About
- Zemu - any pronouns
- English/中文 -
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- can be usually found under the usernames zemuso or zemusoru
- broke college student first, oshikatsu participant second💔
- spacecraft enthusiast, hobbyist artist, professional robot simp, and self-proclaimed archivist ☆
- I love collecting things, both physical and digital: rocks, stickers, paper textures, plastic packaging... and other random doohickies!
- big fan of em dashes and semicolons; expect to see a lot of those here :P
Interests
- character design
- worldbuilding
- spaceflight
- geology - rocks & minerals
- forestry - trees
- paleontology - fossils
- vexillology
Hobbies
- digital art
- coding
- papercraft
- Metal Earth model kits
- oshikatsu/itabag
- organizing photos with Hydrus
- DIY earrings
- toy photography
Fandoms
Current main ones
- Vocaloid/vocal synthesizers
- spacecraft gijinka
- Transformers
I like this
- Alien Stage
- Project Sekai (I don't play the game anymore I only listen to the songs lol)
- Detroit: Become Human
- misc. classic literature
- 17776
- misc. rhythm games - Arcaea, Phigros, Chunithm (used to play a lot, nowadays not so much)
Likes
Places
- museums
- libraries
- thrift stores
- botanical gardens
Food
- Reese's Cups
- dried mango slices
- unagi sushi
- Yoshinoya gyudon
- pho
- Arizona green tea
- Dr Pepper
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My website manifesto is pretty simple.
This archive is dedicated to everything I'm passionate about.
The name Zemu's Archive is inspired by the concept of a "digital archive". I think the preservation and digitization of media is pretty awesome <3 As the name suggests, my vision for this website is to become an archive of my interests, hobbies, things I made, places I've been, and everything else that makes me, well, me! And yes, the website's color scheme is themed after my sona.
// How I came across the indie web
Around early 2021, I became interested in spaceflight. I was also pretty into making papercraft at the time, so naturally I went online searching for free papercraft models of rockets & spacecraft to download and make. Some of the websites I came across include Niel's Papermodels, U-DON'S FACTORY, and Ninfinger Productions.
This was one of my earliest interactions with indie web!
Up until that point, I didn't have a personal laptop, so I was fairly new to this whole browsing the web thing. (Thanks shitty school chromebook with restricted internet access.) In July of the same year, I went on a quest researching about a specific image of the Mars 1M probe (page coming soon?), during which I came across even more personal sites! There's something fascinating about coming across old, niche websites that were seemingly lost to time. It's like digging up buried treasures.
To think that someone, somewhere, at some point, put so much effort and passion into creating a website, dedicated to the things they love... it's awe-inspiring, isn't it?
Having a corner of the internet where you can document the things you love sound wonderful, so eventually I decided to give it a try myself:]
// Why Neocities?
To be honest I don't exactly remember how I found out about Neocities. Probably googled "where can I host a website for free" if I were to hazard a guess. I chose Neocities over other free alternatives because it seems to be reliable, is a relatively popular choice, and the 1GB limit wouldn't be an issue since I plan to host some of my files on File Garden.
// A brief history of the Archive's precursors
2021–2023
During my sophomore and junior year of high school, we were forced to make a "portfolio" using Google Site. It was basically writing reflections on some projects we did. I did put a considerate amount of effort into making my website look pretty, but I only have so much passion for school assignments lol.
Early 2024(?)–May 2024
I made a website with Weebly to host profiles of my original characters. It didn't last very long since I quickly realized that Toyhouse would be way easier. Zemu's Spacecraft Collection has been deleted, but it's backed up on the Internet Archive:]
June 2024
The first completed page on this Neocities site, then titled Zemu's World, is a tier list. When I make tier lists on TierMaker, I have a lot of thoughts about the things I'm ranking which I desperately need to convey...! A YouTube video is too much work, so I coded it instead, hah! And of course it looked like shit, it was my first time coding a website lol. I then promptly went on hiatus because coding is hard and motivation was low.
July 2024–June 2025
For about a year this website sat there collecting dust. However, I got really into coding custom OC profiles on Toyhouse. Thanks to the many talented coders on TH who made templates, I didn't have to start completely from scratch, and it made coding a lot less intimidating!
Also in the same time frame, I started college! During my first year, I took a multi-quarter course that required us to make a, yet again, you guessed it, Google Site. The theme was digital archive—documenting our experience throughout the school year. This time around, I had a lot more freedom when it comes to what content to write, and I had a really fun time working on the website! I'm honestly super proud of how to came out <3 This website would become the namesake and foundation for Zemu's Archive, which uses the same color scheme as well as a similar theme/aesthetic.
July/August 2025
It's summer and I've got some free time on my hands. I have a vision for this website and I'm ready to make it real >:]