welcome to my homepage!

i got fed up with rich men ruining the internet, so i'm making my own space!

about me

hey i'm stella and i built this website! i'm an anthropology phd student from the uk studying how people's experiences of the seasons in tokyo are being affected by climate change.

aside from that i have a slightly outrageous amount of hobbies including crochet, indoor climbing, watching coronation street, and as of the Great 2025 Tech Bro Induced Internet Enshittification™, building websites i guess! i hope you enjoy poking around my little corner of the internet, small as it is!

plans for this website

06/25: i intend to somehow turn this into a blog, hopefully with some kind of newsletter so people can stay in touch? i'm envisioning the newsletter having both essays, and a weekly random thoughts email with all the stuff i would otherwise put on my instagram stories. currently not sure how to implement this given neocities has no backend... we're working on it!

02/08/25: actually i want to make a digital garden (kind of a cross between a wiki and a blog). i think it might end up using some kind of static site generator, maybe from obsidian notes? i'm trying to work out quartz but i think i need to learn how to use github. work in progress! but it should be rss enabled for all your newsletter needs.

about the header image

the header image for my website was taken on a particularly beautiful autumn day at lake kawaguchiko, near mt. fuji. i was having a hard time adjusting to being in japan at the time, and this view of fuji-san genuinely gave me the energy to keep going. i hope it gives you good vibes too!