Tantamount

Introduction

Hello there, I'm 'Kal' (short for Kaleidiope)
I'm just a creature within your wifi who makes a lot of things, and sometimes will release what they deem worthy enough to see the light of day for the strangers of the interwebs to experience!

I go by any pronouns and dislike disclosing too much personal info for personal reasons.
All you need to know is I'm a living being with thoughts, feelings, and something one could call a 'life' if they blur the meaning a bit.

I don't wish to be known as anything more than a weird creature on the interwebs who creates; a simple hobbyist who does things they find fun until they aren't.

If a mere introduction isn't satisfying enough though, you can get to know me better through these fun drop-downs!

Basics:

Who am I?

I am one of many names and titles, but online I'm most prominently known simply as "Kal".

What am I?

A weird, chronically-online humanoid,, I, think?

How am I?

A forever swinging pendulum! :D

Where am I?

I reside almost 24/7 in a quaint lil' attic.

When am I?

Sometime, probably.

Why am I?

I wish I knew,, I wish I knew.

Interests:

Favorite colors?

Periwinkle! Along with dark blues, light yellows, grayish purples, powdery blues, silvers, and basically any other color you see utilized in this site's default theme.

Favorite books?

'The Little Prince' by Antoine de Saint Exupéry. I find myself thinking back - and even relating - to many of its paragraphs. I truly can't describe my love for the story.

In general I adore "children's books" most because they're more fun, whimsical, and aren't flooded with romance. I remember loving 'Bob' by Nicholas Gannon, 'The Incredible Magic of Being' by Kathryn Erskine, 'The Spirit of Cattail County' by Victoria Piontek, and anything I could get my hands on by Kimberley Griffiths Little.

Favorite shows/films?

I oddly enjoy adult animation best, with my all-time-favorite being 'Futurama'! I"ve also thoroughly enjoyed 'Arcane', 'Steven Universe' (Future in particular), 'Father Ted' and 'The Color of Magic'.

As for movies, I've always been a fan of animation! With 'Wolf Children', 'A Cat in Paris', 'The Boy and The Beast', 'Song of the Sea', 'Poupelle of Chimney Town', 'Ni no Kuni', 'Ernest and Celestine', and of course, 'The Snowman' being good examples! (I'm a fairly large fan of Gkids films in general, as well as the few things I know by Raymond Briggs and Terry Pratchett.)

Favorite bands?

I love 'Mother Mother', 'Mili' and 'Will Wood' most. But I also like 'Marina', 'UNiTE', 'My Chemical Romance', 'Penelope Scott', 'Bear Ghost', 'Lamiya', 'Sekai No Owari', 'Cavetown', 'Rebzyyx', 'Slipknot', 'Negative 25', 'Smash into Pieces' and so very many more.

I'm also a major fan of Vocaloid and vocal synth songs! With a few of my favorite producers being 'Empath-P', 'Momocashew', 'Nekobolo (sasanomaly)', 'nakano 4', 'MioDioDaVinci', 'Project Overdoze', 'Tanjiro Taidana', '栗山夕璃 / Van de Shop', 'Bloopy', 'Steampianist', 'Corasundae' and again many, many more!
(these lists could go on forever,,)

Favorite vocal synth voices?

I love practically all of them! But I'll admit, I do have my top faves. Starting with Vocaloid: Meiko is my favorite V1 era vocal.
Utatane Piko and VY2 for V2.
Oliver, Avanna, YOHIOloid, Maika and ZOLA Project for V3.
Fukase, Cyber Songman and Dex for V4.
As for SynthV, I love Mai, Yun Quan, Lin lai and Yuma!
In Utau, I love Kazehiki!! (easily my favorite vocal of them all) and Pumpking The Testloid!

Favorite albums?

I'm a large fan of 'Miracle Milk' by Mili, 'Viktoria' by Maria Mena, 'A Pretty Picture in the Most Disturbing Way' by Yohio, 'Polka's Not Dead' by The Dreadnoughts, 'Dance and Cry' and 'O My Heart' by Mother Mother, 'The Family Jewels' by Marina and 'Absurd Stories for the Rationally Insane' by Steampianist.

Favorite games?

I. Love. Portal!! Both games and everything and anything relating to it! As well as quite a few others, 'Magrunner: Dark Pulse', 'Mirror's Edge', 'Gravitas', 'A Story About My Uncle', 'Deiland', 'Oneshot', 'Borderlands' (the whole franchise in general), 'Moonlighter', 'Summer in Mara', 'Ittle Dew', 'Sally Face', 'The Unfinished Swan' and 'Alicemare' just to name a few!
I love RPG horror games!

Hobbies?

My favorite hobbies I've tried, were traditional chalk pastel and charcoal drawings, watercolor art, sewing (of both clothes and plushies) MMD animations and doll customizing.

My current hobbies are melody making, story writing, kandi making, coding, digital drawing and vocal synth tuning!

Likes?

Keys, Gears, Bubbles, Plushies, Clouds, Stars, Sweets, Dolls, Toys, Bobbles, Bunnies, Frogs, Cats, Nyan cat, Goblins, Sloths, Hamsters, Robots, Vocal Synth technology, 'The Snowman', Space, The sky in general, 'The Little Prince', Old internet memes, The hermitcraft hermits, Peppermint bark, Glow-in-the-dark objects, 'Portal', Snow, Winter, Long-sleeved shirts, Alt codes and emoticons, Desert Duo, Music, and Soft voices.

Dislikes?

Loud, sudden sounds, Onions, Shoes, Bright lights, Tight clothes, Drool, Strongly flavored drinks, Sock-seams, Wasps, Cringe-culture, Bleach, Hair around my ears, Personal-space invading bugs, Feeling used, Touching batteries, Raisins, My lisp, My spelling issues, Warm weather, Writing by hand, Abrupt darkness, The ocean, EEGs, Showing my upper arms, Divs that cover content on zoom, and Valley girls.

Goals?

To be content! :D

Fears?

Expectations (;0-0)

Questions:

What do you look like?

I've been told by many I look like 'Daniel Howell'. To the point I get called 'Dan'/'Daniel' as a nickname. >:c I personally don't see it, but other folks do. So do with that what you will.

In general, I look like a messy haired budget-goth with no grasp of how to 'sharpen up'.

How old are you?

I don't tend to disclose my age for multiple reasons. I personally don't feel it's something that needs to be known in order to enjoy my creations, and I feel it teaches giving personal info is both okay, and somehow necessary?

I also feel it puts expectations on both my own, and others' work; a lot of folks seem to believe age correlates with skill. I am here to reassure it does not!
But with that said, I am aware and understand/respect that some folks are uncomfortable interacting with others that aren't in their own age-range. So I will state that I'm in my twenties for that sake.

Pronouns?

I consider myself pretty apathetic gender-wise, and encourage you to use whatever best fits your impression of me! Though I do have my preferences:
I like the ambiguity that comes from "they/them" as it leaves a lot to interpretation; 'cause let's be honest, many people develop different opinions of you solely on gender - which isn't very fair.
Also, I'm just a stranger online, I should be ambiguous!

As for neo-pronouns, I welcome them! I like "zey/zem", and virtually any that's a 'modified' version of "they/them".

Why haven't you spoken up about [blank]?

I try to stay away from being too vocal on things that could cause stress or worry - I might not be the quietest with some of my standings, nor am I the most family-friendly in the things I create, but I do try to keep the comfort of my audience in mind. And by that, I mean topics like current-world affairs and other anxiety inducing things - even though many things deserve to be spoken up about and should cause rightful upset, I don't wish to dabble in them often, nor casually.

Please know, just because I'm not talking about it under this username, doesn't mean I don't care about said thing/situation.
My persona exists outside of reality, and this place - albeit dark in corners - does too, in extension.

Are you aware that [insert problematic thing/person] is problematic?

The most likely answer is no! I was not. And the second most likely answer, is that I've separated content from creator. Liking one doesn't inherently mean you like, or support, the other, and that's okay! (at least in my eyes.)
As one is never obligated to like, or support, both.

Just make sure the creator doesn't take love for their creations as support for their ideals first (;0-0)

Site resource credit

Thank-you to 'Sadgrl.online' and 'TheSiteWizard' for this site's base-code and its many features! And a large thank-you to 'w3schools.com' for coding help, as well as 'htmlcheatsheet.com'; 'wtools.io'; random, friendly interweb strangers; and old form posts!

That little ghost-pal you see (I call him Herald) is from 'cursors-4u.com'.
He was meant to be a temporary place-holder until I made my own cursor, but the lil' fella's grown on me and I just can't replace him!
I believe him to be made by 'bleeding love'?

The font that's used is 'Cadman'. And as someone who is (highly) likely dyslexic, I find this to be one of the easiest fonts to read.

Background tiles and images are made by me! :D (unless stated otherwise)

If you're curious as to why I made this site, you can have a peek at my 'site objective' here!

The drop-downs below contain even more answers to potential question regarding both me, my works, and site!

What does 'Kaleidiope' mean?

"Kaleidiope" is a made up name created by mashing the words "kaleidoscope" and "calliope" together.
I remember seeing a Vocaloid song by 'Moving Point' called Kaleido and thinking how cool both the song and title was. So when I started making online accounts, I tried using the handle "kaleido" but that was taken almost everywhere.
Since I wanted to be a Vocaloid producer at the time, I decided to add what I saw many producers have on the end of their names - a 'P', "Kaleido-P". But I was worried to do so, 'cause what if I didn't enjoy producing music?
What if my interests changed later on? So I went with "Kaleidope" and later added a second 'i'.

In hindsight, I'm glad I did, as I learned later the 'P' title was something originally earned, and not added by the individual themselves.
There is a bit more to the story involving 'Project OverDoze's' "Kaleidoscope Haze" song series, but that's the main gist!

How is 'Kaleidiope' pronounced?

There's no set way of saying it! So nothing is either wrong nor right, but I will say, since it's a mash of two particular words, I do suppose pronouncing it similar to the beginning and end of them would be the closest thing one can get to a "correct" pronunciation.

Most seem to say "Kah-lai-dee-ope" with an ending similar to "envelope".
But a harder "-opee" sound, like in "okapi", would pay better homage to its "calliope" part.

What does 'Tantamount' mean?

The word itself means "similar/equal to". This is a reference to my story series, where the world it takes place in is called 'tantamount' due to it mimicking our world. I chose to use the same name for the site because this is where said stories will be housed! And is meant to be used in place of social medias ^^

Do you use AI to create?

I have never, nor will ever, use ai to create (I.E. utilizing generative ai.) - but I do, and have, utilized ai in tool-form: Some of the things I've used that utilize ai, are SynthV Pro, grammar checkers, and sentence rephrasers.
(Note*, I have never generated a sentence and copy pasted it straight in. I use it as a way to rethink how things could be said to help give characters unique dialogue.)

I do not condone utilizing ai for final-product creation. Being a helpful tool, and having it replace you, are two very different conversations!

Why do you allow [select condition] of your works in your terms and conditions?

Depends on what condition in particular, but the main answer that'll fit all of them, is that it's going to happen anyway.
Art tracing? it's gonna happen. Reposting? it's gonna happen. Remixing? Altering? Character sexualization? Will all likely happen.

And the sooner I come to terms with the internet being the internet, the easier I'll have it. Same will allowing ai use - it's gonna happen.
So I might as well make reasonable guidelines to follow instead of a flat-out 'no', cause that's how you get wishes disrespected.

Site troubleshooting

Having an issue with the site? Its features being wonky or simply displaying incorrectly? Here's some things to try!

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This site is best viewed when zoom is set between the 50% and 150% range.
(and isn't the prettiest on screens under a width of 400px)

Everything's looking weird, wonky and/or muddled scaling-wise!

This could be a responsiveness issue. I am working towards making this site useable/viewable for the majority of modern-day devices and browsers, but it will always be best viewed on desktop, and up-to-date browsers.

Images aren't loading/links aren't working!

There'se a good chance I might have messed up my code! And if that's the case, please reach out and inform me about it if you can!
Though it might be worth giving the page a quick refresh first, just to see if it helps any? Always best to start with simple fixes first ^^

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This site uses JavaScript to display many of its features, so please make sure you're using a browser that supports it, and that it's enabled/allowed.

Things look clashy/simply not right!

It might be worth giving your cache a quick sweep - or alternatively (for windows) - pressing the 'Ctrl' and 'F5' keys at the same time to force-reload the current page(s) you're on. If you're like me, you may have to additionally press the 'Fn' key (located right beside 'Ctrl') As this site - or even your browser of choice - might be holding onto old files.

So if the eye-assault is due to things not updating properly, either option should do the trick ^^
It's also worth noting that I use the night-light setting on my PC, which does alter colors a small bit on my side. So if things aren't being clashy, but rather too bright/saturated, this could be why. And I apologize for any issues or discomfort it may bring :(

Contacting:

Issue not covered? Nothing mentioned helped? Found a spelling error or broken link? Contact me about it below!
*Please note I'm very bad at replying in timely manners, but don't let my shortcomings deter you from reaching out! (Allow for seven-to-ten ~~thousand~~ business days)

Contact me by E-mail!

Where else can I find you?

You can find me pretty consistently over on Tumblr! Though, I don't always have my blog set to accept messages, or asks. (had one too many bad experiences,,)

Current status:
Asks: No
Messages: Yes

You can also find me here on Neocities of course! As well as through E-mail!

Why haven't you responded to me yet?

It's certainly not because I hate you or any other silly reason your brain might try to convince you of. The most common reason is that my own brain just isn't feeling the best to do so.

I cherish interactions! So I want my full attention on convos we might have, and if I don't feel I can currently give you the proper replies you deserve, I often hold off until my brain's feeling better.
The second reason, is that I've simply yet to see it! I don't spend as much time on social media site's as I once did, and a lot of accounts you'll see under my 'Kaleidiope' name are inactive and rarely - if ever - checked. So if you message me on a site I no longer log-in on, I'll likely never see it, sadly,,
The secret third option is that it simply wasn't sent to me! I very luckily don't have an online presence big enough to warrant impersonators, but I do suppose the chance is never zero D:

Can I hire/commission you?

Since I don't really enjoy the stress/pressure of expectation T^T I'm not willing to take any commissions or collab work, besides maybe a small collab here and there with close friends, so, currently, I'm afraid not!
My creations are my hobbies; thus I'd like them to remain just for fun!

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