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about
My Neocities account was registered in November 2022 but mostly sat gathering dust until August/September 2024, when I sat down and designed Pine Island Dolls . That got me back into indie web design, a hobby of mine (on and off, mostly off) since I was a tween.
My first ever website was called The Fantasy Library. That was in 1997 or 1998. I made little web shrines to my then-favorite books: Harry Potter, Redwall, and His Dark Materials. (I guess it's not a surprise that I grew up to be a real-life librarian.)
pine island is a translation of my surname, 松島 Matsushima.
The site has gone through a few name changes: {para}noia (2002-2004), true love collective (2004-2006), and pink soda (2006-2011).
Most of my layouts have been lost to time but here is the oldest layout I could find: pink soda circa 2007.
content policy
This website is rated Web PG . Nothing in pine island projects is 18+/NSFW but some projects may contain mature themes, such as SF/F genre-typical violence, emotional and spiritual abuse, and/or discussions of ableism, homophobia, transphobia, etc - these are marked where appropriate.
If you are under 18, you are free to browse my site (I guess?) but please keep in mind that I have been on the internet longer than you have been alive. My day job is as a K-12 educator: it's not impossible that I am your school librarian or that you are my student. Therefore, do not contact me if you are under 18 or still in secondary school. This is a non-negotiable boundary.
I try not to link to sites run by minors. If something has slipped through, you can notify me via my guestbook.