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About the Webmaster

Hey, my name is Karithina (they/them).

I’ve had a lifelong love of computers and the internet. I have been making websites since primary school, starting with an Anne McCaffrey-inspired dragon roleplay forum. I was often a form of tech support for classmates, teachers and family. In early high school, I got more practice with coding by making Bebo themes and Neopets layouts for friends. I was in a lunchtime girls’ coding club and thrived in IT, art and English classes.

Throughout the past decade I’ve been passionate about and fascinated by web accessibility. In some ways connected to that, my love of digging through subcultures on the internet has blossomed into an adoration for the indie web.

I’m now a web administrator (content editor, some designing and developing), and I’ve also been a graphic designer and a digital media generalist, so I’m used to straddling the world between art and tech.

I survived breast cancer after being diagnosed with it in December 2019. It was a wild 2020 for me with that and a pandemic at the same time.

I have two cats and a house full of Halloween decorations all year.

I’m a recovering plant murderer. My garden is a collection of plants native to the local area and Australia.

Identification Labels

  • Aliases: Carly, Echo, Tenjin
  • Alignment: Chaotic Good
  • Amory: Ambiamorous
  • Furry Code: FChF3a A++ C+Dm H+M P++ R++ T+++ W Z+++ Sh+ RLMC a+ c++++ n d– e++ f- h+ iwf+++ j+p+ s+
  • Gender: Nonbinary (Neutrois)
  • Location: Queensland, Australia (AEST / UTC+10)
  • MBTI: INFJ-A
  • Name: Karithina
  • Neurotype: Inattentive ADHD, Autism L1, Anxiety
  • Orientation: Pansexual
  • Philosophy: Stoicism?
  • Political Ideology: Left-libertarianism or social anarchism.
  • Pronouns: they/them'
  • Religion: Agnostic
  • Romance: Aromantic (Nebularomantic)
  • Subcultures Not Otherwise Mentioned: Goth, Hacker, Nerd
  • Zodiac: Aries

Favourites

‘Board’ Games

  • Dixit
  • Kodama: The Tree Spirits
  • Takenoko

Books

  • Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer
  • Cell, by Stephen King
  • Riftwar Cycle, by Raymond E Feist
  • The Broken Earth trilogy, by N. K. Jemison
  • The Stand, by Stephen King
  • The Day of the Triffids, by John Wyndham
  • Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory, by Caitlin Doughty
  • Dragonriders of Pern series, by Anne McCaffrey
  • The Tower and the Hive series, by Anne McCaffrey

Drinks

  • Genmaicha / 玄米茶 / “brown rice tea”
  • Lapsang souchong / 正山小種 / 正山小种 / 熏茶 / “smoked tea”
  • Masala chai / मसाला चाय / “mixed-spice tea”
  • Matcha / 抹茶 / “ground tea”
  • Taro milk tea with tapioca pearls

Fauna

  • Bats
  • Cats
  • Diploptera punctata cockroach
  • Macropanesthia rothi cockroach
  • Nudibranchs
  • Rats

Food (dessert)

  • Dacquoise
  • Garash
  • Gulab Jamun
  • Hazelnut castel (I don’t know where it’s from but it is hazelnut meringue and buttercream…)
  • Kyiv cake / торт “Київський”
  • Mochi / 大福餅 / Daifukumochi
  • Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte / “Black Forest cake”
  • Tiramisu
  • Ube Halaya / “purple yam jam”
  • Vermicelles

Food (non-dessert)

  • Lasagne
  • Moussaka
  • Ramen
  • Shepherd’s pie / cottage pie
  • Sop sop / “yam stew”

Films

  • Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
  • The Day of the Triffids (1962)
  • Barbarella (1968)
  • Alien (1979)
  • Possession (1981)
  • Blade Runner (1982)
  • The Dark Crystal (1982)
  • Angel’s Egg (1985)
  • The Fly (1986)
  • Něco z Alenky / Alice (1988)
  • Hackers (1995)
  • Fargo (1996)
  • Bound (1996)
  • Ringu / Ring (1998)
  • Being John Malkovich (1999)
  • The Matrix (1999)
  • Ritual (2000)
  • A Beautiful Mind (2001)
  • Spirited Away (2001)
  • Ghost World (2001)
  • May (2003)
  • One Point O / Paranoia: 1.0 (2004)
  • Marebito / Unique One (2004)
  • The Shape of Water (2017)
  • Parasite (2019)
  • Sound of Metal (2020)
  • The Matrix Resurrections (2021)
  • Cruella (2021)

Flora

  • Dianella caerulea
  • Vinca
  • Viola hederacea / Australian violet

‘TV’ Shows

  • Cleverman
  • Fargo
  • Firefly
  • In the Flesh
  • Mr. Robot
  • Severance
  • Star Trek: Discovery
  • Star Trek: Picard
  • Stargate: Atlantis
  • Stargate: SG1
  • Stranger Things
  • The Animals of Farthing Wood
  • The Day of the Triffids
  • The Watch
  • Twin Peaks

‘Video’ Games

My favourite video games are often creative, social, cozy, puzzle, retro, pixel, biology, or roleplay based.

  • Animal Crossing series
  • Astrobotany
  • Creatures series
  • Crypt of the Necrodancer
  • Life is Strange series
  • Pokémon series
  • Runestone Keeper
  • Stray
  • The Elder Scrolls series
  • The Endless Forest – the focus is on interactions in a forest with no chat.
  • The Path – the ‘goal’ of the game isn’t what it seems.
  • VRChat
  • Webfishing

Visual Artists

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