So recently, my mom decided to download Duolingo to learn French. She's been making good process learning simple words and phrases! I also have a colleague at work who's also been using the same app to learn Spanish, and she's fluent in it! After seeing them speak fluent Spanish and French, that encouraged me to download the app to learn a language myself.
Ever since I was a little kid watching Lucky Star in several parts on Youtube at 240p, I've been fascinated by Japanese culture in general, from the pop culture, to the parks, to the technology, stationary, festivals, etc. One of my favourite things to do is to just watch videos of people watching through the country's cities and countrysides (especially during the night when it's raining). Japanese as a language has always been pretty mystifying to me, in that I always thought it sounded pretty cool but was really intimidating and tough to learn.
However, during the past 5 days of using Duolingo, I've been having a ton of fun with it! I'm been making rapid progress in learning simple phrases for ordering food, introducing myself and describing people. The app teaches you the 3 writing systems of Japanese as well, starting from simple hiragana, to slowing incorporating bits of katakana as of now! Duolingo is structured to feel like you're playing a game, so it has systems for leveling up and gaining XP points like a typical RPG. It even has a leaderboard! It's pretty cool (and very addictive)!
One of my reasons for learning Japanese would be to enjoy Japanese media in general without having to rely as much on English translations. Another reason would be that I've always wanted to visit Japan as well and enjoy the culture in person, so this would be a very useful skill to have! I think it would also be cool to go back to previous short comics I've made to translate them into Japanese for fun!
I currently have a 5-day streak on Duolingo, so I hope I can remain commited to using it!
In Trinidad and Tobago, abortion is currently illegal unless it is done to save the life of the patient and preserve their health. It is illegal to have an abortion for any other reason, such as in the instance of rape, fetal impairment, social/economic reasons or simply because you just want it.
Receiving an abortion that isn't permitted by TnT law leads to 4 years in prison for both the doctor performing it and the patient receiving it. Those who aid in helping someone get an abortion will also receive 2 years in prison. These outdated laws are not only remnants of our colonial past under the British rule, but are also reinforced today by puritanical mindsets and stigmas against abortion, as well as those who receive them.
As someone living in TnT, I can't believe that not only was Roe v. Wade taken away in America under Biden (who did nothing to defend it), but that Trump, who could potentially make it even harder to obtain safe and accessible reproductive healthcare, just got re-elected!
People will say nonsense like "ALL Lives Matter! I'm Pro-Life! I don't see colour!" but then vote out the human rights of their marginalised colleagues for a promise of a "better economy" from an impeached convict. It's delusional to believe that everyone will equally benefit from a "better economy" under a government lead by such a bigoted, corrupt man.
But you know what? Many Trinis sit here in TnT and laugh and jeer and mock America, but I'd argue we aren't much better!
We too fail to comprehend the importance of reproductive rights by choosing to keep abortion illegal and PrEP inaccessible in public healthcare institutions. We too fail to acknowledge the reproductive abilities and rights of our trans and non-binary citizens. And we too fail to prevent GBV against our own women and girls time and time again.
So I spent the whole day thinking about the election results today. Everyone around me had a good feeling Trump would win, though personally I hoped that Kamala would win out somehow. It seemed like she had a good chance!
Twitter blew up as expected. My feed was flooded with vent posts, vent art, posts encouraging others to live, invest in community, etc. They bought it up on the radio, on Youtube. He's everywhere right now! You just can't get a break from him! It's already so annoying as someone from another country, so I could only imagine how unbearable it must be for a marginalized person living in the US.
I do hope that my US mutuals/friends are ok, especially since a lot of them are queer and POC. I hope you all take care of yourselves, stay safe and look out for yourselves and others where possible. I don't have much to say right now, but I will most likely have more things to discuss regarding my thoughts in the coming days.
I will say this, though. I guess as an NSFW artist, I have the moral obligation to get even nastier with my work, what with the censorship aspect of Project 2025! No single person, let alone an asshole fascist convict, should have the right to dictate what sexy art people can post or engage with online! You can't take my Yaoi away from me, you roadkill-haired, cheeto-fingers-spray-tanned, Elon Musk-dick-riding WHORE!
Hi, everyone! I'm pleased to announce that my new splatterpunk novel, "Soiled Dykes of the Dirt" has been completed and released on Itch.io today!
I've been working on this story since mid 2023, and I'm happy that it's finally finished!
Now that this project is done, I can move on to drawing more comics for my Ben 10 alien porn zine, "Domnitrix"! I've posted a few illustrations for this project in the art galleries (the NSFW and Violence galleries to be specific), but I don't want to spoil everything, so I'll only be posting a few illustrations for it. I also want to make more games too, with programs like Videotome Super and Bitsy. I just need to figure out what to write about. I've also want to make Gameboy games using Gameboy Studio, too! I just need to figure out how to use it.
Hey guys! Just yesterday, I released a new game on my Itch.io page called "Adoption Day"! It's a simple visual novel adaptation of my poem of the same name.
It's a short little poem that will only take a few minutes to read through. It's also an HTML game made in a program called Videotome, so no need to download anything! Just play it in your browser. However, it's not mobile friendly. Chances are I might make another VN in Videotome Super, which seems to be mobile friendly from what I've seen.
These days, I find myself prefering to work on shorter, simplier projects like this, rather than longer projects that can take months or even years to make! I've been making a few NSFW short comics these days featuring Ben 10 aliens (I like to ship them together), and I'm having fun making them! I'm thinking about making an art book or zine full of the comics, short stories and illustrations I've made of them. There was also that one "cup x straw yaoi" one page comic I did earlier this year that I really liked making (you can find it in the NSFW gallery).
When I starting out working on my first comic project, "Cooking with Jones", back in 2019, I used to think that in order to make a "good" comic, it had to be long and have super detailed art on every single page! I was able to successfully crank out two whole comics while working with this mindset (Cooking with Jones and Data's Mosh) between 2019 - 2021. It definitely helped that both of these ended up becoming "Quarantine projects" during the pandemic, due to having tons of free time.
But by the time 2022 rolled around and I started working on "Sister Nunjara's Sunday School for Demons", everyone was starting to come out of quarantine and things were turning "back to normal", which meant less free time. While I managed to make a good amount of progress working on this action hentai project of mine, I gradually started to realize that I had really bitten off more than I could chew with it. It was a big project, longer than the previous two. I wanted to put a lot of intricate details in every page's art, lots of cool fight scenes and super graphic sex scenes. It was also being made in Inkscape, meaning it would have been digital art. I wasn't that accustomed to the program at first, so I was constantly learning how to use it as time progressed. This lead to me constantly remaking older pages to look better so the art would look more consistent. I had completely lost the plot when it came to pacing, knowing when to leave something as is, etc.
As of now, I'm still deciding on if I should continue it or remake it from the ground-up to be a shorter comic with faster pacing and a simpler art style. Looking back, while I did enjoy making it, I'm kind of glad that I moved on to other projects (all of which were much shorter, and therefore easier to make). I still managed to complete works and put them out there, while having fun making them. Working on shorter projects helped me to realize that short and sweet stories can be just as good as long and detailed ones.
So yeah, there's that. Also, my novel, "Soiled Dykes of the Dirt" is nearing completion. The story is done, so I'm just trying to finish up the illustrations the best I can. It was fun working on a novel instead of a comic for a change. Keeps things fresh. Hoping to finish up this thing and release it before the end of the year.
So yeah, that's it for now. See ya!
Hey guys! Just came here to ramble and sort of organize my thoughts surrounding the rise of AI art and how it's affecting artists.
I guess I'll start off by saying that I, like everyone else, was obsessed with DALLE-mini about a year or two ago when it came out. I spent a lot of time coming up with the silliest and sometimes creepiest prompts I could think of just to see what the program could come up with. "Magical Girl Wario". "Breaking Bad fumo". "Ninjara from Arms in HELL". "Blood and Guts Lisa Frank." "Knight Rider Kitt at Pride Parade." "Nuns in Super Mario 64". "Blood and flesh Spongebob". It was actually pretty fun, and it was cool to see everyone posting the results they got for their prompts on Twitter. "Fisher Price Guillotine" and "Washing Machine Trail Cam Footage" will forever be comedy gold. Playing around with the OG DALLE was just dumb, harmless fun.
But things are much different now. AI technology has really come a long way since the first DALLE. AI images no longer look like soup, and are getting more and more realistic to the point where it's getting pretty hard to tell that they're AI! And unfortunately tt's gotten pretty scary now too, with so many misusing the tech to spread disinformation, steal art, and even create revenge deepfake porn of real people!
Places like Facebook are rife with weird Jesus AI art that boomers can't seem to get enough off. It's gotten near impossible to use Google images as it's swamped with AI generated sludge. And, of course, I gotta address what META is doing regarding them using people's posts on Instagram to train their own AI models! This is especially disgusting, as not only will they be using the work of artists, but also other people's pictures! Pictures of themselves! Their families and friends! Their kids! Their pets! You can't even opt out of it! Anything, no matter how personal it is, is considered fair game to be used for AI training. You can't ignore the concerns regarding the environmental impact of AI either, what with the E-waste and carbon footprint generated (EG: Graphics cards for training, devices using for storing info producing a lot of heat, etc). Nothing it really safe from these invasive AI companies and it's bloody dystopian.
Like many artists, I've grown more concerned with the possibility of people stealing my works to generate God-Knows-What with it. So, like many others, I've been trying to get into the habit of glazing my works before posting them on Social media. I'm also kind of banking on the fact that I don't have one specific "Style" to my work as well, meaning that (at least in theory) it would be a little more difficult to develop a "Tetra" style. I'm also hoping that the content of my work itself (especially the more taboo content) will also drive off or "gatekeep" some people from wanting to snatch it up. I'm not sure if a santized corporate entity like Meta would want to generate images of blood, guts or xenomorphs gangbanging XLR8 from Ben 10 or whatever.
It's a shame that it's come to this, because I really liked it when it was just a dumb meme generator and that was it. And even now there are still AI memes that I genuinely find funny, like the "Doctor Mario" Ai meme and the one with the fat guy beating up the alligator for eating his pizza. And I'll admit that some of the concepts and generated images some people come up with are pretty sick! AI has especially gotten good at doing "80's anime" and "PS2" inspired styles. I've seen some generated images that I've wanted to either redraw or take inspiration from for my own works. I guess I just wish that said images were drawn with honest skill and labour? Or at least weren't made by stealing art and shoving them into these programs.
I'm not sure how to end this rant or what the solution to this is. I guess all I can really say at this point is that while I doubt that AI art isn't going to really go away, I hope that more laws can be passed soon enough to regulate its production and use because it has gotten absolutely out of hand.
Hi guys! I just remembered (again) that May 21st was the day I first made my Neocities account last year! So I'm just popping in real quick to quickly commemorate the important milestone of having this website for a whole year!
Creating this website was initially something I was excited but very nervous to do. On one hand, I was intrigued by the idea of having my own little space for myself away from the more "corperate" and "sanitized" limitations of modern social media, like Twitter. On the other hand, I was nervous because I had never coded a website before, so I was afraid that this new endeavour of mine wouldn't get very far.
Learning HTML and CSS from scratch wasn't always easy, but it was certainly worth it. I'm still surprised by how much this site was able to develop in the span of one year! I'm glad I took that "leap of faith" and decided to open up this site, as not only did it provide me with a unique space online to call my own, but also opportunities to meet new cool people to befriend!
I want to say thank you so much to everyone who has visited and supported this silly little site of mine! I appreciate all the kind comments in the guestbook and chatbox, and I'm glad that people enjoy the weird artwork and stories I put out online.
I don't have any big special plans for any anniversary event, but I do plan on improving my coding skills and updating the appearance of webpages to improve the overall presentation of this site. Frequent visitors may have already noticed the new and improved banner on the main menu, and the revamped "Metadata Says" page before the guestbook. 123 Guestbook is shutting down in June or July, so I need to either move to SmartGB or use an HTML comment box.
With that being said, I want to once again thank everyone who has supported this site and my endeavours as an artist, and I hope to continue webmastering and making art for many more years to come!
Hey guys! Sorry that I haven't been too active for April. I've been busy with various important personal things, but I managed to add some new art and decorations here and there.
Recently a new library opened up in my area. When my mom and I went to check it out 2 weeks ago, we were very impressed with how nice and clean everything was! The adult session had comfortable couches, computers, free wifi and a very wide range of books! They even had entire volume sets of manga, such as the original Dragon Ball, Naruto and Full Metal Alchemist! Customer service was great and the place was very well-secured by polite security guards.
A few days after that, I renewed my library card after not using it for over a decade (I got it when I was 12 and had now started Secondary School). My little bro and mom also signed up to get their own cards and we just chilled out there for a few hours during the evening. I borrowed two books, "Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History" by Art Spiegelman and "Chase: A BookShot: A Michael Bennett Story" by James Patterson and Micheal Ledwidge. I read them out during the past 2 weeks and really enjoyed both of them! Perhaps I'll write little reviews for them in the "Freak Shit" section of this site.
It's just really nice to sit down and read physical books again. Not for studying purposes at university, but for fun! I hope to go back this week or next week to return what I borrowed and get some new books. I hope I could bring home a manga next time, and maybe a Stephen King book. Around the evening, tons of school kids visit the library (preteens and teens) and they constantly swarm around the mangas. Hoping I can get something from the Dragon Ball box set or My Hero Academia next time, because some of those boxes were completely empty lmao.
Hi guys! Hope y'all are doing well!
Yesterday was a big day yesterday for primary school students all across my country. SEA day! Over 18,000 students took the exam that would determine which secondary school from their list of choices they would be going too. One of those 18,000 kids was my younger brother, who studied everyday for a over a year and was very nervous leading up to yesterday. I'm super proud of him, as he worked very hard to prepare himself for this important exam.
During the few days prior to yesterday, a bunch of fast food restaurants and stores were advertising little free rewards and discounts for SEA students to enjoy, such as free ice cream from DQ, free posters from Rebel Yell (a local anime merch shop) and even free munch packs from KFC! Some of them were honestly kinda shit though, such as the free SINGLE, tiny ass slice of pizza from Mario's, and the free popcorn and cookie from Subway that you could only get when you bought a sub. Honestly, the fam and I were hunting down the free shit only, not discounted stuff, so we weren't too pleased with some of these offers. When you see free shit, you gotta try and beat it, because nothing usually comes for free.
It was pretty fun going around to different malls and plazas to hunt down all these deals! It was like an adventure or scavenger hunt, which isn't something you go on every day! We were out and out since 1:00pm, so we were pretty tired when we came back home at half 6 or so in the night!
Now regarding other stuff, I'm trying to work a little more on a splatterpunk novel called "Soiled Dykes of the Dirt" that I started writing some time last year. I don't want to share too much details regarding it, but I will say that it will be pretty dark and graphic (like any splatterpunk work, really), and will touch on serious topics like queerphobia and gender based violence against women and femmes. It will also include furry characters (primarily anthro dog girls) as the main characters! I hope to finish this story as it's definitely different from what I typically do (short poems and comics) and it's also a project that I've had fun making.
I also haven't done any new work on another comic of mine in a while (Sister Nunjara's Sunday School for Demons)! It's a very ambitious, long, action hentai comic that I've been working on since late 2021, after I completed Data's Mosh. I'm still passionate about this comic and I want to complete it, but it's just that it turned out to be a lot more work than I initially expected! Regardless, I'm determined to complete it. It's just that I'm having more fun rn with Soiled Dykes, so I'm working on that a bit more.
So yeah, that's it for now. See ya!
Two days ago, after sharing my uncle's HBO Max account with him for roughly 2 years, my fam and I lost access to it. When we go to use the HBO Max app now, it hits us with this "Sorry! HBO Max isn't available in your region" message, despite us being able to use it just fine for the 2 whole years.
This most likely happened due to that new "MAX" rebrand they've been planning on doing for a while now but just recently put into effect. This morning, I tried to regain access to the account by downloading the new MAX app and putting in their old account info, but unfortunately that didn't work. We can't afford Netflix right now either, so that leaves us with Disney+ (another acct we share with my uncle) and Youtube. Disney+ is honestly very boring. Nothing there sparks my interest besides Star Wars Visions, Who Framed Roger Rabbit and the occassional anime or Jetix show. But who knows how long again it will be until they decide to take away our access to it on a whim? I should try to use it more.
I just don't know what negative critique to make about streaming that hasn't already been said online except that I'm disappointed and fed up with it. What started out as great technology really is just cable nowadays, but worse, more expensive and overly complicated from no good reason!
And it's a shame really, because I like the convenience of it! I like having all of the shows that I want to watch in one place. And with no commercials! I especially liked HBO Max for its better, wider and more interesting variety of shows. I really made my name with their documentaries and catalog of Cartoon Network shows. They had a nice thing going before they decided to mess it all up with that merger with Discovery, and now they're just throwing a perfectly good catalog away! All because of tax write-offs and greed! Pathetic!
Streaming as a whole really did just lose the whole plot during these past few years. Guess it's time to dust off the old pirate hat and sail the seven seas again.
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay! :)
Hurrrrrrrrrghhhh so appearantly there's a cold going around that a bunch of people seem to have and I unfortunately got it (don't worry, it's not covid). I feel so cold ugggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggrrrrrrrg.
I was hope I would have some energy to finish decorating the blog area today, but I'm really not feeling up to it smfh.
Bruh.
Hi! It's been a while since I updated this blog, huh?
I don't think I have much important stuff to say here as of now, honestly. But I do just want to talk about my future plans for here I guess.
So after months or procrastination, I finally put in the Arcade section! Personally I find the area a bit lackluster as of now, maybe due to the lack of decor, or maybe because I barely have any original games of my own to share. Ever since I made Wackaman Jones, I've wanted to make more little games, but game development isn't just something you can just jump into just so. It takes a lot of time, work and effort to make games! Therefore, at least as of now, original games from me will be few and far between. I have GB Studio and Renpy to work with as of now, so I guess I'll start from there and work my way up to making stuff I want to see/play.
I always liked the idea of making a city on this site that the viewer can explore. I think it would be really neat to let people visit Nunjara's church, a cinema and maybe some shrines and a parade. Perhaps there could be a couple of secret easter eggs or events the viewer can trigger by exploring enough! I love the idea, but I don't want it to be there for the sake of being there, y'know? I want the areas to have some legit purpose to them, and for them to have some quality that would encourage people to come back again.
Aaaaaaand I just remembered that I forgot to update the sitemap to include the arcade's pages. Whoops! I'll put that in soon.
So I guess that's it for now! See ya later lol
Hi! I just want to wish everyone a belated Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays/etc. and a happy, prosperous new year!
I had a nice quiet Christmas day. Spent it watching Silent Library, Jackass and Fear Factor on Mtv Vault on Youtube. Watched a little Cooking with Dashie too. For dinner, the fam and I had BBQ with spanish rice and potato salad! Was pretty good! Also started rewatching the original Ben 10 and Robotomy during the past few days and I must say, they're pretty good cartoons that hold up well today. (wait that kinda rhymed lol)
I've glad that I got a lot of free time to work on this website for the past month or so. Finally got around to opening the Character Bio section for my ocs, got included in a few web listings (Fujofans and Smooth Sailings, idk about Listme but it's fine if I don't get in), learnt how to make my own stamps and buttons, fixed up a few pages, added some alt text to a few pages, wrote some fanfiction, etc. I'm proud of how much this site has grown and I hope to continue to develop it further in the future!
I would also like to thank everyone who has visited/supported/followed this site! I really appreciate the support and kind comments I've received! They encourage me to continue to do my best!
So yeah, I think that's it for now with this post. Bye for now, and have a good day!
Hi! So It's been a while since I've updated this site as I've been busy with other things. This time during these past 2 weeks has given me the oppotunity to decide on what I want to do with the site!
I initially wanted to have a separate page for a chatroom section of the site, but realized that I wouldn't care too much to use it, actually. I just decided to put one because I saw several other sites on Neocities with chatrooms and thought it would be cool. Plus I wouldn't care to moderate the page all the time to get rid of unwanted messages. Maybe I'll still keep the chatbox and put it on the main page or something. Idk lol.
Plus, I want to get started on the character bios section! I want to have a nice place to have easily accessible info about my ocs, and I have an idea already for how it might look.
I would like to still have an arcade section for the site where you could play little html games. If I could, maybe I could make an html version of Wackaman Jones? It would be cool to see that.
And of course, there's the sitemap and other little secret pages I wanna work on.
So yeah, that's it for now! Just decided to drop in and say hi, as well as kinda organize my thoughts on what I wanna do for the site!
Hi! I'm officially 24 years old today! I'm super old like the road now!
On Saturday, I went to go see The Meg 2 with my dad. It was pretty good imo! It was more of a comedy than the first one, but still had plenty of action! The big boy with the giant gun was hot. There was also a car show going on with some drag race cars, and they looked pretty cool! That Barbie box you could stand inside was still there too, so of course I had to get a pic in it!
At Starbucks, I like to draw my ocs on the receipts and pin them on the community board. I currently have Jones, Nunjara, Metadata and Decadrag on the board, as well as Zapo from Nitrome's Fault Line!
Also on Friday, I went to the mall and bought Chainsaw Man Volume 3. I've been wanting to check out the series for a while now, so I'll be reading it and checking ou the anime too. I'm thinking about drawing some nsfw art of Himeno because she's very pretty!
So yeah, my birthday was quiet and chill. I enjoyed it!
Hi! Haven't talked here in a while. Yesterday I went to a boat show with my dad and little brother and it was so fun!
Lots of fast boats with their trophies displayed on top of them. Had some with some really funny names like "RAW KNOTS" and "KNOT IN SLOW MOTION" (furries will understand what I mean lol). There was a HUGE boat called "Iron Man" that was tilted up of a hydraulic lift thing. When it rained, everyone was huddled under one of the tents but the "KNOT IN SLOW MOTION" team was dancing up in the rain to the music on the music truck! They have an excellent cheerleader squad!
Anyways, reguarding this site, I've recently updated the main menu page and I'm very happy with it! It's now much closer to the OG design I had for it when I first made my acct on here. I've also been working on a chatroom and a reading area for stories I would be putting up on the site to read. However, I haven't been logging anything in my update log! Sorry about that! I do have an idea of when the main menu redesign happened, so I'll put in a date eventually. I'll also put in a date for when I make the reading area and chatroom actually available.
After procrastinating on it for weeks, my about me page is finally up!
I had fun working on this page! It helped me to better understand how to use divisions, iframes and marquees, so I think I leveled up my HTML coding skills a bit with this page!
I've only had this site for a few months now, but it's so cool to see how much it's evolved in such a short amount of time! I was a bit nervous signing up for Neocities at first because I didn't know how to code in HTML, so I'm very happy and proud of myself for getting this far with the site's development!
I have a lot of ambitious ideas for this site that I would love to implement in the future, like easter eggs, secret shrines and maybe little adventures you can go on (like visual novels kinda). I only have 1GB to work with so I gotta figure out how to use the space wisely, but still, I'm excited!
Hello! I finally got around to adding a guestbook section to the site!
It's a bit bland looking right now, but I'll try to pretty it up! I just need to figure out how the settings work. I don't like how it wants you to add a background with a URL. I don't understand it right now, but I hope to soon.
Also, Trinidad and Tobago's Pride month celebrations officially started yesterday! I'm hoping that I can attend one or two of the events, especially the Pride parade and market on July 30th! I attended the one they had last year and it was a blast! It was also my first time going to Pride, so it was a special day for me! Hoping I can attend this one too!
Hi again! Just making another post to say that the library for this website is now open!
This section contains links to my comics and short stories on Itch.io, as well as links to resources for many useful, educational things! You can even go outside and play with some cute animals, like Muffdiver5000 the Cactus and a Rainbow coloured stray cat! I'm happy with how this section turned out!
This section is still very new, so they're not much stuff to look at right now, but I'll add more things to the library as time progresses! I'll even put in pages for stories and poems that can be read on the site and don't need to be downloaded from my itch.io. I want this site to be a fun place to explore and have fun on, and not just a place to promote my work on.
The library will also have a section for character bios of my ocs, but I still need to make those. That section is therefore still under construction.
Regardless, I hope that you enjoy what the site has to offer right now!
Hi, Tetra here! I've finally gotten around to organizing the blog and updates log section! I want to work on the updates log first before working on the other sections so that I can better document this site's development! I'll add a guestbook section once I fix up the site a bit more. Maybe by the time I add in the library and/or the about me page. I'll have two separate sections for the blog and updates log so that they won't get mixed up with eachother too.
Anyways, I'm pretty happy with how well the site's been developing over the past few weeks! While I'm not new to coding in general (I took IT in secondary school and made a simple visual novel in RenPy), I'm new to coding in HTML and CSS, and I've never made a website before! I was a bit nervous going into this but now I think it's pretty fun!