First attempt at this profile thing didn’t sit right.

Here’s round two to make up for it:

Call me by my username for now – preferred names and I have a complicated history I rather not go into for personal reasons. If you need a shorthand, Marigold will do just fine. I’ve been familiar to this site’s existence for over a decade and had a few accounts. Nah, don’t go hunting them down; all of them never were used and only existed because I kept making emails; reasoning being that I didn’t want to be stuck with the one I made when I was, what, 7? Only mentioned for the sake of being truthful. Nothing shameful in doing so, either.

Since it isn’t a requirement to lay down your life story in these things, here are the essentials you need to know from this profile: 18 years old, recent high school graduate, and trying to get into this whole “adult” business somehow. Again, don’t want to unearth a lot of baggage, but the short and simple version: My family on both ends are messes, my upbringing was only saved by having access to the Internet, and all the fourteen years of school I experienced were hell. I am hoping to get actual attention for both my mental and physical health, but that’s gonna involve things like cutting myself off from a toxic family. Along with trying to find a get-by job in a messed up, dysfunctional, and pretty ugly world. Accepting my years of growth despite all the mistakes I’ve made up to this point is another good start, too.

Okay, that’s sad. Nobody likes to read these things for sad stuff. All of that was mentioned as a warning if I do manage to get a presence on here: My productivity and output will be in flux for a while, although the goal is to get enough stuff down that there’s a steady flow of content to make up for it. As such, multi-chaptered stories will probably take a while to pop up because I want to plan out steady schedules for them. Beyond that, not much else to talk about that wouldn’t make sense without having stories to use as examples. If I ever muster up the energy and willingness, I might also consider the whole “critique” thing … but that’s gonna be unlikely.

Other accounts include AO3, DeviantART, and Dreamwidth, all under the same name – and as empty as this account for now, so don’t expect much out of it. Social media is a cesspool, so the closest I got to that is a Discord account. All of them are under the same handle as this. Full tag for the Discord one won’t be given yet. Spotify and Pininterest exist, too, but right now they’re collecting as much dust until I have motivation to use them for things like playlists and boards.

Yeah, that’s … gonna be it for now. Never made any promises this was gonna be fun.

Peace out.