Obligatory Introduction

How do you make an introductory post to your friends who already know you?

I guess the blog is what’s new here, so that’s what I’m introducing instead of myself.

”The Dump” comes from an old journal I used to keep where I would “dump” everything — diary entries, doodles, meal tracking, random scraps of paper I’d collected, etc. It was a multimedia scrapbook of whatever I wanted or needed to get down.

I’m hoping to bring the same philosophy to this blog, but with the added elements of audio, video, links, coding, etc. I love dipping my toes in as many mediums as possible, so I shall not be able to contain myself.

This blog will largely be me exercising the compulsion to create, to share, to save, and to get what’s stuck in my head out so it leaves me alone. I welcome you along for the ride.

Anyways, if you’re reading this but don’t know me as a person, I’m Jay! I use all pronouns (and encourage you to get freaky with it). I am obsessed with film, hamsters, and queer horror. Something is deeply wrong with me and I am learning to harness that wrongness into something I can be proud of.

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Things I Liked In April 2026

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