sake of low-stakes fun, i slot in as an ISFP-T.some of my interests beyond media consumption and discussion are as follows:

photography

been picture-taking with a DSLR/mirrorless for nearly eight years and counting. i've got a Flickr for some of what i can show you—most of it is hobby endeavours, which is my typical reprieve—but i also freelance on the side with a portfolio of my work. it's part of why i have this page to begin with; the Carrd plan i host my portfolio through allows multiple sites.

(multiplayer) gaming

for better or for worse, casual competition with friends in games like CS:GO (RIP), CS2, Valorant, and/or Rainbow Six Siege has been a staple of my life for more than a decade. i've been a Tier 2 underager at my peak, and i've also represented my university and made actual prize money—nowadays, though, i just game for fun. even if i hop on much less than i used to, i'll probably always see casual online competition as an outlet one way or another.aside from the aforementioned, i do play GeoGuessr a decent amount. currently, i hover around the lowest ELO range of the highest possible rank.

custom keyboards

i got into the space during the height of COVID lockdowns in Summer 2020, starting with a mill-maxxed (hotswap mod) Anne Pro 2—and from there my journey into the rabbit hole began. i've got a YouTube for some of my sound tests over the years, and i also have some setup photos here. generally, i prefer a higher-pitched sound signature and a solid (but not firm and rigid) bottom-out experience.as of writing, i own 4 boards and 10 keycap sets. total-to-date, i'd estimate that i've owned ~12-15 boards and ~18-25 keycap sets. of course, i've sold a bunch to make room/financial availability for new rotations over the years.

hockey

i regularly keep up with the NHL, and despite being a Canucks fan (sorry), i read and enjoy conversations about other teams as well as the league/sport as a whole. unfortunately, i only watch hockey—i've never played it at a meaningful level; not even beer league.

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anime

my first anime was My Hero Academia, which i watched in March 2020 after looking for new media experiences when COVID first kept us at home. from that point, i remained an on-and-off anime watcher until i stumbled upon Hunter x Hunter (2011) in August 2021. past that, i've mostly been consuming anime/animanga related media.i don't really keep up with currently-airing seasonals all that often; ~three in one cour (and usually less) is the range i naturally gravitate towards. my bread and butter are completed shows i can take at my own pace.

manga/light novels

i largely steered clear of manga and light novels until late 2024. reading just wasn't a habit i was into, so even though i'd give the occasional manga a spin, i never touched a light novel for years. this changed once i read the Saeki Sayaka spinoff series from Bloom Into You.fast forward to today; while i would still say i prefer anime overall, i often have stretches of days or weeks where i read far more than i watch. much like i mentioned above, i do prefer completed series; but the inherent nature of the medium compared to anime means that much of what speaks to my thematic sensibilities (more on that below) can often be ongoing reads.

what i look for in my stories

i try my best to keep an open mind when it comes to themes and genres—but as is the case with everyone, i have my preferences and biases.

a lot of my favourites often combine these elements to some degree.

why do i tend to only watch/read animanga?

long story short, i haven't gotten tired of it so far. that's really all there is to it, and i enjoy sticking with animanga for the time being. i feel no need or desire to diversify for its own sake.that being said, layered within the above are smaller reasons why my habit of mostly consuming animanga has endured:

i'm sure i'll go back to Western media/novels eventually, but i'm not gonna force myself to return if i find zero personal motivation to at the moment.

hey!

(thanks for taking an interest in my CSS—i mean it.)

first off, thanks for visiting this page; promise i won't be (that) long.if you're looking through this preamble in hopes of either borrowing from my CSS or using my layout as a base/starting point for yours, please know that generally, i'm perfectly okay with this. as long as it's made clear somewhere that your code was derived from mine, you don't really need to reach out to me prior to doing so (on the contrary, if you're looking for help, always feel free to message me and i'll get back to ya when i'm not feeling lazy).however—i also have several snippets throughout my CSS which were borrowed/provided to me by other users, and i cannot guarantee that each of them holds the same attitude towards sampling and attribution that i do. they'll generally be listed next to a particular snippet if credit is warranted.as a general best-practice (and basic kindness, after all), please contact individual creators if you borrow/sample my code to a significant extent.with very limited exceptions (and i'll list them if they're present), you're free to borrow anything which is unambiguously mine to your heart's content. as aforementioned, just leave a comment somewhere in your stylesheet. anything that's not, i would recommend reaching out to pertinent users just to keep things above board.feel free to reach out to me with any questions should you have them—click the little arrow in the bottom-right to be taken to my website's landing page, or you can just message me on AL.thanks in advance :)
— pseudo