Welcome to the abyssal depths...
... where you can find your daily dose of antiquity, art history, and obsession.
This site is currently under construction! Please excuse the broken links and shoddy coding.
To Do List:
- actually link pages
- fill out WIPs
- add some antiquities nerdery
About Me
My name is Sara and I write fantasy stories and draw my characters when I am not hyperfixating on esotoric and weird topics. Like the hermits hired by Renaissance elites, I aspire to live in an elaborate garden and spout knowledge to curious visitors.Some long-standing interests:
- Etruscan and Roman art history
- Demonology
- Shin Megami Tensei
Some recent obsessions:
- Ancient curse tablets
- Luristan bronzes
- Greek vases
I plan to share some of my writing, (bad) artwork, favorite media, quotes, and art history tidbits that are just too weird not to share.
Why I Made This Site
It was 2009 and I was browsing the internet, totally without online supervision. My shelves strained under the weight of books about ghosts, mummies, and of course the entirety of Goosebumps. I must have been looking up something about ghosts, when I encountered a mysterious website...
The deep black background flickered with red text and tiny gifs, drawing my eye instantly. Endless tabs promised tales of Bigfoot, Shadow Children, Ghost Encounters, and Spontaneous Combustion. I was terrified, yet also intrigued. This site, long lost to the shifting sands of the internet, reveled in its hand-crafted HTML and CSS pages. A dying part of the internet, no longer visible in Google search results...
I loved finding those strange website, made for a Web 1.0 age. I still find them on occasion, gathering scanned drawings of Roman curse tablets on a professor's site or Etruscan names on the the remnants of a historical roleplay forum. But Web 3.0, that twisted mass of social media, misinformation, hatred, makes these discoveries fewer and fewer.
I want this to be a space for discovery, for people researching weird or random topics to stumble on my site and be like woahhhh. My website may not be citeable, but I hope it makes an impression!