```cv
gallery
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```

in short.. i accidentally deleted my twitter a few months ago (keep on forgetting about reactivating after "taking a break" apparently!!)

was too lazy to make a new account, so whatever correspondance i wanted to carry out from that point on was done so through email.

at first, it really did feel a little weird and old fashioned to be sending Electronic Mail to people instead of sending a convenient little Direct Message in the Bird App, but i think i've finally fully come to terms with the fact that i kind of unironically adore email with my whole chest. mind you.. [this has been a long journey!!](https://sometimesithink.com/email)

there's some sort of wonderful feeling i get when i find a nice little email (written just for me!?!?!) amidst whatever junk mail resides in my inbox. a little [happamine](https://oku.club/book/heaven-by-mieko-kawakami-NrZKh), if you will, rushes through my entire being and envelops me in temporary bliss.

with this little side project slash ode-to-email-in-disguise, i hope that i can bring a similar type of joy to more people!!

at its very core, i believe that email.. sans trackers and corporate jargon and 90mb banners.. in its purest, most wonderful form, is a slow!! sincere!! enjoyable!! means of communication (second only to, in my opinion, sending and receiving letters - which is something i hope to explore more soon AHHHHH)

make email cool and fun again. checking your inbox should be a simple pleasure, a ritual that is surprisingly delightful every time.

and let the act of writing emails be a meditative experience, unconstrained by whatever formal etiquette you find in work emails. add as many exclamation points as you see fit without fear of judgement and maybe even disregard the Rules Of Capitalization if you're feeling Funky!!!!!

who knows?? maybe the next time you refresh your inbox, among the Daily Deals From That Generic Retail Store's Mailing List You Signed Up For 3 Years Ago At The Mall To Get The Tiniest Discount Known To Man and the notification of a very real million dollar inheritance you will receive from your long lost great uncle (twice removed once unmoved), you'll find yourself a hidden gem.

that's all for now!!

p.s. if you're feeling like a contrarian or #notlikeothergirls or Something Similar of the Sort, feel free to also [send me an email](http://mailto:hello@shen.land). i am certainly not opposed to the idea!!!!!!!!!!!!

p.p.s. i realized only AFTER registering the domain that i should've used "may" instead of "can" for the sake of formality. my sixth grade english teacher is fuming (probably). sorry!!

can i send you an email??

[sunday sites](https://sundaysites.cafe/)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

you can find my vast collection of sites over at [sunday.shen.land](https://sunday.shen.land/)..

```cv
gallery
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```

ft my first sunday site at [village.shen.land](https://village.shen.land/)!!

```cv
gallery
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```

for context.. this was inspired by the session's prompt, which was building a village. when i think about villages, the first two words that come to mind for me are collaboration and community!! eventually decided on making this (after restarting halfway thru lel oh lel) to show the wonderful interconnectedness of everything + how life can beautifully coexist in its many forms!! also remembered one of my favourite songs from my childhood ([shoutout to you barney!!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkAOeIMypg8)) and thought it would be fun to turn an oral sort of form of storytelling into a fun silly little visual/interactive experience. also listening to goofy songs like this makeevokes nice memories and good vibes :P

```cv
youtube
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```

and my second sunday site at <https://ephemerality.shen.land/>!!

```cv
gallery
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```

sunday sites

```cv
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```

i’ve recently gone down a bit of a rabbit hole (again) exploring digital homesteads and the handmade web. the internet has undoubtedly evolved tremendously over the years - for which i am incredibly grateful!! however, as the years have gone by, i’ve also seen a slow but sure shift in the way websites are created. i didn’t exactly grow up in the neocities/tumblr/myspace era, but visiting the sites from these times sparks a sort of joy in me that the oftentimes complicated yet rather cookie-cutter (for lack of a better term) websites i visit now have yet to reproduce.

[j. r. carpenter's piece on the handmade web](http://luckysoap.com/statements/handmadeweb.html) made me realize just how much i love the idea of hand-coded websites that serve as these ever-evolving outlets for individuals to express themselves!!!!! as far as we've come technologically, i think that one of the very reasons why the internet was created - to help connect people, has been a bit neglected as of late. seeing this small but incredibly passionate community of creatives and builders looking to preserve and maintain the best parts of web 1.0 has really inspired me to build a silly little home of my own on the wonderous World Wide Web™!!

i built this site as an homage of sorts to the people and things that make the internet a nice place to visit. hope to continue adding things to it until i die!!!!

```cv
gallery
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```

niceinter.net

digital gardens are SO great... my brain melted when i first came across the concept and i've been in love with the idea ever since!!

i'm incredibly awful at maintaining my digital garden but i'm WORKING ON IT and will get more time to add new learnings over the summer which i am SO EXCITED ABOUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the theme is from [this swaggy guy](https://github.com/maximevaillancourt/digital-garden-jekyll-template) if you want to start one of your own :')

```cv
gallery
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```

but yeah!! a deeper explanation about my digital garden can be found [here](https://sometimesithink.com/about).. yay networked thought and pretty graphs made by code i do not understand!!

digital gardenz 4 lyfe

slick websites are super cool, but sometimes the internet needs to be a little more fun!! in my spare time, i like experimenting with simple web dev (mainly html and css) DEFINITELY NOT just because i don't understand javascript, but also because HANDMADE WEB!!!!!!!!

```cv
gallery
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```

**edit**: a demo of ode to eggs can be found **[here](https://www.loom.com/share/6d77d7075a7d480b9e4cd0574bcaa870?sharedAppSource=personal_library)** because i just recently discovered that autoplaying audio doesn't work anymore!! (you can still enable it manually but i digress!!) please note that this page was made at least 1.5 years ago and the audio is even more awful and dumb than i had recalled. have fun with this tremendously transformative and meditative experience!! and sorry if you're vegan - i would be too, if it weren't for eggs. maybe one day i will master the art of the flax egg, but that's a discussion for another time!!

```cv
gallery
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```

another demo!! so you can see how bad i was/am at fixing things to work right with different browser sizes!! and a nice little song to listen to when you're feeling blue if i were green i would die if i were green i would die

```cv
gallery
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```

yeah.. i have no clue either. but it can draw!! so that's pretty epic. and all the colours are wrong. obviously!!

```cv
gallery
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```

i never got to participate in the geocities trend because i was not alive at the time (i think?? unless it peaked in '04, in which case i was barely out of the womb and hopefully a little justified in not learning html and css.) so here's my sad little go at it.. a few decades later.

```cv
gallery
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```

this website literally has no point i just don't even know where to start with this HOLY COW!! i guess i was trying to replace that dvd logo hitting the corner thing except this is what turned out. good thing you can close your eyes to stop seeing this attrocity!!