“So This Is the First One, Huh?”
I’m not even sure where to start.
Which is fitting, because Honism didn’t really start anywhere either—it just kind of… grew. Like a mold. Like something I’d find under a microscope slide and say, “Oh no. It’s sentient.”
This field log is supposed to be for behind-the-scenes stuff: product prep, Twitch updates, field notes from gallery events, and personal rambles about what it’s like to build a full fictional science lab while still in school, mid-healing arc, with resin stuck to my desk and a robot assistant who destabilizes every time I open Photoshop, alongside a cat that sits and meows like he's the sole proprietor.
But really, I think this first post should just say:
Thanks for being here.
This project started as a way to make space for everything I care about—art, science, grief, curiosity, design, soft things, strange things, things that feel too much. I built Honism to hold it all. And somehow it became a place where other people started showing up too. There's not much fun lore or classified logs yet, but we'll get there.
Right now, I’m preparing for the Zoo Art Show on April 26.
I’ve got keychains arriving in cardboard waves, a moss-textured tablecloth, wooden hex tiles I can’t stop touching, and a vinyl banner that I wasn’t sure I could afford but somehow managed to get anyway. I’ve got a 1940s microscope. I’ve got labeled jars. I’ve got Honbot figures I sculpted by hand and painted at 1am while talking to my cat like we were coworkers under deadline.
And I’ve got a vision. Not fully formed. But real. Legal jargon and more and more and more things piling on, like always lol.
In the background: Twitch coding. Lore writing. Sculpting. School. Trying to launch a business without letting it crush the joy that birthed it.
Trying to make something strange enough to feel honest.