I made this website to share the art I have long hidden that was never meant to be publicly available. For as long as I can remember, I have loved to write. I have been gifted countless journals for my writing but ended up misplacing each one. I have lost poems and songs due to my carelessness. I no longer have access to what I wrote in the five years before I started keeping track of my art. This includes songs from [the Definition of a Burden] and [Son of the Morning]. In an effort to be more organized, I put together two binders: one for my poems, one for my songs(which has evolved into multiple binders now because I have too many songs to fit in one). They became my most prized possessions. At first, it did not cross my mind that I could lose them in a catastrophe out of my control. This website is a way to ensure I never lose my art, which has been the only constant in my life. If I ever lose it, I will have nothing left.
I do not know how to code, and I'm learning as I go. Hopefully, this website's look will improve, but even if it doesn't, it's okay. That is not what it exists for. Starring You is my personal passion project to share every piece of art I have made since I was 14. Many many collections of songs. My old short stories and novel attempts. All my art, even some I hate and wish didn't exist. For some frustrating reason, my amygdala won't let me rid them from my memory.
For many, words flow effortlessly off the tongue. There is little thought involved in conversation. It feels natural for them. I am not one of those people. I have so many emotions and the only way I knew how to express them was in poetry. I could think about how I really felt and come up with the best possible way to describe it. I would either write to simply keep from exploding, or I would use it as if I was writing a letter to someone. The people that affected me the most have their own albums, even though dedicating anything to most of them is not deserving.
To those people visiting I wrote about, you have shaped who I'll be for the rest of my life. I only truly regret one of you, but I should thank all of you, because I could not have been so inventive if it wasn't for the pain I caused and was given. Thank you for being so trusting as to let me in your life. I am probably not truly sorry about anything I've done. And with that, I introduce the STARRING YOU PROJECT!