Proper introduction post this time, lets go! I'm Pepyo (they/any), a digital artist, fledgling 3D modeller, and webmaster over at https://pip-pepping.neocities.org/. Pip-Pepping is where you can find a lot of my art, writing, and videos.
call me arch (or my middle name, if you happen to know it already wink). perhaps the youngest on this server as i'm in my early 20s. you may have seen me as a janitor of a certain non-mastodon instance.
born in deepest voids of poland, the fate decided i flee to the netherlands, currently haunting the province of gelderland with my presence. what comes afterwards is an unknown.
at the time of writing, i'm pretty much a NEET, but i try to find every joy that i can in my reality, as worries only make everything worse.
in my free time i do art. medium bounces between run-of-the-mill raster digital art and pixel art, as i have abandoned the pen and paper very early when i was still a kid, the moment i discovered drawing tablets exist, and thus begged my parents for my very first wacom.
below is a piece i finished a few days ago as a gift for a friend.
my interests go around surface-level knowledge of #retrocomputing, especially gaming consoles of 90s and 2000s, hoarding software and hardware i think i can find use for some day (guy who owns 2 macbooks, 2 non-apple laptops, a 2DS XL, an iPad, 3 different iPhone models, a steam deck; and is on his way to collect more devices if the funds allow me). from collecting i also collect plushies, mostly from favorite series such as #pokemon (i also have a TCG album that i re-started since i lost all my old cards, hi)
and, obviously, i like digital art. but, also, i fucking despise generative AI and similar creations in their modern meaning; if you're in support of Bullshit Generators this is not a place for you. support human art.
i used to have a website, but no longer have one, as being essentially someone with a fractured identity doesn't help in that department. one day i should put up another one again, if i get to do so. which may take a few months. i kind of fell out of love with being a webmaster, it has become boring and tedious for me, and i just try to find a place for myself in there.
this is not a safe space for techbros, fossbros, replypeople, virtue signalers, bigots of all flavors and Puyo Puyo fans.
i have been consciously trans since around 2014, most of that spent in closet, denial, questioning; only in 2025 did i manage to move forward medically and legally.
i can speak polish and english well enough to hold a conversation; dutch not so much.
feel free to treat this as an AMA thread, but be kind and think twice before sending something. as my tradition says, below is a tag spam for my interests and such.
"Many sites have been affected by the aggressiveness of web crawlers designed to improve LLMs.
I’ve been relatively spared, but since the phenomenon started, I've been looking for a solution to implement.
Today, I present a zip bomb gzip and brotli that is valid HTML."
It's high time for the concept of "web rings" to make a come back, with bona fide human-written web pages linking only and exclusively to each other, with a web search engine 100% dedicated to them.