If you are looking for my latest work: it’s probably this one, or this one here, or maybe this one?
If you are looking for the Simpsons story essay: you can find it here.
Howdy!
It’s a lovely day and I’m here.
I’m still figuring out what to place here, but it’s good to see you made it! I’m 22 and Brazilian, and I’m a bit of a cooking connoisseur. Besides that, I enjoy art,
music in general
Unfortunately including Radiohead.
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and good ol’ videogames (erm, both new and old). The name is Felipe, by the way, although I’ve also been called Papel (as in, paper), Pipe (not as in an actual pipe, but as a more intimate way of saying my name), SM (as in strawberry master), among many other nicknames I don’t remember. I like art in most forms, whether that means music, games, books, films, or whatever strange thing happens to catch my attention that week.
I studied Computer Science, which is nothing particularly unusual, but becomes more interesting when I tell you that I actually intended to major in journalism. The result of this was discovering my love for the beautiful language known as JavaScript, as well as my hatred for its half-brother, Java (not the island). That being said, it’s a lot more fun than you might expect!
I’m more of a storyteller than a writer, to be honest; “writer” makes it sound as though I have some grand literary process, which I may have, but most of the time I’m just following a vaguely interesting idea and seeing where it takes me. (Sometimes it works!) More than anything, though, I’m interested in people. Human nature is probably the closest thing I have to a recurring subject: the ways people talk to each other, misunderstand each other, form friendships, develop obsessions, make terrible decisions, rationalize those decisions afterward, and occasionally manage to do something genuinely wonderful. A lot of what I make, particularly my more humorous work, comes from playing around with those little contradictions. (This is also a side effect of being way into comedy plays when I was young.)
A side effect of this has resulted in me working in a variety of communities with an array of themes, from weather to gaming to politics to many other things in between. Due to the lack of a random item generator on this page, I can tell you that one of my favorite bands is
Television
Especially the work of Lloyd (second, from left to right) and Verlaine (third in photo).
, and one band which I personally recommend is the Mexican city pop duo
Juanpalitoschinos
God, I miss them so much.
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Psst: If you click here, you’ll be taken to the Teahouse, which is essentially a database of all my existing stories and essays. Initially it was supposed to be a sandbox, but that idea didn’t age quite well. Additionally, you can click here to be taken to the Collections, which, as the title suggests, is a collection. Specifically, a collection of my serious, more spooky works: the stuff I’ve coded.
If you wanna get in touch, you can find me on the late blue bird site, or have a look at the things I’ve made over on GitHub. I’m also somewhere on the blue butterfly site and the nation simulator site, where I was once crowned Best Nation in the World. (I wonder how that happened.) If none of those work, you can always send me a note through my profile. Take care, have fun, and try not to get lost on the way out!
Recommended listening
This is a digital collage of albums that have been rotating in my brain recently, or at least for far longer than is healthy. Some are records where I love every song, some have a handful of tracks I keep coming back to, and some are here because there is (at least) one song that I think everyone should hear at least once. There are classics, guilty pleasures, obscure favorites, and things that are just plain weird. (I really like the weird ones!) Presented in no particular order, other than this really nice 5x5 grid. Fun fact: if you refresh the page, you will see new covers!
Tip: Hover to flip them, drag them around to rearrange, or double-click any album to swap it out for another one from the collection!
Recommended reading
Here are some titles that might enhance your understanding of some of the background and social issues entertained in this site, my stories, or whatever is sandwiched between them. Feel free to click around the table & its headings!
Warning: all are filled with provocative ideas and events; we disavow any responsibility for encouraging deep thought.
A Crack-Up at the Race Riots
A Dama do Banheiro
Brasil Apart: 1964–2019
Cardboard City
Days of the Bagnold Summer
Father and Son
Framing Public Life
Going Postal
I Promise to Be Good
Jennifer Government
Late Victorian Holocausts
New Millennium Boyz
On Cukor
Society of the Spectacle
The Growing Inaccessibility of Science
The Porcupine