a hi, i'm a. welcome to my site! it's currently under construction...

meet the trwnh

an about page for trwnh.com the site and trwnh.com/#a the person (plus their other identities)

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this is a personal website. it is important to note that when i say "personal website" i do not mean a portfolio or a place to promote myself or a "personal brand". the main focus of this site is truly personal, which is to say, the goal is to be a person.

i've gone back and forth on how i make this website. sometimes i use hugo. sometimes i just do static html files without any build step. right now i'm using hugo but trying to keep the content in html as much as possible. markdown parsers forcing me to strip indentation is really painful. i want to be able to "port out" without too much effort if i change my mind on the value of having a consistent site layout and appearance across different pages.

"yo why is this website so plain"

  • semantic html first. this website aims to be usable and correct even without any styling.

  • the styling respects people's defaults (fonts, font sizes, etc). it's mostly just text, after all. you should be able to read it on your own terms.

  • no javascript. i might make exceptions where javascript enables functionality that makes the site more useful (such a lightbox for pictures, or possibly a search function), but even those features should be completely optional.

"so what do you even do here"

topically, anything goes.

i am currently experimenting with various strategies for organizing my content into different content models. heavily subject to change, but this is what it looks like vaguely right now for types/kinds/classes:

pages
content for this site. doesn't need a date.
articles
content for syndication. needs a date.

and i'm experimenting with the following subclasses:

thoughts
short-ish content about a topic
entries
articles manageable via micropub?

the above is not currently reflected in the url structure but i am playing with the folder structure in hugo.

i am trying to slowly import old content a little bit at a time to this new hugo project, and shake out the content models until they start to coalesce and make more sense.

dramatis personae

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call me a. historically i've had a really tough time with identity, so this is the best we're gonna get i guess.

trwnh

you can probably find me around the web with the username "trwnh". it comes from my fleshform's legal name, "abdullah tarawneh"; just take the vowels out of the family name. 2014 they was so hipster.

(sidenote: i am apparently not the only person to arrive at these five consonants in a row. in particular, trwnh on twitter is not me; someone claimed my username after i deleted twitter in 2018. not that i really care about twitter anymore. depending on how things go in the near-mid future, everyone else might not care either.)

obvious humor

i've used the names "obvious-humor" / "obvious_humor" / "obvioushumor" for my vaguely music / band / fandom stuff.

the name is a reference to lyrics by Circa Survive, one of my favorite bands. from Circa Survive, "The Great Golden Baby", Juturna (2005):

Make your move, obvious humor
Desperate and respiratory plight
Always on, dressed to impress
I'll be the last one to find out why
Time takes its toll on us (this changes everything)
And I'd be a liar if I denied you at all
Oh, now that I know
This changes everything
I've been trading ideas with intriguing men, and I
I perceive an honest solution to all of your pride
[...]
I'm going home, but my own way
Going home on my own
I'm going home, but my own way
Going home on my own

bird sounds

i've also used the name "birdsounds" for more creative stuff like my concert photography.

this is also a reference to a song by Circa Survive, one of my favorite bands. from Circa Survive, "Bird Sounds", Violent Waves (2012):

And it remains the only meaningful mistake
But you won't let go; you don't know how to
And every morning I begin my dreams when I'm awake
Empty bird sounds are reminders
You're not awake at all

trigger of sol

most of my "gamer" stuff is under the name "triggerofsol".

the name came from boktai; in the first boktai game "boktai: the sun is in your hand", if you 100% s-rank and get all the items, you get "the highest title of the delegate of Sol the solar will -- Trigger of Sol". idk, the boktai games are kinda quirky and left an impact on me during my formative years. vampires, norse mythology, magitek, post-apocalyptic absurdism, lotta good stuff in those games.

in the words of Sunflower Girl Zazie, in response to Solar Boy Django losing his Solar Gun "Gun del Sol" at the start of Boktai 2 and being unable to defeat a low-level zombie:

"So you're Trigger of Sol? How embarrassing..."