before the well runs dry

who are you?

i'm pretty piss-poor at introducing myself, but hi. i'm the webmaster of caterpillarangel, mau/niiya (or whatever you know me as). this specific website has been around since 2025, but i've been here and there on the independent web since 2018.

because of my tendencies to hop around and abandon projects (pre-ADHD diagnosis mostly), i've forgotten my old websites and sadly did not preserve many of my old layouts. i can say that my last site was venusinfoxfurs on neocities, which has since been deleted (RIP 2023-2025). an old site of mine that is still up is charliedarling!

anyway, i hope to not abandon (!!) this project soon, allowing for this place to reflect my current interests, skills, and... eccentricities. i've been on-and-off interested in web design since 2013, starting on tumblr and moving across various platforms. i'm not the best at coding and am still learning, so things may be inaccessible or even perhaps... broken...?

about me

i am a soon-to-be mph graduate who is currently taking a break to receive medical care/caregiving. i'm happy to say that my life is boring!! i spend a lot of time doing my hobbies, ~~suffering through my senior thesis project and working on getting published~~, and chatting with friends. i am audhd, disabled, alterhuman and a yumeshipper. sometimes i have cat ears. maybe they are real, maybe they aren't. some of my hobbies include digital/traditional art, film photography, journalling, playing video games (rpgs/visual novels mostly), watching horror movies, looking at animals, looking at bugs, documenting my life, collecting dolls, and being incredibly off-putting and strange. i love analog/dedicated technology and am trying to decentralize my life (around my phone).

anyway, i think that's it for now. if you actually read this, thanks! i appreciate it a lot.

site awards

interests

games:

palia, deltarune, undertale, mushroom oasis, duality VN, pokemon heartgold&soulsilver, pokemon mystery dungeon: explorers of sky, pokemon diamond/platinum, pokemon violet, pokemon ranger: shadows of almia, digimon world dawn/dusk, stardew valley, mario and luigi: bowser's inside story, castlevania dawn of sorrow, castlevania harmony of despair, turnip boy commits tax evasion, fnaf: into the pit

music

tennis, Три дня дождя, malice mizer, LAREINE, versailles philharmonic quintet, plastic trees, BUCK-TICK, RafScrap, rosalia, echo & the bunnymen, dolly parton, johnny cash, the growlers, the cranberries, the zombies, lana del rey, MARINA, emilie autumn, florence + the machine, deftones, rasputina, sisters of mercy, hannah fury, evanescence, genitorturers, ABRA, yendry, nemahsis, kali uchis, kate bush, london after midnight, type o negative, a perfect circle, slipknot, unwoman, alice in chains, postmodern jukebox

fandoms

welcome home restoration project, five nights at freddy's, deltarune/undertale, castlevania, gravity falls, palia, supernatural, psych, dungeon meshi, +more

hobbies/likes

fragrance, slimes, coding, reading, writing fanfic, writing poetry, antiquing, analog tech, analog horror, digital art, crochet, 35mm photography, scrapbooking, doll collecting, TTRPGs, art history, puzzles

manga/manhwa

wakeari shinrei mansion, nikubami honegishimi, ura baito: toubou kinshi, kagurai ~kagura to raito~, demon slayer, works of uguisu sachiko, rose of versailles, chainsaw man, magical realm shopkeeper, meow man, the summer hikaru died, dandadan, tondemo skill de isekai hourou meshi, nietzsche-sensei: konbini ni, satori sedai no shinjin ga maiorita, the greatest estate developer, magical girl dandelion, yotsuba&!, josou shite mendoukusai koto ni natteru nekura to yankee no ryou kataomoi, spyxfamily, sakamoto days, hello! mr. veterinarian, black killer whale baby, bouken ni wa, buki ga hitsuyou da! ~kodawari rudy no kajiya kurashi~, I LOVE AMY, debby the corsifa is emulous, what a bountiful harvest, demon lord!, delivery man from murim, kim oh-jin and the strange beasts, mairimashita! iruma-kun...