goofpunk!
About the Webmaster
Hello! My name is vi, but online I go by goofpunk. I use they/she pronouns, I’m a dyke, and I’m a Snorlax furry.
Hobbies
My main hobbies are around writing and coding. I’ve been writing stories and coming up with characters for as long as I can remember, and I started teaching myself to make websites in elementary school, which lead me to learning a bit of coding by middle school. I’ve recently started trying to learn to draw again as well: it was one of my favorite things to do as a kid, but I ended up stopping and focusing on other hobbies for a while, a decision I regret now!
Aside from that: I read a lot, I like learning about 3D modeling, I do some video editing here and there, and I like to play video games. I mostly play indie games and Nintendo stuff, and AAA games don’t really hold my interest. Right now I’m replaying Pokémon HeartGold and working on 100%ing Garfield Kart - Furious Racing, which is a surprisingly well-made kart racer. My favorite game of all time is Tetris, and my go-to version of that is generally apotris.
Queerness
Gender is weird for me: if we’re looking at the gender spectrum as a linear gradient from “woman” to “man”, I’m solidly on the “woman” side, but that really doesn’t feel like the whole story. My personal identification is fairly fluid, but stays around the general areas of “woman”, “butch woman”, and “genderless”. In terms of presentation, I generally skew towards masculine presentation, but that’s been growing more neutral over time. Ideally, I’d like to switch back and forth and between at will, but unfortunately that doesn’t seem possible for me.
As for sexuality, I’m near-exclusively into other women and/or people with complicated nonbinary genders, and usually into more feminine presentations, so for that reason I feel most comfortable calling myself a lesbian (or, more frequently, a dyke). If the fact that I’m occasionally into men/masc people makes you upset that I call myself a lesbian, I kindly encourage you to shut up, that’s stupid, gender and sexuality are made-up fluid constructs and all labels are just “close enough”.
Furrydom
I’ve been vaguely adjacent to the furry community for about as long as I've been online, honestly. I never really considered myself a furry, though, until pretty recently, when I saw Patricia Taxxon's video about furriness and read the Colin Spacetwinks essay Everyone’s a furry 2K16 (I don’t remember which came first). After that I bounced around a few different fursonas before stumbling across the idea of a Snorlax fursona in 2025. The idea immediately gave me brainworms, and I have been a Snorlax ever since. A Snorlax captures everything I aspire to be in life: a large, furry, cuddly creature whose days are spent mostly resting, relaxing, and enjoying delicious food, who is able to use sudden intense bursts of energy and strength to do things.
Fun fact: you can also access this site via the URL snorlax.website.
A history of my time on the web
I’ve been making stuff online in some capacity since around 2006 or so, when, inspired by The Cave of Dragonflies, I started making Pokémon fansites on a wiki farm called Wetpaint. I did not know what a wiki was at the time, as I was 8 or 9, but it let me make my own site, so I just took it and ran with it. From there I bounced around the free web builders, got shared hosting from a friend who knew more than me, and then eventually stopped making websites and got into making YouTube videos and posting on Twitter when I was a teenager.
In 2020, after having been off of social media for a while, I discovered NeoCities and the indie web. I already knew some HTML and CSS from my fansite days, and I’d learned a bit more from The Odin Project, so I jumped into it and made the first version of goofpunk.com. I made a site on NeoCities, then a few years later started posting on cohost and got blogging on Bear. When cohost died near the end of 2024, I jumped off the internet for a while again, then decided to open this site back up again in early 2025.
What’s with the name goofpunk?
A friend and I were riffing on things like steampunk and goblincore, and a lot of people were making up their own new “aesthetics”, and I came up with calling mine goofpunk. It ended up really resonating with me and what I value: I’ve long had a commitment lefty/punk/egalitarian beliefs, and the most important thing in the world to me beyond that is silliness, whimsy, and a lack of self-seriousness. Then I realized it was available as a domain, and that it was a pretty good and usually available username, so it stuck!