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Alternate navigation: take a tour through Matsushima Manor, a haunted house text-based point-and-click game! Hint: Some things are easier to find in the haunted house than through the main site!

Don't forget to sign my guestbook .

projects

A indicates a project I'm especially proud of.
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collections

curio cabinet

collection of collections
& shrine directory

Pine Island Dolls

doll collection

untold story

original characters

Sweet Dreams Stables

nostalgic pixel adoption site

365

photo-a-day project under construction ~50%

Pine Island Public Library

book collections & recommendations

kitchen witchery

recipe book

Pine Island Designs

craft projects

resources

Turtle Memorial Fund

sponsoring senior cat adoptions

old web graphics archive

100x100px icons, web stamps, etc.

communities

allkindsofdolls

community for doll collectors

longreads

investigative journalsim recs and discussion

thankfulthursday

weekly gratitude check-in

御朱印＆御守り

goshuin + omamori photo sharing

elsewhere

Annie James Rollins

picture book author & scholar

Meep Matsushima

spec poetry & short stories

about

me

icon by Pai (2016)
icon gallery

松島美色布みぃーぷ
name: Meep Matsushima
pronouns: æ/ær & ey/em
age: 30something
current location: Tokyo, Japan & the rainy city
pets: Tiamat
day job: currently: full time school librarian
soon: part time grad student & picture book author, too!

L?/C? G(bX sM+/F+/X+) F(A&/D+) O(cS+e/Ba-&/C+/?) Sp(H+/Hm+) I?*/T-

dæmon: tanuki

first partner Pokémon: Chikorita

hobbies I'm trying to monetize: poetry and short stories, picture books
hobbies I'm not trying to monetize: doll photography, reading, web revival (hi!), collecting things

neuroatypicality: maladaptive daydreamer

commissioned icons

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picrews

Click to visit the Picrew!

site

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.

pine island has gone through a few name changes: {para}noia (2002-2004), true love collective (2004-2006), and pink soda (2006-2011, when I lost interest in web design).

Most of my layouts have been lost to time but here is the oldest layout I could find: pink soda circa 2007.