About Me

Hello! My name is Ens and I am the webmaster of this website. I'm pretty quiet but I do have a lot about me. Please bear with me here, I'm admittedly very bad at writing about myself.

I’m a plural otherkin internet user, which is purposefully left vague, get to ‘know’ me if you can. Being plural and otherkin is more of a private/personal thing for me and I don't really try to bring attention to it purposefully. It's just another aspect of myself.

I’m an artist and worldbuilder; I tend to spend a lot of time drawing and writing for our various headworlds and worldbuilding projects. Most of the art I create nowadays is digital but I studied traditional art and art history in college. I love painting with acrylic paint and drawing with pens/pencils.

I'm somewhere between Non-binary, Neutrois, and Agender. I've found that there's no useful terms/labels to describe my experience with gender so I typically use those three terms interchangeably. I prefer not using any pronouns, but I am okay with They/Them being used instead for accessibly/convenience purposes. As long as you're being respectful about it, I really don't mind. What other people get up to in the third person is none of my business.

I have currently have one freshwater aquarium running right now with my hoard of cory cats and various mollies/platies/swordtails who I raised from fry that I got for free from work. I also have Goop, my gargoyle gecko who is barely aware of her own existance but I love her regardless.

Fursona/Kinself

"Null" (or Ens) is my kinself rather than an actual fursona, though I often present them as a one in public spaces. There's additional info and images of them on their toyhou.se profile!

Browsing History

I've been an active internet user since 2008. Back then I spent most of my time in virtual worlds (neopets, webkinz, valenth, second life, world of warcraft, etc) and early-ish social media sites like youtube, deviantart, and tumblr. I've always been quiet online, I didn't really post much until ~2013 when I decided to focus more on making digital art and became more active on DA. Since then most of my activity on social media consists of posting my artwork and worldbuilding snippets but I've always been more of a lurker/wall-flower at heart.

Online Status

I'm not on social media much these days, I'm really only on Twitter Bluesky and Tumblr to keep in touch with my favorite fellow internet users I've met over the years. I'd say I'm still very much online though, just on the more 'independent' side of the web (personal websites, the fediverse, etc).

Right now I'm focusing on working on my various personal projects, which I post about sometimes on my blog. My website serves as my home on the internet, so you'll always be able to find me here.

The best way to get in touch with me is via email: departedglories [at] gmail [dot] com and optionally ask for my Discord.

About the Site

I originally started this site on neocities back in 2017 after I started to become disillusioned with social media and I wanted my own space to express myself online. I like the idea of having my own site to host my work/stuff in a more 'quiet' setting since social media metrics and the whole "content creator mindset" makes me anxious.

The site itself is written in plain HTML, CSS, and a bit of JS. I'm not a web developer, I do know a bit about webdev but this is just a hobby for me. Some stuff might be busted, it is what it is.

Trivia

Sign

Cancer Sun / Libra Moon / Libra Rising

Favorite Color

Cyan, Blue, Green

Favorite Animals

Cuttlefish, Gators, Giant Isopods, Spinosaurus

Favorite Music

Genres: Ambient / Drone / Experimental / Trip hop
Artists: Biosphere, Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance, Mount Shrine, Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement, Alias Conrad Coldwood, Aphex Twin, FKA Twigs, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Boards of Canada, SOPHIE, Clipping., Lady Gaga, Moor Mother, Pharmakon, Glass Animals, Hello Meteor, Future Sound of London, Portishead, Machine Girl, Talking Heads

Favorite Books

Dune, John Dies at the End, Lilith's Brood, Condensed Chaos, House of Leaves, A Field Guide to Otherkin, the Southern Reach Trilogy

Favorite Games

Minecraft, World of Warcraft, Morrowind, Animal Crossing, OFF (2008 RPG), Five Nights at Freddy's, No Man's Sky, ARK: Survival Evolved, Starbound

Other Interests

Art history, Old ThinkPads and UMPCs, Linux and F/OSS, Tarot, Occult, Alterhumanity/Otherkin/Plurality, the Indie Web, Tamagotchi/Virtual Pets, freshwater aquariums, Meredians