sol's home

image compression enthusiast

a painting of an angel, abstracted and resembling a cross, inside a glass box, its skin cut open and folded back revealing an empty body cavity.

hi, welcome home. i'm Sol! this site is an evolving collage, a memento box, one of my online brains.

september 18, 2023. updated dataplankton
august 31, 2023. posted this month's artlog
august 10, 2023. mini essay / analysis: barbie (2023) loves women but um. not in that way ♡
august 07, 2023. the nonexistent knight analysis update
july 31, 2023. posted this month's artlog
july 12, 2023. added a review to the lesbian vampire movie page
june 30, 2023. posted this month's artlog
june 26, 2023. big gallery update
june 20, 2023. css update, new 404 page :)
june 19, 2023. posted why am i a bit obsessed with windows 9x? + big link page update
june 16, 2023. added a review to the lesbian vampire movie page
june 14, 2023. added a review to the lesbian vampire movie page
june 07, 2023. added a review to the lesbian vampire movie page
june 04, 2023. added a review to the lesbian vampire movie page
june 03, 2023. added a review to the lesbian vampire movie page
may 31, 2023. posted may's artlog
may 30, 2023. added a review to the lesbian vampire movie page
may 14, 2023. added a review to the lesbian vampire movie page
may 12, 2023. reworked the art gallery. might be wonky in places. still needs general updating too
may 08, 2023. added two reviews to the lesbian vampire movie page
may 06, 2023. added review to the lesbian vampire movie page
may 01, 2023. posted april's artlog. updated shrine to the shrine of waste
march 31, 2023. posted this month's artlog
march 24, 2023. posted technobiogenesis, my bachelor's thesis
march 03, 2023. added review to the lesbian vampire movie page
february 28, 2023. posted this month's artlog
february 25, 2023. added review to the lesbian vampire movie page
february 08, 2023. added review to the lesbian vampire movie page
january 31, 2023. posted this month's artlog
january 28, 2023. finally!! my lesbian vampire movie roundup is live >:3
january 27, 2023. added to selected works and external links
january 04, 2023. commissions are open!
december 31, 2022. posted this month's artlog. happy new year!
december 19, 2022. updated marrow #5 with further thoughts on stable diffusion, based off the paper diffusion art or digital forgery?
december 04, 2022. added to selected works
november 30, 2022. posted this month's artlog. added rss feed!
november 15, 2022. added a few external links
october 31, 2022. posted this month's artlog
october 26, 2022. posted article: web design and relinquishing control
october 21, 2022. replaced nav menu on homepage with a separate site map / index
october 16, 2022. posted article: the silent body horror of vampirism — an outline

the site

solflo.neocities.org is the current home of whatever it is i want homed more or less independently. that is, this site is whatever the hell i feel like putting on it at the moment. i highly enjoy that.

i strive to describe all images on this site through alt text, although my dollmaker will be perpetually undescribed. this site has light/dark themes, based on your browser's preference.

i avoid js like the plague (the dollmaker is yet another exception) on like, ideological levels. in some areas you'll also see indexed or otherwise compressed images, for the same reason: reducing bloat and having a website that loads fast and doesn't take up much room. i've written some of my thoughts on digital degrowth and conscious compression on my april 2022 artlog — i also recommend reading about permacomputing over at compudanzas and xxiivv.

sometimes throughout the site you'll find links like this. those are gemini protocol links, and you can't open them on any regular web browser. there are several clients you can use (i like lagrange). or you can also use a proxy like the smolnet portal. i usually link to the proxied version of a page when linking to gemini, but sometimes i forget. for more info on gemini, see the project homepage. my capsule is at gemini://sol.cities.yesterweb.org. i might mirror it here as texts files sometime, when i go through the trouble of downloading my whole website and updating it through git and stuff. i know it's simple, i just haven't got around to it yet.

the webmaster

names are Sol and (occasionally?) Venus. i'm a transexual androgyne (they/them), brazilian, artist, born in 2001 and raised on the worldwide web (and now branching into gemini, an alternate internet protocol). i dislike capital letters, enjoy plaintext, and love talking about myself but am very bad at writing "about" blurbs. figured i'd give it a go anyway: i love reading about the people behind the sites i visit, so i'll give you something to read as well!

current projects: dataplankton webzine (slow going), the nonexistent knight yuri (rotating in my head)

currently into: vast empty plains, sky and land merging in the horizon, infinite nothingness and alien structures and objects. also the tower of babel.