favorite folders & indie blogging
It's funny the wormholes we can fall into if we're unsuspecting surfing on the internet. I bought my first notebook that's REALLY all mine because, u know, I paid for it.
And after about a month of continuous internet access from a computer browser, I remembered that there's a whole world of possibilities far beyond mindlessly feed scrolling through Instagram and TikTok.
Some time later, on a normal Thursday night, I decided to organize the "Favorites" folders on my browser.
An organization that's impossible on my cphone, considering that I'm chronically addicted to saving things that I never revisit and that remains forever in the limbo of those "Favorites" or "Saved" folders.
Recipes (that I won't make), articles (that I never read), movies (that I won't watch), but that sparked my interest when they passed by me on this cybernetic path ,to the point that I felt like I couldn't lose them forever and that not occasionally were saved more than once, never to be opened.
That almost-Friday, opening the folders of these saved websites, some dating back to 2013, after going through links to no longer existing stores of furniture, books and gifts saved in the "Buy" folder.
After coming across the address of an Online Second-Hand Bookstore that remains strong and online to this day (although the complete collection of the Ranma ½ manga that I favorited has long since been sold). After spending a few hours saving links to a NEW collections of "Buy later", I decided to google the plot of one of the mangas that I was saving and came across a blog about shoujo mangas!
To my surprise, the blog was far from being a forgotten in time, it was full of recent updates from the author, who is over 40, a former writer of some bygone Brazilian magazines about Japanese culture, anime and manga.
What started out as simply loving the idea of a diva who stuck to the BLOGGER format of sharing news about a subject that interests her, escalated into me spending hours going through other links and discovering that the blog world is alive.
With so many people, from various countries, activelly posting in 2025 with the same identity, dedication and aesthetics as in 2008, with that tone that mix writing a diary just for yourself and, at the same time, to the world.
I don't know what it was like for you growing up with internet access from 2000 to 2012. But for me, the blogger world in 2004-2008 was everything. I had several virtual diaries, which I never continued, but in order to make them “my own”, I learned a little bit about HTML and design.
A good part of my time on the Internet at the time, besides MSN, creating dolls on the Dollz website and browsing Orkut communities, taking care of my Neopets, and looking for tutorials made by knowledge-sharing angels giving step-by-step instructions on how to apply Kawaii Templates to my blog.
One thing led to another and I found several gems on Neocities. Blogs so creative, beautiful and cute that made me want to explode from cuteness and, of course, create one of my own.
And that's how I decided to relearn HTML code to create this blog and here we are.
Since I'm relearning and sometimes I search for how to do some things and can't find tutorials that work (sometimes it works in VCode and Brackets but not here on Neocities), later I want to share some step-by-step instructions.
I hope to have fun doing it as a hobbie.
- pamonia