About Me

Cicada ~ it/its pronouns ~ 18 ~ fleshcatthing shapeshifter

Hello hello!! My name's Cicada, and you've stumbled on my website! I'm an artist (traditional at heart, but I make a lot of digital stuff too) and a writer when I want to be. I use it/its pronouns primarily, but I'm also okay with mirrored pronouns (use what you'd use for yourself for me :o] ). I identify as transgender or genderqueer and an aromantic lesbian (who's also objectum!), although typically I just say "queer" as that's kind of a mouthful :p

I also identify as alterhuman. This means that I don't consider myself human, and instead I feel more like an animal or monster in human skin. I believe it has something to do with my brain's particular concoction of mental illness, but that's not really something I want to get into here. I consider myself a shapeshifter, meaning my identity is pretty fluid and I feel like different creatures at different times. Generally though, I identify with cats, parasites as a general concept, and fleshy, amorphous monsters (think like The Thing (1987) or the monster from the game Carrion)

I really admire the creativity people have when it comes to making personal sites, and I've wanted to make one for myself for a very long time. Well, late December 2024, with w3schools in one tab and music in the other, I decided to take the plunge! I will say though that I am very literally a complete beginner who has no idea what its doing. This site is me throwing code at the wall until something sticks. If I showed it to any of my family members who like to code, they'd probably cry. All that to say please be patient with me if things are wonky, its not on purpose I swear.

If you wanna see me other places (really? I'm flattered!), I can also be found at the following places:
please note that I do have pretty bad anxiety and suffer from paranoia as a result of the Mental Illness Concoction I mentioned above. I promise I don't bite though, and I do like talking to people as long as you're patient and kind ^w^)

Active On: Neocities (site profile) Tumblr, Toyhouse, AO3, Flight Rising, Artfight

Not Really Active On: Bluesky, Sheezy.art

I also have a Discord (goodnamehere9360), but I don't accept most friend rqs unless I know you from somewhere else or I'm expecting to be contacted for something

Interests & Faves

Non-Media Interests

Bugs/Entomology, Cats, Snakes (including my pet snake Nicky!!), Parasites and Parasitic Relationships in nature, Biology & Ecology in general, Speculative Biology/Evolution & Worldbuilding in general, Homebrew Dungeons and Dragons & other tabletop (as both player and DM), Music, Art (especially "weird" art, like furry art or objectum art), Circuses/Clowns/Etc. and their History, Mannequins, Plushies, Houses as a metaphor for other things, being really pretentious about art and music and writing and stuff, etc.

Games

Rain World, ULTRAKILL, corru.observer, Carrion, Mouthwashing, How Fish Is Made, Squirrel Stapler, Anatomy (kittyhorrorshow), Pressure (roblox), Grace (roblox), Flight Rising (does it count??), Dragon Village Collection (mobile game. lmao.)

Books

"Frankenstein" (Mary Shelley), "Hell Followed With Us" and "Compound Fracture" (Andrew Joeseph White), House of Leaves (Mark Z. Danielewski), the Warrior Cats series unfortunately (Erin Hunter), "Out There Screaming" (horror anthology edited by Jordan Peele), countless anthologies tbh, "A Series of Unfortunate Events" (Lemony Snicket), "I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream" (Harlan Ellison), more tba

Movies

The Thing (1987), Nope (2019), the Saw franchise, Annihilation, I Saw The TV Glow, Krampus (2015). I'm realizing I don't watch a lot of movies lmao

Music

Artists: Will Wood / Will Wood & The Tapeworms, Patricia Taxxon, Drive45, Femtanyl, Jhariah, Stomach Book, Chonny Jash, AJJ, Nero's Day At Disneyland / Lauren Bousfield, the Black Dresses, Diet Tea Other Cola, Hadd_ , Yves Tumor, Weevildoing, The Mountain Goats, Modest Mouse, Junie & TheHutFriends, Jack Stauber, Modest Mouse, American Murder Song (sadly), Circus Contraption

Albums & Other Musical Projects: "Self-ish" and "The Normal Album" and "In case I make it" (Will Wood), "The Flowers of Robert Mapplethorpe" and "Agnes and Hilda" and "Bicycle" (Patricia Taxxon), "TRUST CEREMONY" (Jhraiah), "Stomach Book" (Stomach Book), "Grievances And Dead Malls" (NDAD), "The Sunset Tree" and "Heretic Pride" (The Mountain Goats), "The Post Traumatic Manifesto" (Weevildoing), "Disposable Everything" and "Good Luck Everybody" (AJJ), "my strange and wonderful world" and "DEGREES" (Hadd_), "Reddishness" and "WASTEISOLATION" (The Black Dresses), "Chonny's Charming Chaos Compendium" and "Gothic Whore" (Chonny Jash), The ULTRAKILL OST (ULTRAKILL)

(as you can see I am very normal about music)

Other Forms of Media

The Magnus Archives (podcast), The Silt Verses (podcast), Paranatural (webcomic), The Amazing Digital Circus (animated webseries), Monkey Wrench (animated webseries), Vita Carnis (analogue horror series), Mystery Flesh Pit National Park